| Lost land of the dodo: an ecological history of Mauritius, Réunion & Rodrigues AS Cheke, JP Hume A&C Black, 2008 | 495 | 2008 |
| Extinct birds JP Hume Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017 | 207 | 2017 |
| 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 | 149 | 2017 |
| A new Neogene marine avian assemblage from north-central Chile SA Walsh, JP Hume Journal of vertebrate Paleontology 21 (3), 484-491, 2001 | 114 | 2001 |
| The history of the Dodo Raphus cucullatus and the penguin of Mauritius JP Hume Historical Biology 18 (2), 69-93, 2006 | 87 | 2006 |
| Mid-Holocene vertebrate bone Concentration-Lagerstätte on oceanic island Mauritius provides a window into the ecosystem of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) KF Rijsdijk, JP Hume, F Bunnik, FBV Florens, C Baider, B Shapiro, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 28 (1-2), 14-24, 2009 | 63 | 2009 |
| Lost land of the Dodo: the ecological history of the Mascarene Islands AS Cheke, JP Hume T and AD Poyser, London, 2008 | 63 | 2008 |
| Reappraisal of the parrots (Aves: Psittacidae) from the Mascarene Islands, with comments on their ecology, morphology, and affinities JP Hume Zootaxa 1513 (1), 1–76-1–76, 2007 | 61 | 2007 |
| Mid-Holocene (4200 kyr BP) mass mortalities in Mauritius (Mascarenes): insular vertebrates resilient to climatic extremes but vulnerable to human impact KF Rijsdijk, J Zinke, PGB de Louw, JP Hume, H van der Plicht, ... The Holocene 21 (8), 1179-1194, 2011 | 46 | 2011 |
| A synopsis of the pre-human avifauna of the Mascarene Islands JP Hume, UB Göhlich, A Kroh Proceedings of the 8th international meeting of the society of avian …, 2013 | 41 | 2013 |
| Bone histology sheds new light on the ecology of the dodo (Raphus cucullatus, Aves, Columbiformes) D Angst, A Chinsamy, L Steel, JP Hume Scientific reports 7 (1), 7993, 2017 | 40 | 2017 |
| Systematics, morphology, and ecology of pigeons and doves (Aves: Columbidae) of the Mascarene Islands, with three new species JP Hume Zootaxa 3124 (1), 1–62-1–62, 2011 | 40 | 2011 |
| Dutch diaries and the demise of the dodo JP Hume, DM Martill, C Dewdney Nature 429 (6992), 1-1, 2004 | 38 | 2004 |
| Repeated evolution of flightlessness in Dryolimnas rails (Aves: Rallidae) after extinction and recolonization on Aldabra JP Hume, D Martill Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 186 (3), 666-672, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Contrasting taphofacies in ocean island settings: the fossil record of Mascarene vertebrates JP Hume Proceedings of the International Symposium" Insular Vertebrate Evolution …, 2005 | 34 | 2005 |
| The forgotten fauna: native vertebrate seed predators on islands JK Carpenter, JM Wilmshurst, KR McConkey, JP Hume, DM Wotton, ... Functional Ecology 34 (9), 1802-1813, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| How Owen ‘stole’the Dodo: academic rivalry and disputed rights to a newly-discovered subfossil deposit in nineteenth century Mauritius JP Hume, AS Cheke, A McOran-Campbell Historical biology 21 (1-2), 33-49, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| Threatened and extinct island endemic birds of the world: Distribution, threats and functional diversity TJ Matthews, JP Wayman, P Cardoso, F Sayol, JP Hume, W Ulrich, ... Journal of Biogeography 49 (11), 1920-1940, 2022 | 30 | 2022 |
| Colour aberrations in extinct and endangered birds JP Hume, H van Grouw British Ornithologists' Club, 2014 | 30 | 2014 |
| A review of the dodo and its ecosystem: insights from a vertebrate concentration Lagerstätte in Mauritius KF Rijsdijk, JP Hume, PGBD Louw, HJM Meijer, A Janoo, EJ De Boer, ... Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 35 (sup1), 3-20, 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
