| Ethical imperialism: Institutional review boards and the social sciences, 1965–2009 ZM Schrag JHU Press, 2010 | 403 | 2010 |
| The case against ethics review in the social sciences ZM Schrag Research ethics 7 (4), 120-131, 2011 | 205 | 2011 |
| The Great Society Subway: A History of the Washington Metro ZM Schrag Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2006 | 185* | 2006 |
| How talking became human subjects research: The federal regulation of the social sciences, 1965–1991 ZM Schrag Journal of Policy History 21 (1), 3-37, 2009 | 55 | 2009 |
| The freeway fight in Washington, DC: The Three Sisters bridge in three administrations ZM Schrag Journal of Urban History 30 (5), 648-673, 2004 | 52 | 2004 |
| " The Bus Is Young and Honest": Transportation Politics, Technical Choice, and the Motorization of Manhattan Surface Transit, 1919-1936 ZM Schrag Technology and Culture 41 (1), 51-79, 2000 | 48 | 2000 |
| Urban mass transit in the United States Z Schrag EH. Net Encyclopedia, edited by Robert Whaples. May 7, 2002. URL http://eh …, 1948 | 42* | 1948 |
| The Princeton guide to historical research Z Schrag Princeton University Press, 2021 | 39 | 2021 |
| Vexed again: Social scientists and the revision of the common rule, 2011-2018 ZM Schrag The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 47 (2), 254-263, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Regulation of research on human subjects: Academic freedom and the institutional review board JJ Thomson, C Elgin, DA Hyman, Z Schrag, J Knight, BR Kreiser Academe 99 (4), 101-117, 2013 | 11 | 2013 |
| What is this thing called research? ZM Schrag | 7 | 2014 |
| Nineteen nineteen: The Boston Police Strike in the context of American labor ZM Schrag Harvard University, 1992 | 7 | 1992 |
| Institutional review blog Z Schrag | 4 | 2014 |
| Mapping Metro, 1955-1968: Urban, Suburban, and Metropolitan Alternatives ZM Schrag Washington History 13 (1), 2001 | 4 | 2001 |
| Ethical pluralism: Scholarly societies and the regulation of research ethics ZM Schrag The ethics rupture: Exploring alternatives to formal research ethics review, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
| Interviewing everyman: William Sheridan Allen, Theodore Rosengarten, and the allure of pseudonymous history ZM Schrag Rethinking History 24 (1), 69–93, 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
| Balanced ethics review: A guide for institutional review board members. By Simon N. Whitney ZM Schrag The Oral History Review 44 (2), 433-435, 2017 | 2 | 2017 |
| Robert L. Klitzman. The Ethics Police?: The Struggle to Make Human Research Safe: New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 432 pp. $35.00. ISBN: 978–0199364602 ZM Schrag Society 52, 503-506, 2015 | 2 | 2015 |
| The Washington Metro as vision and vehicle, 1955–2001 ZM Schrag Columbia University, 2002 | 2 | 2002 |
| It Takes Two: Combining English and History to Team Teach Narrative Writing SW Berg, ZM Schrag Journal of American History 107 (4), 968-973, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
