| The Other Insect Societies JT Costa Harvard University Press, 2006 | 574 | 2006 |
| The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species JT Costa Cambridge, MA: Belknap/Harvard, 576 pp., 2009 | 149* | 2009 |
| Social evolution in the Lepidoptera: Ecological context and communication in larval societies JT COSTA, NE PIERCE The Evolution of Social Behavior in Insects and Arachnids, 407-442, 1997 | 125 | 1997 |
| Developments in social terminology: Semantic battles in a conceptual war JT Costa, TD Fitzgerald Trends Ecol. Evol 11, 285-289, 1996 | 121 | 1996 |
| Haplotypic divergence coupled with lack of diversity at the Arabidopsis thaliana alcohol dehydrogenase locus: roles for both balancing and directional selection? U Hanfstingl, A Berry, EA Kellogg, C JT, W Rüdiger, FM Ausubel Genetics 138 (3), 811-828, 1994 | 119 | 1994 |
| Social terminology revisited: Where are we ten years later? JT Costa, TD Fitzgerald Annales Zoologici Fennici 42 (6), 559-564, 2005 | 81 | 2005 |
| Estimates of heterozygosity in two social insects using a large number of electrophoretic markers DD Shoemaker, JT Costa, KG Ross Heredity 69 (6), 573-582, 1992 | 80 | 1992 |
| The social biology of domiciliary cockroaches: Colony structure, kin recognition and collective decisions M Lihoreau, JT Costa, C Rivault Insectes Sociaux 59 (4), 445-452, 2012 | 73 | 2012 |
| Collective behavior in social caterpillars TD Fitzgerald, JT Costa Information Processing in Social Insects, 379-400, 1999 | 73 | 1999 |
| Wallace, Darwin, and the Origin of Species JT Costa Harvard University Press, 2014 | 61 | 2014 |
| Caterpillars as social insects JT Costa American Scientist 85 (2), 150-159, 1997 | 60 | 1997 |
| Fitness effects of group merging in a social insect JT Costa, KG Ross Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 2003 | 58 | 2003 |
| Trail-based communication and foraging behavior of young colonies of forest tent caterpillars (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) TD Fitzgerald, JT Costa Annals of the Entomological Society of America 79 (6), 999-1007, 1986 | 49 | 1986 |
| The other insect societies: Overview and new directions JT Costa Current Opinion in Insect Science 28, 40-49, 2018 | 48 | 2018 |
| Trail-based communication in social caterpillars of Eriogaster lanestris (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) C Ruf, JT Costa, K Fiedler Journal of Insect Behavior 14, 231-245, 2001 | 48 | 2001 |
| Seasonal decline in intracolony genetic relatedness in eastern tent caterpillars: Implications for social evolution JТ Costa, KG Ross Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 32, 47-54, 1993 | 45 | 1993 |
| Hierarchical genetic structure and gene flow in macrogeographic populations of the eastern tent caterpillar (Malacosoma americanum) JT Costa, KG Ross Evolution 48 (4), 1158-1167, 1994 | 37 | 1994 |
| Group Foraging and Trail Following Behavior of theRed-headed Pine Sawfly Neodiprion lecontei (Fitch) (Hymenoptera: Symphyta: Diprionidae) JT Costa, RW Louque Annals of the Entomological Society of America 94 (3), 480-489, 2001 | 36 | 2001 |
| On the Organic Law of Change: A Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Species Notebook of 1855-1859 JT Costa Harvard University Press, 2013 | 34 | 2013 |
| Social nutrition: An emerging field in insect science M Lihoreau, T Gómez-Moracho, C Pasquaretta, JT Costa, J Buhl Current Opinion in Insect Science 28, 73-80, 2018 | 32 | 2018 |
