| The people of Plato: a prosopography of Plato and other Socratics D Nails Hackett Publishing, 2002 | 1119 | 2002 |
| Agora, academy, and the conduct of philosophy D Nails Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 213 | 2012 |
| Socrates D Nails, SS Monoson | 112 | 2005 |
| Social-scientific sexism: Gilligan's mismeasure of man D Nails Social research, 643-664, 1983 | 86 | 1983 |
| Plato's Symposium: issues in interpretation and reception JH Lesher, D Nails, FCC Sheffield | 80 | 2006 |
| The Dramatic Date of Plato's Republic D Nails The Classical Journal 93 (4), 383-396, 1998 | 80 | 1998 |
| Naturalistic epistemology: a symposium of two decades A Shimony, D Nails Springer Science & Business Media, 1987 | 74 | 1987 |
| Problems with Vlastos’s Platonic developmentalism D Nails Ancient Philosophy 13 (2), 273-291, 1993 | 70 | 1993 |
| The trial and death of Socrates D Nails A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, 321-338, 2009 | 67 | 2009 |
| Spinoza and the Sciences M Grene, D Nails Springer Science & Business Media, 1986 | 67 | 1986 |
| Mouthpiece Schmouthpiece D Nails Who speaks for Plato, 15-26, 2000 | 58 | 2000 |
| The life of Plato of Athens D Nails A companion to Plato, 1-12, 2006 | 46 | 2006 |
| Early academic editing: Plato’s Laws D Nails, H Thesleff Plato’s Laws: From Theory into Practice, Proceedings of the VI Symposium …, 2003 | 36 | 2003 |
| Tragedy off-stage D Nails | 30 | 2006 |
| Plato's Republic in its Athenian Context D Nails History of Political Thought 33 (1), 1-23, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Plato's" Middle" Cluster D Nails Phoenix 48 (1), 62-67, 1994 | 25 | 1994 |
| Platonic chronology reconsidered D Nails Bryn Mawr Classical Review 3 (3), 4-27, 1992 | 21 | 1992 |
| Second sailing: Alternative perspectives on Plato M Kajava, E Salmenkivi Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Colloquium 3: Two Dogmas Of Platonism D Nails Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 28 (1), 77-101, 2013 | 16 | 2013 |
| Plato’s Symposium J Lesher, D Nails, F Sheffield Issues in Interpretation and Reception, 2006 | 14* | 2006 |
