| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations | Social Problems | 1997 | 3,253 |
| 2 | The Constant Comparative Method of Qualitative Analysis | Social Problems | 1965 | 2,812 |
| 3 | Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought | Social Problems | 1986 | 1,601 |
| 4 | Respondent-Driven Sampling II: Deriving Valid Population Estimates from Chain-Referral Samples of Hidden Populations | Social Problems | 2002 | 1,433 |
| 5 | Targeted Sampling: Options for the Study of Hidden Populations | Social Problems | 1989 | 1,187 |
| 6 | Whose Side Are We On? | Social Problems | 1967 | 1,177 |
| 7 | Respondent-Driven Sampling: A New Approach to the Study of Hidden Populations | Social Problems | 1997 | 910 |
| 8 | The Glass Escalator: Hidden Advantages for Men in the "Female" Professions | Social Problems | 1992 | 860 |
| 9 | Constructing Ethnicity: Creating and Recreating Ethnic Identity and Culture | Social Problems | 1994 | 846 |
| 10 | Social Problems as Collective Behavior | Social Problems | 1971 | 767 |
| 11 | A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior | Social Problems | 1966 | 732 |
| 12 | Thieves, Convicts and the Inmate Culture | Social Problems | 1962 | 710 |
| 13 | The Work-Family Role System | Social Problems | 1977 | 706 |
| 14 | Defeating Kyoto: The Conservative Movement's Impact on U.S. Climate Change Policy | Social Problems | 2003 | 674 |
| 15 | Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office | Social Problems | 1965 | 663 |
| 16 | The Myth of Sexual Symmetry in Marital Violence | Social Problems | 1992 | 658 |
| 17 | The Constant Comparative Method of Qualitative Analysis | Social Problems | 1965 | 598 |
| 18 | On the Sequential Organization of Troubles-Talk in Ordinary Conversation | Social Problems | 1988 | 587 |
| 19 | Social Movement Spillover | Social Problems | 1994 | 569 |
| 20 | Recruiting Strangers and Friends: Moral Shocks and Social Networks in Animal Rights and Anti-Nuclear Protests | Social Problems | 1995 | 565 |
| 21 | Criminal Homicide as a Situated Transaction | Social Problems | 1977 | 560 |
| 22 | Mixing Humans and Nonhumans Together: The Sociology of a Door-Closer | Social Problems | 1988 | 558 |
| 23 | Must Identity Movements Self-Destruct? A Queer Dilemma | Social Problems | 1995 | 546 |
| 24 | An Integration of Theories to Explain Judicial Discretion | Social Problems | 1991 | 540 |
| 25 | Targeted Sampling: Options for the Study of Hidden Populations | Social Problems | 1989 | 498 |
| 26 | Challenging Global Warming as a Social Problem: An Analysis of the Conservative Movement's Counter-Claims | Social Problems | 2000 | 492 |
| 27 | Industrial Workers' Worlds: A Study of the "Central Life Interests" of Industrial Workers | Social Problems | 1956 | 477 |
| 28 | Wages of Virtue: The Relative Pay of Care Work | Social Problems | 2002 | 476 |
| 29 | The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology | Social Problems | 1985 | 469 |
| 30 | Studies of the Routine Grounds of Everyday Activities | Social Problems | 1964 | 461 |
| 31 | Transnational Childhoods: The Participation of Children in Processes of Family Migration | Social Problems | 2001 | 458 |
| 32 | ''Black'' Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and Schooling Conflicts for Low-Income African American Youth | Social Problems | 2003 | 438 |
| 33 | Race and Perceptions of Police Misconduct | Social Problems | 2004 | 425 |
| 34 | Rates of Crime and Unemployment: An Analysis of Aggregate Research Evidence | Social Problems | 1987 | 418 |
| 35 | Whose Side Are We On? | Social Problems | 1967 | 413 |
| 36 | Creating Networks for Survival and Mobility: Social Capital Among African-American and Latin-American Low-Income Mothers | Social Problems | 2003 | 406 |
| 37 | Sex Differences in the Games Children Play | Social Problems | 1976 | 405 |
| 38 | Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis | Social Problems | 1990 | 399 |
| 39 | Hellfire and Delinquency | Social Problems | 1969 | 395 |
| 40 | Normal Crimes: Sociological Features of the Penal Code in a Public Defender Office | Social Problems | 1965 | 391 |
| 41 | Sexual Assault on Campus: A Multilevel, Integrative Approach to Party Rape | Social Problems | 2006 | 383 |
| 42 | A Note on the Uses of Official Statistics | Social Problems | 1963 | 369 |
| 43 | The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the Medicalization of Deviant Behavior | Social Problems | 1975 | 368 |
| 44 | Interaction: The Work Women Do | Social Problems | 1978 | 364 |
| 45 | Toward a Marxian Theory of Deviance | Social Problems | 1975 | 362 |
| 46 | Black Radicalization and the Funding of Civil Rights: 1957-1970 | Social Problems | 1984 | 359 |
| 47 | Societal Reaction to Deviant Behavior: Problems of Theory and Method | Social Problems | 1962 | 358 |
| 48 | Post-Gay Collective Identity Construction | Social Problems | 2011 | 358 |
| 49 | Ontological Gerrymandering: The Anatomy of Social Problems Explanations | Social Problems | 1985 | 357 |
| 50 | Convicted Rapists' Vocabulary of Motive: Excuses and Justifications | Social Problems | 1984 | 355 |
