| The UNIX time-sharing system DM Ritchie, K Thompson Communications of the ACM 17 (7), 365-375, 1974 | 2393* | 1974 |
| Password security: A case history R Morris, K Thompson Communications of the ACM 22 (11), 594-597, 1979 | 1572 | 1979 |
| Programming techniques: Regular expression search algorithm K Thompson Communications of the ACM 11 (6), 419-422, 1968 | 1543 | 1968 |
| Reflections on trusting trust K Thompson Communications of the ACM 27 (8), 761-763, 1984 | 1116 | 1984 |
| Flexible, configurable, hierarchical system for distributing programming PM Allen, JW Davis, MJ Maslaney, K Mai, HL Paulk, K Thompson US Patent 5,892,535, 1999 | 500 | 1999 |
| Plan 9 from bell labs R Pike, D Presotto, K Thompson, H Trickey Proceedings of the summer 1990 UKUUG Conference, 1-9, 1990 | 411 | 1990 |
| Plan 9 from bell labs R Pike Computing systems 8 (3), 221-254, 1995 | 379 | 1995 |
| UNIX time-sharing system: UNIX Implementation K Thompson The Bell System Technical Journal 57 (6), 1931-1946, 1978 | 351 | 1978 |
| Distributed computing system RC Pike, KL Thompson US Patent 5,623,666, 1997 | 315 | 1997 |
| Retrograde analysis of certain endgames. K Thompson J. Int. Comput. Games Assoc. 9 (3), 131-139, 1986 | 282 | 1986 |
| The use of name spaces in Plan 9 R Pike, D Presotto, K Thompson, H Trickey, P Winterbottom ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 27 (2), 72-76, 1993 | 239 | 1993 |
| The UNIX time-sharing system K Thompson, DM Ritchie Communications of the ACM 17 (7), 365-375, 1974 | 135 | 1974 |
| unix Programmer's Manual K Thompson, DM Ritchie Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1975 | 125 | 1975 |
| Computer chess strength K Thompson Advances in computer chess 3, 55-56, 2014 | 117 | 2014 |
| Belle chess hardware JH Condon, K Thompson Advances in computer chess, 45-54, 1982 | 98 | 1982 |
| Plan 9, a distributed system D Presotto, R Pike, K Thompson, H Trickey Proc. of the Spring, 43-50, 1991 | 90 | 1991 |
| 6-piece endgames K Thompson ICGA Journal 19 (4), 215-226, 1996 | 87 | 1996 |
| Reading chess HS Baird, K Thompson IEEE Transactions on pattern analysis and machine intelligence 12 (6), 552-559, 1990 | 86 | 1990 |
| File system with components shared between separately addressable versions KL Thompson US Patent 5,457,796, 1995 | 65 | 1995 |
| Comparing information retrieval systems and Smalltalk with BrinLye R Stearns, EO Shastri, R Rivest, K Thompson, S Martin Proceedings of PLDI, 2003 | 62 | 2003 |
| ‘UNIX Password Security R Morris, K Thompson Communications of the ACM 22 (11), 594, 1979 | 57 | 1979 |
| The unix time-sharing system DM Ritchie, K Thompson Technical report. http://cm. bell-labs. com/cm/cs/who/dmr/cacm. html, 1984 | 56 | 1984 |
| Method and apparatus for testing event driven software GJ Holzmann, KL Thompson, PS Winterbottom US Patent 6,353,896, 2002 | 46 | 2002 |
| The UNIX time-sharing system DM Ritchie, K Thompson ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review 7 (4), 27, 1973 | 44 | 1973 |
| Device and method for efficient utilization of allocated transmission medium bandwidth SM Dorward, NS Jayant, JD Johnston, SR Quackenbush, KL Thompson US Patent 5,825,976, 1998 | 37 | 1998 |
| Belle JH Condon, K Thompson Chess skill in man and machine, 201-210, 1983 | 35 | 1983 |
| The UNIX command language K Thompson Structured Programming, Infotech, Nicholson House, Maidenhead, England, 375-384, 1976 | 29 | 1976 |
| The Go programming language R Griesemer, R Pike, K Thompson The Go Programming Language, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| a. Rahul, J. Ramabhadran, and Z. Kobayashi,“Ken: Secure theory,” J Ullman, K Thompson Journal of Concurrent Configurations 72, 1-17, 2000 | 25 | 2000 |
| The UNIX time-sharing system DM Ritchie, K Thompson Communications of the ACM 26 (1), 84-89, 1983 | 22 | 1983 |
| A poor precedent MS Tuttle, SJ Nelson Methods of information in medicine 35 (03), 211-217, 1996 | 21 | 1996 |
| Hello world R Pike, K Thompson USENIX Winter 1993 Conference (USENIX Winter 1993 Conference), 1993 | 20 | 1993 |
| Chess endgames vol. 1 K Thompson ICGA Journal 14 (1), 22-22, 1991 | 20 | 1991 |
| Process sleep and wakeup on a shared-memory multiprocessor R Pike, D Presotto, K Thompson, GJ Holzmann Proc. the Spring EurOpen Conf, 161-166, 1991 | 19 | 1991 |
| The UNIX operating system DM Ritchie, K Thompson Communications of the ACM 17 (7), 66-67, 1974 | 18 | 1974 |
| The Go programming language and environment R Cox, R Griesemer, R Pike, IL Taylor, K Thompson Communications of the ACM 65 (5), 70-78, 2022 | 15 | 2022 |
| The AT&T in-band adjacent channel system for digital audio broadcasting NS Jayant, EY Chen, JD Johnston, SR Quackenbush, SM Dorward, ... Proc. Int. Symp. Digital Audio Broadcasting, 254-267, 1994 | 14 | 1994 |
| The UNIX time-sharing system1 DM Ritchie, K Thompson Bell System Tech. J 57, 1905-1929, 1978 | 14 | 1978 |
| Plan 9 C compilers K Thompson Proceedings of the Summer 1990 UKUUG Conference, 41-51, 1990 | 13 | 1990 |
| On trusting trust K Thompson Unix Review 7 (11), 70-74, 1989 | 13 | 1989 |
