| Images of science: A history of scientific illustration BJ Ford Oxford University Press, USA, 1993 | 241 | 1993 |
| Single lens BJ Ford The Story of the Simple Microscope. London, 1985 | 134 | 1985 |
| The Leeuwenhoek Legacy BJ Ford Journal of the History of Biology 26 (3), 1993 | 105 | 1993 |
| The discovery of Giardia BJ Ford Microscope-Chicago 53 (4), 161-167, 2005 | 67 | 2005 |
| The van Leeuwenhoek specimens BJ Ford Notes and records of the Royal Society of London 36 (1), 37-59, 1981 | 65 | 1981 |
| Brain, mind and medicine: essays in eighteenth-century neuroscience HA Whitaker, CUM Smith, S Finger Springer, 2007 | 64 | 2007 |
| Brownian movement in clarkia pollen: a reprise of the first observations BJ Ford MICROSCOPE-LONDON THEN CHICAGO- 40, 235-235, 1992 | 62 | 1992 |
| On intelligence in cells: the case for whole cell biology BJ Ford Interdisciplinary Science Reviews 34 (4), 350-365, 2009 | 61 | 2009 |
| Cellular intelligence: microphenomenology and the realities of being BJ Ford Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology 131, 273-287, 2017 | 59 | 2017 |
| Are cells ingenious? B Ford Microscope-Chicago 52 (3-4), 135-144, 2004 | 40 | 2004 |
| BSE: The Facts: Mad Cow Disease and the Risk to Mankind BJ Ford Corgi books, 1996 | 37 | 1996 |
| German secret weapons: blueprint for Mars BJ Ford (No Title), 1970 | 37 | 1970 |
| The Royal Society and the microscope BJ Ford Notes and records of the Royal Society of London 55 (1), 29-49, 2001 | 34 | 2001 |
| From Dilettante to Diligent Experimenter, a Reappraisal of Leeuwenhoek as microscopist and investigator BJ Ford Biology History 5 (3), 3-21, 1992 | 27 | 1992 |
| Impact of cultured meat on global agriculture BJ Ford World Agriculture 2 (2), 43-46, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Even plants excrete BJ Ford Nature 323 (6091), 763, 1986 | 23 | 1986 |
| The secret language of life BJ Ford USA: Fromm International GmbH, 2000 | 22 | 2000 |
| Scientific illustration in the eighteenth century BJ Ford The Cambridge history of science 4, 561-83, 2003 | 20 | 2003 |
| The rotifera of Antony van Leeuwenhoek BJ Ford Microscopy 34 (5), 362-73, 1982 | 20 | 1982 |
| The secret power of the single cell BJ Ford New Scientist 206 (2757), 26-27, 2010 | 19 | 2010 |
