| The timescale of early land plant evolution JL Morris, MN Puttick, JW Clark, D Edwards, P Kenrick, S Pressel, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (10), E2274-E2283, 2018 | 759 | 2018 |
| Roots: evolutionary origins and biogeochemical significance JA Raven, D Edwards Journal of experimental botany 52 (suppl_1), 381-401, 2001 | 503 | 2001 |
| The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte MN Puttick, JL Morris, TA Williams, CJ Cox, D Edwards, P Kenrick, ... Current Biology 28 (5), 733-745. e2, 2018 | 414 | 2018 |
| Charcoal in the Silurian as evidence for the earliest wildfire IJ Glasspool, D Edwards, L Axe Geology 32 (5), 381-383, 2004 | 311 | 2004 |
| Stomata in early land plants: an anatomical and ecophysiological approach D Edwards, H Kerp, H Hass Journal of Experimental Botany, 255-278, 1998 | 267 | 1998 |
| Land animals in the Silurian: arachnids and myriapods from Shropshire, England AJ Jeram, PA Selden, D Edwards Science 250 (4981), 658-661, 1990 | 263 | 1990 |
| A vascular conducting strand in the early land plant Cooksonia D Edwards, KL Davies, L Axe Nature 357 (6380), 683-685, 1992 | 188 | 1992 |
| Plants invade the land: evolutionary and environmental perspectives PG Gensel, D Edwards Columbia University Press, 2001 | 166 | 2001 |
| Understanding fossilization: experimental pyritization of plants ST Grimes, F Brock, D Rickard, KL Davies, D Edwards, DEG Briggs, ... Geology 29 (2), 123-126, 2001 | 147 | 2001 |
| Records of Cooksonia-type sporangia from late Wenlock strata in Ireland D Edwards, J Feehan Nature 287 (5777), 41-42, 1980 | 146 | 1980 |
| Cryptospores and cryptophytes reveal hidden diversity in early land floras D Edwards, JL Morris, JB Richardson, P Kenrick New Phytologist 202 (1), 50-78, 2014 | 145 | 2014 |
| Embryophytes on land: the Ordovician to Lochkovian (Lower Devonian) record D Edwards, C Wellman Plants invade the land: evolutionary and environmental perspectives, 3-28, 2001 | 145 | 2001 |
| The earliest records of internally stratified cyanobacterial and algal lichens from the Lower Devonian of the Welsh Borderland R Honegger, D Edwards, L Axe New Phytologist 197 (1), 264-275, 2013 | 141 | 2013 |
| A late Wenlock flora from Co. Tipperary, Ireland D Edwards, J Feehan, DG Smith Botanical Journal of the Linnean Society 86 (1-2), 19-36, 1983 | 141 | 1983 |
| New insights into early land ecosystems: a glimpse of a Lilliputian world D Edwards Review of Palaeobotany and palynology 90 (3-4), 159-174, 1996 | 140 | 1996 |
| A late Silurian flora from the Lower Old Red Sandstone of south-west Dyfed D Edwards Palaeontology 22, 23-52, 1979 | 134 | 1979 |
| Coprolites as evidence for plant–animal interaction in Siluro–Devonian terrestrial ecosystems D Edwards, PA Selden, JB Richardson, L Axe Nature 377 (6547), 329-331, 1995 | 131 | 1995 |
| Cells and tissues in the vegetative sporophytes of early land plants D Edwards New Phytologist 125 (2), 225-247, 1993 | 115 | 1993 |
| The anatomy of Lower Devonian Gosslingia breconensis Heard based on pyritized axes, with some comments on the permineralization process P Kenrick, D Edwards Botanical journal of the Linnean Society 97 (2), 95-123, 1988 | 114 | 1988 |
| Silurian and Lower Devonian plant assemblages from the Anglo‐Welsh Basin: a palaeobotanical and palynological synthesis D Edwards, JB Richardson Geological Journal 39 (3‐4), 375-402, 2004 | 113 | 2004 |
