| No such thing as a free gift: The Gates Foundation and the price of philanthropy L McGoey Verso Books, 2015 | 586 | 2015 |
| Strategic unknowns: Towards a sociology of ignorance L McGoey An introduction to the sociology of ignorance, 1-16, 2016 | 576 | 2016 |
| The logic of strategic ignorance L McGoey The British journal of sociology 63 (3), 533-576, 2012 | 489 | 2012 |
| Routledge international handbook of ignorance studies M Gross, L McGoey Routledge, 2015 | 450 | 2015 |
| The unknowers: How strategic ignorance rules the world L McGoey Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019 | 282 | 2019 |
| Philanthrocapitalism and its critics L McGoey Poetics 40 (2), 185-199, 2012 | 269 | 2012 |
| On the will to ignorance in bureaucracy L McGoey Economy and Society 36 (2), 212-235, 2007 | 250 | 2007 |
| Rationalities of ignorance: On financial crisis and the ambivalence of neo-liberal epistemology W Davies, L McGoey An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance, 64-83, 2016 | 222 | 2016 |
| The philanthropic state: market–state hybrids in the philanthrocapitalist turn L McGoey New Actors and Alliances in Development, 109-125, 2016 | 192 | 2016 |
| Facts, power and global evidence: a new empire of truth AH Kelly, L McGoey Economy and Society 47 (1), 1-26, 2018 | 90 | 2018 |
| Pharmaceutical controversies and the performative value of uncertainty L McGoey Science as Culture 18 (2), 151-164, 2009 | 87 | 2009 |
| The global health complex L McGoey, J Reiss, A Wahlberg BioSocieties 6, 1-9, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Global health and the gates foundation—in perspective D McCoy, L McGoey Partnerships and foundations in global health governance, 143-163, 2011 | 67 | 2011 |
| An introduction to the sociology of ignorance L McGoey Routledge, 2014 | 61 | 2014 |
| Profitable failure: antidepressant drugs and the triumph of flawed experiments L McGoey History of the Human Sciences 23 (1), 58-78, 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
| Charismatic violence and the sanctification of the super-rich L McGoey, D Thiel Economy and Society 47 (1), 111-134, 2018 | 50 | 2018 |
| Seroxat and the suppression of clinical trial data: regulatory failure and the uses of legal ambiguity L McGoey, E Jackson Journal of Medical Ethics 35 (2), 107-112, 2009 | 49 | 2009 |
| An elusive evidence base: the construction and governance of randomized controlled trials A Wahlberg, L McGoey BioSocieties 2 (1), 1-10, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
| The black box warning on philanthrocapitalism J Clark, L McGoey The Lancet 388 (10059), 2457-2459, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
| Strategic ignorance and global governance: an ecumenical approach to epistemologies of global power G Mallard, L McGoey The British Journal of Sociology 69 (4), 884-909, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
