| The principle of symmetric criticality RS Palais Communications in Mathematical Physics 69 (1), 19-30, 1979 | 1185 | 1979 |
| Seminar on the Atiyah-Singer index theorem MF Atiyah Princeton University Press, 1965 | 973 | 1965 |
| On the existence of slices for actions of non-compact Lie groups RS Palais Annals of mathematics, 295-323, 1961 | 815 | 1961 |
| A global formulation of the lie theory of transformtion groups RS Palais Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 22, 1957 | 811 | 1957 |
| Foundations of global non-linear analysis RS Palais (No Title), 1968 | 794 | 1968 |
| Morse theory on Hilbert manifolds RS Palais Topology 2 (4), 299-340, 1963 | 663 | 1963 |
| Critical point theory and submanifold geometry RS Palais, CL Terng Springer, 2006 | 595* | 2006 |
| Lusternik-Schnirelman theory on Banach manifolds RS Palais Topology 5 (2), 115-132, 1966 | 520 | 1966 |
| Homotopy theory of infinite dimensional manifolds RS Palais Topology 5 (1), 1-16, 1966 | 508 | 1966 |
| A generalized Morse theory RS Palais, S Smale | 477 | 1964 |
| The Classification of -Spaces RS Palais American Mathematical Soc., 1960 | 414 | 1960 |
| Natural operations on differential forms RS Palais Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 92 (1), 125-141, 1959 | 319 | 1959 |
| Critical point theory and the minimax principle RS Palais Global Analysis, 185-212, 1970 | 304 | 1970 |
| Local triviality of the restriction map for embeddings RS Palais Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici 34, 305-312, 1960 | 244 | 1960 |
| A general theory of canonical forms RS Palais, CL Terng Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 300 (2), 771-789, 1987 | 214 | 1987 |
| The symmetries of solitons R Palais Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 34 (4), 339-403, 1997 | 177 | 1997 |
| Imbedding of compact, differentiable transformation groups in orthogonal representations RS Palais Journal of Mathematics and Mechanics, 673-678, 1957 | 147 | 1957 |
| Natural bundles have finite order RS Palais, CL Terng Topology 16 (3), 271-277, 1977 | 142 | 1977 |
| Extending diffeomorphisms RS Palais Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 11 (2), 274-277, 1960 | 131 | 1960 |
| Hyperpolar actions on symmetric spaces E Heintze Geometry, topology, & physics, Conf. Proc. Lecture Notes Geom. Topology …, 1995 | 128 | 1995 |
