| Les quimeres del passat. Els vertebrats fossils del Plio-Quaternari de les Balears i Pitiuses JA Alcover Monografies Cientifiques, Edit. Moll 1, 1-260, 1981 | 223* | 1981 |
| The extent of extinctions of mammals on islands JA Alcover, A Sans, M Palmer Journal of Biogeography 25 (5), 913-918, 1998 | 192 | 1998 |
| Island extinctions: processes, patterns, and potential for ecosystem restoration JR Wood, JA Alcover, TM Blackburn, P Bover, RP Duncan, JP Hume, ... Environmental Conservation 44 (4), 348-358, 2017 | 136 | 2017 |
| A review on the effects of alien rodents in the Balearic (Western Mediterranean Sea) and Canary Islands (Eastern Atlantic Ocean) A Traveset, M Nogales, JA Alcover, JD Delgado, M López-Darias, ... Biological Invasions 11, 1653-1670, 2009 | 109 | 2009 |
| Three islands, three worlds: paleogeography and evolution of the vertebrate fauna from the Balearic Islands P Bover, J Quintana, JA Alcover Quaternary International 182 (1), 135-144, 2008 | 101 | 2008 |
| Els mamífers de les Balears JA Alcover, A Bonner, L Roca Moll, 1979 | 101 | 1979 |
| The diet of Myotragus balearicus Bate 1909 (Artiodactyla: Caprinae), an extinct bovid from the Balearic Islands: evidence from coprolites JA Alcover, R Perez-Obiol, EI Yll, P Bover Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 66 (1), 57-74, 1999 | 96 | 1999 |
| The first Mallorcans: prehistoric colonization in the Western Mediterranean JA Alcover Journal of World Prehistory 21, 19-84, 2008 | 90 | 2008 |
| Molecular dating of caprines using ancient DNA sequences of Myotragus balearicus, an extinct endemic Balearic mammal C Lalueza-Fox, J Castresana, L Sampietro, T Marquès-Bonet, JA Alcover, ... BMC Evolutionary Biology 5, 1-11, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
| The avifaunas of the isolated Mediterranean islands during the Middle and Late Pleistocene JA Alcover, F Florit, C Mourer-Chauviré, PDM Weesie Science Series of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 36, 273-284, 1992 | 86 | 1992 |
| The Miocene: land mammals of Europe GE Rössner, K Heissig (No Title), 1999 | 82 | 1999 |
| Economic transitions in finis terra the western Mediterranean of Iberia, 15–7 ka BP J Aura, J Jordá, J Morales, M Pérez, MP Villalba, J Alcover Before Farming 2009 (2), 1-17, 2009 | 80 | 2009 |
| Understanding Late Quaternary extinctions: the case of Myotragus balearicus (Bate, 1909) P Bover, J Antoni Alcover Journal of Biogeography 30 (5), 771-781, 2003 | 76 | 2003 |
| Bases per al coneixement del contacte entre els primers colonitzadors humans i la naturalesa de les Balears D Ramis, JC Conesa, M Trias Endins: Publicació d'espeleologia, 5-58, 2001 | 75 | 2001 |
| Predators of vertebrates on islands JA Alcover, M McMinn BioScience 44 (1), 12-18, 1994 | 75 | 1994 |
| The chronology of the first settlement of the Balearic Islands D Ramis, JA Alcover, J Coll, M Trias Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 15 (1), 3-24, 2002 | 71 | 2002 |
| Extinctions and local disappearances of vertebrates in the western Mediterranean islands JA Alcover, B Seguí, P Bover Extinctions in near time: causes, contexts, and consequences, 165-188, 1999 | 65 | 1999 |
| Extinction of the autochthonous small mammals of Mallorca (Gymnesic Islands, Western Mediterranean) and its ecological consequences P Bover, JA Alcover Journal of Biogeography 35 (6), 1112-1122, 2008 | 62 | 2008 |
| Historical processes and environmental factors as determinants of inter‐island differences in endemic faunas: the case of the Balearic Islands M Palmer, GX Pons, I Cambefort, JA Alcover Journal of Biogeography 26 (4), 813-823, 1999 | 58 | 1999 |
| Les aus fossils de la Cova de Ca Na Reia JA Alcover | 56 | 1989 |
