| Making the commons work: theory, practice, and policy. DW Bromley | 1798 | 1992 |
| Conservation and the social sciences MB Mascia, JP Brosius, TA Dobson, BC Forbes, L Horowitz, MA McKean, ... Conservation biology 17 (3), 649-650, 2003 | 950 | 2003 |
| People and forests: Communities, institutions, and governance CC Gibson, MA McKean, E Ostrom Mit Press, 2000 | 860 | 2000 |
| Common property: What is it, what is it good for, and what makes it work? MA McKean | 658 | 2000 |
| Success on the commons: A comparative examination of institutions for common property resource management MA McKean Journal of theoretical politics 4 (3), 247-281, 1992 | 578 | 1992 |
| Environmental protest and citizen politics in Japan M McKean Univ of California Press, 2023 | 523 | 2023 |
| Management of traditional common lands (Iriaichi) in Japan. MA McKean | 475 | 1992 |
| Common property regimes in the forest: just a relic from the past M McKean, E Ostrom Unasylva 46 (180), 3-15, 1995 | 268 | 1995 |
| Explaining deforestation: the role of local institutions CC Gibson, MA McKean, E Ostrom | 211 | 2000 |
| Sea tenure in Bahia, Brazil. J Cordell, MA McKean | 204 | 1992 |
| The Japanese experience with scarcity: Management of traditional common lands MA McKean Environmental Review 6 (2), 63-88, 1982 | 157 | 1982 |
| Japan's new electoral system:: la plus ça change... M McKean, E Scheiner Electoral Studies 19 (4), 447-477, 2000 | 147 | 2000 |
| Regimes de propriedade comum em florestas: somente uma relíquia do passado MA McKEAN, E Ostrom Espaços e recursos naturais de uso comum, 79-95, 2001 | 141 | 2001 |
| Forests, people, and governance: Some initial theoretical lessons CC Gibson, E Ostrom, MA McKean | 122 | 2000 |
| State strength and the public interest MA McKean Political dynamics in contemporary Japan 72, 1993 | 90 | 1993 |
| Common-property regimes as a solution to problems of scale and linkage MA McKean Rights to nature: Ecological, economic, cultural, and political principles …, 1996 | 82 | 1996 |
| Who hunts lemurs and why they hunt them C Borgerson, MA McKean, MR Sutherland, LR Godfrey Biological conservation 197, 124-130, 2016 | 79 | 2016 |
| People and forests C Gibson, M McKean, E Ostrom MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2000 | 66 | 2000 |
| Pollution and policymaking MA McKean Policy Making in Contemporary Japan, 201-38, 1977 | 60 | 1977 |
| Elinor Ostrom, eds. 2000 C Gibson, M McKean People and Forests: Communities, Institutions, and Governance, 0 | 50 | |
