| Train tracks and automorphisms of free groups M Bestvina, M Handel Annals of Mathematics 135 (1), 1-51, 1992 | 607 | 1992 |
| Morse theory and finiteness properties of groups M Bestvina, N Brady Inventiones mathematicae 129, 445-470, 1997 | 592 | 1997 |
| A combination theorem for negatively curved groups M Bestvina, M Feighn Journal of Differential Geometry 35 (1), 85-101, 1992 | 433 | 1992 |
| The boundary of negatively curved groups M Bestvina, G Mess Journal of the American Mathematical Society 4 (3), 469-481, 1991 | 371 | 1991 |
| Train-tracks for surface homeomorphisms M Bestvina, M Handel Topology 34 (1), 109-140, 1995 | 368 | 1995 |
| Bounded cohomology of subgroups of mapping class groups M Bestvina, K Fujiwara Geometry & Topology 6 (1), 69-89, 2002 | 336 | 2002 |
| Stable actions of groups on real trees M Bestvina, M Feighn Inventiones mathematicae 121 (1), 287-321, 1995 | 291 | 1995 |
| The Tits Alternative for out(Fn) I: Dynamics of Exponentially-Growing Automorphisms M Bestvina, M Feighn, M Handel Annals of Mathematics, 517-623, 2000 | 260 | 2000 |
| Laminations, trees, and irreducible automorphisms of free groups M Bestvina, M Feighn, M Handel Geometric & Functional Analysis GAFA 7, 215-244, 1997 | 240 | 1997 |
| Characterizing -Dimensional Universal Menger Compacta M Bestvina American Mathematical Soc., 1988 | 235* | 1988 |
| Constructing group actions on quasi-trees and applications to mapping class groups M Bestvina, K Bromberg, K Fujiwara Publications mathématiques de l'IHÉS 122 (1), 1-64, 2015 | 230 | 2015 |
| Degenerations of the hyperbolic space M Bestvina | 203 | 1988 |
| Bounding the complexity of simplicial group actions on trees M Bestvina, M Feighn Inventiones mathematicae 103 (1), 449-469, 1991 | 194 | 1991 |
| R-trees in topology, geometry, and group theory M Bestvina Handbook of geometric topology, 55-91, 2002 | 187 | 2002 |
| Hyperbolicity of the complex of free factors M Bestvina, M Feighn Advances in Mathematics 256, 104-155, 2014 | 162 | 2014 |
| Local homology properties of boundaries of groups. M Bestvina Michigan Mathematical Journal 43 (1), 123-139, 1996 | 156 | 1996 |
| Characterizing certain incomplete infinite-dimensional absolute retracts. M Bestvina, J Mogilski Michigan Mathematical Journal 33 (3), 291-313, 1986 | 147 | 1986 |
| The Tits Alternative for II: A Kolchin Type Theorem M Bestvina, M Feighn, M Handel Annals of mathematics, 1-59, 2005 | 121 | 2005 |
| A characterization of higher rank symmetric spaces via bounded cohomology M Bestvina, K Fujiwara Geometric and Functional Analysis 19 (1), 11-40, 2009 | 117 | 2009 |
| Outer limits M Bestvina, M Feighn preprint, 1-19, 1994 | 117 | 1994 |
