| The world spider catalog, version 10.5 NI Platnick http://research. amnh. org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index. html, 2010 | 3493* | 2010 |
| Systematics and biogeography G Nelson, N Platnick | 2554 | 1981 |
| The world spider catalog, version 7.0. American Museum of Natural History NI Platnick http://research. org/entomology/spiders/catalog/indexhtml, 2006 | 928 | 2006 |
| Advances in Spider Taxonomy, 1981-1987: A Supplement to Brignoli's A Catalogue of the Araneae Described Between 1940 and 1981 NI Platnick Manchester University Press, 1989 | 618* | 1989 |
| A method of analysis for historical biogeography NI Platnick, G Nelson Systematic zoology 27 (1), 1-16, 1978 | 556 | 1978 |
| The intellectual content of taxonomy: a comment on DNA taxonomy D Lipscomb, N Platnick, Q Wheeler Trends in Ecology & Evolution 18 (2), 65-66, 2003 | 445 | 2003 |
| Philosophy and the transformation of cladistics NI Platnick Systematic Zoology 28 (4), 537-546, 1979 | 436 | 1979 |
| The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target‐gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling WC Wheeler, JA Coddington, LM Crowley, D Dimitrov, PA Goloboff, ... Cladistics 33 (6), 574-616, 2017 | 416 | 2017 |
| On missing entries in cladistic analysis NI Platnick, CE Griswold, JA Coddington Cladistics 7 (4), 337-343, 1991 | 324 | 1991 |
| Atlas of phylogenetic data for entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their phylogeny CE Griswold, MJ Ramirez, JA Coddington, NI Platnick | 291 | 2005 |
| Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of haplogyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae) NI Platnick, JA Coddington, RR Forster, CE Griswold American Museum Novitates, 1991 | 273 | 1991 |
| Advances in spider taxonomy 1992-1995with redescriptions 1940-1980 NI Platnick, P Merrett | 271 | 1997 |
| On areas of endemism NI Platnick Australian Systematic Botany 4 (1), 11-12, 1991 | 250 | 1991 |
| A revision of the spider genera Drassodes and Tivodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America NI Platnick, MU Shadab American Museum of Natural History, 1976 | 235* | 1976 |
| Cladistic methods in textual, linguistic, and phylogenetic analysis NI Platnick, HD Cameron Systematic Biology 26 (4), 380-385, 1977 | 200 | 1977 |
| Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae) CE Griswold, JA Coddington, NI Platnick, RR Forster Journal of Arachnology, 53-63, 1999 | 183 | 1999 |
| 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 | 179 | 2012 |
| A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the AMNH; no. 212 VI Ovcharenko, NI Platnick, D Song [New York]: American Museum of Natural History, 1992 | 179 | 1992 |
| Three‐taxon statements: a more precise use of parsimony? G Nelson, NI Platnick Cladistics 7 (4), 351-366, 1991 | 169 | 1991 |
| The suborders of spiders: a cladistic analysis (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum novitates; no. 2607 NI Platnick, WJ Gertsch New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History, 1976 | 168 | 1976 |
