| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Semantic Web | Scientific American | 2001 | 8,047 |
| 2 | Institutional Ecology, `Translations' and Boundary Objects: Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, 1907-39 | Social Studies of Science | 1989 | 7,386 |
| 3 | The Computer for the 21st Century | Scientific American | 1991 | 6,896 |
| 4 | The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. | Social Forces | 1968 | 6,112 |
| 5 | Autopoiesis and Cognition | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science | 1980 | 3,958 |
| 6 | Constitutions and Commitment: The Evolution of Institutions Governing Public Choice in Seventeenth-Century England | Journal of Economic History | 1989 | 3,932 |
| 7 | Settler colonialism and the elimination of the native | Journal of Genocide Research | 2006 | 3,466 |
| 8 | Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. | Eighteenth-Century Studies | 1978 | 3,409 |
| 9 | THE MORAL ECONOMY OF THE ENGLISH CROWD IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | Past and Present | 1971 | 3,132 |
| 10 | Social capital and economic development: Toward a theoretical synthesis and policy framework | Theory and Society | 1998 | 2,966 |
| 11 | TIME, WORK-DISCIPLINE, AND INDUSTRIAL CAPITALISM | Past and Present | 1967 | 2,644 |
| 12 | The Mice that Warred | Scientific American | 2001 | 2,503 |
| 13 | The Sociological Imagination | The Mississippi Valley Historical Review | 1959 | 2,472 |
| 14 | The Origin of Horseback Riding | Scientific American | 1991 | 2,459 |
| 15 | Path dependence in historical sociology | Theory and Society | 2000 | 2,381 |
| 16 | Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind | Journal of Economic History | 1986 | 2,379 |
| 17 | Thinking about Mechanisms | Philosophy of Science | 2000 | 2,327 |
| 18 | Trust as a Social Reality | Social Forces | 1985 | 2,299 |
| 19 | Beyond “identity” | Theory and Society | 2000 | 2,245 |
| 20 | Studies in the Logic of Explanation | Philosophy of Science | 1948 | 2,139 |
| 21 | The Retinex Theory of Color Vision | Scientific American | 1977 | 2,135 |
| 22 | Human Resource Bundles and Manufacturing Performance: Organizational Logic and Flexible Production Systems in the World Auto Industry | ILR Review | 1995 | 2,099 |
| 23 | Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties | Comparative Studies in Society and History | 1984 | 2,067 |
| 24 | Governing economic life | Economy and Society | 1990 | 2,064 |
| 25 | A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia | Journal of Interdisciplinary History | 1989 | 2,048 |
| 26 | The Dimensions of Residential Segregation | Social Forces | 1988 | 1,981 |
| 27 | Gender: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis | American Historical Review | 1986 | 1,879 |
| 28 | Willow Smoke and Dogs’ Tails: Hunter-Gatherer Settlement Systems and Archaeological Site Formation | American Antiquity | 1980 | 1,862 |
| 29 | Experiments in Intergroup Discrimination | Scientific American | 1970 | 1,828 |
| 30 | The narrative constitution of identity: A relational and network approach | Theory and Society | 1994 | 1,805 |
| 31 | Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977) | Journal of Historical Sociology | 1988 | 1,770 |
| 32 | Scale-Free Networks | Scientific American | 2003 | 1,739 |
| 33 | The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other | Social Studies of Science | 1984 | 1,720 |
| 34 | Opinions and Social Pressure | Scientific American | 1955 | 1,710 |
| 35 | 'The birth of bio-politics': Michel Foucault's lecture at the Collège de France on neo-liberal governmentality | Economy and Society | 2001 | 1,604 |
| 36 | Sustainable Food Consumption: Exploring the Consumer “Attitude – Behavioral Intention” Gap | Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics | 2006 | 1,600 |
| 37 | The Third Wave of Science Studies | Social Studies of Science | 2002 | 1,590 |
| 38 | Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918-1920 "Spanish" Influenza Pandemic | Bulletin of the History of Medicine | 2002 | 1,558 |
| 39 | THE AMPHIBIAN TREE OF LIFE | Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History | 2006 | 1,555 |
| 40 | Attitudes vs. Actions | Social Forces | 1934 | 1,538 |
| 41 | The Neutral Theory of Molecular Evolution | Scientific American | 1979 | 1,514 |
| 42 | Diasporas in Modern Societies: Myths of Homeland and Return | Diaspora | 1991 | 1,514 |
| 43 | Maximizing shareholder value: a new ideology for corporate governance | Economy and Society | 2000 | 1,490 |
| 44 | The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups. | ILR Review | 1966 | 1,480 |
| 45 | Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man | American Quarterly | 1964 | 1,475 |
| 46 | Testing Structural Equation Models. | Social Forces | 1995 | 1,457 |
| 47 | The Dimensions of Residential Segregation | Social Forces | 1988 | 1,431 |
| 48 | Preparation and characterization of bone and tooth collagen for isotopic analysis | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1990 | 1,417 |
