| Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India JGM Thewissen, LN Cooper, MT Clementz, S Bajpai, BN Tiwari Nature 450 (7173), 1190-1194, 2007 | 382 | 2007 |
| 40K–40Ar dating of the Main Deccan large igneous province: Further evidence of KTB age and short duration AL Chenet, X Quidelleur, F Fluteau, V Courtillot, S Bajpai Earth and Planetary Science Letters 263 (1-2), 1-15, 2007 | 369 | 2007 |
| Vestibular evidence for the evolution of aquatic behaviour in early cetaceans F Spoor, S Bajpai, ST Hussain, K Kumar, JGM Thewissen Nature 417 (6885), 163-166, 2002 | 251 | 2002 |
| Main Deccan volcanism phase ends near the K–T boundary: evidence from the Krishna–Godavari Basin, SE India G Keller, T Adatte, S Gardin, A Bartolini, S Bajpai Earth and Planetary Science Letters 268 (3-4), 293-311, 2008 | 216 | 2008 |
| From land to water: the origin of whales, dolphins, and porpoises JGM Thewissen, LN Cooper, JC George, S Bajpai Evolution: Education and Outreach 2, 272-288, 2009 | 205 | 2009 |
| A new Eocene archaeocete (Mammalia, Cetacea) from India and the time of origin of whales S Bajpai, PD Gingerich Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95 (26), 15464-15468, 1998 | 197 | 1998 |
| Developmental basis for hind-limb loss in dolphins and origin of the cetacean bodyplan JGM Thewissen, MJ Cohn, LS Stevens, S Bajpai, J Heyning, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 103 (22), 8414-8418, 2006 | 179 | 2006 |
| K–T transition in Deccan Traps of central India marks major marine Seaway across India G Keller, T Adatte, S Bajpai, DM Mohabey, M Widdowson, A Khosla, ... Earth and Planetary Science Letters 282 (1-4), 10-23, 2009 | 173 | 2009 |
| Cretaceous extinctions: multiple causes JD Archibald, WA Clemens, K Padian, T Rowe, N Macleod, PM Barrett, ... Science 328 (5981), 973-973, 2010 | 163 | 2010 |
| Sound transmission in archaic and modern whales: anatomical adaptations for underwater hearing S Nummela, JGM Thewissen, S Bajpai, T Hussain, K Kumar The Anatomical Record: Advances in Integrative Anatomy and Evolutionary …, 2007 | 148 | 2007 |
| Early Eocene warming events and the timing of terrestrial faunal exchange between India and Asia M Clementz, S Bajpai, V Ravikant, JGM Thewissen, N Saravanan, ... Geology 39 (1), 15-18, 2011 | 143 | 2011 |
| Eocene evolution of whale hearing S Nummela, JGM Thewissen, S Bajpai, ST Hussain, K Kumar Nature 430 (7001), 776-778, 2004 | 127 | 2004 |
| The oldest Asian record of Anthropoidea S Bajpai, RF Kay, BA Williams, DP Das, VV Kapur, BN Tiwari Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (32), 11093-11098, 2008 | 124 | 2008 |
| Early Eocene land mammals from the Vastan lignite mine, district Surat (Gujarat), Western India S Bajpai, VV Kapur, DP Das, BN Tiwari, N Saravanan, R Sharma Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 50 (1), 101-113, 2005 | 111 | 2005 |
| Deccan volcanism, the KT mass extinction and dinosaurs G Keller, A Sahni, S Bajpai Journal of biosciences 34, 709-728, 2009 | 103 | 2009 |
| Cretaceous age for Ir-rich Deccan intertrappean deposits: palaeontological evidence from Anjar, western India S Bajpai, GVR Prasad Journal of the Geological Society 157 (2), 257-260, 2000 | 97 | 2000 |
| Age-diagnostic dinoflagellate cysts from the lignite-bearing sediments of the Vastan lignite mine, Surat District, Gujarat, western India R Garg, K Ateequzzaman, V Prasad, SKM Tripathi, IB Singh, AK Jauhri, ... Journal of the Palaeontological Society of India 53 (1), 99-105, 2008 | 93 | 2008 |
| Early Eocene snakes from Kutch, Western India, with a review of the Palaeophiidae JC Rage, S Bajpai, JGM Thewissen, BN Tiwari Geodiversitas 25 (4), 695-716, 2003 | 93 | 2003 |
| Anthracobunids from the middle Eocene of India and Pakistan are stem perissodactyls LN Cooper, ER Seiffert, M Clementz, SI Madar, S Bajpai, ST Hussain, ... PLoS One 9 (10), e109232, 2014 | 89 | 2014 |
| Whale origins as a poster child for macroevolution: fossils collected in the last decade document the ways in which cetacea (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) became aquatic, a … JGM Thewissen, S Bajpai BioScience 51 (12), 1037-1049, 2001 | 85 | 2001 |
