| A Jurassic ceratosaur from China helps clarify avian digital homologies X Xu, JM Clark, J Mo, J Choiniere, CA Forster, GM Erickson, DWE Hone, ... Nature 459 (7249), 940-944, 2009 | 326 | 2009 |
| A basal tyrannosauroid dinosaur from the Late Jurassic of China X Xu, JM Clark, CA Forster, MA Norell, GM Erickson, DA Eberth, C Jia, ... Nature 439 (7077), 715-718, 2006 | 267 | 2006 |
| A new feathered maniraptoran dinosaur fossil that fills a morphological gap in avian origin X Xu, Q Zhao, M Norell, C Sullivan, D Hone, G Erickson, XL Wang, ... Chinese Science Bulletin 54 (3), 430-435, 2009 | 236 | 2009 |
| Histology and postural change during the growth of the ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis Q Zhao, MJ Benton, C Sullivan, P Martin Sander, X Xu Nature communications 4 (1), 2079, 2013 | 107 | 2013 |
| A short-armed dromaeosaurid from the Jehol Group of China with implications for early dromaeosaurid evolution X Zheng, X Xu, H You, Q Zhao, Z Dong Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 277 (1679), 211-217, 2010 | 89 | 2010 |
| Social behaviour and mass mortality in the basal ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus (Early Cretaceous, People's Republic of China) Z Qi, PM Barrett, DA EBERTH Palaeontology 50 (5), 1023-1029, 2007 | 88 | 2007 |
| The small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyanensis and Wannanosaurus yansiensis from the Late Cretaceous of China RJ Butler, Q Zhao Cretaceous Research 30 (1), 63-77, 2009 | 56 | 2009 |
| Juvenile-only clusters and behaviour of the Early Cretaceous dinosaur Psittacosaurus Q Zhao, MJ Benton, X Xu, PM Sander Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 59 (4), 827-833, 2013 | 50 | 2013 |
| The taxonomy of the troodontid IVPP V 10597 reconsidered XU Xing, Z Qi, C Sullivan, TAN Qing-Wei, M SANDER, MA Qing-Yu Vertebrata PalAsiatica 50 (2), 140, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| A quantitative method for inferring locomotory shifts in amniotes during ontogeny, its application to dinosaurs and its bearing on the evolution of posture KEJ Chapelle, RBJ Benson, J Stiegler, A Otero, QI Zhao, JN Choiniere Palaeontology 63 (2), 229-242, 2020 | 45 | 2020 |
| Homologies and homeotic transformation of the theropod ‘semilunate’carpal X Xu, F Han, Q Zhao Scientific reports 4 (1), 6042, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| Diversity dynamics of silurian–Early Carboniferous land plants in South China C Xiong, D Wang, Q Wang, MJ Benton, J Xue, M Meng, Q Zhao, J Zhang PLoS One 8 (9), e75706, 2013 | 34 | 2013 |
| Ontogenetic braincase development in Psittacosaurus lujiatunensis (Dinosauria: Ceratopsia) using micro-computed tomography CM Bullar, Q Zhao, MJ Benton, MJ Ryan PeerJ 7, e7217, 2019 | 30 | 2019 |
| The Chinese Pompeii? death and destruction of dinosaurs in the Early Cretaceous of Lujiatun, NE China CS Rogers, DWE Hone, ME McNamara, Q Zhao, PJ Orr, SL Kearns, ... Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 427, 89-99, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| Ontogenetic stages of ceratopsian dinosaur Psittacosaurus in bone histology Q Zhao, MJ Benton, S Hayashi, X Xu Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (2), 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| Order Saurischia Q Zhao, X Xu, C Jia, Z Dong The Chinese Fossil Reptiles and their Kin, 279-335, 2008 | 4 | 2008 |
| Metatarsal II osteohistology of Xixianykus zhangi (Theropoda: Alvarezsauria) and its implications for the development of the arctometatarsalian pes ZC Qin, Q Zhao, X Xu Vertebrata PalAsiatica 57 (3), 205-213, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
| Phylogenetic and ontogenetic variation of bone histology in thyreophoran osteoderms S Hayashi, M Zhao, Qi, Watabe, K Carpenter, X Xu Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 32 (suppl.), 108A, 2012 | 2 | 2012 |
| 伤齿龙标本 IVPP V 10597 分类学重新讨论 徐星, 赵祺, 舒柯文, 谭庆伟 古脊椎动物学报 50 (2), 140, 2012 | 1 | 2012 |
| A new theropod from the Early Cretaceous Yixian Formation of western Liaoning, China Q Zhao, X Xing Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 28 (suppl.), 40A, 2008 | 1 | 2008 |