| Graphs on surfaces B Mohar, C Thomassen Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001 | 1800 | 2001 |
| Every planar graph is 5-choosable C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B 62 (1), 180-181, 1994 | 653 | 1994 |
| The graph genus problem is NP-complete C Thomassen Journal of Algorithms 10 (4), 568-576, 1989 | 358 | 1989 |
| 2-linked graphs C Thomassen European Journal of Combinatorics 1 (4), 371-378, 1980 | 289 | 1980 |
| Planarity and duality of finite and infinite graphs C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 29 (2), 244-271, 1980 | 279 | 1980 |
| Cycles in digraphs–a survey JC Bermond, C Thomassen Journal of Graph Theory 5 (1), 1-43, 1981 | 259 | 1981 |
| A theorem on paths in planar graphs C Thomassen Journal of Graph Theory 7 (2), 169-176, 1983 | 222 | 1983 |
| 3-list-coloring planar graphs of girth 5 C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 64 (1), 101-107, 1995 | 221 | 1995 |
| Reflections on graph theory C Thomassen Journal of Graph Theory 10 (3), 309-324, 1986 | 220 | 1986 |
| The Jordan-Schönflies theorem and the classification of surfaces C Thomassen The American Mathematical Monthly 99 (2), 116-130, 1992 | 203 | 1992 |
| Highly connected sets and the excluded grid theorem R Diestel, TR Jensen, KY Gorbunov, C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 75 (1), 61-73, 1999 | 196 | 1999 |
| Nowhere-zero 3-flows and modulo k-orientations LM Lovász, C Thomassen, Y Wu, CQ Zhang Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 103 (5), 587-598, 2013 | 181 | 2013 |
| Embeddings of graphs with no short noncontractible cycles C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 48 (2), 155-177, 1990 | 181 | 1990 |
| Kuratowski's theorem C Thomassen Journal of Graph Theory 5 (3), 225-241, 1981 | 177 | 1981 |
| The weak 3-flow conjecture and the weak circular flow conjecture C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 102 (2), 521-529, 2012 | 166 | 2012 |
| Distances in orientations of graphs V Chvátal, C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 24 (1), 61-75, 1978 | 162 | 1978 |
| Interval representations of planar graphs C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 40 (1), 9-20, 1986 | 161 | 1986 |
| Plane representations of graphs C Thomassen Progress in graph theory, 1984 | 161 | 1984 |
| Color-critical graphs on a fixed surface C Thomassen Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 70 (1), 67-100, 1997 | 159 | 1997 |
| Tilings of the torus and the Klein bottle and vertex-transitive graphs on a fixed surface C Thomassen Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 323 (2), 605-635, 1991 | 154 | 1991 |
