| Helicity and the Călugăreanu invariant HK Moffatt, RL Ricca Knots And Applications, 251-269, 1995 | 422 | 1995 |
| Rediscovery of da Rios equations RL Ricca Nature 352 (6336), 561-562, 1991 | 154 | 1991 |
| The effect of torsion on the motion of a helical vortex filament RL Ricca J. Fluid Mech 2 (3), 241-259, 1994 | 111 | 1994 |
| The contributions of Da Rios and Levi-Civita to asymptotic potential theory and vortex filament dynamics RL Ricca Fluid Dynamics Research 18 (5), 245-268, 1996 | 108 | 1996 |
| Topological ideas and fluid mechanics RL Ricca, MA Berger Physics Today 49 (12), 28-34, 1996 | 101 | 1996 |
| Evolution of vortex knots RL Ricca, DC Samuels, CF Barenghi Journal of Fluid Mechanics 391, 29-44, 1999 | 98 | 1999 |
| GAUSS'LINKING NUMBER REVISITED RL Ricca, B Nipoti Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications 20 (10), 1325-1343, 2011 | 91 | 2011 |
| How tangled is a tangle? CF Barenghi, RL Ricca, DC Samuels Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 157 (3), 197-206, 2001 | 68 | 2001 |
| Conservation of writhe helicity under anti-parallel reconnection CE Laing, RL Ricca, LS De Witt Scientific reports 5 (1), 1-6, 2015 | 61 | 2015 |
| Torus knots and polynomial invariants for a class of soliton equations RL Ricca Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science 3 (1), 83-91, 1993 | 61 | 1993 |
| Velocity, energy, and helicity of vortex knots and unknots F Maggioni, S Alamri, CF Barenghi, RL Ricca Physical Review E 82 (2), 026309, 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
| The helicity of a knotted vortex filament RL Ricca, HK Moffatt Topological Aspects of the Dynamics of Fluids and Plasmas, 225-236, 1992 | 55 | 1992 |
| Physical interpretation of certain invariants for vortex filament motion under LIA RL Ricca Physics of Fluids A: Fluid Dynamics 4 (5), 938-944, 1992 | 52 | 1992 |
| An introduction to the geometry and topology of fluid flows RL Ricca Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 50 | 2012 |
| Differences in predictors of cervical and breast cancer screening by screening need in uninsured Latina women LP Buki, J Jamison, CJ Anderson, AM Cuadra Cancer 110 (7), 1578-1585, 2007 | 48 | 2007 |
| Evolution and inflexional instability of twisted magnetic flux tubes RL Ricca Solar Physics 172 (1), 241-248, 1997 | 48 | 1997 |
| Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity RE Goldstein, HK Moffatt, AI Pesci, RL Ricca Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (51), 21979-21984, 2010 | 37 | 2010 |
| Inflexional disequilibrium of magnetic flux-tubes RL Ricca Fluid Dynamics Research 36 (4-6), 319, 2005 | 32 | 2005 |
| The energy spectrum of a twisted flexible string under elastic relaxation RL Ricca Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 28 (8), 2335, 1995 | 32 | 1995 |
| Lectures on topological fluid mechanics De Witt Sumners, RL Ricca, MA Berger, LH Kauffman, B Khesin, ... Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009 | 30* | 2009 |
