| Crustal origin for peralkaline rhyolites from Kenya: evidence from U-series disequilibria and Th-isotopes S Black, R Macdonald, MR Kelly Journal of Petrology 38 (2), 277-297, 1997 | 116 | 1997 |
| Hermeneutics and critical theory in ethics and politics M Kelly | 98 | 1989 |
| Phenomenology and time-consciousness MR Kelly The internet encyclopedia of philosophy, 2008 | 84 | 2008 |
| Critique and power M Kelly Recasting the Foucault/Habermas Debate. Cambridge, 1994 | 69 | 1994 |
| Iconoclasm in aesthetics M Kelly Cambridge University Press, 2003 | 64 | 2003 |
| Public art controversy M Kelly Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 54, 15-22, 1996 | 57 | 1996 |
| Bergson and phenomenology M Kelly Springer, 2010 | 51 | 2010 |
| Essentialism and historicism in Danto's philosophy of art M Kelly History and Theory 37 (4), 30-43, 1998 | 49 | 1998 |
| A critique of Gadamer's Aesthetics M Kelly Gadamer’s reper, 2004 | 24 | 2004 |
| Action D Herwitz, M Kelly Art, History: Engagements with Arthur C. Danto, 2007 | 22 | 2007 |
| Mimesis M Kelly | 21 | 1998 |
| Phenomenology and the Problem of Time MR Kelly Springer, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Michel Henry: The affects of thought J Hanson, MR Kelly A&C Black, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| Grief: Putting the past before us MR Kelly Quaestiones Disputatae 7 (1), 156-177, 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
| Foucault on critical agency in painting and the aesthetics of existence M Kelly A companion to Foucault, 243-263, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |
| Participatory art M Kelly Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, 2014 | 17 | 2014 |
| Autonomy: Historical Overview C Haskins, M Kelly | 17 | 1998 |
| The subject as time: Merleau-Ponty’s transition from phenomenology to ontology MR Kelly, D Morris, K Maclaren Time, memory, institution: Merleau-Ponty’s new ontology of self, 199-216, 2015 | 16 | 2015 |
| Introduction: Bergson’s Phenomenological Reception: The Spirit of a Dialogue of Self-Resistance MR Kelly Bergson and Phenomenology, 1-21, 2010 | 15 | 2010 |
| Husserl, Deleuzean Bergsonism and the sense of the past in general MR Kelly Husserl Studies 24, 15-30, 2008 | 14 | 2008 |
