| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Strength of Weak Ties | American Journal of Sociology | 1973 | 28,988 |
| 2 | The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields | American Sociological Review | 1983 | 24,754 |
| 3 | Naturalistic inquiry | International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 1985 | 23,540 |
| 4 | Economic Action and Social Structure: The Problem of Embeddedness | American Journal of Sociology | 1985 | 21,532 |
| 5 | A Global Measure of Perceived Stress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1983 | 21,013 |
| 6 | Social Capital in the Creation of Human Capital | American Journal of Sociology | 1988 | 19,067 |
| 7 | Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony | American Journal of Sociology | 1977 | 18,322 |
| 8 | Birds of a Feather: Homophily in Social Networks | Annual Review of Sociology | 2001 | 13,034 |
| 9 | Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification | Social Networks | 1978 | 11,938 |
| 10 | Framing: Toward Clarification of a Fractured Paradigm | Journal of Communication | 1993 | 9,083 |
| 11 | Multimodel Inference | Sociological Methods and Research | 2004 | 8,360 |
| 12 | The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement | American Sociological Review | 1960 | 8,247 |
| 13 | Social Capital: Its Origins and Applications in Modern Sociology | Annual Review of Sociology | 1998 | 7,958 |
| 14 | Asymptotic Confidence Intervals for Indirect Effects in Structural Equation Models | Sociological Methodology | 1982 | 7,757 |
| 15 | A global measure of perceived stress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1983 | 7,571 |
| 16 | Alternative Ways of Assessing Model Fit | Sociological Methods and Research | 1992 | 7,570 |
| 17 | Five Misunderstandings About Case-Study Research | Qualitative Inquiry | 2006 | 7,531 |
| 18 | Doing Gender | Gender and Society | 1987 | 7,336 |
| 19 | Universals in the Content and Structure of Values: Theoretical Advances and Empirical Tests in 20 Countries | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1992 | 6,912 |
| 20 | Revisiting the Behavioral Model and Access to Medical Care: Does it Matter? | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 6,672 |
| 21 | Self-Rated Health and Mortality: A Review of Twenty-Seven Community Studies | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1997 | 6,576 |
| 22 | Grounded theory research: Procedures, canons, and evaluative criteria | Qualitative Sociology | 1990 | 6,446 |
| 23 | Inequity In Social Exchange | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1965 | 6,423 |
| 24 | Framing Processes and Social Movements: An Overview and Assessment | Annual Review of Sociology | 2000 | 6,411 |
| 25 | Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach | American Sociological Review | 1979 | 6,264 |
| 26 | A Caution Regarding Rules of Thumb for Variance Inflation Factors | Quality and Quantity | 2007 | 6,236 |
| 27 | The Discovery of Grounded Theory: Strategies for Qualitative Research. | Social Forces | 1968 | 6,112 |
| 28 | Conceptualizing Stigma | Annual Review of Sociology | 2001 | 5,833 |
| 29 | Hegemonic Masculinity | Gender and Society | 2005 | 5,791 |
| 30 | The Population Ecology of Organizations | American Journal of Sociology | 1977 | 5,778 |
| 31 | Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies | American Sociological Review | 1986 | 5,692 |
| 32 | Organizational Learning | Annual Review of Sociology | 1988 | 5,691 |
| 33 | The Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2) | Journal of Family Issues | 1996 | 5,588 |
| 34 | Measuring Dyadic Adjustment: New Scales for Assessing the Quality of Marriage and Similar Dyads | Journal of Marriage and Family | 1976 | 5,514 |
| 35 | Child abuse: Adolescent records vs. adult recall | Child Abuse and Neglect | 1990 | 5,477 |
| 36 | Saturation in qualitative research: exploring its conceptualization and operationalization | Quality and Quantity | 2018 | 5,196 |
| 37 | Resource Mobilization and Social Movements: A Partial Theory | American Journal of Sociology | 1977 | 5,062 |
| 38 | Structural Inertia and Organizational Change | American Sociological Review | 1984 | 4,920 |
| 39 | The Structure of Coping | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1978 | 4,886 |
| 40 | Measuring Intrafamily Conflict and Violence: The Conflict Tactics (CT) Scales | Journal of Marriage and Family | 1979 | 4,860 |
| 41 | HIERARCHIES, JOBS, BODIES: | Gender and Society | 1990 | 4,730 |
| 42 | Bayesian Model Selection in Social Research | Sociological Methodology | 1995 | 4,730 |
| 43 | Power-Dependence Relations | American Sociological Review | 1962 | 4,591 |
| 44 | The Strength of Weak Ties: A Network Theory Revisited | Sociological Theory | 1983 | 4,450 |
| 45 | The Economics of Organization: The Transaction Cost Approach | American Journal of Sociology | 1981 | 4,394 |
| 46 | Threshold Models of Collective Behavior | American Journal of Sociology | 1978 | 4,262 |
| 47 | Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation | American Sociological Review | 1986 | 4,247 |
| 48 | The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect | American Sociological Review | 1996 | 4,242 |
| 49 | An Analysis of Coping in a Middle-Aged Community Sample | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1980 | 4,209 |
| 50 | Development and validation of a brief screening version of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire | Child Abuse and Neglect | 2003 | 4,091 |
| 51 | The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. | American Sociological Review | 1956 | 3,993 |
