| Particle creation by black holes SW Hawking Communications in mathematical physics 43 (3), 199-220, 1975 | 17272* | 1975 |
| The large scale structure of space-time SW Hawking, GFR Ellis Cambridge university press, 2023 | 16434 | 2023 |
| A brief history of time: from big bang to black holes S Hawking Random House, 2009 | 10262 | 2009 |
| Black hole explosions? SW Hawking Nature 248 (5443), 30-31, 1974 | 7962 | 1974 |
| The four laws of black hole mechanics JM Bardeen, B Carter, SW Hawking Communications in mathematical physics 31, 161-170, 1973 | 4924 | 1973 |
| Action integrals and partition functions in quantum gravity GW Gibbons, SW Hawking Physical Review D 15 (10), 2752, 1977 | 4913 | 1977 |
| Wave function of the universe JB Hartle, SW Hawking Physical Review D 28 (12), 2960, 1983 | 4679 | 1983 |
| Cosmological event horizons, thermodynamics, and particle creation GW Gibbons, SW Hawking Physical Review D 15 (10), 2738, 1977 | 4090 | 1977 |
| Breakdown of predictability in gravitational collapse SW Hawking Physical Review D 14 (10), 2460, 1976 | 3432 | 1976 |
| Thermodynamics of black holes in anti-de Sitter space SW Hawking, DN Page Communications in Mathematical Physics 87, 577-588, 1983 | 3317 | 1983 |
| The singularities of gravitational collapse and cosmology SW Hawking, R Penrose Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. A. Mathematical and Physical …, 1970 | 2839 | 1970 |
| The development of irregularities in a single bubble inflationary universe SW Hawking Physics Letters B 115 (4), 295-297, 1982 | 2762 | 1982 |
| The grand design SW Hawking, S Hawking, L Mlodinow Random House, 2011 | 2565 | 2011 |
| Black holes in general relativity SW Hawking Communications in Mathematical Physics 25, 152-166, 1972 | 2183 | 1972 |
| Black holes and thermodynamics SW Hawking Physical Review D 13 (2), 191, 1976 | 2154 | 1976 |
| Black holes in the early Universe BJ Carr, SW Hawking Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 168 (2), 399-415, 1974 | 2144 | 1974 |
| Gravitationally collapsed objects of very low mass S Hawking Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 152 (1), 75-78, 1971 | 2135 | 1971 |
| Zeta function regularization of path integrals in curved spacetime SW Hawking Communications in Mathematical Physics 55, 133-148, 1977 | 1844 | 1977 |
| Gravitational radiation from colliding black holes SW Hawking Physical Review Letters 26 (21), 1344, 1971 | 1655 | 1971 |
| Path-integral derivation of black-hole radiance JB Hartle, SW Hawking Physical Review D 13 (8), 2188, 1976 | 1572 | 1976 |
