| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Mechanisms Linking Social Ties and Support to Physical and Mental Health | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2011 | 2,534 |
| 2 | A Space for Place in Sociology | Annual Review of Sociology | 2000 | 1,580 |
| 3 | Stress and Health: Major Findings and Policy Implications | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2010 | 1,384 |
| 4 | The Sociology of Emotions | Annual Review of Sociology | 1989 | 636 |
| 5 | Considering context, place and culture: the National Latino and Asian American Study | International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research | 2004 | 630 |
| 6 | Distress about sex: a national survey of women in heterosexual relationships | Archives of Sexual Behavior | 2003 | 628 |
| 7 | Coping with Perceived Discrimination: Does Ethnic Identity Protect Mental Health? | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2003 | 545 |
| 8 | Using Heteroscedasticity Consistent Standard Errors in the Linear Regression Model | American Statistician | 2000 | 511 |
| 9 | The Stigma Complex | Annual Review of Sociology | 2015 | 500 |
| 10 | The public's view of the competence, dangerousness, and need for legal coercion of persons with mental health problems. | American Journal of Public Health | 1999 | 480 |
| 11 | Challenges and opportunities in examining and addressing intersectional stigma and health | BMC Medicine | 2019 | 413 |
| 12 | How people get into mental health services: Stories of choice, coercion and “muddling through” from “first-timers” | Social Science and Medicine | 1998 | 397 |
| 13 | Rethinking theoretical approaches to stigma: A Framework Integrating Normative Influences on Stigma (FINIS) | Social Science and Medicine | 2008 | 385 |
| 14 | Validity/Reliability of PHQ-9 and PHQ-2 Depression Scales Among Adults Living with HIV/AIDS in Western Kenya | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2009 | 373 |
| 15 | Scientific Careers: Universalism and Particularism | Annual Review of Sociology | 1995 | 363 |
| 16 | The Impact of Sheltering in Place During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Older Adults’ Social and Mental Well-Being | Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences | 2021 | 337 |
| 17 | Building a Model to Understand Youth Service Access: The Gateway Provider Model | Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research | 2004 | 332 |
| 18 | Social network activation: The role of health discussion partners in recovery from mental illness | Social Science and Medicine | 2015 | 295 |
| 19 | The transformation of US gender role attitudes: cohort replacement, social-structural change, and ideological learning | Social Science Research | 2004 | 283 |
| 20 | Social Networks and Patterns of Use Among the Poor with Mental Health Problems in Puerto Rico | Medical Care | 1998 | 283 |
| 21 | Parental Role Strains, Salience of Parental Identity and Gender Differences in Psychological Distress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1992 | 274 |
| 22 | Does Perceived Discrimination Affect Health? Longitudinal Relationships between Work Discrimination and Women's Physical and Emotional Health | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2003 | 269 |
| 23 | The Sociology of Suicide | Annual Review of Sociology | 2011 | 262 |
| 24 | The Social Costs of Gender Nonconformity for Transgender Adults: Implications for Discrimination and Health | Sociological Forum | 2015 | 250 |
| 25 | Sieve, Incubator, Temple, Hub: Empirical and Theoretical Advances in the Sociology of Higher Education | Annual Review of Sociology | 2008 | 249 |
| 26 | Of Pride and Prejudice: The Role of Sociology and Social Networks in Integrating the Health Sciences | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2006 | 244 |
| 27 | In the wake of COVID-19, academia needs new solutions to ensure gender equity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 242 |
| 28 | The Construction of Fear: Americans' Preferences for Social Distance from Children and Adolescents with Mental Health Problems | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2007 | 241 |
| 29 | Beyond "compliance" is "adherence". Improving the prospect of diabetes care | Diabetes Care | 1999 | 232 |
| 30 | Twelve-month mental disorders in South Africa: prevalence, service use and demographic correlates in the population-based South African Stress and Health Study | Psychological Medicine | 2008 | 230 |
| 31 | The relation between mood and sexuality in heterosexual men | Archives of Sexual Behavior | 2003 | 228 |
| 32 | The “Backbone” of Stigma: Identifying the Global Core of Public Prejudice Associated With Mental Illness | American Journal of Public Health | 2013 | 226 |
| 33 | From Mead to a Structural Symbolic Interactionism and Beyond | Annual Review of Sociology | 2008 | 225 |
| 34 | Women's Caregiving and Paid Work: Causal Relationships in Late Midlife | Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences | 1997 | 222 |
| 35 | Pandemic precarity: COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating inequalities in the American heartland | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2021 | 222 |
| 36 | The Social Psychology of Health Disparities | Annual Review of Sociology | 2005 | 221 |
| 37 | Modeling event structures* | Journal of Mathematical Sociology | 1989 | 213 |
| 38 | Women against the state: Political opportunities and collective action frames in chile's transition to democracy | Sociological Forum | 1995 | 212 |
| 39 | More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior | PLoS ONE | 2013 | 201 |
| 40 | Sexual risk-taking in gay men: the relevance of sexual arousability, mood, and sensation seeking | Archives of Sexual Behavior | 2003 | 198 |
| 41 | Geographical mobility over the life course: motivations and implications | Population, Space and Place | 2008 | 196 |
| 42 | Coping with perceived discrimination: does ethnic identity protect mental health? | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2003 | 195 |
| 43 | Pornography, Normalization, and Empowerment | Archives of Sexual Behavior | 2010 | 190 |
| 44 | Stigmatizing Attitudes and Beliefs About Treatment and Psychiatric Medications for Children With Mental Illness | Psychiatric Services | 2007 | 180 |
| 45 | Portraying mental illness and drug addiction as treatable health conditions: Effects of a randomized experiment on stigma and discrimination | Social Science and Medicine | 2015 | 175 |
| 46 | Altruistic and contractual remittances between male and female migrants and households in rural Thailand | Demography | 2004 | 174 |
| 47 | Does Income Inequality Harm Health? New Cross-National Evidence | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2004 | 168 |
| 48 | Functional specificity in discussion networks: The influence of general and problem-specific networks on health outcomes | Social Networks | 2010 | 167 |
| 49 | Affect control theory: Concepts and model | Journal of Mathematical Sociology | 1987 | 165 |
| 50 | Whom Does Service Learning Really Serve? Community-Based Organizations' Perspectives on Service Learning | Teaching Sociology | 2009 | 162 |
