| Asian masculinities K Louie, M Low Routledge Curzon, 2003 | 174 | 2003 |
| Science, technology and society in contemporary Japan M Low, S Nakayama, H Yoshioka Cambridge University Press, 1999 | 92 | 1999 |
| Urban modernity: Cultural innovation in the second industrial revolution MR Levin, S Forgan, M Hessler, RH Kargon, M Low MIT Press, 2010 | 79 | 2010 |
| Building a modern Japan: Science, technology, and medicine in the Meiji era and beyond M Low Springer, 2005 | 73 | 2005 |
| World's Fairs on the Eve of War: Science, Technology, and Modernity, 1937–1942 RH Kargon, K Fiss, MF Low, AP Molella University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| Eco-cities in Japan: past and future M Low Journal of Urban Technology 20 (1), 7-22, 2013 | 61 | 2013 |
| East Asia beyond the history wars: Confronting the ghosts of violence T Morris-Suzuki, M Low, L Petrov, TY Tsu Routledge, 2013 | 59 | 2013 |
| Science and the Building of a New Japan M Low Springer, 2005 | 59 | 2005 |
| Physical anthropology in Japan: the Ainu and the search for the origins of the Japanese M Low Current Anthropology 53 (S5), S57-S68, 2012 | 55 | 2012 |
| Pathways to human experimentation, 1933-1945: Germany, Japan, and the United States G Baader, SE Lederer, M Low, F Schmaltz, AV Schwerin Osiris 20, 205-231, 2005 | 55 | 2005 |
| Technology transfer and cultural exchange: Western scientists and engineers encounter late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan GJN Gooday, MF Low Osiris 13, 99-128, 1998 | 50 | 1998 |
| The Emperor's sons go to war: Competing Masculinities in Modern Japan M Low Asian masculinities, 81-99, 2005 | 49 | 2005 |
| Japan on display: Photography and the emperor M Low Routledge, 2006 | 48 | 2006 |
| Postwar scientific intelligence missions to Japan RW Home, MF Low Isis 84 (3), 527-537, 1993 | 41 | 1993 |
| The research function of universities in Japan S Nakayama, MF Low Higher Education 34 (2), 245-258, 1997 | 40 | 1997 |
| The butterfly and the frigate: Social studies of science in Japan MF Low Social Studies of Science 19 (2), 313-342, 1989 | 32 | 1989 |
| Beyond Joseph Needham-Science, technology, and medicine in East and Southeast Asia MF Low Osiris 13, 1-8, 1998 | 31 | 1998 |
| Displaying the future: techno‐nationalism and the rise of the consumer in Postwar Japan M Low History and Technology 19 (3), 197-209, 2003 | 30 | 2003 |
| Japan's secret war?‘Instant’scientific manpower and Japan's World War II atomic bomb project MF Low Annals of science 47 (4), 347-360, 1990 | 23 | 1990 |
| Letters to the dead: Grassroots historical dialogue in East Asia's borderlands T Morris-Suzuki East Asia Beyond the History Wars, 87-104, 2013 | 18* | 2013 |