| The knot book CC Adams American Mathematical Soc., 1994 | 1585 | 1994 |
| Introduction to topology: pure and applied CC Adams, RD Franzosa Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008 | 201 | 2008 |
| Almost alternating links CC Adams, JF Brock, J Bugbee, TD Comar, KA Faigin, AM Huston, ... Topology and its Applications 46 (2), 151-165, 1992 | 104 | 1992 |
| The noncompact hyperbolic 3-manifold of minimal volume CC Adams Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, 601-606, 1987 | 100 | 1987 |
| Thrice-punctured spheres in hyperbolic 3-manifolds CC Adams Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 287 (2), 645-656, 1985 | 90 | 1985 |
| Hyperbolic invariants of knots and links C Adams, M Hildebrand, J Weeks Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 1-56, 1991 | 86 | 1991 |
| Stick numbers and composition of knots and links CC Adams, BM Brennan, DL Greilsheimer, AK Woo Journal of Knot Theory and its Ramifications 6 (02), 149-161, 1997 | 68 | 1997 |
| Augmented alternating link complements are hyperbolic CC Adams Lowdimensional topology and Kleinian groups (Coventry/Durham, 1984) 112, 115-130, 1986 | 59 | 1986 |
| Toroidally alternating knots and links CC Adams Topology 33 (2), 353-369, 1994 | 54 | 1994 |
| Volumes of N-cusped hyperbolic 3-manifolds CC Adams Journal of the London Mathematical Society 2 (3), 555-565, 1988 | 53 | 1988 |
| Calculus: early transcendentals J Rogawski Macmillan, 2011 | 52 | 2011 |
| Unknotting tunnels in hyperbolic 3-manifolds C Adams, K Knudson arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.5239, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| Unknotting tunnels in two-bridge knot and link complements CC Adams, AW Reid Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 71 (1), 617-627, 1996 | 38 | 1996 |
| Triple crossing number of knots and links C Adams Journal of Knot Theory and Its Ramifications 22 (02), 1350006, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Hyperbolic 3-manifolds with two generators CC Adams Communications in Analysis and Geometry 4 (2), 181-206, 1996 | 34 | 1996 |
| Hyperbolic knots C Adams Handbook of knot theory, 1-18, 2005 | 32 | 2005 |
| Noncompact hyperbolic 3-orbifolds of small volume CC Adams Topology 90, 1-15, 1992 | 32 | 1992 |
| Limit volumes of hyperbolic three-orbifolds CC Adams Journal of Differential Geometry 34 (1), 115-141, 1991 | 31 | 1991 |
| Waist size for cusps in hyperbolic 3-manifolds CC Adams Topology 41 (2), 257-270, 2002 | 30 | 2002 |
| A classification of spanning surfaces for alternating links C Adams, T Kindred Algebraic & Geometric Topology 13 (5), 2967-3007, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
