| In nature's interests? GE Varner Oxford University Press, 2002 | 611 | 2002 |
| Prolegomena to any future artificial moral agent C Allen, G Varner, J Zinser Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence 12 (3), 251-261, 2000 | 547 | 2000 |
| Personhood, ethics, and animal cognition: Situating animals in Hare's two level utilitarianism GE Varner Oxford University Press, 2012 | 232 | 2012 |
| Defending biodiversity: Environmental science and ethics JA Newman, G Varner, S Linquist Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 85 | 2017 |
| “Can Animal Rights Activists be GE Varner The animal ethics reader, 410, 2003 | 81 | 2003 |
| No holism without pluralism GE Varner Environmental Ethics 13 (2), 175-179, 1991 | 63 | 1991 |
| Pets, companion animals, and domesticated partners G Varner Ethics for everyday, 450-475, 2002 | 52 | 2002 |
| Biological functions and biological interests GE Varner The Southern Journal of Philosophy 28 (2), 251, 1990 | 52 | 1990 |
| Biocentric individualism G Varner The Ethics of the Environment, 287-299, 2017 | 48 | 2017 |
| Sentientism G Varner A companion to environmental philosophy, 192-203, 2001 | 48 | 2001 |
| The prospects for consensus and convergence in the animal rights debate GE Varner Hastings Center Report 24 (1), 24-28, 1994 | 42 | 1994 |
| An overview of engineering approaches to improving agricultural animal welfare C Croney, W Muir, JQ Ni, NO Widmar, G Varner Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31, 143-159, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| In defense of the vegan ideal: Rhetoric and bias in the nutrition literature GE Varner Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 7, 29-40, 1994 | 31 | 1994 |
| Do species have standing? GE Varner Environmental Ethics 9 (1), 57-72, 1987 | 31 | 1987 |
| Utilitarianism and the evolution of ecological ethics G Varner Science and Engineering Ethics 14, 551-573, 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
| The Schopenhauerian challenge in environmental ethics GE Varner Environmental Ethics 7 (3), 209-229, 1985 | 25 | 1985 |
| Environmental ethics, hunting, and the place of animals G Varner | 24 | 2011 |
| What's wrong with animalby-products? GE Varner Journal of agricultural and environmental ethics 7, 7-17, 1994 | 16 | 1994 |
| Congress, Consistency, and Environmental Law J Lemons, DA Brown, GE Varner Environmental Ethics 12 (4), 311-327, 1990 | 15 | 1990 |
| Personhood, memory, and elephant management G Varner | 14 | 2008 |