| Complexity: The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos MM Waldrop Simon and Schuster, 1993 | 8952 | 1993 |
| The chips are down for Moore’s law MM Waldrop Nature News 530 (7589), 144, 2016 | 2578* | 2016 |
| The dream machine MM Waldrop Stripe Press, 2018 | 418 | 2018 |
| Campus 2.0 MM Waldrop Nature 495 (7440), 160, 2013 | 418* | 2013 |
| Why we are teaching science wrong, and how to make it right MM Waldrop Nature 523 (7560), 272-274, 2015 | 278* | 2015 |
| No drivers required MM Waldrop Nature 518 (7537), 20, 2015 | 233 | 2015 |
| The virtual lab: confronted with the explosive popularity of online learning, researchers are seeking new ways to teach the practical skills of science. MM Waldrop Nature 499 (7458), 268-271, 2013 | 180 | 2013 |
| Science 2.0: Great new tool, or great risk MM Waldrop Scientific American 9, 2008, 2008 | 127 | 2008 |
| Big data: wikiomics M Waldrop Nature 455 (7209), 22, 2008 | 125 | 2008 |
| The genuine problem of fake news MM Waldrop Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114 (48), 12631-12634, 2017 | 118 | 2017 |
| The trillion-dollar vision of Dee Hock MM Waldrop Fast Company 5 (October/November), 75-86, 1996 | 108* | 1996 |
| What are the limits of deep learning? MM Waldrop Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (4), 1074-1077, 2019 | 95 | 2019 |
| Complexity: The emerging science at the edge of order and chaos MM Waldrop Penguin, 1994 | 75 | 1994 |
| Toward a Unified Theory of Cognition: Soar is a computer program that can learn from experience—and that may also explain the basic mechanisms of thought MM Waldrop Science 241 (4861), 27-29, 1988 | 72 | 1988 |
| Computer modelling: Brain in a box. MM Waldrop Nature 482 (7386), 2012 | 67 | 2012 |
| The Necessity of Knowledge: The essence of intelligence seems to be less a matter of reasoning ability than of knowing a lot about the world MM Waldrop Science 223 (4642), 1279-1282, 1984 | 63 | 1984 |
| Man-made minds: The promise of artificial intelligence MM Waldrop Walker and Co., New York, NY, 1987 | 62 | 1987 |
| Nuclear energy: Radical reactors MM Waldrop Nature 492 (7427), 26-29, 2012 | 61 | 2012 |
| Free agents MM Waldrop Science 360 (6385), 144-147, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| How to hack the hackers: The human side of cybercrime MM Waldrop Nature 533 (7602), 2016 | 56 | 2016 |
