| Particle creation by black holes SW Hawking Communications in mathematical physics 43 (3), 199-220, 1975 | 16049* | 1975 |
| The large scale structure of space-time SW Hawking, GFR Ellis Cambridge university press, 2023 | 15837 | 2023 |
| General relativity RM Wald University of Chicago press, 2010 | 15688 | 2010 |
| A brief history of time: from big bang to black holes S Hawking Random House, 2009 | 9836 | 2009 |
| Black hole explosions? SW Hawking Nature 248 (5443), 30-31, 1974 | 7290 | 1974 |
| The Quark and the Jaguar: Adventures in the Simple and the Complex M Gell-Mann Macmillan, 1995 | 5072 | 1995 |
| The four laws of black hole mechanics JM Bardeen, B Carter, SW Hawking Communications in mathematical physics 31, 161-170, 1973 | 4554 | 1973 |
| Wave function of the universe JB Hartle, SW Hawking Physical Review D 28 (12), 2960, 1983 | 4404 | 1983 |
| Action integrals and partition functions in quantum gravity GW Gibbons, SW Hawking Physical Review D 15 (10), 2752, 1977 | 4338 | 1977 |
| Cosmological event horizons, thermodynamics, and particle creation GW Gibbons, SW Hawking Physical Review D 15 (10), 2738, 1977 | 3883 | 1977 |
| Breakdown of predictability in gravitational collapse SW Hawking Physical Review D 14 (10), 2460, 1976 | 3103 | 1976 |
| Concurrency and automata on infinite sequences D Park Theoretical Computer Science: 5th GI-Conference Karlsruhe, March 23–25, 1981 …, 2005 | 3093 | 2005 |
| Thermodynamics of black holes in anti-de Sitter space SW Hawking, DN Page Communications in Mathematical Physics 87, 577-588, 1983 | 3070 | 1983 |
| The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology SW Hawking, R Penrose Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical …, 1970 | 2646 | 1970 |
| The development of irregularities in a single bubble inflationary universe SW Hawking Physics Letters B 115 (4), 295-297, 1982 | 2592 | 1982 |
| The grand design SW Hawking, S Hawking, L Mlodinow Random House, 2011 | 2388 | 2011 |
| Black holes and thermodynamics SW Hawking Physical Review D 13 (2), 191, 1976 | 1932 | 1976 |
| Black holes in the early Universe BJ Carr, SW Hawking Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 168 (2), 399-415, 1974 | 1894 | 1974 |
| General relativity: an Einstein centenary survey S Hawking, W Israel General Relativity: an Einstein Centenary Survey, 2010 | 1891* | 2010 |
| Black holes in general relativity SW Hawking Communications in Mathematical Physics 25, 152-166, 1972 | 1879 | 1972 |
