| Pacific leatherback turtles face extinction JR Spotila, RD Reina, AC Steyermark, PT Plotkin, FV Paladino Nature 405 (6786), 529-530, 2000 | 712 | 2000 |
| Worldwide population decline of Dermochelys coriacea: are leatherback turtles going extinct? JR Spotila, AE Dunham, AJ Leslie, AC Steyermark, PT Plotkin, ... Chelonian Conservation and Biology 2 (2), 209-222, 1996 | 419 | 1996 |
| Adult migrations and habitat use P Plotkin, PL Lutz, JA Musick, J Wyneken The biology of sea turtles 2, 225-41, 2002 | 322 | 2002 |
| Lepidochelys olivacea A Abreu-Grobois, P Plotkin The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008, 6-8, 2008 | 220 | 2008 |
| Feeding ecology of the loggerhead sea turtle Caretta caretta in the Northwestern Gulf of Mexico PT Plotkin, MK Wicksten, AF Amos Marine Biology 115, 1-5, 1993 | 180 | 1993 |
| An evolutionary perspective on the arribada phenomenon and reproductive behavioral polymorphism of olive ridley sea turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) J Bernardo, PT Plotkin Biology and conservation of ridley sea turtles, 59-87, 2007 | 146 | 2007 |
| Biology and conservation of ridley sea turtles PT Plotkin JHU Press, 2007 | 131 | 2007 |
| Nomadic behaviour of the highly migratory olive ridley sea turtle Lepidochelys olivacea in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean PT Plotkin Endangered Species Research 13 (1), 33-40, 2010 | 128 | 2010 |
| Effects of anthropogenic debris on sea turtles in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico P Plotkin, AF Amos Proceedings of the second international conference on marine debris, 736-743, 1990 | 122 | 1990 |
| Independent versus socially facilitated oceanic migrations of the olive ridley, Lepidochelys olivacea PT Plotkin, RA Byles, DC Rostal, DW Owens Marine Biology 122, 137-143, 1995 | 121 | 1995 |
| Reproductive and developmental synchrony in female Lepidochelys olivacea PT Plotkin, DC Rostal, RA Byles, DW Owens Journal of Herpetology, 17-22, 1997 | 94 | 1997 |
| Departure of male olive ridley turtles (Lepidochelys olivacea) from a nearshore breeding ground PT Plotkin, DW Owens, RA Byles, R Patterson Herpetologica, 1-7, 1996 | 79 | 1996 |
| Post-nesting migrations of loggerhead turtles Caretta caretta from Georgia, USA: conservation implications for a genetically distinct subpopulation PT Plotkin, JR Spotila Oryx 36 (4), 396-399, 2002 | 66 | 2002 |
| Adult migration and habitat utilization: ridley turtles in their element SJ Morreale, PT Plotkin, DJ Shaver, HJ Kalb Biology and conservation of ridley sea turtles, 213-229, 2007 | 63 | 2007 |
| Entanglement in and ingestion of marine debris by sea turtles stranded along the South Texas coast PT Plotkin, AF Amos Schroeder, BA (Comp.), Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Workshop on Sea …, 1988 | 59 | 1988 |
| National Marine Fisheries Service and US Fish and Wildlife Service status reviews for sea turtles listed under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 PT Plotkin National Marine Fisheries Service, Silver Spring, Maryland, 1995 | 58 | 1995 |
| High frequency of occurrence of anthropogenic debris ingestion by sea turtles in the North Pacific Ocean KR Wedemeyer-Strombel, GH Balazs, JB Johnson, TD Peterson, ... Marine Biology 162, 2079-2091, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| Development of a Kemp's ridley sea turtle stock assessment model BJ Gallaway, WJ Gazey, CW Caillouet Jr, PT Plotkin, FA Abreu Grobois, ... Gulf of Mexico Science 33 (2), 3, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| Beyond trophic morphology: stable isotopes reveal ubiquitous versatility in marine turtle trophic ecology C Figgener, J Bernardo, PT Plotkin Biological Reviews 94 (6), 1947-1973, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Comparison of the migratory behavior of the congeneric sea turtles Lepidochelys olivacea and L. kempii RA Byles, PT Plotkin Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Sea Turtle Biology and Conservation, 39, 1994 | 38 | 1994 |
