Автор более 700 публикаций, открывший и описавший около 800 новых для науки видов насекомых[2][3][36].
Engel, M. S. (2001) A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). — Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History259: 1-192.
Engel, M. S. & D.A. Grimaldi (2002) The first Mesozoic Zoraptera (Insecta). — American Museum Novitates3362: 1-20.
Engel, M. S. & D.A. Grimaldi (2004) New light shed on the oldest insect. — Nature427: 627—630.
Zhiwei Liu, Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi. (2007). Phylogeny and Geological History of the Cynipoid Wasps (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea) — American Museum Novitates 3583 :1-48. pdf
Engel, M. S. (2010). Revision of the bee genus Chlerogella (Hymenoptera, Halictidae), Part II: South American species and generic diagnosis. — ZooKeys, 47: 1-100. ISSN: 1313—2970 (online) ISSN: 1313—2989 (print) doi: 10.3897/zookeys.47.416
Shcherbakov, D. E., Engel M. S., Sharkey M. J. (2011). Advances in the Systematics of Fossil and Modern Insects: Honouring Alexandr Rasnitsyn. — ZooKeys. 130:[v]+542.
Hannan, M. A., Alqarni A. S., Owayss A. A., Engel M. S. (2012). The large carpenter bees of central Saudi Arabia, with notes on the biology of Xylocopa sulcatipes Maa (Hymenoptera, Apidae, Xylocopinae). — ZooKeys. 201:1-14.
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↑Heads, S. W. (2010). New Tridactyloidea in Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Orthoptera: Caelifera). — Annales de la Société entomologique de France (n.s.), 46: 204—210.
↑Liu, Xingyue; Lu, Xiumei; Zhang, Weiwei. New genera and species of minute snakeflies (англ.) // Zootaxa : journal. — 2016. — 14 April (vol. 4103, no. 4). — P. 301—324. — doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4103.4.1. — PMID27394738.
↑Turrisi, Giuseppe; Ellenberger, Sieghard. New aulacid wasps from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) (англ.) // Cretaceous Research : journal. — 2019. — Vol. 99. — P. 334—346. — doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.02.022.
↑Chen, Xinyu (2019). "A new genus and species of Lymexylidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar". Paleontological Journal. 53 (11): 1203–1205. doi:10.1134/S003103011911008X.
↑Wang, Yimo; Lin, Xiaodan; Wang, Mei; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong; Gao, Taiping (2020). "New sawflies from the mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Syspastoxyelidae)". Historical Biology: 1–10. doi:10.1080/08912963.2019.1687695.
↑Azar, Dany; Heiss, Ernst; Huang, Diying (2020). "Review of the flat bug genus Cretopiesma Grimaldi & Engel, 2008 from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber and description of three new species (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Aradidae: Archearadinae)". Palaeoentomology. 3: 6–31. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.1.2.
↑Qiong Wu, Hongru Yang, Chungkun Shih, Dong Ren, Yunyun Zhao, Taiping Gao. Vespids from the mid-Cretaceous with club-shaped antennae provide new evidence about the intrafamiliar relationships of Vespidae // Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. — The Linnean Society of London, 2020. — Vol. 191, № 2. — P. 1—13. — ISSN0024-4082. — doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa127/6007427.
↑Colombo, Wesley; Perkovsky, Evgeny; Waichert, Cecilia; Azevedo, Celso (2021). "Synopsis of the fossil flat wasps Epyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae), with description of three new genera and 10 new species". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 19 (1): 39–89. doi:10.1080/14772019.2021.1882593. S2CID232313171.
↑ 12Romero Arias (2023). "Mitochondrial phylogenetics position a new Afrotropical termite species into its own subfamily, the Engelitermitinae (Blattodea: Termitidae)". Systematic Entomology. 2023: 1–12. doi:10.1111/syen.12607.
↑Estrada-Álvarez (2023). "New taxa of earwigs (Dermaptera: Spongiphoridae: Spongiphorinae) in lower Miocene amber from Simojovel, Chiapas, Mexico". Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana. 75: A240223. doi:10.18268/BSGM2023v75n2a240223.