| Measuring behaviour: an introductory guide M Bateson, P Martin Cambridge university press, 2021 | 9441 | 2021 |
| Developmental plasticity and human health P Bateson, D Barker, T Clutton-Brock, D Deb, B D'Udine, RA Foley, ... Nature 430 (6998), 419-421, 2004 | 2071 | 2004 |
| Mate choice PPG Bateson Cambridge University Press, 1983 | 814 | 1983 |
| The characteristics and context of imprinting PPG Bateson Biological Reviews 41 (2), 177-217, 1966 | 715 | 1966 |
| Play, playfulness, creativity and innovation PPG Bateson, P Martin Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 704 | 2013 |
| How do sensitive periods arise and what are they for? P Bateson Animal Behaviour 27, 470-486, 1979 | 670 | 1979 |
| Assessment of pain in animals P Bateson Animal behaviour 42 (5), 827-839, 1991 | 641 | 1991 |
| Optimal outbreeding P Bateson Mate choice 257, 277, 1983 | 633 | 1983 |
| Plasticity and robustness in development and evolution P Bateson, P Gluckman International Journal of Epidemiology 41 (1), 219-223, 2012 | 562 | 2012 |
| The biology of developmental plasticity and the Predictive Adaptive Response hypothesis P Bateson, P Gluckman, M Hanson The Journal of physiology 592 (11), 2357-2368, 2014 | 534 | 2014 |
| Environmental influences during development and their later consequences for health and disease: implications for the interpretation of empirical studies PD Gluckman, MA Hanson, HG Spencer, P Bateson Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 272 (1564), 671-677, 2005 | 532 | 2005 |
| The domestic cat: the biology of its behaviour DC Turner, PPG Bateson Cambridge University Press, 2000 | 528 | 2000 |
| Sexual imprinting and optimal outbreeding P Bateson Nature 273 (5664), 659-660, 1978 | 522 | 1978 |
| Tinbergen's four questions: an appreciation and an update P Bateson, KN Laland Trends in ecology & evolution 28 (12), 712-718, 2013 | 518 | 2013 |
| Towards a new developmental synthesis: adaptive developmental plasticity and human disease PD Gluckman, MA Hanson, P Bateson, AS Beedle, CM Law, ZA Bhutta, ... The Lancet 373 (9675), 1654-1657, 2009 | 499 | 2009 |
| Growing points in ethology NK Humphrey, PPG Bateson, RA Hinde | 457 | 1976 |
| Preferences for cousins in Japanese quail P Bateson Nature 295 (5846), 236-237, 1982 | 451 | 1982 |
| The active role of behaviour in evolution P Bateson Biology and Philosophy 19, 283-298, 2004 | 382 | 2004 |
| Design for a life: How behaviour develops PPG Bateson, P Martin Vintage, 1999 | 327 | 1999 |
| Optimal outbreeding and the development of sexual preferences in Japanese quail P Bateson Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie 53 (3), 231-244, 1980 | 322 | 1980 |
