| The C programming language BW Kernighan, DM Ritchie Pearson Education Asia, 2002 | 10081 | 2002 |
| An efficient heuristic procedure for partitioning graphs BW Kernighan, S Lin The Bell system technical journal 49 (2), 291-307, 1970 | 7709 | 1970 |
| An effective heuristic algorithm for the traveling-salesman problem S Lin, BW Kernighan Operations research 21 (2), 498-516, 1973 | 5662 | 1973 |
| AMPL. A modeling language for mathematical programming R Fourer, DM Gay, BW Kernighan Thomson, 2003 | 4655 | 2003 |
| The UNIX™ programming environment BW Kernighan, JR Mashey Software: Practice and Experience 9 (1), 1-15, 1979 | 1078 | 1979 |
| A modeling language for mathematical programming R Fourer, DM Gay, BW Kernighan Management Science 36 (5), 519-554, 1990 | 1005 | 1990 |
| The AWK programming language AV Aho, BW Kernighan, PJ Weinberger Addison-Wesley Professional, 2023 | 995 | 2023 |
| Elements of programming style BW Kernighan, PJ Plauger McGraw-Hill, Inc., 1974 | 907 | 1974 |
| A procedure for placement of standard-cell VLSI circuits AE Dunlop, BW Kernighan IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and …, 1985 | 650 | 1985 |
| The practice of programming BW Kernighan Pearson Education India, 1999 | 562 | 1999 |
| Software tools BW Kernighan, PJ Plauger ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 1 (1), 15-20, 1976 | 562 | 1976 |
| AMPL: A mathematical programming language R Fourer, DM Gay, BW Kernighan Management Science 36 (5), 519-554, 1990 | 449 | 1990 |
| Programmieren in C: mit dem Reference Manual in deutscher Sprache BW Kernighan, DM Ritchie, AT Schreiner, E Janich Hanser, 1983 | 412* | 1983 |
| WISE design of indoor wireless systems: practical computation and optimization SJ Fortune, DM Gay, BW Kernighan, O Landron, RA Valenzuela, ... IEEE Computational science and Engineering 2 (1), 58-68, 1995 | 404 | 1995 |
| The Go programming language AAA Donovan, BW Kernighan Addison-Wesley Professional, 2015 | 296 | 2015 |
| Awk—a pattern scanning and processing language AV Aho, BW Kernighan, PJ Weinberger Software: Practice and Experience 9 (4), 267-279, 1979 | 278 | 1979 |
| A proper model for the partitioning of electrical circuits DG Schweikert, BW Kernighan Proceedings of the 9th Design Automation Workshop, 57-62, 1972 | 275 | 1972 |
| El lenguaje de programación C BW Kernighan, DM Ritchie Pearson Educación, 1991 | 211 | 1991 |
| A system for typesetting mathematics BW Kernighan, LL Cherry Communications of the ACM 18 (3), 151-157, 1975 | 195 | 1975 |
| Software tools in Pascal BW Kernighan, PJ Plauger Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co., Inc., 1981 | 180 | 1981 |
