| What's “up”? A critical look at the basic terms of canopy biology MW Moffett Biotropica 32 (4a), 569-596, 2000 | 247 | 2000 |
| Human identity and the evolution of societies MW Moffett Human Nature 24, 219-267, 2013 | 193 | 2013 |
| The Human Swarm: How Our Societies Arise, Thrive, and Fall MW Moffett Hachette UK, 2019 | 111 | 2019 |
| Canopy access techniques. MW Moffett Forest canopies, 3-26, 1995 | 110 | 1995 |
| The High Frontier: Exploring the Tropical Rainforest Canopy MW Moffett The high frontier: exploring the tropical rainforest canopy., 1993 | 94 | 1993 |
| The ecology of tropical rain forest canopies MD Lowman, MW Moffett Trends in ecology & evolution 8 (3), 104-107, 1993 | 89 | 1993 |
| Supercolonies of billions in an invasive ant: What is a society? MW Moffett Behavioral Ecology 23 (5), 925-933, 2012 | 84 | 2012 |
| Foraging dynamics in the group-hunting myrmicine ant, Pheidologeton diversus MW Moffett Journal of Insect Behavior 1, 309-331, 1988 | 79 | 1988 |
| Size and proportion relationship between the beaked sea snake and its prey HK Voris, MW Moffett Biotropica, 15-19, 1981 | 79 | 1981 |
| Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions MW Moffett Univ of California Press, 2010 | 77 | 2010 |
| Studies on the population biology of the tropical butterfly Mechanitis isthmia in Costa Rica AM Young, MW Moffett American Midland Naturalist, 309-319, 1979 | 70 | 1979 |
| Cooperative food transport by an Asiatic ant MW Moffett National Geographic Research 4 (3), 386-394, 1988 | 63 | 1988 |
| “Wall-papering” and elaborate nest architecture in the ponerine ant Harpegnathos saltator C Peeters, B Hölldobler, MW Moffett, TMM Ali Insectes sociaux 41 (2), 211-218, 1994 | 54 | 1994 |
| A new technique for taxonomic and ecological sampling in rain forest canopies M Lowman, MW Moffett Selbyana 14, 75-79, 1985 | 41* | 1985 |
| Crown structure and biodiversity in Fltzroya cupressoides, the Giant conifers of Alerce Andino National Park, Chile JP Clement, MW Moffett, DC Shaw, A Lara, D Alarçon, OL Larrain Selbyana, 76-88, 2001 | 39 | 2001 |
| Trap-jaw predation and other observations on two species of Myrmoteras (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) MW Moffett Insectes sociaux 33 (1), 85-99, 1986 | 36 | 1986 |
| An Indian ant's novel method for obtaining water M MW Natl Geogr Res 1, 146-149, 1985 | 34 | 1985 |
| Revision of the myrmicine genus Acanthomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) MW Moffett | 31 | 1986 |
| The nature and limits of canopy biology MW Moffett Selbyana, 155-179, 2001 | 30 | 2001 |
| Division of labor and diet in the extremely polymorphic ant Pheidologeton diversus MW Moffett National Geographic research (USA) 3 (3), 1987 | 28 | 1987 |
