These anthologies, textbooks, recommended reading lists and polls were used in creating the Classics of Science Fiction Short Stories lists (By Rank, Year, Author). The author list gives the citations each story received.

Best of the Year Anthologies

• The Great SF Stories 1939-1964 ed. Asimov, Greenberg, Silverberg (1979-2002)
• The Best Science-Fiction Stories ed. Bleiler, Dikty (1949-1958)
• Year’s Best SF ed. Judith Merril (1955-1968)
• The World’s Best Science Fiction ed. Wollheim, Carr (1965-1971)
• Best SF ed. Harrison, Aldiss (1968-1976)
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year ed. Terry Carr (1972-1987)
• Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year ed. Lester del Rey (1972-1976)
• The Annual World’s Best SF ed. Wollheim, Saha (1972-1990)
• Annual Anthologies by Gardner Dozois
  • Best Science Fiction Stories of the Year (1977-1981)
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction (1984-2018)
• The Orbit SF Yearbook ed. David S. Garnett (1988-1990)
• Year’s Best SF ed. Hartwell, Cramer (1996-2013)
• Annual Anthologies ed. Strahan, Silverberg, Haber
  • Science Fiction: The Best of (2002-2005) ed. Silverberg, Haber, Strahan
  • Best Science Fiction of the Year (2007-2018) ed. Jonathan Strahan
• Annual Anthologies ed. Rich Horton
  • Science Fiction: The Best of the Year (2006-2008)
  • The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy (2010-2018)
• The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Adams et al (2015-2017)
• The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas ed. Paula Guran (2015-2016)
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year ed. Neil Clarke (2016-2018)

Retrospective Anthologies

• Anthologies ed. Brian Aldiss (1973-2007)
  • The Penguin Science Fiction Omnibus (1973)
  • A Science Fiction Omnibus (2007)
• Anthologies ed. Mike Ashley (2010-2015)
  • The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women (2010)
  • The Feminine Future: Early Science Fiction by Women Writers (2015)
• Anthologies ed. Asimov, Greenberg, Waugh (1981-1993)
  • Before the Golden Age (1974)
  • Isaac Asimov Presents the Best Science Fiction of the 19th Century (1981)
  • The Mammoth Book of Classic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1930s (1988)
  • The Mammoth Book of Golden Age Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1940s (1989)
  • The Mammoth Book of Vintage Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1950s (1990)
  • The Mammoth Book of New World Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1960s (1991)
  • The Mammoth Book of Fantastic Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1970s (1992)
  • The Mammoth Book of Modern Science Fiction: Short Novels of the 1980s (1993)
• A Treasury of Great Science Fiction ed. Anthony Boucher (1959)
• Masterpieces ed. Orson Scott Card (2001)
• Anthologies ed. Terry Carr (1966-1978)
  • Science Fiction for People Who Hate Science Fiction (1966)
  • Classic Science Fiction: The First Golden Age (1978)
• Anthologies ed. Groff Conklin (1946-1952)
  • The Best of Science Fiction (1946)
  • A Treasury of Science Fiction (1948)
  • Big Book of Science Fiction (1950)
  • Omnibus of Science Fiction (1952)
• Anthologies ed. Gardner Dozois (1992-1994)
  • Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1992)
  • Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994)
• The World Turned Upside Down ed. Drake, Baen, Flint (2004)
• Future Perfect ed. H. Bruce Franklin (1966-1995)
• The Road to Science Fiction ed. James Gunn (1977-1998)
• Anthologies ed. Hartwell, Cramer, Wolf (1989-1997)
  • The World Treasury of Science Fiction (1989)
  • The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF (1994)
• Adventures in Time and Space ed. Healy, McComas (1946)
• Anthologies ed. Damon Knight (1962-1972)
  • A Century of Science Fiction (1962)
  • A Century of Great Short Science Fiction Novels (1964)
  • One Hundred Years of Science Fiction (1968)
  • A Science Fiction Argosy (1972)
• The End of Summer: Science Fiction of the Fifties ed. Malzberg, Pronzini (1979)
• Anthologies ed. Sam Moskowitz (1967-1968)
  • Masterpieces of Science Fiction (1967)
  • Science Fiction by Gaslight (1968)
• Anthologies ed. Pohl, Greenberg, Olander
  • Science Fiction of the 40’s
  • Science Fiction of the 50’s
• Science Fiction: A Historical Anthology ed. Eric S. Rabkin (1983)
• Anthologies ed. Pamela Sargent (1975-1995)
  • Women of Wonder (1975)
  • More Women of Wonder (1976)
  • The New Women of Wonder (1978)
  • Women of Wonder: The Classic Years (1995)
  • Women of Wonder: The Contemporary Years (1995)
• Anthologies ed. Robert Silverberg
  • Alpha 1-9 (1970-1978)
  • Robert Silverberg’s Worlds of Wonder (1987)
• Science Fiction Hall of Fame ed. Silverberg, Bova
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume One (1970)
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two A (1973)
  • The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B (1973)
• Anthologies ed. Warrick, Greenberg, Olander (1978-1988)
  • Science Fiction: Contemporary Mythology (1978)
  • Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology (1988)
• Anthologies ed. Silverberg, Greenberg (1970-1987)
  • The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction (1980)
  • The Arbor House Treasury of Great Science Fiction Short Novels (1980)
  • The Arbor House Treasury of Science Fiction Masterpieces (1983)
• Frankenstein Dreams ed. Michael Sims (2017)
• The Big Book of Science Fiction ed. Jeff and Ann VanderMeer (2016)
• The Future is Female! ed. Lisa Yaszek (2018)

Textbooks

• The Norton Book of Science Fiction ed. Le Guin, Attebery (1993)
• The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories ed. Tom Shippey (1992)
• The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Garyn G. Roberts (2001)
• Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction ed. Leigh Ronald Grossman (2011)
• Science Fiction: Stories and Contexts ed. Heather Masri (2011)
• The Wesleyan Anthology of Science Fiction ed. Evans et al (2010)

Recommended Reading Lists

• Gardner Dozois:  Stories mentioned in the introductions to Modern Classics of Science Fiction (1992) and Modern Classic Short Novels of Science Fiction (1994)
• Barry N. Malzberg: From the top twenty stories mentioned in Breakfast in the Ruins: Science Fiction in the Last Millennium (2007); the chapter titled “The Cutting Edge.”
• Richard A. Lupoff: From the anthologies What If? Volume 1 (1980), What If? Volume 2 (1981), and What If? Volume 3 (2013), and from the further recommendations attributed to Lupoff in http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/timeline.html

Polls

• Sci-Fi Lists Top 100 Short Fiction
• Sci-Fi Lists Next 100 Short Fiction
• Locus Magazine All-Time Poll (1999)
  • Short Stories
  • Novelettes
  • Novellas
• Locus Magazine 20th and 21st All-Centuries Polls Results (2012)
• ISFDB Most-Viewed Short Science Fiction Since 2005
• ISFDB Highest Ranked Short Fiction of All Time