| The eskimo about bering strait EW Nelson US Government Printing Office, 1900 | 1051 | 1900 |
| On the artificial culture of marine plankton organisms EJ Allen, EW Nelson Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 8 (5 …, 1910 | 337 | 1910 |
| The rabbits of North America EW Nelson US Government Printing Office, 1909 | 310 | 1909 |
| Lower California and its natural resources EW Nelson US Government Printing Office, 1921 | 300 | 1921 |
| Status of the pronghorned antelope, 1922-1924 EW Nelson US Department of Agriculture, 1925 | 108 | 1925 |
| Wild animals of North America: intimate studies of big and little creatures of the mammal kingdom EW Nelson DigiCat, 2022 | 83 | 2022 |
| Report upon natural history collections made in Alaska between the years 1877 and 1881 EW Nelson US Government Printing Office, 1887 | 80 | 1887 |
| Revision of the jaguars EW Nelson, EA Goldman Journal of Mammalogy 14 (3), 221-240, 1933 | 64 | 1933 |
| Revision of the squirrels of Mexico and Central America EW Nelson The Academy, 1899 | 55 | 1899 |
| A partial catalogue of the fishes of Illinois EW Nelson | 55 | 1876 |
| Smaller mammals of North America EW Nelson National Geographic Society 33 (5), 1918 | 49 | 1918 |
| Eleven new mammals from Lower California EW Nelson, EA Goldman Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 1909 | 45 | 1909 |
| Birds of north-eastern Illinois EW Nelson Printed at the Salem Press, 1877 | 45 | 1877 |
| List of the pumas, with three described as new EW Nelson, EA Goldman Journal of Mammalogy 10 (4), 345-350, 1929 | 37 | 1929 |
| Descriptions of seven new rabbits from Mexico EW Nelson | 35 | 1904 |
| Five hundred cases of erysipeloid E Nelson Rocky Mountain medical journal 52 (1), 40-42, 1955 | 34 | 1955 |
| Our national elk herds: a program for conserving the elk on national forests about the Yellowstone National Park HS Graves US Department of Agriculture, 1919 | 33 | 1919 |
| Birds of Bering Sea and the Arctic Ocean EW Nelson US Government Printing Office, 1883 | 33 | 1883 |
| Toxicity of Apple Orchard Pesticides to Agistemus fleschneri EE Nelson, BA Croft, AJ Howitt, AL Jones Environmental Entomology 2 (2), 219-222, 1973 | 31 | 1973 |
| Six New Pocket Mice from Lower California and Noets on the Status of Several Describes Species EW Nelson | 27 | 1929 |
