| Navigating austerity: Currents of debt along a South Asian river L Bear Stanford University Press, 2020 | 412 | 2020 |
| Gens: A feminist manifesto for the study of capitalism L Bear, K Ho, A Tsing, S Yanagisako | 397 | 2015 |
| Doubt, conflict, mediation: the anthropology of modern time L Bear Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20, 3-30, 2014 | 396 | 2014 |
| Lines of the nation: Indian railway workers, bureaucracy, and the intimate historical self L Bear Columbia University Press, 2007 | 306 | 2007 |
| Time as technique L Bear Annual Review of Anthropology 45, 487-502, 2016 | 275 | 2016 |
| Introduction: Remaking the public good L Bear, N Mathur The Cambridge journal of anthropology 33 (1), 18-34, 2015 | 234 | 2015 |
| Harnessing behavioural science in public health campaigns to maintain ‘social distancing’in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: key principles C Bonell, S Michie, S Reicher, R West, L Bear, L Yardley, V Curtis, ... J Epidemiol Community Health 74 (8), 617-619, 2020 | 221 | 2020 |
| Speculation: A political economy of technologies of imagination L Bear Economy and society 49 (1), 1-15, 2020 | 99 | 2020 |
| Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political S Venkatesan, L Bear, P Harvey, S Lazar, L Rival, AM Simone Critique of Anthropology 38 (1), 3-52, 2018 | 79 | 2018 |
| 3 For labour: A jeet's accident and the ethics of technological fixes in time L Bear Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 20, 71-88, 2014 | 75 | 2014 |
| Speculation: Futures and capitalism in India L Bear, R Birla, SS Puri Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35 (3), 387-391, 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| Miscegenations of Modernity: constructing European respectability and race in the Indian railway colony, 1857-1931 LG Bear Women's history review 3 (4), 531-548, 1994 | 68 | 1994 |
| Capitalist Divination: Popularist Speculators and Technologies of Imagination on a South Asian River L Bear Comparative Studies in South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 35 (3), 408-423, 2015 | 53 | 2015 |
| Capital and time: uncertainty and qualitative measures of inequality L Bear The British Journal of Sociology 65 (4), 639-649, 2014 | 50 | 2014 |
| 'A good death'during the Covid-19 pandemic in the UK: a report on key findings and recommendations L Bear, N Simpson, M Angland, JK Bhogal, R Bowers, F Cannell, ... London School of Economics and Political Science, 2020 | 46 | 2020 |
| Making a river of gold: Speculative state planning, informality, and neoliberal governance on the Hooghly L Bear Focaal 2011 (61), 46-60, 2011 | 44 | 2011 |
| Speculations on infrastructure: From colonial public works to a post-colonial global asset class on the Indian railways 1840–2017 L Bear Economy and Society 49 (1), 45-70, 2020 | 43 | 2020 |
| The antinomies of audit: opacity, instability and charisma in the economic governance of a Hooghly shipyard L Bear The Underbelly of the Indian Boom, 41-63, 2016 | 41 | 2016 |
| " This body is our body": Viswakarma Puja, the social debts of kinship, and theologies of materiality in a neo-liberal shipyard L Bear The Re-Enchantment of Kinship?, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| Anthropological futures: for a critical political economy of capitalist time L Bear Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 25 (2), 142-158, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
