| Larger foraminiferal biostratigraphy of the Tethyan Paleocene and Eocene J Serra-Kiel, L Hottinger, E Caus, K Drobne, C Ferrandez, AK Jauhri, ... Bulletin de la Société géologique de France 169 (2), 281-299, 1998 | 936 | 1998 |
| Cretaceous to Miocene sequence stratigraphy and evolution of the Maiella carbonate platform margin, Italy A Vecsei, DGK Sanders, D Bernoulli, GP Eberli, JS Pignatti | 85 | 1999 |
| Depositional history of a Paleogene carbonate ramp (western Cephalonia, Ionian Islands, Greece) G Accordi, F Carbone, J Pignatti Geologica Romana 34, 131-205, 1998 | 74 | 1998 |
| Facies analysis and biostratigraphy of the Auradu Limestone Formation in the Berbera-Sheik area, Northwestern Somalia F Carbone, R Matteucci, J Pignatti, A Russo Geologica Romana 29, 213-235, 1994 | 58 | 1994 |
| Guadalupian (middle Permian) paleobiogeography of the Neotethys Ocean L Angiolini, G Crippa, G Muttoni, J Pignatti Gondwana Research 24 (1), 173-184, 2013 | 53 | 2013 |
| Why did life develop on the surface of the Earth in the Cambrian? C Doglioni, J Pignatti, M Coleman Geoscience Frontiers 7 (6), 865-873, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
| Biostratigraphic analysis of Paleogene lowstand wedge conglomerates of a tectonically active platform margin (Zakynthos Island, Greece) M Di Carlo, G Accordi, F Carbone, J Pignatti Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences 2, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| Note Illustrative della Carta Geologica d'Italia alla scala 1: 50.000 Foglio 368 Avezzano E Centamore, U Crescenti, I DRAMIS F Note Illustrative della Carta Geologica d'Italia, 1-115, 2006 | 43 | 2006 |
| Oppelzones and their heritage in current larger foraminiferal biostratigraphy J Pignatti, CA Papazzoni Lethaia 50 (3), 369-380, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Montagna della Maiella: the sedimentary and sequential evolution of a Bahamian-type carbonate platform of the South-Tethyan continental margin D Bernoulli, F Anselmetti, G Eberli, M Mutti, J Pignatti, D Sanders, ... Memorie della Società Geologica Italiana 51, 7-12, 1996 | 32 | 1996 |
| Paleoclimatic significance of the Pliocene Amphistegina levels from the NE Tyrrhenian margin of Central Italy L Di Bella, MG Carboni, J Pignatti Bollettino-Societa Paleontologica Italiana 44 (3), 219, 2005 | 31 | 2005 |
| SBZ 2-6 larger foraminiferal assemblages from the Apulian and Pre-Apulian domains. J Pignatti, M DI CARLO, A Benedetti, C Bottino, A Briguglio, M Falconi, ... Riassunti. Società Paleontologica Italiana, Giornate di Paleontologia 2006 …, 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| Biostratigrafia dei macroforaminiferi del Paleogene della Maiella nel quadro delle piattaforme periadriatiche JS Pignatti Studi Geologici Camerti, Special Publication 1994, 359-405, 1995 | 29 | 1995 |
| Lagoonal-continental oligocene of Southern apulia (Italy) D Esu, O Girotti, A IANNoNE, JS Pignatti, G Ricchetti Boll. Soc. paleont. ital 33 (2), 183-195, 1994 | 29 | 1994 |
| Extreme sulphur isotope fractionation in the deep Cretaceous biosphere V Ferrini, M Fayek, C De Vito, S Mignardi, J Pignatti Journal of the Geological Society 167 (5), 1009-1018, 2010 | 27 | 2010 |
| Embryo size variation in larger foraminiferal lineages: stratigraphy versus paleoecology in Nephrolepidina praemarginata (R. Douvillé, 1908) from the Majella Mt.(Central … A Benedetti, M Di Carlo, J Pignatti Journal of Mediterranean Earth Sciences 2, 2010 | 25 | 2010 |
| Benthic foraminiferal biofacies in temperate carbonate sediment in the Western Pontine Archipelago (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy) V Frezza, JS Pignatti, R Matteucci The Journal of Foraminiferal Research 40 (4), 313-326, 2010 | 22 | 2010 |
| Late Oligocene-? Miocene mollusc and foraminiferal assemblages from the vicinity of Otranto (Southern Apulia, Italy): a non-marine to marine transition D Esu, O Girotti, JS Pignatti Rendiconti Soc. Paleont. Ital 2, 75-85, 2005 | 22 | 2005 |
| Sequence stratigraphy of Montagna della Maiella D Bernoulli, GP Eberli, JS Pignatti, D Sanders, A Vecsei Quinto simposio di Ecologia e Paleoecologia delle Comunitá Bentoniche …, 1992 | 22 | 1992 |
| Conflicting evolutionary and biostratigraphical trends in Nephrolepidina praemarginata (Douvillé, 1908) (Foraminiferida) A Benedetti, J Pignatti Historical Biology 25 (3), 363-383, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
