| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields | American Sociological Review | 1983 | 24,754 |
| 2 | The Norm of Reciprocity: A Preliminary Statement | American Sociological Review | 1960 | 8,247 |
| 3 | Social Change and Crime Rate Trends: A Routine Activity Approach | American Sociological Review | 1979 | 6,264 |
| 4 | Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies | American Sociological Review | 1986 | 5,692 |
| 5 | Structural Inertia and Organizational Change | American Sociological Review | 1984 | 4,920 |
| 6 | Power-Dependence Relations | American Sociological Review | 1962 | 4,591 |
| 7 | Frame Alignment Processes, Micromobilization, and Movement Participation | American Sociological Review | 1986 | 4,247 |
| 8 | The Sources and Consequences of Embeddedness for the Economic Performance of Organizations: The Network Effect | American Sociological Review | 1996 | 4,242 |
| 9 | The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. | American Sociological Review | 1956 | 3,993 |
| 10 | Techniques of Neutralization: A Theory of Delinquency | American Sociological Review | 1957 | 3,839 |
| 11 | Ecological Correlations and the Behavior of Individuals | American Sociological Review | 1950 | 3,575 |
| 12 | Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values | American Sociological Review | 2000 | 3,480 |
| 13 | Boundary-Work and the Demarcation of Science from Non-Science: Strains and Interests in Professional Ideologies of Scientists | American Sociological Review | 1983 | 3,066 |
| 14 | Social Structure and Anomie | American Sociological Review | 1938 | 2,930 |
| 15 | The Psychology of Interpersonal Relations. | American Sociological Review | 1958 | 2,842 |
| 16 | Accounts | American Sociological Review | 1968 | 2,277 |
| 17 | Non-Contractual Relations in Business: A Preliminary Study | American Sociological Review | 1963 | 2,193 |
| 18 | The Logic of Collective Action. | American Sociological Review | 1966 | 2,144 |
| 19 | The Interaction Order: American Sociological Association, 1982 Presidential Address | American Sociological Review | 1983 | 1,963 |
| 20 | The Social Construction of Reality: A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. | American Sociological Review | 1967 | 1,917 |
| 21 | Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motive | American Sociological Review | 1940 | 1,895 |
| 22 | The Role of Institutionalization in Cultural Persistence | American Sociological Review | 1977 | 1,891 |
| 23 | A Framework for the Comparative Analysis of Organizations | American Sociological Review | 1967 | 1,781 |
| 24 | The Theory of Social and Economic Organization. | American Sociological Review | 1948 | 1,722 |
| 25 | A Methodological Analysis of Segregation Indexes | American Sociological Review | 1955 | 1,711 |
| 26 | The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action | American Sociological Review | 1936 | 1,657 |
| 27 | A Theory of Role Strain | American Sociological Review | 1960 | 1,646 |
| 28 | Rethinking Racism: Toward a Structural Interpretation | American Sociological Review | 1997 | 1,618 |
| 29 | Prejudice as a Response to Perceived Group Threat: Population Composition and Anti-Immigrant and Racial Prejudice in Europe | American Sociological Review | 1995 | 1,602 |
| 30 | Beyond Social Capital: Spatial Dynamics of Collective Efficacy for Children | American Sociological Review | 1999 | 1,542 |
| 31 | Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to Omnivore | American Sociological Review | 1996 | 1,534 |
| 32 | What is Wrong with Social Theory? | American Sociological Review | 1954 | 1,481 |
| 33 | Resources and Relationships: Social Networks and Mobility in the Workplace | American Sociological Review | 1997 | 1,475 |
| 34 | The Cohort as a Concept in the Study of Social Change | American Sociological Review | 1965 | 1,463 |
| 35 | Gender and the Social Rights of Citizenship: The Comparative Analysis of Gender Relations and Welfare States | American Sociological Review | 1993 | 1,460 |
| 36 | The Paradox of Redistribution and Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in the Western Countries | American Sociological Review | 1998 | 1,432 |
| 37 | Social Isolation in America: Changes in Core Discussion Networks over Two Decades | American Sociological Review | 2006 | 1,429 |
| 38 | Core Discussion Networks of Americans | American Sociological Review | 1987 | 1,420 |
| 39 | A Modified Labeling Theory Approach to Mental Disorders: An Empirical Assessment | American Sociological Review | 1989 | 1,419 |
| 40 | Studies in Ethnomethodology. | American Sociological Review | 1968 | 1,416 |
| 41 | Best Practices or Best Guesses? Assessing the Efficacy of Corporate Affirmative Action and Diversity Policies | American Sociological Review | 2006 | 1,407 |
| 42 | The Links Between Education and Health | American Sociological Review | 1995 | 1,397 |
| 43 | On The Meaning of Alienation | American Sociological Review | 1959 | 1,379 |
| 44 | Embeddedness in the Making of Financial Capital: How Social Relations and Networks Benefit Firms Seeking Financing | American Sociological Review | 1999 | 1,367 |
| 45 | Determinants of Coordination Modes within Organizations | American Sociological Review | 1976 | 1,362 |
| 46 | Community Attachment in Mass Society | American Sociological Review | 1974 | 1,313 |
| 47 | The Wage Penalty for Motherhood | American Sociological Review | 2001 | 1,286 |
| 48 | Status Characteristics and Social Interaction | American Sociological Review | 1972 | 1,250 |
| 49 | The Liability of Newness: Age Dependence in Organizational Death Rates | American Sociological Review | 1983 | 1,235 |
| 50 | Power, Equity and Commitment in Exchange Networks | American Sociological Review | 1978 | 1,234 |
