| The spirit of the soil: agriculture and environmental ethics PB Thompson Routledge, 2005 | 642* | 2005 |
| The agrarian vision: Sustainability and environmental ethics PB Thompson University Press of Kentucky, 2010 | 371 | 2010 |
| Food biotechnology in ethical perspective PB Thompson Springer, 2007 | 322 | 2007 |
| The structure of biological theories P Thompson State University of New York Press, 1989 | 249 | 1989 |
| The Agricultural Ethics of Biofuels: The Food vs. Fuel Debate PB Thompson Agriculture 2 (4), 339-358, 2012 | 202 | 2012 |
| Sacred cows and hot potatoes: agrarian myths in agricultural policy. WP Browne, JR Skees, LE Swanson, PB Thompson, LJ Unnevehr Sacred cows and hot potatoes: agrarian myths in agricultural policy., 1992 | 173* | 1992 |
| Sustainable livestock production: methodological and ethical challenges PB Thompson, A Nardone Livestock Production Science 61 (2), 111-119, 1999 | 171 | 1999 |
| Nanotechnology, risk and the environment: a review W Hannah, PB Thompson Journal of Environmental Monitoring 10 (3), 291-300, 2008 | 142 | 2008 |
| Agricultural sustainability: what it is and what it is not PB Thompson International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability 5 (1), 5-16, 2007 | 138 | 2007 |
| Agricultural ethics PB Thompson The International Encyclopedia of Ethics, 1998 | 121* | 1998 |
| The opposite of human enhancement: nanotechnology and the blind chicken problem PB Thompson Nanoethics 2 (3), 305-316, 2008 | 105 | 2008 |
| The structure of evolutionary theory: A semantic approach P Thompson Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 14 (3), 215-229, 1983 | 96 | 1983 |
| Issues in evolutionary ethics P Thompson Suny Press, 1995 | 90 | 1995 |
| Issues in evolutionary ethics P Thompson Suny Press, 1995 | 90 | 1995 |
| Sustainability as a norm PB Thompson Digital Library and Archives of the Virginia Tech University Libraries, 1996 | 89 | 1996 |
| Food biotechnology's challenge to cultural integrity and individual consent PB Thompson Hastings Center Report 27 (4), 34-39, 1997 | 85 | 1997 |
| What can nanotechnology learn from biotechnology?: social and ethical lessons for nanoscience from the debate over agrifood biotechnology and GMOs K David, PB Thompson Academic Press, 2011 | 84 | 2011 |
| The varieties of sustainability in livestock farming PB Thompson PUBLICATION-EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR ANIMAL PRODUCTION 89, 5-15, 1997 | 76 | 1997 |
| The philosophical foundations of risk PB Thompson The Southern journal of philosophy 24 (2), 273-286, 1986 | 74 | 1986 |
| Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics PB Thompson, DM Kaplan | 70* | 2012 |
