| Cosmic evolution: The rise of complexity in nature EJ Chaisson, E Chaisson Harvard University Press, 2002 | 928 | 2002 |
| Astronomy today E Chaisson, S McMillan, E Rice Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005 | 302 | 2005 |
| Epic of evolution: Seven ages of the cosmos EJ Chaisson Columbia University Press, 2005 | 280 | 2005 |
| The Life Era: Cosmic selection and conscious evolution E Chaisson New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987 | 144 | 1987 |
| Energy rate density as a complexity metric and evolutionary driver EJ Chaisson Complexity 16 (3), 27-40, 2011 | 143 | 2011 |
| Cosmic dawn: The origins of matter and life E Chaisson | 121 | 1981 |
| The Hubble wars: Astrophysics meets astropolitics in the two-billion-dollar struggle over the Hubble Space Telescope E Chaisson Harvard University Press, 1998 | 94 | 1998 |
| Complexity: An energetics agenda: Energy as the motor of evolution EJ Chaisson Complexity 9 (3), 14-21, 2004 | 85 | 2004 |
| Long‐term global heating from energy usage EJ Chaisson Eos, Transactions American Geophysical Union 89 (28), 253-254, 2008 | 82 | 2008 |
| The enigma of time PT Landsberg, EJ Chaisson | 81 | 1985 |
| A unifying concept for astrobiology EJ Chaisson International Journal of astrobiology 2 (2), 91-101, 2003 | 65 | 2003 |
| Astronomy: a beginner's guide to the universe E Chaisson, S McMillan Prentice Hall, 1995 | 65 | 1995 |
| A hydrogen and helium radio recombination-line survey of galactic H II regions at 10 GHz SM Lichten, LF Rodriguez, EJ Chaisson Astrophysical Journal, Part 1, vol. 229, Apr. 15, 1979, p. 524-532. 229, 524-532, 1979 | 62 | 1979 |
| The natural science underlying big history EJ Chaisson The Scientific World Journal 2014, 2014 | 59 | 2014 |
| The cosmic environment for the growth of complexity EJ Chaisson BioSystems 46 (1-2), 13-19, 1998 | 57 | 1998 |
| Long-period variables: correlation of stellar period with OH radial-velocity pattern DF Dickinson, EJ Chaisson Astrophysical Journal, vol. 181, p. L135 181, L135, 1973 | 56 | 1973 |
| A comparison of the Orion nebula's physical conditions measured in the radio and optical domains EJ Chaisson, MA Dopita Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 56, no. 3, Apr. 1977, p. 385-400. Research …, 1977 | 55 | 1977 |
| Energy rate density. II. Probing further a new complexity metric EJ Chaisson Complexity 17 (1), 44-63, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| Using complexity science to search for unity in the natural sciences EJ Chaisson Complexity and the Arrow of Time, 68-79, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Observations of formaldehyde toward M17 C Lada, EJ Chaisson Astrophysical Journal, vol. 195, Jan. 15, 1975, pt. 1, p. 367-373, 375-377 …, 1975 | 35 | 1975 |
