| Planetary biodiversity inventory (2008–2017): Tapeworms from vertebrate bowels of the earth JN Caira, K Jensen Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, 2017 | 107 | 2017 |
| Trypanorhynch cestodes of elasmobranchs from the Persian Gulf M Haseli, M Malek, HW Palm Zootaxa 2492 (1), 28-48, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| Cadmium and lead accumulation in three endogeic earthworm species R Latif, M Malek, H Mirmonsef Bulletin of environmental contamination and toxicology 90, 456-459, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| Permanent intertidal fish from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran FM GHANBARI, M MALEK IRANIAN JOURNAL OF ANIMAL BIOSYSTEMATICS (IJAB) 3 (1), 1-14, 2007 | 38 | 2007 |
| Distribution, diversity, and abundance of rocky intertidal fishes in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman, Iran M Ghanbarifardi, M Malek Marine Biology Research 5 (5), 496-502, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| The Middle Eastern Biodiversity Network: Generating and sharing knowledge for ecosystem management and conservation F Krupp, M Khalaf, M Malek, B Streit, M Al-Jumaily ZooKeys 31, 3-15, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| An overview of the tapeworms of vertebrate bowels of the earth JN Caira, K JENsEN, BB Georgiev, R Kuchta, T Littlewood, J Mariaux, ... Lawrence, Kansas, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Multigene phylogeny reveals a new Iranian earthworm genus (Lumbricidae: Philomontanus) with three new species F Bozorgi, M Seiedy, M Malek, M Aira, M Perez-Losada, J Dominguez PloS one 14 (1), e0208904, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| Culture of a new medicinal leech: growth, survival and reproduction of Hirudo orientalis Utevsky and Trontelj, 2005 under laboratory conditions M Malek, F Jafarifar, A Roohi Aminjan, H Salehi, H Parsa Journal of natural history 53 (11-12), 627-637, 2019 | 24 | 2019 |
| Effects of algal diet on larval survival and growth of the barnacle Amphibalanus (= Balanus) improvisus A Nasrolahi, A Sari, S Saifabadi, M Malek Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 87 (5 …, 2007 | 23 | 2007 |
| When morphology and DNA are discordant: Integrated taxonomic studies on the Eisenia fetida/andrei complex from different parts of Iran (Annelida, Clitellata: Megadrili) R Latif, M Malek, C Csuzdi European Journal of Soil Biology 81, 55-63, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Two new species of Acanthobothrium (Tetraphyllidea: Onchobothriidae) from Pastinachus cf. sephen (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman L Maleki, M Malek, HW Palm Folia Parasitologica 60 (5), 448, 2013 | 21 | 2013 |
| Earthworm fauna of the western Mazandaran province, Iran: (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae, Megascolecidae) S Ezzatpanah, L Robabeh, M Masoumeh, S Hasan Zoology in the Middle East 51 (sup2), 67-74, 2010 | 18 | 2010 |
| New earthworm records from the Central Zagros Mountain, Iran with R Latif, M Malek, C Csuzdi North-Western Journal of Zoology 13 (2), 326-336, 2016 | 16 | 2016 |
| Four new species of Acanthobothrium van Beneden, 1850 (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) from the guitarfish, Rhynchobatus cf. djiddensis (Elasmobranchii … L Maleki, M Malek, HW Palm | 15 | 2015 |
| Review of the earthworm fauna of Iran with emphasis on Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad Province Z Farhadi, M Malek, E Elahi Zootaxa 3670 (4), 440–448-440–448, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| Two new species of Echinobothrium van Beneden, 1849 (Cestoda: Diphyllidea) from the Persian Gulf M Haseli, M Malek, HW Palm, VA Ivanov Systematic Parasitology 82, 201-209, 2012 | 14 | 2012 |
| Acanthobothrium chabahariensis n. sp.(Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) in the cowtail stingray Pastinachus cf. sephen (Myliobatiformes: Dasyatidae) from the Gulf of Oman, Iran L Maleki, M Malek, A Rastgoo Journal of Genetic Resources 4 (2), 114-121, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Life cycle and population structure of the terrestrial isopod Hemilepistus klugii (Brandt, 1833) (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in Iran GM Kashani, A Sari, S Hosseinie, M Malek, E Entezari Journal of Natural History 45 (33-34), 2081-2094, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
| Review of the Eisenia muganiensis (Michaelsen, 1910) species group with description of two new species (Oligochaeta: Lumbricidae) T Szederjesi, T Pavlíček, R Latif, C Csuzdi Zootaxa 3884 (3), 282-288, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |