| One thousand plant transcriptomes and the phylogenomics of green plants Nature 574 (7780), 679-685, 2019 | 1192 | 2019 |
| Finding our way through phenotypes AR Deans, SE Lewis, E Huala, SS Anzaldo, M Ashburner, JP Balhoff, ... PLoS biology 13 (1), e1002033, 2015 | 229 | 2015 |
| The environment ontology in 2016: bridging domains with increased scope, semantic density, and interoperation PL Buttigieg, E Pafilis, SE Lewis, MP Schildhauer, RL Walls, CJ Mungall Journal of biomedical semantics 7, 1-12, 2016 | 212 | 2016 |
| Mapping the biosphere: exploring species to understand the origin, organization and sustainability of biodiversity QD Wheeler, S Knapp, DW Stevenson, J Stevenson, SD Blum, BM Boom, ... Systematics and biodiversity 10 (1), 1-20, 2012 | 197 | 2012 |
| Reporting guidelines for human microbiome research: the STORMS checklist C Mirzayi, A Renson, Genomic Standards Consortium, ... Nature medicine 27 (11), 1885-1892, 2021 | 191 | 2021 |
| Open Science principles for accelerating trait-based science across the Tree of Life RV Gallagher, DS Falster, BS Maitner, R Salguero-Gómez, V Vandvik, ... Nature ecology & evolution 4 (3), 294-303, 2020 | 187 | 2020 |
| Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits WD Kissling, R Walls, A Bowser, MO Jones, J Kattge, D Agosti, ... Nature ecology & evolution 2 (10), 1531-1540, 2018 | 187 | 2018 |
| The plant ontology as a tool for comparative plant anatomy and genomic analyses L Cooper, RL Walls, J Elser, MA Gandolfo, DW Stevenson, B Smith, ... Plant and Cell Physiology 54 (2), e1-e1, 2013 | 178 | 2013 |
| Semantics in support of biodiversity knowledge discovery: an introduction to the biological collections ontology and related ontologies RL Walls, J Deck, R Guralnick, S Baskauf, R Beaman, S Blum, S Bowers, ... PloS one 9 (3), e89606, 2014 | 175 | 2014 |
| Plasticity in salt tolerance traits allows for invasion of novel habitat by Japanese knotweed s. l. (Fallopia japonica and F.×bohemica, Polygonaceae) CL Richards, RL Walls, JP Bailey, R Parameswaran, T George, ... American Journal of Botany 95 (8), 931-942, 2008 | 142 | 2008 |
| OBO Foundry in 2021: operationalizing open data principles to evaluate ontologies R Jackson, N Matentzoglu, JA Overton, R Vita, JP Balhoff, PL Buttigieg, ... Database 2021, baab069, 2021 | 125 | 2021 |
| Angiosperm leaf vein patterns are linked to leaf functions in a global‐scale data set RL Walls American journal of botany 98 (2), 244-253, 2011 | 117 | 2011 |
| Ontologies as integrative tools for plant science RL Walls, B Athreya, L Cooper, J Elser, MA Gandolfo, P Jaiswal, ... American journal of botany 99 (8), 1263-1275, 2012 | 109 | 2012 |
| COVID-19 pandemic reveals the peril of ignoring metadata standards LM Schriml, M Chuvochina, N Davies, EA Eloe-Fadrosh, RD Finn, ... Scientific data 7 (1), 188, 2020 | 99 | 2020 |
| The impact of experimental sedimentation and flooding on the growth and germination of floodplain trees RL Walls, DH Wardrop, RP Brooks Plant Ecology 176, 203-213, 2005 | 81 | 2005 |
| The plant phenology ontology: a new informatics resource for large-scale integration of plant phenology data BJ Stucky, R Guralnick, J Deck, EG Denny, K Bolmgren, R Walls Frontiers in Plant Science 9, 346008, 2018 | 79 | 2018 |
| AgBioData consortium recommendations for sustainable genomics and genetics databases for agriculture L Harper, J Campbell, EKS Cannon, S Jung, M Poelchau, R Walls, ... Database 2018, bay088, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
| Humboldt Core–toward a standardized capture of biological inventories for biodiversity monitoring, modeling and assessment R Guralnick, R Walls, W Jetz Ecography 41 (5), 713-725, 2018 | 62 | 2018 |
| An ontology approach to comparative phenomics in plants A Oellrich, RL Walls, EKS Cannon, SB Cannon, L Cooper, J Gardiner, ... Plant methods 11, 1-15, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
| Community next steps for making globally unique identifiers work for biocollections data RP Guralnick, N Cellinese, J Deck, RL Pyle, J Kunze, L Penev, R Walls, ... ZooKeys, 133, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
