2011

• Barnosky, A. D., Nicholas Matzke, Susumu Tomiya, Guin Wogan, Brian Swartz, Tiago Quental, Charles Marshall, Jenny L. McGuire, Emily L. Lindsey, Kaitlin C. Maguire, Ben Mersey, Elizabeth A. Ferrer. 2011. Has the Earth's sixth mass extinction already arrived? Nature 471:51-57 Read it
• Tomiya, S., Swartz, B.A., Batavia, M. 2011. Educational values of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. University Museums and Collections Journal 3/2010: 61-66.

2009

• Swartz, B. 2009. On the "duel" nature of history: Revisiting contingency versus determinism. PLoS Biology 7(12):e1000259. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.1000259.
• Swartz, B.A 2009. Devonian actinopterygian phylogenyand evolution based on a redescription of Stegotrachelus finlayi. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156(4):750-784.

2004

• 2004. Oakley, T.H., Swartz, B.A. Supermatrix phylogenetic analyses support parallel evolution of complex life history (anadromy) in Atlantic and Pacific Salmon. Integrative and Comparative Biology 44(6): 614.