| The bacteriophage, its role in immunology: how Macfarlane Burnet’s phage research shaped his scientific style N Sankaran Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and …, 2010 | 26 | 2010 |
| The RNA world at thirty: a look back with its author N Sankaran Journal of molecular evolution 83 (5), 169-175, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| How seeing became knowing: The role of the electron microscope in shaping the modern definition of viruses T van Helvoort, N Sankaran Journal of the History of Biology 52 (1), 125-160, 2019 | 19 | 2019 |
| Stepping-stones to one-step growth: Frank Macfarlane Burnet's role in elucidating the viral nature of the bacteriophages N Sankaran Historical Records of Australian Science 19 (1), 83-100, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| Emergence of epidemic diseases: zoonoses and other origins RA Weiss, N Sankaran Faculty reviews 11, 2022 | 17 | 2022 |
| On the historical significance of Beijerinck and his contagium vivum fluidum for modern virology N Sankaran History and philosophy of the life sciences 40 (3), 41, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| When viruses were not in style: Parallels in the histories of chicken sarcoma viruses and bacteriophages N Sankaran Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and …, 2014 | 13 | 2014 |
| How the discovery of ribozymes cast RNA in the roles of both chicken and egg in origin-of-life theories N Sankaran Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and …, 2012 | 12 | 2012 |
| Mutant bacteriophages, Frank Macfarlane Burnet, and the changing nature of “genespeak” in the 1930s N Sankaran Journal of the History of Biology 43, 571-599, 2010 | 12 | 2010 |
| Frank Macfarlane Burnet and the Nature of the Bacteriophage, 1924-1937 N Sankaran Yale University, 2007 | 11 | 2007 |
| Viruses: impact on science and society N Sankaran, RA Weiss Encyclopedia of virology, 671, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| DNA translated: Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nuclein in its original context K Hall, N Sankaran The British Journal for the History of Science 54 (1), 99-107, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Microbes and people N Sankaran | 8 | 2000 |
| The pluripotent history of immunology. A review. N Sankaran AVANT. Pismo Awangardy Filozoficzno-Naukowej, 37-54, 2012 | 7 | 2012 |
| A tale of two viruses: parallels in the research trajectories of tumor and bacterial viruses N Sankaran University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |
| Leeuwenhoek's Legatees and Beijerinck's Beneficiaries: A History of Medical Virology in The Netherlands G Van Doornum, T Van Helvoort, N Sankaran Amsterdam University Press, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| Andrewes's christmas fairy tale: atypical thinking about cancer aetiology in 1935 N Sankaran, T Van Helvoort Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 70 (2 …, 2016 | 4 | 2016 |
| From obstacle to lynchpin: the evolution of the role of bacteriophage lysogeny in defining and understanding viruses G Kostyrka, N Sankaran Notes and Records 74 (4), 599-623, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| Setting patterns: the atypical choices that shaped the career of Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet in twentieth-century Australia N Sankaran The Korean Journal for the History of Science 35 (2), 343-364, 2013 | 1 | 2013 |
| Breaking with the self: Can continuity in immunology succeed? N Sankaran Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and …, 2013 | 1 | 2013 |
