| V. Investigations in optics, with special reference to the spectroscope L Rayleigh The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of …, 1880 | 1078* | 1880 |
| LVI. Investigations in optics, with special reference to the spectroscope L Rayleigh The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of …, 1879 | 1069* | 1879 |
| On the light from the sky, its polarization and colour L Rayleigh Phil Mag 41, 274, 1871 | 720 | 1871 |
| On the theory of optical images, with special reference to the microscope L Rayleigh Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society 23 (4), 474-482, 1903 | 642* | 1903 |
| Aerial Plane Waves of Finite Amplitude L Rayleigh Classic Papers in Shock Compression Science, 361-408, 1998 | 302* | 1998 |
| On the diffraction of light by spheres of small relative index L Rayleigh Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a …, 1914 | 245 | 1914 |
| LIX. On the distillation of binary mixtures L Rayleigh The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of …, 1902 | 241 | 1902 |
| On the theory of long waves and bores L Rayleigh Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a …, 1914 | 236 | 1914 |
| On the instability of jets JW Strutt, L Rayleigh Proc. London Math. Soc 10 (4), 1878 | 233 | 1878 |
| XX. On the theory of surface forces.—II. Compressible fluids L Rayleigh The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of …, 1892 | 206 | 1892 |
| The soaring of birds L Rayleigh Nature 27 (701), 534-535, 1883 | 177 | 1883 |
| IX. Further applications of Bessel's functions of high order to the Whispering Gallery and allied problems L Rayleigh The London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of …, 1914 | 171 | 1914 |
| The influence of electricity on colliding water drops L Rayleigh Proceedings of the royal society of London 28, 405-409, 1878 | 163 | 1878 |
| Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere LRD RAYLEIGH, W RAMsAv Proc. Roy. Soc 55, 340-344, 1894 | 156 | 1894 |
| Argon, a new constituent of the atmosphere L Rayleigh, W Ramsay Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. A 186, 187-241, 1895 | 154 | 1895 |
| On the theory of the capillary tube L Rayleigh Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a …, 1916 | 152 | 1916 |
| On our perception of the direction of a source of sound L Rayleigh Proceedings of the Musical Association 2, 75-84, 1875 | 152 | 1875 |
| On waves propagated along the plane surface of an elastic solid JW Strutt, L Rayleigh | 151 | 2007 |
| On reflection of vibrations at the confines of two media between which the transition is gradual L Rayleigh Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 1 (1), 51-56, 1879 | 150 | 1879 |
| The problem of the whispering gallery L Rayleigh Scientific papers 5, 617-620, 1912 | 148 | 1912 |
