| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Strength of Weak Ties | American Journal of Sociology | 1973 | 28,988 |
| 2 | Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness | American Journal of Sociology | 1985 | 21,532 |
| 3 | Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital | American Journal of Sociology | 1988 | 19,067 |
| 4 | Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony | American Journal of Sociology | 1977 | 18,322 |
| 5 | The Population Ecology of Organizations | American Journal of Sociology | 1977 | 5,778 |
| 6 | Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory | American Journal of Sociology | 1977 | 5,062 |
| 7 | The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach | American Journal of Sociology | 1981 | 4,394 |
| 8 | Threshold Models of Collective Behavior | American Journal of Sociology | 1978 | 4,262 |
| 9 | What Is Agency? | American Journal of Sociology | 1998 | 3,973 |
| 10 | Structural Holes and Good Ideas | American Journal of Sociology | 2004 | 3,931 |
| 11 | Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure | American Journal of Sociology | 1979 | 3,920 |
| 12 | World Society and the Nation‐State | American Journal of Sociology | 1997 | 3,721 |
| 13 | Power and Centrality: A Family of Measures | American Journal of Sociology | 1987 | 3,696 |
| 14 | A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation | American Journal of Sociology | 1992 | 3,651 |
| 15 | Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory | American Journal of Sociology | 1989 | 3,341 |
| 16 | Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach | American Journal of Sociology | 1989 | 3,304 |
| 17 | Social Behavior as Exchange | American Journal of Sociology | 1958 | 3,154 |
| 18 | Urbanism as a Way of Life | American Journal of Sociology | 1938 | 3,022 |
| 19 | Notes on the Concept of Commitment | American Journal of Sociology | 1960 | 2,607 |
| 20 | Manifesto for a Relational Sociology | American Journal of Sociology | 1997 | 2,532 |
| 21 | Embeddedness and Immigration: Notes on the Social Determinants of Economic Action | American Journal of Sociology | 1993 | 2,531 |
| 22 | Where Do Interorganizational Networks Come From? | American Journal of Sociology | 1999 | 2,215 |
| 23 | Institutional Logics and the Historical Contingency of Power in Organizations: Executive Succession in the Higher Education Publishing Industry, 1958– 1990 | American Journal of Sociology | 1999 | 2,131 |
| 24 | Staged Authenticity: Arrangements of Social Space in Tourist Settings | American Journal of Sociology | 1973 | 2,120 |
| 25 | Some Effects of Proportions on Group Life: Skewed Sex Ratios and Responses to Token Women | American Journal of Sociology | 1977 | 2,106 |
| 26 | The Mark of a Criminal Record | American Journal of Sociology | 2003 | 2,068 |
| 27 | The City as a Growth Machine: Toward a Political Economy of Place | American Journal of Sociology | 1976 | 1,952 |
| 28 | Systematic Social Observation of Public Spaces: A New Look at Disorder in Urban Neighborhoods | American Journal of Sociology | 1999 | 1,859 |
| 29 | A Status-Based Model of Market Competition | American Journal of Sociology | 1993 | 1,839 |
| 30 | Social Contagion and Innovation: Cohesion versus Structural Equivalence | American Journal of Sociology | 1987 | 1,835 |
| 31 | Face and Favor: The Chinese Power Game | American Journal of Sociology | 1987 | 1,759 |
| 32 | The Professionalization of Everyone? | American Journal of Sociology | 1964 | 1,709 |
| 33 | Social Structure from Multiple Networks. I. Blockmodels of Roles and Positions | American Journal of Sociology | 1976 | 1,706 |
| 34 | Network Analysis, Culture, and the Problem of Agency | American Journal of Sociology | 1994 | 1,696 |
| 35 | The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the Illegitimacy Discount | American Journal of Sociology | 1999 | 1,615 |
| 36 | The Rise and Fall of Social Problems: A Public Arenas Model | American Journal of Sociology | 1988 | 1,611 |
| 37 | Getting a Job: Is There a Motherhood Penalty? | American Journal of Sociology | 2007 | 1,584 |
| 38 | Rankings and Reactivity: How Public Measures Recreate Social Worlds | American Journal of Sociology | 2007 | 1,574 |
| 39 | Different Strokes from Different Folks: Community Ties and Social Support | American Journal of Sociology | 1990 | 1,572 |
| 40 | Statistical Methods for Comparing Regression Coefficients Between Models | American Journal of Sociology | 1995 | 1,569 |
| 41 | Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434 | American Journal of Sociology | 1993 | 1,560 |
| 42 | Recruitment to High-Risk Activism: The Case of Freedom Summer | American Journal of Sociology | 1986 | 1,558 |
| 43 | Network Dynamics and Field Evolution: The Growth of Interorganizational Collaboration in the Life Sciences | American Journal of Sociology | 2005 | 1,523 |
| 44 | Age and the Explanation of Crime | American Journal of Sociology | 1983 | 1,482 |
| 45 | Syndication Networks and the Spatial Distribution of Venture Capital Investments | American Journal of Sociology | 2001 | 1,472 |
| 46 | Human Migration and the Marginal Man | American Journal of Sociology | 1928 | 1,444 |
| 47 | The Focused Organization of Social Ties | American Journal of Sociology | 1981 | 1,439 |
| 48 | Do Neighborhoods Influence Child and Adolescent Development? | American Journal of Sociology | 1993 | 1,350 |
| 49 | Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem | American Journal of Sociology | 2005 | 1,341 |
| 50 | Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation | American Journal of Sociology | 2002 | 1,318 |
