| Frogfishes of the world: systematics, zoogeography, and behavioral ecology TW Pietsch, DB Grobecker Stanford University Press, 1987 | 168 | 1987 |
| Evolution of the salmonid mitochondrial control region AM Shedlock, JD Parker, DA Crispin, TW Pietsch, GC Burmer Molecular phylogenetics and evolution 1 (3), 179-192, 1992 | 154 | 1992 |
| Enhanced DNA extraction and PCR amplification of mitochondrial genes from formalin-fixed museum specimens AM Shedlock, MG Haygood, TW Pietsch, P Bentzen Biotechniques 22 (3), 394-400, 1997 | 130 | 1997 |
| Dimorphism, parasitism, and sex revisited: modes of reproduction among deep-sea ceratioid anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes) TW Pietsch Ichthyological Research 52 (3), 207-236, 2005 | 92 | 2005 |
| Phylogenetic relationships of trachinoid fishes of the family Uranoscopidae TW Pietsch Copeia, 253-303, 1989 | 89 | 1989 |
| Vailulu’u Seamount, Samoa: Life and death on an active submarine volcano H Staudigel, SR Hart, A Pile, BE Bailey, ET Baker, S Brooke, DP Connelly, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (17), 6448-6453, 2006 | 85 | 2006 |
| Evolutionary relationships of the sea moths (Teleostei: Pegasidae) with a classification of gasterosteiform families TW Pietsch Copeia, 517-529, 1978 | 78 | 1978 |
| Osteology and relationships of ceratioid anglerfishes of the family Oneirodidae, with a review of the genus Oneirodes Lutken TW Pietsch Nat. Hist. Mus. LA Co., Sci. Bull. 18, 1-113, 1974 | 78 | 1974 |
| Oceanic anglerfishes: extraordinary diversity in the deep sea TW Pietsch Univ of California Press, 2009 | 77 | 2009 |
| The compleat angler: aggressive mimicry in an antennariid anglerfish TW Pietsch, DB Grobecker Science 201 (4353), 369-370, 1978 | 74 | 1978 |
| Evolutionary history of anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes): a mitogenomic perspective M Miya, TW Pietsch, JW Orr, RJ Arnold, TP Satoh, AM Shedlock, HC Ho, ... BMC Evolutionary Biology 10 (1), 58, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| Biodiversity and biogeography of the islands of the Kuril Archipelago TW Pietsch, VV Bogatov, K Amaoka, YN Zhuravlev, VY Barkalov, S Gage, ... Journal of Biogeography 30 (9), 1297-1310, 2003 | 70 | 2003 |
| High-speed cinematographic evidence for ultrafast feeding in antennariid anglerfishes DB Grobecker, TW Pietsch Science 205 (4411), 1161-1162, 1979 | 68 | 1979 |
| Trees of life: a visual history of evolution TW Pietsch JHU Press, 2012 | 66 | 2012 |
| A revision of the osmerid genus Hypomesus Gill (Teleostei: Salmoniformes), with the description of a new species from the southern Kuril Islands T Saruwatari, JA Lopez, TW Pietsch Species diversity 2 (1), 59-82, 1997 | 62 | 1997 |
| The osteology and relationships of the anglerfish genus Tetrabrachium with comments on lophiiform classification TW Pietsch Fish. Bull. 79, 387-419, 1981 | 60 | 1981 |
| Lophiiformes: development and relationships TW Pietsch Ontogeny and systematics of fishes, 320-325, 1984 | 56 | 1984 |
| Dimorphism, parasitism and sex: reproductive strategies among deepsea ceratioid anglerfishes TW Pietsch Copeia, 781-793, 1976 | 55 | 1976 |
| Osteology and interrelationships of the sand lances (Teleostei: Ammodytidae) TW Pietsch, CP Zabetian Copeia, 78-100, 1990 | 53 | 1990 |
| The history, present condition, and future of the molluscan fisheries of North and Central America and Europe. Volume 1: Atlantic and Gulf coasts CL MacKenzie | 51* | 1997 |
