| Palaeozoic tropical rainforests and their effect on global climates: is the past the key to the present? CJ Cleal, BA Thomas Geobiology 3 (1), 13-31, 2005 | 225 | 2005 |
| The development of a methodology for the selection of British geological sites for conservation: Part 1 WA Wimbledon Modern geology 20, 159-202, 1995 | 222 | 1995 |
| Brief history of the gymnosperms: classification, biodiversity, phytogeography and ecology. JM Anderson, HM Anderson, CJ Cleal | 183 | 2007 |
| The late Palaeozoic relations between Gondwana and Laurussia WS McKerrow, C Mac Niocaill, PE Ahlberg, G Clayton, CJ Cleal, ... Geological Society, London, Special Publications 179 (1), 9-20, 2000 | 183 | 2000 |
| The relationship between Euramerican and Cathaysian tropical floras in the Late Palaeozoic: palaeobiogeographical and palaeogeographical implications J Hilton, CJ Cleal Earth-Science Reviews 85 (3-4), 85-116, 2007 | 156 | 2007 |
| A review of the Middle–Late Pennsylvanian west European regional substages and floral biozones, and their correlation to the Geological Time Scale based on new U–Pb ages S Opluštil, M Schmitz, CJ Cleal, K Martínek Earth-Science Reviews 154, 301-335, 2016 | 136 | 2016 |
| Geological World Heritage: GEOSITES-a global comparative site inventory to enable prioritisation for conservation WAP Wimbledon, S Andersen, CJ Cleal, JW Cowie, L Erikstad, ... Memorie Descrittive della Carta Geologica d'Italia 54, 45-60, 1999 | 124 | 1999 |
| Palaeozoic Palaeobotany of Great Britain CJ Cleal, BA Thomas Chapman & Hall 9, 295, 1995 | 116 | 1995 |
| A revised correlation of Carboniferous rocks in the British Isles CN Waters, ID Somerville, NS Jones, CJ Cleal, JD Collinson, RA Waters, ... Geological Society of London, 2011 | 115 | 2011 |
| Lower Jurassic floras from Hope Bay and Botany Bay, Antarctica PM Rees, CJ Cleal Palaeontological Association 72, 1-96, 2004 | 115 | 2004 |
| Late Moscovian terrestrial biotas and palaeoenvironments of Variscan Euramerica CJ Cleal, S Opluštil, BA Thomas, Y Tenchov, OA Abbink, J Bek, ... Netherlands Journal of Geosciences 88 (4), 181-278, 2009 | 113 | 2009 |
| A comparative analysis of some Late Carboniferous basins of Variscan Europe S OPLUšTIL, CJ Cleal Geological Magazine 144 (3), 417-448, 2007 | 112 | 2007 |
| A revised taxonomy for Palaeozoic neuropterid foliage CJ Cleal, CH Shute, EL Zodrow Taxon, 486-492, 1990 | 101 | 1990 |
| Epidermal structure of some medullosan Neuropteris foliage from the Middle and Upper Carboniferous of Canada and Germany JC CLEAL, EL Zodrow Palaeontology 32 (4), 837-882, 1989 | 101 | 1989 |
| Paleoecology of early Pennsylvanian vegetation on a seasonally dry tropical landscape (Tynemouth Creek Formation, New Brunswick, Canada) AR Bashforth, CJ Cleal, MR Gibling, HJ Falcon-Lang, RF Miller Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology 200, 229-263, 2014 | 95 | 2014 |
| Plant fossils of the British coal measures CJ Cleal, BA Thomas Palaeontological Association, 1994 | 93 | 1994 |
| The plant fossil record reflects just two great extinction events B Cascales‐Miñana, CJ Cleal Terra Nova 26 (3), 195-200, 2014 | 90 | 2014 |
| A synopsis of neuropteroid foliage from the Carboniferous and Lower Permian of Europe CJ Cleal, CH Shute Natural History Museum, 1995 | 88 | 1995 |
| Plant biodiversity changes in Carboniferous tropical wetlands CJ Cleal, D Uhl, B Cascales-Miñana, BA Thomas, AR Bashforth, SC King, ... Earth-Science Reviews 114 (1-2), 124-155, 2012 | 86 | 2012 |
| Palaeobotany in museums CH Shute, CJ Cleal Geological Curator 4 (9), 553-559, 1987 | 85 | 1987 |
