| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | "Banana Time": Job Satisfaction and Informal Interaction | Human Organization | 1959 | 623 |
| 2 | Relational Analysis: The Study of Social Organizations with Survey Methods | Human Organization | 1958 | 515 |
| 3 | A Mathematical Model for Group Structures | Human Organization | 1948 | 513 |
| 4 | Auto-Ethnography: Paradigms, Problems, and Prospects | Human Organization | 1979 | 417 |
| 5 | Comparing Two Methods for Estimating Network Size | Human Organization | 2001 | 351 |
| 6 | Observations on the Making of Policemen | Human Organization | 1973 | 338 |
| 7 | Body Image and Weight Concerns among African American and White Adolescent Females: Differences that Make a Difference | Human Organization | 1995 | 321 |
| 8 | Environmental Attitude and Environmental Knowledge | Human Organization | 1990 | 317 |
| 9 | Informant Accuracy in Social Network Data | Human Organization | 1976 | 299 |
| 10 | The KJ Method: A Technique for Analyzing Data Derived from Japanese Ethnology | Human Organization | 1997 | 288 |
| 11 | Participant Observation and Interviewing: A Comparison | Human Organization | 1957 | 285 |
| 12 | The Everyday Violence of Hepatitis C among Young Women Who Inject Drugs in San Francisco | Human Organization | 2004 | 272 |
| 13 | Focus Groups and Ethnography | Human Organization | 1995 | 264 |
| 14 | The Mexican-American Extended Family As An Emotional Support System | Human Organization | 1979 | 243 |
| 15 | Basic Concepts and Techniques of Rapid Appraisal | Human Organization | 1995 | 237 |
| 16 | Using Indigenous Knowledge to Improve Agriculture and Natural Resource Management | Human Organization | 1994 | 198 |
| 17 | Market or Community Failure? Critical Perspectives on Common Property Research | Human Organization | 1998 | 197 |
| 18 | The Migrant Syndrome: Seasonal U.S. Wage Labor and Rural Development in Central Mexico | Human Organization | 1981 | 193 |
| 19 | Locating the Political in Political Ecology: An Introduction | Human Organization | 2003 | 191 |
| 20 | Participant Recruitment for Qualitative Research: A Site-Based Approach to Community Research in Complex Societies | Human Organization | 1999 | 183 |
| 21 | Community-Supported Agriculture: A Sustainable Alternative to Industrial Agriculture? | Human Organization | 2000 | 183 |
| 22 | Social, Cultural, and Psychological Impacts of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill | Human Organization | 1993 | 178 |
| 23 | Somali Women and Well-Being: Social Networks and Social Capital among Immigrant Women in Australia | Human Organization | 2004 | 178 |
| 24 | Towards a Native Anthropology | Human Organization | 1970 | 174 |
| 25 | Maps of, by, and for the Peoples of Latin America | Human Organization | 2003 | 174 |
| 26 | VII: Some General Propositions: An Interpretative Summary | Human Organization | 1957 | 171 |
| 27 | Incorporating Fishermen’s Local Knowledge and Behavior into geographical information Systems (giS) for Designing marine Protected areas in Oceania | Human Organization | 2006 | 170 |
| 28 | Social Networks, Social Support, and their Relationship to Depression among Immigrant Mexican Women | Human Organization | 1991 | 167 |
| 29 | Tasting Food, Tasting Sustainability: Defining the Attributes of an Alternative Food System with Competent, Ordinary People | Human Organization | 2000 | 153 |
| 30 | Criteria for an Ethnographic Approach to Research in Schools | Human Organization | 1975 | 149 |
| 31 | Personal Networks of Ex-Mental Patients in a Manhattan SRO Hotel | Human Organization | 1978 | 147 |
| 32 | Steel Axes for Stone-Age Australians | Human Organization | 1952 | 145 |
| 33 | Men in the Middle of the Third Culture: The Roles of American and Non-Western People in Cross-Cultural Administration | Human Organization | 1963 | 145 |
| 34 | Nutrition, Consumption, and Agricultural Change | Human Organization | 1980 | 143 |
| 35 | An Ethnographic Approach to Targeted Sampling: Problems and Solutions in AIDS Prevention Research among Injection Drug and Crack-Cocaine Users | Human Organization | 1994 | 143 |
| 36 | Copping, Running, and Paraphernalia Laws: Contextual Variables and Needle Risk Behavior among Injection Drug Users in Denver | Human Organization | 1994 | 142 |
| 37 | Words, Deeds and Social Structure: A Preliminary Study of the Reliability of Informants | Human Organization | 1987 | 141 |
| 38 | Co-Management: Managing Relationships, Not Resources | Human Organization | 2005 | 141 |
| 39 | Entrapment Processes and Immigrant Communities in a Time of Heightened Border Vigilance | Human Organization | 2007 | 140 |
| 40 | Sustainability and Pastoral Livelihoods: Lessons from East African Maasai and Mongolia | Human Organization | 2003 | 138 |
| 41 | The Subsidy from Nature: Shifting Cultivation, Successional Palm Forests, and Rural Development | Human Organization | 1988 | 136 |
| 42 | Real and Ideal Extended Familism Among Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans: On the Meaning of "Close" Family Ties | Human Organization | 1984 | 135 |
| 43 | Ethnography in the Field of Design | Human Organization | 2000 | 134 |
| 44 | Weak Ties, Strong Ties: Network Principles in Mexican Migration | Human Organization | 1998 | 133 |
| 45 | Review ofCulture's Consequences: International Differences in Work-Related Values | Human Organization | 1982 | 131 |
| 46 | Body Size, Adaptation and Function | Human Organization | 1989 | 124 |
| 47 | The Development of Rapport through the Negotiation of Gender in Field Work among Police | Human Organization | 1984 | 117 |
| 48 | Indigenous Knowledge and Applied Anthropology: Questions of Definition and Direction | Human Organization | 1998 | 117 |
| 49 | Sustainability and Livelihood Diversification among the Maasai of Northern Tanzania | Human Organization | 2003 | 115 |
| 50 | Of What is This a Case?: Analytical Movements in Qualitative Social Science Research | Human Organization | 2014 | 115 |
