| The locomotor anatomy of Australopithecus afarensis JT Stern Jr, RL Susman American Journal of Physical Anthropology 60 (3), 279-317, 1983 | 940 | 1983 |
| Arboreality and bipedality in the Hadar hominids RL Susman, JT Stern Jr, WL Jungers Folia primatologica 43 (2-3), 113-156, 1984 | 511 | 1984 |
| Hand of Paranthropus robustus from Member 1, Swartkrans: fossil evidence for tool behavior RL Susman Science 240 (4853), 781-784, 1988 | 260 | 1988 |
| Climbing: a biomechanical link with brachiation and with bipedalism JG Fleagle, JT Stern, WL Jungers, RL Susman, AK Vangor, JP Wells Symp Zool Soc Lond 48, 359-375, 1981 | 249 | 1981 |
| Fossil evidence for early hominid tool use RL Susman Science 265 (5178), 1570-1573, 1994 | 245 | 1994 |
| Comparative and functional morphology of hominoid fingers RL Susman American journal of physical anthropology 50 (2), 215-236, 1979 | 234 | 1979 |
| Body size and skeletal allometry in African apes WL Jungers, RL Susman The pygmy chimpanzee, 131-177, 1984 | 211 | 1984 |
| The pygmy chimpanzee: evolutionary biology and behavior RL Susman Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 197* | 2012 |
| Negative affect and hormone levels in young adolescents: Concurrent and predictive perspectives EJ Susman, LD Dorn, GP Chrousos Journal of Youth and Adolescence 20 (2), 167-190, 1991 | 193 | 1991 |
| Hand function and tool behavior in early hominids RL Susman Journal of Human Evolution 35 (1), 23-46, 1998 | 190 | 1998 |
| Functional morphology of Homo habilis RL Susman, JT Stern Science 217 (4563), 931-934, 1982 | 174 | 1982 |
| Electromyography of the gluteal muscles in Hylobates, Pongo, and pan: Implications for the evolution of hominid bipedality JT Stern Jr, RL Susman American Journal of Physical Anthropology 55 (2), 153-166, 1981 | 168 | 1981 |
| Evolution of the human foot: evidence from Plio-Pleistocene hominids RL Susman Foot & ankle 3 (6), 365-376, 1983 | 152 | 1983 |
| Functional and morphological affinities of the subadult hand (OH 7) from Olduvai Gorge RL Susman, N Creel American Journal of Physical Anthropology 51 (3), 311-331, 1979 | 152 | 1979 |
| New hominid fossils from the Swartkrans Formation (1979–1986 excavations): postcranial specimens RL Susman American Journal of Physical Anthropology 79 (4), 451-474, 1989 | 122 | 1989 |
| New evidence of early hominids, their culture and environment from the Swartkrans cave, South Africa V Brain, C CK, JD Clark, FF Grine, P Shipman, RL Susman, A Turner South African Journal of Science 84 (10), 828, 1988 | 118 | 1988 |
| Locomotor behavior of Pan paniscus in Zaire RL Susman, NL Badrian, AJ Badrian American Journal of Physical Anthropology 53 (1), 69-80, 1980 | 107 | 1980 |
| Telemetered electromyography of flexor digitorum profundus and flexor digitorum superficialis in Pan troglodytes and implications for interpretation of the O. H. 7 hand RL Susman, JT Stern Jr American Journal of Physical Anthropology 50 (4), 565-574, 1979 | 103 | 1979 |
| Electromyographic studies of the human foot: experimental approaches to hominid evolution LA Reeser, RL Susman, JT Stern Jr Foot & ankle 3 (6), 391-407, 1983 | 101 | 1983 |
| Recently identified postcranial remains of Paranthropus and early Homo from Swartkrans Cave, South Africa RL Susman, D de Ruiter, CK Brain Journal of Human Evolution 41 (6), 607-629, 2001 | 96 | 2001 |
