 Hodge was author or co-author of over 550 research papers and talks at professional meetings, as well as 28 books.Most of the papers are concerned with the extragalactic universe, especially nearby galaxies, their distances and their histories.Work on the Magellanic Clouds, carried out at observatories in South Africa, Australia and Chile, included a study of young stellar associations, of which he and his students published the first catalog.