Smith, N.A., K.L. Koeller, J.A. Clarke, D.T. Ksepka, J.S. Mitchell, A. Nabavizadeh, R.C. Ridgley, and L.M. Witmer. 2021. Convergent Evolution In Dippers (Aves, Cinclidae): The Only Wing-propelled Diving Songbirds. The Anatomical Record, 305:1563-1591; DOI: 10.1002/ar.24820. pdf
Baron, J., D.S. Dhillon, N.A. Smith, and E. Patterson. 2021. Microstructure-based appearance rendering for feathers. Computers & Graphics. link.
Smaers, J.B., R.S. Rothman, D.R. Hudson, A.M. Balanoff, B. Beatty, D.K.N. Dechmann, D. de Vries, J.C. Dunn, J.G. Fleagle, C.C. Gilbert, A. Goswami, A.N. Iwaniuk, W.L. Jungers, M. Kerney, D.T. Ksepka, P.R. Manger, C.S. Mongle, F.J. Rohlf, N.A. Smith, C. Soligo, V. Weisbecker, and K. Safi. 2021. The Evolution of Mammalian Brain Size. Science Advances, 7:eabe2101. link; press
Stidham,T.A., N.A Smith, and Z. Li. 2021. A Pleistocene raven skull (Aves, Corvidae) from Jinyuan Cave, Liaoning Province, China. Quaternary International. link
Ksepka, D.T., A.M. Balanoff, N.A. Smith, G.S. Bever, B-A.S. Bhullar, E. Bourdon, E.L. Braun, J.G. Burleigh, J.A. Clarke, M.W. Colbert, J.R. Corfield, F.J. Degrange, V.L. DePietri, C.M. Early, D.J. Field, P.M. Gignac, M.E.L. Gold, R.T. Kimball, S. Kawabe, L. Lefebvre, J. Marugán-Lobón, C.S. Mongle, A. Morhardt, M.A. Norell, R.C. Ridgely, R.S. Rothman, R.P. Scofield, C.P. Tambussi, C.R. Torres, M. vanTuinen, S.A. Walsh, A. Watanabe, L.M. Witmer, A.K. Wright, L.E. Zanno, E.D. Jarvis, and J.B. Smaers. 2020.
Tempo and Pattern of Avian Brain Size Evolution. Current Biology, 30:2026-2036. link; press
Smith, N.A., T.A. Stidham, and J.S. Mitchell. 2020. The first fossil owl (Aves, Strigiformes) from the Paleogene of Africa. Diversity, Special Issue: Origins of Modern Avian Biodiversity, 12:163; doi.org/10.3390/d12040163. link
PowelL, C.L. II, R.W. Boessenecker, N.A. Smith, R.J. Fleck, S.J. Carlson, J.R. Allen, D.J. Long, A.M. Sarna-Wojcicki, and R.B. Guruswami-Naidu. 2019. Geology and Paleontology of the Late Miocene Wilson Grove Formation at Bloomfield Quarry, Sonoma County, California. USGS Scientific Investigations Report, 2019-5021. pdf
Havstad, J.C. and N.A. Smith. 2019. Fossils with feathers and philosophy of science. Systematic Biology, 68:840-851. link; press
Smith, N.A., A.M. DeBee and J.A. Clarke. 2018. Systematics and phylogeny of the Zygodactylidae (Aves, Neognathae): with description of a new species from the early Eocene of Wyoming, USA. PeerJ, 6:e4950; DOI 10.7717/peerj.4950. pdf
Smith, N.A., A.M. Balanoff and D.T. Ksepka. 2016. Symposium on ‘Evolving approaches for studying the anatomy of the avian brain’: Introduction. Journal of Anatomy, 229:171. pdf
Smith, N.A. 2015. Computed tomography scans of the Horned Puffin Fratercula corniculata. Digital Morphology, Published online 10.29.2015: http://digimorph.org/specimens/Fratercula_corniculata. link
Balanoff, A.M., G.S. Bever, M.W. Colbert, J.A. Clarke, D.J. Field, P.M. Gignac, D.T. Ksepka, R. Ridgely, N.A. Smith, C. Torres, S. Walsh and L. Witmer. 2015. Best practices for digitally constructing endocranial casts: examples from birds and their dinosaurian relatives. Journal of Anatomy, DOI:10.1111/joa.12378. pdf
Smith. N.A. 2015. Evolution of body mass in the Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes): the effects of combining neontological and paleontological data. Paleobiology, DOI:10.1017/pab.2015.24. pdf, link, supplementary data
Ksepka, D.T., J.F. Parham, J.F. Allman, M.J. Benton, M.T. Carrano, K.A. Cranston, P.C.J. Donoghue, J.J. Head, E.J. Hermsen, R.B. Irmis, W.G. Joyce, M. Kohli, K.S. Lamm, D. Leehr, J.S.L. Patane, P.D. Polly, M.J. Phillips, N.A. Smith, N.D. Smith, M. van Tuinen, J.L. Ware, and R.C.M. Warnock. 2015. The fossil calibration database, a new resource for divergence dating. Systematic Biology, 64:853-859. pdf; press
