To date Prof. MacLeod has authored over 500 SCI-listed publications, primarily in the areas of the quantitative analysis of organic form, extinctions research, quantitative stratigraphy and archeology, including contributions to micropaleontology, invertebrate paleontology, vertebrate paleontology, zoology, botany, taxonomy, systematics, stratigraphy, functional morphology, and artifact analysis. He is the author of nine books including edited collections of technical articles (Cretaceous-Tertiary Mass Extinction: Biotic and Environmental Changes, W. W. Norton, 1996; Morphometrics, Shape and Phylogenetics, Taylor & Francis, 2002; Automated Taxon Identification in Systematics: Theory, Approaches, and Applications, CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2007), topical volumes (Coded Chimera: Exploring Relationships Between Sculptural Form Making and Biological Morphogenesis Through Computer Modelling, Cambridge, Arts & Humanities Research Council / Crucible Network, 2011; The Great Extinctions: What Causes Them and How They Shape Life, The Natural History Museum, 2013; Atlas of Deep-Sea Benthic Foraminifera, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013; Issues in Paleobiology: A Global View, Scidinge Press, 2014) and an encyclopedia (Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Extinctions, Second Edition (2 volumes), Gale-Cengage, 2013)[1]. He was also the editor of the PaleoBase series (3 volumes) of electronic paleontological databases that were published Blackwell Science between 2000 and 2010. Dr. MacLeod is currently writing a book on quantitative stratigraphic methods to be published by Princeton University Press.
[1] Awarded an Honorable Mention Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) Award: Multivolume Reference/Science category in 2013 by the Association of American Publishers.