| Determining Lyapunov exponents from a time series A Wolf, JB Swift, HL Swinney, JA Vastano Physica D: nonlinear phenomena 16 (3), 285-317, 1985 | 12893 | 1985 |
| Independent coordinates for strange attractors from mutual information AM Fraser, HL Swinney Physical review A 33 (2), 1134, 1986 | 6173 | 1986 |
| Flow regimes in a circular Couette system with independently rotating cylinders CD Andereck, SS Liu, HL Swinney Journal of fluid mechanics 164, 155-183, 1986 | 1659 | 1986 |
| Transition from a uniform state to hexagonal and striped Turing patterns Q Ouyang, HL Swinney Nature 352 (6336), 610-612, 1991 | 1110 | 1991 |
| Localized excitations in a vertically vibrated granular layer PB Umbanhowar, F Melo, HL Swinney Nature 382 (6594), 793-796, 1996 | 1080 | 1996 |
| Observation of anomalous diffusion and Lévy flights in a two-dimensional rotating flow TH Solomon, ER Weeks, HL Swinney Physical Review Letters 71 (24), 3975, 1993 | 936 | 1993 |
| Collective motion and density fluctuations in bacterial colonies HP Zhang, A Be’er, EL Florin, HL Swinney Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (31), 13626-13630, 2010 | 859 | 2010 |
| Onset of turbulence in a rotating fluid JP Gollub, HL Swinney Physical Review Letters 35 (14), 927, 1975 | 634 | 1975 |
| Hydrodynamic instabilities and the transition to turbulence HL Swinney, JP Gollub Hydrodynamic instabilities and the transition to turbulence, 1981 | 602 | 1981 |
| Hexagons, kinks, and disorder in oscillated granular layers F Melo, PB Umbanhowar, HL Swinney Physical review letters 75 (21), 3838, 1995 | 600 | 1995 |
| Experimental observation of self-replicating spots in a reaction–diffusion system KJ Lee, WD McCormick, JE Pearson, HL Swinney Nature 369 (6477), 215-218, 1994 | 584 | 1994 |
| Dynamical instabilities and the transition to chaotic Taylor vortex flow PR Fenstermacher, HL Swinney, JP Gollub Journal of Fluid Mechanics 94 (1), 103-128, 1979 | 553 | 1979 |
| Instability in dynamic fracture J Fineberg, SP Gross, M Marder, HL Swinney Physical Review Letters 67 (4), 457, 1991 | 533 | 1991 |
| Instabilities and transition in flow between concentric rotating cylinders RC Di Prima, HL Swinney Hydrodynamic instabilities and the transition to turbulence, 139-180, 2005 | 525 | 2005 |
| Observation of a strange attractor JC Roux, RH Simoyi, HL Swinney Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 8 (1-2), 257-266, 1983 | 491 | 1983 |
| Transition to parametric wave patterns in a vertically oscillated granular layer F Melo, P Umbanhowar, HL Swinney Physical review letters 72 (1), 172, 1994 | 489 | 1994 |
| Pattern formation by interacting chemical fronts KJ Lee, WD McCormick, Q Ouyang, HL Swinney Science 261 (5118), 192-194, 1993 | 478 | 1993 |
| Low-dimensional chaos in a hydrodynamic system A Brandstäter, J Swift, HL Swinney, A Wolf, JD Farmer, E Jen, ... Physical Review Letters 51 (16), 1442, 1983 | 467 | 1983 |
| Resonant pattern formation in achemical system V Petrov, Q Ouyang, HL Swinney Nature 388 (6643), 655-657, 1997 | 452 | 1997 |
| Instability in the propagation of fast cracks J Fineberg, SP Gross, M Marder, HL Swinney Physical Review B 45 (10), 5146, 1992 | 448 | 1992 |