| Plants People and Culture: The Science of Ethnobotany M Balick, P Cox Scientific American, New York, 1996 | 1643* | 1996 |
| Applications of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) in molecular ecology H Hadrys, M Balick, B Schierwater Molecular ecology 1 (1), 55-63, 1992 | 1516 | 1992 |
| The ethnobotanical approach to drug discovery PA Cox, MJ Balick Scientific American 270 (6), 82-87, 1994 | 826 | 1994 |
| The role of ethnopharmacology in drug development NR Farnsworth Ciba Foundation Symposium 154‐Bioactive Compounds from Plants: Bioactive …, 2007 | 462 | 2007 |
| The value of undiscovered pharmaceuticals in tropical forests R Mendelsohn, MJ Balick Economic botany 49, 223-228, 1995 | 421 | 1995 |
| Assessing the economic value of traditional medicines from tropical rain forests MJ Balick, R Mendelsohn Conservation biology 6 (1), 128-130, 1992 | 411 | 1992 |
| Encyclopedia of dietary supplements PM Coates, JM Betz, MR Blackman, GM Cragg, M Levine, J Moss, ... CRC press, 2010 | 392 | 2010 |
| Screening of the topical anti-inflammatory activity of some Central American plants S Sosa, MJ Balick, R Arvigo, RG Esposito, C Pizza, G Altinier, A Tubaro Journal of Ethnopharmacology 81 (2), 211-215, 2002 | 381 | 2002 |
| Ethnopharmacology and drug development NR Farnsworth Ciba Foundation Symposium 185‐Ethnobotany and the Search for New Drugs …, 2007 | 377 | 2007 |
| Medicinal plants: can utilization and conservation coexist? JW Sheldon, MJ Balick, SA Laird, GM Milne Advances in economic botany 12, i-104, 1997 | 358 | 1997 |
| Rainforest remedies: One hundred healing herbs of Belize R Arvigo, MJ Balick Lotus Press, 1993 | 334 | 1993 |
| The subsidy from nature: palm forests, peasantry, and development on an Amazon frontier AB Anderson, PH May, MJ Balick Columbia University Press, 1991 | 323 | 1991 |
| Medicinal resources of the tropical forest: biodiversity and its importance to human health MJ Balick, E Elisabetsky, SA Laird Columbia University Press, 1996 | 301 | 1996 |
| Checklist of the vascular plants of Belize MJ Balick, M Nee, DE Atha | 277 | 2000 |
| Oligarchic forests of economic plants in Amazonia: utilization and conservation of an important tropical resource CM Peters, MJ Balick, F Kahn, AB Anderson Conservation Biology 3 (4), 341-349, 1989 | 264 | 1989 |
| Medicinal plants used by Latino healers for women's health conditions in New York City MJ Balick, F Kronenberg, AL Ososki, M Reiff, A Fugh-Berman, B O'connor, ... Economic botany, 344-357, 2000 | 242 | 2000 |
| Handbook of poisonous and injurious plants LS Nelson, RD Shih, MJ Balick, KF Lampe New York Botanical Garden, 2007 | 239 | 2007 |
| Globalization and loss of plant knowledge: challenging the paradigm I Vandebroek, MJ Balick PloS one 7 (5), e37643, 2012 | 224 | 2012 |
| Ethnobotany and the identification of therapeutic agents from the rainforest MJ Balick Ciba Foundation Symposium 154‐Bioactive Compounds from Plants: Bioactive …, 2007 | 220 | 2007 |
| Valuing the rain forest: the economic value of nontimber forest products in Ecuador A Grimes, S Loomis, P Jahnige, M Burnham, K Onthank, R Alarcón, ... Ambio, 405-410, 1994 | 212 | 1994 |
