| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Posthumanist Performativity: Toward an Understanding of How Matter Comes to Matter | Signs | 2003 | 4,228 |
| 2 | The Complexity of Intersectionality | Signs | 2005 | 3,953 |
| 3 | Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence | Signs | 1980 | 2,277 |
| 4 | Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis | Signs | 2013 | 2,002 |
| 5 | The Laugh of the Medusa | Signs | 1976 | 1,293 |
| 6 | Multiple Jeopardy, Multiple Consciousness: The Context of a Black Feminist Ideology | Signs | 1988 | 1,071 |
| 7 | From Servitude to Service Work: Historical Continuities in the Racial Division of Paid Reproductive Labor | Signs | 1992 | 960 |
| 8 | Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals | Signs | 1987 | 925 |
| 9 | The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles | Signs | 1991 | 890 |
| 10 | A Genealogy of Dependency: Tracing a Keyword of the U.S. Welfare State | Signs | 1994 | 890 |
| 11 | Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism: The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory | Signs | 1988 | 870 |
| 12 | Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: An Agenda for Theory | Signs | 1982 | 797 |
| 13 | “Under Western Eyes” Revisited: Feminist Solidarity through Anticapitalist Struggles | Signs | 2003 | 761 |
| 14 | African-American Women's History and the Metalanguage of Race | Signs | 1992 | 755 |
| 15 | The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought | Signs | 1989 | 678 |
| 16 | The Female World of Love and Ritual: Relations between Women in Nineteenth-Century America | Signs | 1975 | 645 |
| 17 | Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence | Signs | 1983 | 605 |
| 18 | The Logic of Masculinist Protection: Reflections on the Current Security State | Signs | 2003 | 575 |
| 19 | Rape and the Inner Lives of Black Women in the Middle West | Signs | 1989 | 543 |
| 20 | The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example of Housework | Signs | 1981 | 527 |
| 21 | Women's Time | Signs | 1981 | 522 |
| 22 | Militarized Humanitarianism Meets Carceral Feminism: The Politics of Sex, Rights, and Freedom in Contemporary Antitrafficking Campaigns | Signs | 2010 | 507 |
| 23 | Capitalism, Patriarchy, and Job Segregation by Sex | Signs | 1976 | 505 |
| 24 | The Use and Abuse of Anthropology: Reflections on Feminism and Cross-Cultural Understanding | Signs | 1980 | 505 |
| 25 | Gender as Seriality: Thinking about Women as a Social Collective | Signs | 1994 | 501 |
| 26 | Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory | Signs | 1987 | 471 |
| 27 | The Female World of Cards and Holidays: Women, Families, and the Work of Kinship | Signs | 1987 | 465 |
| 28 | Gender Schema Theory and Its Implications for Child Development: Raising Gender-Aschematic Children in a Gender-Schematic Society | Signs | 1983 | 456 |
| 29 | On the Grounds of Globalization: A Topography for Feminist Political Engagement | Signs | 2001 | 437 |
| 30 | The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective | Signs | 1989 | 422 |
| 31 | Beyond Gender Difference to a Theory of Care | Signs | 1987 | 411 |
| 32 | Epistemological Pluralism: Styles and Voices within the Computer Culture | Signs | 1990 | 396 |
| 33 | Feeling Brown, Feeling Down: Latina Affect, the Performativity of Race, and the Depressive Position | Signs | 2006 | 392 |
| 34 | Defining Feminism: A Comparative Historical Approach | Signs | 1988 | 373 |
| 35 | Change among the Gatekeepers: Men, Masculinities, and Gender Equality in the Global Arena | Signs | 2005 | 367 |
| 36 | An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology | Signs | 1987 | 352 |
| 37 | Feminist Disability Studies | Signs | 2005 | 349 |
| 38 | Social Forces Shape Math Attitudes and Performance | Signs | 1986 | 342 |
| 39 | The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants | Signs | 1990 | 334 |
| 40 | Is Local: Global as Feminine: Masculine? Rethinking the Gender of Globalization | Signs | 2001 | 319 |
| 41 | Cinderella's Stepsisters: A Feminist Perspective on Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia | Signs | 1976 | 313 |
| 42 | Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited | Signs | 1997 | 309 |
| 43 | The Bare Bones of Sex: Part 1—Sex and Gender | Signs | 2005 | 304 |
| 44 | Transnational Feminist Crossings: On Neoliberalism and Radical Critique | Signs | 2013 | 295 |
| 45 | Hand, Brain, and Heart: A Feminist Epistemology for the Natural Sciences | Signs | 1983 | 291 |
| 46 | Women and the Iconography of Fear: Islamization in Post‐Islamist Turkey | Signs | 2006 | 290 |
| 47 | Commercial Surrogacy in India: Manufacturing a Perfect Mother‐Worker | Signs | 2010 | 290 |
| 48 | Accumulation, Reproduction, and "Women's Role in Economic Development": Boserup Revisited | Signs | 1981 | 284 |
| 49 | Relating to Privilege: Seduction and Rejection in the Subordination of White Women and Women of Color | Signs | 1989 | 281 |
| 50 | Female Consciousness and Collective Action: The Case of Barcelona, 1910-1918 | Signs | 1982 | 279 |
