| The animal estate: The English and other creatures in Victorian England H Ritvo Harvard University Press, 1989 | 2242 | 1989 |
| The platypus and the mermaid, and other figments of the classifying imagination H Ritvo Harvard University Press, 1997 | 711 | 1997 |
| On the animal turn H Ritvo Daedalus 136 (4), 118-122, 2007 | 305 | 2007 |
| Macropolitics of nineteenth-century literature: nationalism, exoticism, imperialism J Arac, H Ritvo Duke University Press, 1995 | 158 | 1995 |
| Noble cows and hybrid zebras: Essays on animals and history H Ritvo University of Virginia Press, 2010 | 125 | 2010 |
| The dawn of green: Manchester, Thirlmere, and modern environmentalism H Ritvo University of Chicago Press, 2009 | 105 | 2009 |
| Pride and pedigree: The evolution of the Victorian dog fancy H Ritvo Victorian Studies 29 (2), 227-253, 1986 | 104 | 1986 |
| The emergence of modern pet-keeping H Ritvo Anthrozoös 1 (3), 158-165, 1987 | 103 | 1987 |
| Animal planet H Ritvo Environmental History 9 (2), 204-220, 2004 | 102 | 2004 |
| Learning from animals: Natural history for children in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries H Ritvo Children's literature 13 (1), 72-93, 1985 | 94 | 1985 |
| Animals in nineteenth-century Britain: Complicated attitudes and competing categories H Ritvo Animals and human society, 138-164, 2002 | 80 | 2002 |
| History and animal studies H Ritvo Society & Animals 10 (4), 403-406, 2002 | 76 | 2002 |
| Possessing mother nature: Genetic capital in eighteenth-century Britain H Ritvo Menneske og Natur, Humanistisk Forskningscenter, Odense Universitet, 1995 | 73 | 1995 |
| The order of nature: constructing the collections of Victorian zoos H Ritvo New worlds, new animals: From menagerie to zoological park in the nineteenth …, 1996 | 62 | 1996 |
| The periodical press in eighteenth-century English and French society: a cross-cultural approach S Botein, JR Censer, H Ritvo Comparative Studies in Society and History 23 (3), 464-490, 1981 | 60 | 1981 |
| Border trouble: Shifting the line between people and other animals H Ritvo Social Research, 481-500, 1995 | 59 | 1995 |
| President's LectureGoing Forth and Multiplying: Animal Acclimatization and Invasion H Ritvo Environmental History, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Race, breed, and myths of origin: Chillingham cattle as Ancient Britons H Ritvo Representations, 1-22, 1992 | 51 | 1992 |
| Plus Ça Change: Anti-Vivisection Then and Now H Ritvo Science, Technology, & Human Values 9 (2), 57-66, 1984 | 41 | 1984 |
| Zoological nomenclature and the empire of Victorian science H Ritvo Victorian science in context, 334-53, 1997 | 40 | 1997 |
