| The first one hundred cubesats: A statistical look M Swartwout Journal of small Satellites 2 (2), 213-233, 2013 | 404 | 2013 |
| Cubesat database M Swartwout Saint Louis University, 2015 | 108 | 2015 |
| University-class satellites: From marginal utility to'disruptive'research platforms M Swartwout | 71 | 2004 |
| University-class spacecraft by the numbers: success, failure, debris.(but mostly success.) M Swartwout, C Jayne | 44 | 2016 |
| A brief history of rideshares (and attack of the CubeSats) MA Swartwout 2011 Aerospace Conference, 1-15, 2011 | 41 | 2011 |
| Reliving 24 years in the next 12 minutes: a statistical and personal history of university-class satellites M Swartwout | 40 | 2018 |
| University cubesat project management for success L Berthoud, M Sartwout, J Cutler, D Klumpar, JA Larsen, JFD Nielsen Small Satellite Conference 2019: Driving a Revolution, SSC19-WKIII-07, 2019 | 36 | 2019 |
| Twenty (plus) years of university-class spacecraft: a review of what was, an understanding of what is, and a look at what should be next M Swartwout | 36 | 2006 |
| Secondary spacecraft in 2016: why some succeed (and too many do not) M Swartwout 2016 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-13, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| The long-threatened flood of university-class spacecraft (and CubeSats) has come: Analyzing the numbers M Swartwout | 34 | 2013 |
| Cheaper by the dozen: The avalanche of rideshares in the 21st century M Swartwout 2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-12, 2013 | 27 | 2013 |
| AC 2011-1151: Significance of student-built spacecraft design programs it’s impact on spacecraft engineering education over the last ten years M Swartwout Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2011 | 22* | 2011 |
| Attack of the CubeSats: a statistical look M Swartwout | 21 | 2011 |
| The first one hundred university-class spacecraft 1981-2008 M Swariwout IEEE Aerospace and Electronic Systems Magazine 24 (3), A1-A24, 2009 | 20 | 2009 |
| Mission results for Sapphire, a student-built satellite M Swartwout, C Kitts, R Twiggs, T Kenny, BR Smith, R Lu, K Stattenfield, ... Acta Astronautica 62 (8-9), 521-538, 2008 | 20 | 2008 |
| Beacon monitoring: reducing the cost of nominal spacecraft operations CA Kitts, MA Swartwout Journal of Reducing Space Mission Cost 1 (4), 305-338, 1998 | 19 | 1998 |
| Cubesats and mission success: 2017 update M Swartwout Electronic Technology Workshop, NASA Elec-tronic Parts and Packaging Program …, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| You say “Picosat”, I say “'CubeSat”: Developing a better taxonomy for secondary spacecraft M Swartwout 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-17, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| A statistical survey of rideshares (and attack of the CubeSats, part deux) M Swartwout 2012 IEEE Aerospace Conference, 1-7, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
| A distributed computing architecture for small satellite and multi-spacecraft missions B Palmintier, C Kitts, P Stang, M Swartwout | 17 | 2002 |