| 49 | Techniques of the body∗ | Economy and Society | 1973 | 1,407 |
| 50 | Resistance and the Problem of Ethnographic Refusal | Comparative Studies in Society and History | 1995 | 1,399 |
| 51 | The social space and the genesis of groups | Theory and Society | 1985 | 1,397 |
| 52 | Men and Women of the Corporation. | ILR Review | 1978 | 1,388 |
| 53 | Table of Equivalent Populations of North American Small Mammals | American Midland Naturalist | 1947 | 1,372 |
| 54 | Sociobiology: The New Synthesis. | Social Forces | 1976 | 1,369 |
| 55 | Institutional conditions for diffusion | Theory and Society | 1993 | 1,337 |
| 56 | How Bacteria Stick | Scientific American | 1978 | 1,313 |
| 57 | Strategies for Manufacturing | Scientific American | 1989 | 1,313 |
| 58 | Bone Collagen Quality Indicators for Palaeodietary and Radiocarbon Measurements | Journal of Archaeological Science | 1999 | 1,299 |
| 59 | Behavior, Purpose and Teleology | Philosophy of Science | 1943 | 1,296 |
| 60 | The Psychology of Preferences | Scientific American | 1982 | 1,286 |
| 61 | Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas | History and Theory | 1969 | 1,275 |
| 62 | The death of the social? Re-figuring the territory of government | Economy and Society | 1996 | 1,275 |
| 63 | Belonging and the politics of belonging | Patterns of Prejudice | 2006 | 1,264 |
| 64 | Trust as a Social Reality | Social Forces | 1985 | 1,253 |
| 65 | Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. | Eighteenth-Century Studies | 1993 | 1,251 |
| 66 | Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization | Political Geography | 2001 | 1,224 |
| 67 | Health as a Theoretical Concept | Philosophy of Science | 1977 | 1,180 |
| 68 | Is Anyone Doing the Housework? Trends in the Gender Division of Household Labor | Social Forces | 2000 | 1,177 |
| 69 | The Measure of American Religion: Toward Improving the State of the Art | Social Forces | 2000 | 1,172 |
| 70 | Human Resource Bundles and Manufacturing Performance: Organizational Logic and Flexible Production Systems in the World Auto Industry | ILR Review | 1995 | 1,166 |
| 71 | The Creative Response in Economic History | Journal of Economic History | 1947 | 1,159 |
| 72 | The Changing Relation between Mortality and level of Economic Development | Population Studies | 1975 | 1,155 |
| 73 | The Cult of True Womanhood: 1820-1860 | American Quarterly | 1966 | 1,152 |
| 74 | The Impact of Research Collaboration on Scientific Productivity | Social Studies of Science | 2005 | 1,136 |
| 75 | Against Deliberation | Political Theory | 1997 | 1,118 |
| 76 | AN OUTLINE OF GENERAL SYSTEM THEORY | British Journal for the Philosophy of Science | 1950 | 1,110 |
| 77 | Beyond the Pleasure Principle | Psychoanalysis and History | 2015 | 1,110 |
| 78 | Reputation and Coalitions in Medieval Trade: Evidence on the Maghribi Traders | Journal of Economic History | 1989 | 1,092 |
| 79 | The Trouble with Wilderness: Or, Getting Back to the Wrong Nature | Environmental History | 1996 | 1,077 |
| 80 | The economy of qualities | Economy and Society | 2002 | 1,063 |
| 81 | Roles in Sociological Field Observations | Social Forces | 1958 | 1,060 |
| 82 | The Origin of Speech | Scientific American | 1960 | 1,056 |
| 83 | The Property Right Paradigm | Journal of Economic History | 1973 | 1,051 |
| 84 | Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses | Boundary 2 | 1984 | 1,045 |
| 85 | A Confutation of Convergent Realism | Philosophy of Science | 1981 | 1,037 |
| 86 | Language and Symbolic Power. | Social Forces | 1992 | 1,032 |
| 87 | The Mammals of North America | Southwestern Naturalist | 1959 | 1,024 |
| 88 | How Common is Workplace Transformation and Who Adopts it? | ILR Review | 1994 | 1,014 |
| 89 | Archaeology as Anthropology | American Antiquity | 1962 | 999 |
| 90 | Human Functioning and Social Justice | Political Theory | 1992 | 996 |
| 91 | Measuring Tie Strength | Social Forces | 1984 | 992 |
| 92 | The political ecology of war: natural resources and armed conflicts | Political Geography | 2001 | 986 |
| 93 | Enacting the social | Economy and Society | 2004 | 985 |
| 94 | The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis | Comparative Studies in Society and History | 1974 | 981 |
| 95 | The Imperialism of Free Trade | Economic History Review | 1953 | 969 |
| 96 | Colonialism and the Two Publics in Africa: A Theoretical Statement | Comparative Studies in Society and History | 1975 | 966 |
| 97 | The Matthew Effect in Science, II: Cumulative Advantage and the Symbolism of Intellectual Property | Isis | 1988 | 962 |
| 98 | Testability and Meaning | Philosophy of Science | 1936 | 955 |
| 99 | The Social Transformation of American Medicine | American Historical Review | 1984 | 949 |
| 100 | Demography and Cultural Evolution: How Adaptive Cultural Processes Can Produce Maladaptive Losses—The Tasmanian Case | American Antiquity | 2004 | 939 |
