| Flora of Japan K Iwatsuki, DE Boufford, H Ōba Kodansha 3, 1-482, 1993 | 349* | 1993 |
| The endemic genera of seed plants of China T Ying, YL Zhang, DE Boufford (No Title), 1993 | 290 | 1993 |
| Eastern Asian-eastern North American phytogeographical relationships-a history from the time of Linnaeus to the twentieth century DE Boufford, SA Spongberg Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 423-439, 1983 | 287 | 1983 |
| Origins and evolution of plant diversity in the Hengduan Mountains, China H Sun, J Zhang, T Deng, DE Boufford Plant Diversity 39 (4), 161, 2017 | 164 | 2017 |
| The origin, diversification and adaptation of a major mangrove clade (Rhizophoreae) revealed by whole-genome sequencing S Xu, Z He, Z Zhang, Z Guo, W Guo, H Lyu, J Li, M Yang, Z Du, Y Huang, ... National Science Review 4 (5), 721-734, 2017 | 114 | 2017 |
| Polyploidy in the flora of the Hengduan Mountains hotspot, southwestern China ZL Nie, J Wen, ZJ Gu, DE Boufford, H Sun Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 275-306, 2005 | 101 | 2005 |
| Elevational patterns of species richness and endemism for some important taxa in the Hengduan Mountains, southwestern China DC Zhang, YH Zhang, DE Boufford, H Sun Biodiversity and Conservation 18, 699-716, 2009 | 87 | 2009 |
| A checklist of the vascular plants of Taiwan DE Boufford, H Ohashi, TC Huang, CF Hsieh, JL Tsai, KC Yang, CI Peng, ... Flora of Taiwan 6, 15-139, 2003 | 79 | 2003 |
| The systematics and evolution of Circaea (Onagraceae) DE Boufford Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 804-994, 1982 | 74 | 1982 |
| The 29 N latitudinal line: an important division in the Hengduan Mountains, a biodiversity hotspot in southwest China DC Zhang, DE Boufford, RH Ree, H Sun Nordic Journal of Botany 27 (5), 405-412, 2009 | 70 | 2009 |
| Metasequoia glyptostroboides-Its present status in central China B Bartholomew, DE Boufford, SA Spongberg Journal of the Arnold Arboretum 64 (1), 105-128, 1983 | 69 | 1983 |
| Biodiversity hotspot: China's hengduan mountains DE Boufford Arnoldia 72 (1), 24-35, 2014 | 68 | 2014 |
| Seed plant endemism on Hainan Island: a framework for conservation actions J Francisco-Ortega, ZS Wang, FG Wang, FW Xing, H Liu, H Xu, WX Xu, ... The Botanical Review 76, 346-376, 2010 | 68 | 2010 |
| Twenty years of Chinese vascular plant novelties, 2000 through 2019 C Du, S Liao, DE Boufford, J Ma Plant Diversity 42 (5), 393-398, 2020 | 65 | 2020 |
| Testing a hypothesis of unidirectional hybridization in plants: Observations on Sonneratia, Bruguiera and Ligularia R Zhou, X Gong, D Boufford, CI Wu, S Shi BMC Evolutionary Biology 8, 1-9, 2008 | 57 | 2008 |
| Phylogenetic analysis of the Sonneratiaceae and its relationship to Lythraceae based on ITS sequences of nrDNA S Shi, Y Huang, F Tan, X He, DE Boufford Journal of Plant Research 113, 253-258, 2000 | 51 | 2000 |
| Evolution of coastal forests based on a full set of mangrove genomes Z He, X Feng, Q Chen, L Li, S Li, K Han, Z Guo, J Wang, M Liu, C Shi, ... Nature ecology & evolution 6 (6), 738-749, 2022 | 49 | 2022 |
| Convergent adaptation of the genomes of woody plants at the land–sea interface Z He, S Xu, Z Zhang, W Guo, H Lyu, C Zhong, DE Boufford, NC Duke, ... National science review 7 (6), 978-993, 2020 | 48 | 2020 |
| Epimedium L TS Ying, DE Boufford, AR Brach Flora of China 19, 787-799, 2011 | 48 | 2011 |
| Adaptive evolution of rbcL in Conocephalum (Hepaticae, bryophytes) H Miwa, IJ Odrzykoski, A Matsui, M Hasegawa, H Akiyama, Y Jia, ... Gene 441 (1-2), 169-175, 2009 | 47 | 2009 |
Suhua ShiProfessor, Sun Yat-sen UniversityVerified email at mail.sysu.edu.cn
