| Membranes: Metaphors of invasion in nineteenth-century literature, science, and politics L Otis JHU Press, 2000 | 419 | 2000 |
| Networking: Communicating with bodies and machines in the nineteenth century L Otis University of Michigan Press, 2001 | 371 | 2001 |
| Organic memory: History and the body in the late nineteenth & early twentieth centuries L Otis U of Nebraska Press, 1994 | 320 | 1994 |
| Literature and science in the nineteenth century: an anthology L Otis Oxford University Press, 2009 | 202 | 2009 |
| Calcium/ganglioside‐dependent protein kinase activity in rat brain membrane JR Goldenring, LC Otis, RK Yu, RJ DeLorenzo Journal of neurochemistry 44 (4), 1229-1234, 1985 | 197 | 1985 |
| Müller's lab L Otis Oxford University Press, 2007 | 123 | 2007 |
| The metaphoric circuit: organic and technological communication in the nineteenth century L Otis Journal of the History of Ideas 63 (1), 105-128, 2002 | 73 | 2002 |
| Howled out of the country: Wilkie Collins and HG Wells retry David Ferrier L Otis Neurology and literature, 1860–1920, 27-51, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |
| Rethinking thought: Inside the minds of creative scientists and artists L Otis Oxford University Press, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| The empire bites back: Sherlock Holmes as an imperial immune system L Otis Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature 22 (1), 4, 1998 | 37 | 1998 |
| The other end of the wire: uncertainties of organic and telegraphic communication L Otis Configurations 9 (2), 181-206, 2001 | 29 | 2001 |
| Banned emotions: How metaphors can shape what people feel L Otis Oxford University Press, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| Ramón y Cajal, a pioneer in science fiction L Otis International Microbiology 4 (3), 175-178, 2001 | 24 | 2001 |
| The value of qualitative research for cognitive literary studies L Otis | 23 | 2015 |
| Folic acid has a disinhibitory action in the rat hippocampal slice preparation LC Otis, DV Madison, RA Nicoll Brain research 346 (2), 281-286, 1985 | 22 | 1985 |
| Muller's Lab: The Story of Jakob Henle, Theodor Schwann, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Hermann von Helmholtz, Rudolf Virchow, Robert Remak, Ernst Haeckel, and Their Brilliant … L Otis, J Schickore ISIS 99 (1), 205-205, 2008 | 21 | 2008 |
| Monkey in the mirror: the science of Professor Higgins and Doctor Moreau L Otis Twentieth Century Literature 55 (4), 485-509, 2009 | 19 | 2009 |
| Science surveys and histories of literature: reflections on an uneasy kinship L Otis Isis 101 (3), 570-577, 2010 | 16 | 2010 |
| Membranes L Otis Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1999 | 9 | 1999 |
| The Language of Infection: Disease and Identity in Schnitzler's Reigen L Otis The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 70 (2), 65-75, 1995 | 9 | 1995 |
