Shannon has about 164 publications that, together, have received over 77 thousand citations. His work on ionic radii of ions has drawn particularly wide attention. In a 2014 Nature paper his 1976 work on the ionic radii of ions was recognized as the 22d most cited paper in all of science. It is also been cited as the highest formally-cited database of all time.  
He has a number of patents on glass compositions, zeolite catalysts, noble-metal oxide, electrodes, and chemical compounds.