| Trust in numbers: The pursuit of objectivity in science and public life TM Porter Princeton University Press, 1995 | 9367* | 1995 |
| The rise of statistical thinking, 1820–1900 TM Porter Princeton University Press, 2020 | 2942 | 2020 |
| The empire of chance: How probability changed science and everyday life G Gigerenzer, Z Swijtink, TM Porter, L Daston, L Krueger, J Beatty Cambridge University Press, 1989 | 2004 | 1989 |
| Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto A Saltelli, G Bammer, I Bruno, E Charters, M Di Fiore, E Didier, ... Nature 582 (7813), 482-484, 2020 | 420 | 2020 |
| Quantification and the accounting ideal in science TM Porter Social studies of science 22 (4), 633-651, 1992 | 372 | 1992 |
| Karl Pearson: The scientific life in a statistical age TM Porter Princeton University Press, 2004 | 351* | 2004 |
| The Cambridge history of science R Porter, D Ross Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 334* | 2003 |
| Making things quantitative TM Porter Science in context 7 (3), 389-407, 1994 | 334 | 1994 |
| Objectivity as standardization: The rhetoric of impersonality in measurement, statistics, and cost-benefit analysis TM Porter Annals of scholarship 9 (1/2), 19-59, 1992 | 301 | 1992 |
| Genetics in the madhouse: The unknown history of human heredity TM Porter Princeton University Press, 2020 | 129 | 2020 |
| The cambridge history of science: Volume 7, The modern social sciences TM Porter, D Ross | 125 | 2003 |
| Thin description: Surface and depth in science and science studies TM Porter Osiris 27 (1), 209-226, 2012 | 111 | 2012 |
| How science became technical TM Porter Isis 100 (2), 292-309, 2009 | 105 | 2009 |
| A statistical survey of gases: Maxwell's social physics TM Porter Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences 12 (1), 77-116, 1981 | 85 | 1981 |
| Funny numbers TM Porter Culture Unbound 4 (4), 585-598, 2012 | 77 | 2012 |
| Speaking precision to power: The modern political role of social science TM Porter Social Research: An International Quarterly 73 (4), 1273-1294, 2006 | 77 | 2006 |
| The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 3, Early Modern Science DC Lindberg, K Park, RL Numbers, R Porter Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 76 | 2003 |
| Genres and Objects of Social Inquiry, from the Enlightenment to 1890 TM Porter The Cambridge history of science 7, 13-39, 2003 | 73 | 2003 |
| Is the life of the scientist a scientific unit? TM Porter Isis 97 (2), 314-321, 2006 | 68 | 2006 |
| The promotion of mining and the advancement of science: the chemical revolution of mineralogy TM Porter Annals of Science 38 (5), 543-570, 1981 | 67 | 1981 |