| 52 | What Is Agency? | American Journal of Sociology | 1998 | 3,973 |
| 53 | Structural Holes and Good Ideas | American Journal of Sociology | 2004 | 3,931 |
| 54 | Emotion Work, Feeling Rules, and Social Structure | American Journal of Sociology | 1979 | 3,920 |
| 55 | Organizational Structure, Environment and Performance: The Role of Strategic Choice | Sociology | 1972 | 3,918 |
| 56 | Basics of Qualitative Research: Grounded Theory Procedures and Techniques. | Contemporary Sociology | 1992 | 3,895 |
| 57 | Toward a Theory of Social Practices | European Journal of Social Theory | 2002 | 3,857 |
| 58 | Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency | American Sociological Review | 1957 | 3,839 |
| 59 | The Stress Process | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1981 | 3,821 |
| 60 | Social Conditions As Fundamental Causes of Disease | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 3,790 |
| 61 | Practical Issues in Structural Modeling | Sociological Methods and Research | 1987 | 3,763 |
| 62 | World Society and the Nation‐State | American Journal of Sociology | 1997 | 3,721 |
| 63 | The Elaboration Likelihood Model of Persuasion | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1986 | 3,718 |
| 64 | Power and Centrality: A Family of Measures | American Journal of Sociology | 1987 | 3,696 |
| 65 | A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation | American Journal of Sociology | 1992 | 3,651 |
| 66 | Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals | American Sociological Review | 1950 | 3,575 |
| 67 | A faster algorithm for betweenness centrality* | Journal of Mathematical Sociology | 2001 | 3,570 |
| 68 | Implementation Matters: A Review of Research on the Influence of Implementation on Program Outcomes and the Factors Affecting Implementation | American Journal of Community Psychology | 2008 | 3,543 |
| 69 | Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values | American Sociological Review | 2000 | 3,480 |
| 70 | Qualitative Quality: Eight “Big-Tent” Criteria for Excellent Qualitative Research | Qualitative Inquiry | 2010 | 3,424 |
| 71 | Dynamic models of segregation† | Journal of Mathematical Sociology | 1971 | 3,373 |
| 72 | Community Structure and Crime: Testing Social-Disorganization Theory | American Journal of Sociology | 1989 | 3,341 |
| 73 | Media Discourse and Public Opinion on Nuclear Power: A Constructionist Approach | American Journal of Sociology | 1989 | 3,304 |
| 74 | Defining Virtual Reality: Dimensions Determining Telepresence | Journal of Communication | 1992 | 3,289 |
| 75 | The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences | Annual Review of Sociology | 2002 | 3,272 |
| 76 | Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations | Social Problems | 1997 | 3,253 |
| 77 | Snowball Sampling: Problems and Techniques of Chain Referral Sampling | Sociological Methods and Research | 1981 | 3,241 |
| 78 | Computer-Mediated Communication | Communication Research | 1996 | 3,168 |
| 79 | Social Behavior as Exchange | American Journal of Sociology | 1958 | 3,154 |
| 80 | Community Resilience as a Metaphor, Theory, Set of Capacities, and Strategy for Disaster Readiness | American Journal of Community Psychology | 2008 | 3,134 |
| 81 | Assessing “Neighborhood Effects”: Social Processes and New Directions in Research | Annual Review of Sociology | 2002 | 3,125 |
| 82 | Social Learning Theory. | Contemporary Sociology | 1978 | 3,114 |
| 83 | Hierarchical Linear Models: Applications and Data Analysis Methods. | Contemporary Sociology | 1993 | 3,071 |
| 84 | Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists | American Sociological Review | 1983 | 3,066 |
| 85 | Urbanism as a Way of Life | American Journal of Sociology | 1938 | 3,022 |
| 86 | Revisiting the behavioral model and access to medical care: does it matter? | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 2,980 |
| 87 | Social capital and economic development: Toward a theoretical synthesis and policy framework | Theory and Society | 1998 | 2,966 |
| 88 | An Empirical Evaluation of the System Usability Scale | International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction | 2008 | 2,961 |
| 89 | Structural Equations with Latent Variables. | Contemporary Sociology | 1991 | 2,938 |
| 90 | Social Structure and Anomie | American Sociological Review | 1938 | 2,930 |
| 91 | Self-Perception Theory | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1972 | 2,901 |
| 92 | The inventory of parent and peer attachment: Individual differences and their relationship to psychological well-being in adolescence | Journal of Youth and Adolescence | 1987 | 2,888 |
| 93 | The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. | American Sociological Review | 1958 | 2,842 |
| 94 | The Constant Comparative Method of Qualitative Analysis | Social Problems | 1965 | 2,812 |
| 95 | Minority Stress and Mental Health in Gay Men | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1995 | 2,721 |
| 96 | Normative Influences on Altruism | Advances in Experimental Social Psychology | 1977 | 2,690 |
| 97 | New Well-being Measures: Short Scales to Assess Flourishing and Positive and Negative Feelings | Social Indicators Research | 2010 | 2,687 |
| 98 | Intrinsic Motivation and Self-Determination in Human Behavior | Contemporary Sociology | 1988 | 2,657 |
| 99 | Chronic illness as biographical disruption. | Sociology of Health and Illness | 1982 | 2,644 |
| 100 | Notes on the Concept of Commitment | American Journal of Sociology | 1960 | 2,607 |