Smith, N.A. L.M. Chiappe, J.A. Clarke, S.V. Edwards, S.J. Nesbitt, M.A. Norell, T.A. Stidham, A. Turner, M. van Tuinen, J. Vinther and X. Xu. 2015. Rhetoric vs. reality: a commentary on "Bird Origins Anew" by A. Feduccia. The Auk: Ornithological Advances, 132:467-480. pdf
Smith, N.A. 2015. Sixteen vetted fossil calibrations for divergence dating of Charadriiformes (Aves, Neognathae). Palaeontologia Electronica - Fossil Calibration Series, 17.3.6FC: 1-18. pdf
Stidham, T.A. and N.A. Smith. 2015. An ameghinornithid-like bird (Aves, Cariamae, Ameghinornithidae?) from the early Oligocene of Egypt. Palaeontologia Electronica, 18.1.5A: 1-8. pdf
Smith, N.A. and J.A. Clarke. 2014. Systematics and Evolution of the Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes). Journal of Avian Biology, 45:DOI:10.1111/jav.00487. pdf; press
Clarke, J.A., D.T. Ksepka, N.A. Smith and M.A. Norell. 2014. Corrigendum: Combined phylogenetic analysis of a new North American fossil species confirms widespread Eocene distribution for stem rollers (Aves, Coracii). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 172:226-229. pdf
Smith, N.A. and J.A. Clarke. 2014. Osteological histology of the Pan-Alcidae (Aves, Charadriiformes): correlates of wing-propelled diving and flightlessness. The Anatomical Record, 297:188-199. pdf
Smith, N.A. 2014. The fossil record and phylogeny of the auklets (Pan-Alcidae, Aethiini). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 12:217-236. pdf; link to supplementary data
Smith, N.A. 2013. Avian fossils from the Early Miocene Moghra Formation of Egypt. Ostrich: African Journal of Ornithology, 84:181-189. pdf
Martin, J.S., N.A. Smith and C.D. Francis. 2013. Removing the entropy from the definition of entropy: clarifying the relationship between evolution, entropy and the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics. Evolution, Education & Outreach, 6:30, DOI:10.1186/1936-6434-6-30. pdf
Smith, N.A. and G. Mayr. 2013. Earliest northeastern Atlantic Ocean basin record of an auk (Charadriiformes, Pan-Alcidae): fossil remains from the Miocene of Germany. Journal of Ornithology, 154:775-782. pdf
Smith, N.A. 2013. A new species of auk (Charadriiformes, Pan-Alcidae) from the Miocene of Mexico. The Condor, 115:77-83. pdf
Smith, N.A. 2012. Computed tomography scans of the Razorbill Auk Alca torda. Digital Morphology, Published online 12.5.2012: http://digimorph.org/specimens/Alca_torda. link
Smith, N.A. and J.A. Clarke. 2012. Endocranial anatomy of the Charadriiformes: sensory system variation and the evolution of wing-propelled diving. PLoS One, 7(11): e49584. pdf
Smith, N.A. and J.A. Clarke. 2011. An alphataxonomic revision of extinct and extant razorbills (Aves, Alcidae): a combined morphometric and phylogenetic approach. Ornithological Monographs, 72:1-61. pdf
Boessenecker, R.W. and N.A. Smith. 2011. Latest Pacific basin record of a bony-toothed bird (Aves, Pelagornithidae) from the Pliocene Purisima Formation of California, U.S.A. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 31:652-657. pdf; press
Smith, N.A. 2011. Taxonomic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the flightless Mancallinae (Aves, Pan-Alcidae). Zookeys, 91:1-116. pdf
Clarke, J.A., D.T. Ksepka, N.A. Smith and M.A. Norell. 2009. Combined phylogenetic analysis of a new North American fossil species confirms widespread Eocene distribution for stem rollers (Aves, Coracii). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 157:586-611. pdf
Smith, N.A., S.L. Olson and J.A. Clarke. 2007. First Atlantic record of the puffin Cerorhinca (Aves, Alcidae) from the Pliocene of North Carolina. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, 27:1039-1042. pdf