| Hyperactive: The controversial history of ADHD M Smith Reaktion books, 2013 | 138 | 2013 |
| Hyperactive around the world? The history of ADHD in global perspective M Smith Social History of Medicine 30 (4), 767-787, 2017 | 137 | 2017 |
| Deinstitutionalisation and after: post-war psychiatry in the western world D Kritsotaki, V Long, M Smith Springer, 2016 | 63 | 2016 |
| Another person's poison: a history of food allergy M Smith Columbia University Press, 2015 | 44 | 2015 |
| Roy Porter Student Essay Prize Winner Psychiatry Limited: Hyperactivity and the Evolution of American Psychiatry, 1957–1980 M Smith Social history of medicine 21 (3), 541-559, 2008 | 32 | 2008 |
| An alternative history of Hyperactivity: food additives and the Feingold Diet M Smith Rutgers University Press, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| A fine balance: Individualism, society and the prevention of mental illness in the United States, 1945–1968 M Smith Palgrave Communications 2 (1), 1-11, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States M Smith The First Resort, 2023 | 20 | 2023 |
| The First Resort: The History of Social Psychiatry in the United States M Smith | 19 | 2023 |
| Expertise from the humanities and social sciences is essential for governmental responses to COVID-19 M Pickersgill, M Smith Journal of Global Health 11, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Remembering the West End: social science, mental health and the American urban environment, 1939–1968 E Ramsden, M Smith Urban History 45 (1), 128-149, 2018 | 14 | 2018 |
| Introduction: Deinstitutionalisation and the pathways of post-war psychiatry in the western world D Kritsotaki, V Long, M Smith Deinstitutionalisation and After: Post-War Psychiatry in the Western World, 1-36, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| Conducting sexualities research: an outline of emergent issues and case studies from ten Wellcome-funded projects D Kneale, R French, H Spandler, I Young, C Purcell, Z Boden, SD Brown, ... Wellcome Open Research 4, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| The uses and abuses of the history of hyperactivity M Smith Peter Lang AG, 2010 | 11 | 2010 |
| Labouring to Choose, Choosing to Labour: Coercion and Choice in the Potosi Mita M Smith Past Imperfect 10, 21-44, 2004 | 8 | 2004 |
| Out on the pitch: sport and mental health in LGBT people D Callwood, M Smith The Lancet 394 (10210), 1704-1705, 2019 | 7 | 2019 |
| Preventing Mental Illness: Past, Present and Future D Kritsotaki, V Long, M Smith Springer, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| An ounce of prevention M Smith The Lancet 386 (9992), 424-425, 2015 | 6 | 2015 |
| Another person's poison M Smith The Lancet 384 (9959), 2019-2020, 2014 | 4 | 2014 |
| A pre-peanut history of food allergy M Smith Food, Culture & Society 16 (1), 125-143, 2013 | 4 | 2013 |
