| The tortoise and the love-machine: Grey Walter and the politics of electroencephalography R Hayward Science in Context 14 (4), 615-641, 2001 | 86 | 2001 |
| The history of mental health services in modern England: practitioner memories and the direction of future research J Turner, R Hayward, K Angel, B Fulford, J Hall, C Millard, M Thomson Medical history 59 (4), 599-624, 2015 | 84 | 2015 |
| The Transformation of the Psyche in British Primary Care, 1880-1970 R Hayward Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014 | 56 | 2014 |
| The invention of the psychosocial: An introduction R Hayward History of the human sciences 25 (5), 3-12, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| Resisting history: Religious transcendence and the invention of the unconscious R Hayward Resisting history, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Demonology, neurology, and medicine in Edwardian Britain R Hayward Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 37-58, 2004 | 42 | 2004 |
| Enduring emotions: James L. Halliday and the invention of the psychosocial R Hayward Isis 100 (4), 827-838, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| 'Our friends electric': Mechanical models of mind in postwar Britain. R Hayward The British Psychological Society, 2001 | 23 | 2001 |
| Germany and the making of ‘English’psychiatry R Hayward, V Roelcke, PJ Weindling, L Westwood International relations in psychiatry: Britain, Germany, and the United …, 2010 | 18 | 2010 |
| John Hall, Chris Millard and Mathew Thomson,‘The History of Mental Health Services in Modern England: Practitioner Memories and the Direction of Future Research’ J Turner, R Hayward, K Angel, B Fulford Medical History 59 (4), 599-624, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Empathy R Hayward The Lancet 366 (9491), 1071, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| Policing Dreams: History and the Moral Uses of the Unconscious. R Hayward History Workshop Journal 49 (1), 2000 | 16 | 2000 |
| Desperate housewives and model amoebae: The invention of suburban neurosis in inter-war Britain R Hayward Health and the Modern Home, 42-62, 2008 | 15 | 2008 |
| Sadness in Camberwell: Imagining stress and constructing history in postwar Britain R Hayward Stress, shock, and adaptation in the twentieth century, 320-342, 2014 | 14 | 2014 |
| Busman’s Stomach and the Embodiment of Modernity R Hayward Contemporary British History 31 (1), 1-23, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| The pursuit of serenity: Psychological knowledge and the making of the British welfare state R Hayward History and Psyche: Culture, Psychoanalysis, and the Past, 283-304, 2012 | 11 | 2012 |
| Policing dreams: History and the moral uses of the unconscious R Hayward Dreams and History, 171-190, 2004 | 11 | 2004 |
| Psychology and the Pursuit of Serenity in Post War Britain R Hayward Clio’s Dream: Psychoanalysis and History, 283-304, 2012 | 9 | 2012 |
| Lifestyle R Hayward The Lancet 364 (9433), 495, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
| Emmanuel Mendes da Costa (1717–1791) A Case Study in Scientific Reputation R Hayward Travels of learning: a geography of science in Europe, 101-114, 2003 | 7 | 2003 |
