| Closed incompressible surfaces in alternating knot and link complements W Menasco Topology 23 (1), 37-44, 1984 | 507 | 1984 |
| The classification of alternating links W Menasco, M Thistlethwaite Annals of Mathematics 138 (1), 113-171, 1993 | 251 | 1993 |
| The Tait flyping conjecture WW Menasco, MB Thistlethwaite | 179 | 1991 |
| Studying links via closed braids. III. Classifying links which are closed 3-braids J Birman, W Menasco Pacific Journal of Mathematics 161 (1), 25-113, 1993 | 150 | 1993 |
| Studying links via closed braids IV: Composite links and split links JS Birman, WW Menasco Inventiones mathematicae 102 (1), 115-139, 1990 | 116 | 1990 |
| Studying links via closed braids. V. The unlink JS Birman, WW Menasco Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 329 (2), 585-606, 1992 | 101 | 1992 |
| Stabilization in the braid groups II: Transversal simplicity of knots JS Birman, WW Menasco Geometry & Topology 10 (3), 1425-1452, 2006 | 88 | 2006 |
| Special positions for essential tori in link complements JS Birman, WW Menasco Topology 33 (3), 525-556, 1994 | 85 | 1994 |
| Surfaces with boundary in alternating knot exteriors. MB Thistlethwaite, WW Menasco Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 1992 (426), 47-66, 1992 | 83 | 1992 |
| Studying links via closed braids II: On a theorem of Bennequin JS Birman, WW Menasco Topology and its Applications 40 (1), 71-82, 1991 | 70 | 1991 |
| Studying links via closed braids. VI. A nonfiniteness theorem J Birman, W Menasco Pacific Journal of Mathematics 156 (2), 265-285, 1992 | 68 | 1992 |
| Polyhedral representation of link complements W Menasco AMS Contemporary Math. 20, 305-325, 1983 | 66 | 1983 |
| Studying links via closed braids. I: A finiteness theorem J Birman, W Menasco Pacific journal of mathematics 154 (1), 17-36, 1992 | 58 | 1992 |
| Handbook of knot theory W Menasco, M Thistlethwaite Elsevier, 2005 | 54 | 2005 |
| Totally geodesic surfaces in hyperbolic link complements W Menasco, AW Reid Topology 90, 215-226, 1992 | 52 | 1992 |
| Stabilization in the braid groups I: MTWS JS Birman, WW Menasco Geometry & Topology 10 (1), 413-540, 2006 | 47 | 2006 |
| On iterated torus knots and transversal knots WW Menasco Geometry & Topology 5 (2), 651-682, 2001 | 37 | 2001 |
| A note on closed 3-braids JS Birman, WW Menasco Communications in Contemporary Mathematics 10 (supp01), 1033-1047, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
| A geometric proof that alternating knots are non-trivial W Menasco, M Thistlethwaite Mathematical Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society 109 (3), 425-431, 1991 | 32 | 1991 |
| Determining incompressibility of surfaces in alternating knot and link complements W Menasco Pacific journal of mathematics 117 (2), 353-370, 1985 | 30 | 1985 |
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