| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Matthew Effect in Science, II: Cumulative Advantage and the Symbolism of Intellectual Property | Isis | 1988 | 962 |
| 2 | Knowledge in Transit | Isis | 2004 | 633 |
| 3 | The House of Experiment in Seventeenth-Century England | Isis | 1988 | 459 |
| 4 | The Function of Measurement in Modern Physical Science | Isis | 1961 | 302 |
| 5 | What Happened to Occult Qualities in the Scientific Revolution? | Isis | 1982 | 297 |
| 6 | The Melanchthon Circle, Rheticus, and the Wittenberg Interpretation of the Copernican Theory | Isis | 1975 | 272 |
| 7 | Beyond Postcolonialism … and Postpositivism: Circulation and the Global History of Science | Isis | 2013 | 216 |
| 8 | Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science | Isis | 1986 | 205 |
| 9 | The Sensory Core and the Medieval Foundations of Early Modern Perceptual Theory | Isis | 1979 | 197 |
| 10 | The Victorian Conflict between Science and Religion: A Professional Dimension | Isis | 1978 | 193 |
| 11 | Construing "Technology" as "Applied Science": Public Rhetoric of Scientists and Engineers in the United States, 1880-1945 | Isis | 1995 | 185 |
| 12 | The Industrialization of Invention: A Case Study from the German Chemical Industry | Isis | 1982 | 171 |
| 13 | Astronomy and Astrology in India and Iran | Isis | 1963 | 160 |
| 14 | Objects and the Museum | Isis | 2005 | 160 |
| 15 | Leibniz and the Vis Viva Controversy | Isis | 1971 | 156 |
| 16 | Totius in Verba: Rhetoric and Authority in the Early Royal Society | Isis | 1985 | 153 |
| 17 | The Buffon-Linnaeus Controversy | Isis | 1976 | 148 |
| 18 | On Scientific Observation | Isis | 2008 | 148 |
| 19 | Einstein, Michelson, and the "Crucial" Experiment | Isis | 1969 | 147 |
| 20 | Kant, Blumenbach, and Vital Materialism in German Biology | Isis | 1980 | 147 |
| 21 | Sciences and the Global: On Methods, Questions, and Theory | Isis | 2010 | 145 |
| 22 | Making Dollars out of DNA: The First Major Patent in Biotechnology and the Commercialization of Molecular Biology, 1974-1980 | Isis | 2001 | 144 |
| 23 | Mosaic Physics and the Search for a Pious Natural Philosophy in the Late Renaissance | Isis | 2000 | 142 |
| 24 | The Experimenter's Museum: GenBank, Natural History, and the Moral Economies of Biomedicine | Isis | 2011 | 138 |
| 25 | Laboratory Design and the Aim of Science: Andreas Libavius versus Tycho Brahe | Isis | 1986 | 137 |
| 26 | Alhazen's Theory of Vision and Its Reception in the West | Isis | 1967 | 132 |
| 27 | Can We Get Our Materialism Back, Please? | Isis | 2007 | 131 |
| 28 | H. A. Lorentz and the Electromagnetic View of Nature | Isis | 1970 | 129 |
| 29 | The Magnetic Crusade: Science and Politics in Early Victorian Britain | Isis | 1979 | 129 |
| 30 | Situating Arabic Science: Locality versus Essence | Isis | 1996 | 129 |
| 31 | When Science Became Western: Historiographical Reflections | Isis | 2010 | 129 |
| 32 | Eighteenth-Century Attempts to Resolve the Vis viva Controversy | Isis | 1965 | 128 |
| 33 | A Pioneer in Anaclastics: Ibn Sahl on Burning Mirrors and Lenses | Isis | 1990 | 128 |
| 34 | Heredity or Milieu: The Foundations of Modern European Criminological Theory | Isis | 1976 | 126 |
| 35 | Ideals of Science and Their Discontents in Late Nineteenth-Century American Medicine | Isis | 1991 | 126 |
| 36 | Nehruvian Science and Postcolonial India | Isis | 2013 | 126 |
| 37 | Notes on the History of Quantification in Sociology--Trends, Sources and Problems | Isis | 1961 | 124 |
| 38 | Leonhard Euler's Elastic Curves | Isis | 1933 | 122 |
| 39 | Telepathy: Origins of Randomization in Experimental Design | Isis | 1988 | 122 |
| 40 | Reading Encyclopedias: Science and the Organization of Knowledge in British Dictionaries of Arts and Sciences, 1730-1850 | Isis | 1991 | 120 |
| 41 | Science and Imperialism | Isis | 1993 | 119 |
| 42 | Managing an Experimental Household: The Dees of Mortlake and the Practice of Natural Philosophy | Isis | 1997 | 118 |
| 43 | Early Seventeenth-Century Atomism: Theory, Epistemology, and the Insufficiency of Experiment | Isis | 1988 | 117 |
| 44 | Mathematical Derivation of an Election System | Isis | 1953 | 114 |
| 45 | Dikes and Dams, Thick with Politics | Isis | 2007 | 111 |
| 46 | Albert the Great on the Classification and Localization of the Internal Senses | Isis | 1974 | 108 |
| 47 | Descartes' Laws of Motion | Isis | 1966 | 107 |
| 48 | Botany on a Plate | Isis | 2002 | 107 |
| 49 | New Light on Hunain Ibn Ishaq and His Period | Isis | 1926 | 106 |
| 50 | The National Science Foundation and the Debate over Postwar Research Policy, 1942-1945: A Political Interpretation of Science--The Endless Frontier | Isis | 1977 | 105 |
