| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | International Norm Dynamics and Political Change | International Organization | 1998 | 5,497 |
| 2 | Introduction: epistemic communities and international policy coordination | International Organization | 1992 | 5,489 |
| 3 | Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games | International Organization | 1988 | 5,260 |
| 4 | Anarchy is what states make of it: the social construction of power politics | International Organization | 1992 | 3,695 |
| 5 | International regimes, transactions, and change: embedded liberalism in the postwar economic order | International Organization | 1982 | 3,002 |
| 6 | Rationalist explanations for war | International Organization | 1995 | 2,729 |
| 7 | Territoriality and beyond: problematizing modernity in international relations | International Organization | 1993 | 2,106 |
| 8 | Taking Preferences Seriously: A Liberal Theory of International Politics | International Organization | 1997 | 1,965 |
| 9 | “Let's Argue!”: Communicative Action in World Politics | International Organization | 2000 | 1,926 |
| 10 | The Institutional Dynamics of International Political Orders | International Organization | 1998 | 1,798 |
| 11 | Hard and Soft Law in International Governance | International Organization | 2000 | 1,732 |
| 12 | The Politics, Power, and Pathologies of International Organizations | International Organization | 1999 | 1,603 |
| 13 | The Rational Design of International Institutions | International Organization | 2001 | 1,504 |
| 14 | The agent-structure problem in international relations theory | International Organization | 1987 | 1,346 |
| 15 | How Ideas Spread: Whose Norms Matter? Norm Localization and Institutional Change in Asian Regionalism | International Organization | 2004 | 1,340 |
| 16 | Is the good news about compliance good news about cooperation? | International Organization | 1996 | 1,214 |
| 17 | Structural causes and regime consequences: regimes as intervening variables | International Organization | 1982 | 1,206 |
| 18 | The second image reversed: the international sources of domestic politics | International Organization | 1978 | 1,202 |
| 19 | Delegation, agency, and agenda setting in the European Community | International Organization | 1997 | 1,130 |
| 20 | Europe Before the Court: A Political Theory of Legal Integration | International Organization | 1993 | 1,090 |
| 21 | The Concept of Legalization | International Organization | 2000 | 1,066 |
| 22 | Anarchy and the limits of cooperation: a realist critique of the newest liberal institutionalism | International Organization | 1988 | 1,057 |
| 23 | The Community Trap: Liberal Norms, Rhetorical Action, and the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union | International Organization | 2001 | 1,028 |
| 24 | Invested interests: the politics of national economic policies in a world of global finance | International Organization | 1991 | 1,019 |
| 25 | International organization: a state of the art on an art of the state | International Organization | 1986 | 1,012 |
| 26 | Legitimacy and Authority in International Politics | International Organization | 1999 | 1,005 |
| 27 | Why Comply? Social Learning and European Identity Change | International Organization | 2001 | 999 |
| 28 | The Origins of Human Rights Regimes: Democratic Delegation in Postwar Europe | International Organization | 2000 | 998 |
| 29 | On compliance | International Organization | 1993 | 981 |
| 30 | Power in International Politics | International Organization | 2005 | 944 |
| 31 | Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines | International Organization | 1998 | 887 |
| 32 | What Makes the World Hang Together? Neo-utilitarianism and the Social Constructivist Challenge | International Organization | 1998 | 875 |
| 33 | Negotiating the Single European Act: national interests and conventional statecraft in the European Community | International Organization | 1991 | 856 |
| 34 | Norms, culture, and world politics: insights from sociology's institutionalism | International Organization | 1996 | 836 |
| 35 | Reciprocity in international relations | International Organization | 1986 | 812 |
| 36 | Bargaining, Enforcement, and International Cooperation | International Organization | 1998 | 812 |
| 37 | International Institutions and Socialization in Europe: Introduction and Framework | International Organization | 2005 | 798 |
| 38 | Do regimes matter? Epistemic communities and Mediterranean pollution control | International Organization | 1989 | 777 |
| 39 | Global prohibition regimes: the evolution of norms in international society | International Organization | 1990 | 756 |
| 40 | Conclusion: epistemic communities, world order, and the creation of a reflective research program | International Organization | 1992 | 752 |
| 41 | The Critical Barrier to Civil War Settlement | International Organization | 1997 | 731 |
| 42 | Globalization and the changing logic of collective action | International Organization | 1995 | 727 |
| 43 | Sovereignty, International Relations, and the Westphalian Myth | International Organization | 2001 | 713 |
| 44 | Violence and the Social Construction of Ethnic Identity | International Organization | 2000 | 711 |
| 45 | Reversal of Fortunes: Democratic Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment Inflows to Developing Countries | International Organization | 2003 | 711 |
| 46 | The Regime Complex for Plant Genetic Resources | International Organization | 2004 | 710 |
| 47 | International organizations as teachers of norms: the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cutural Organization and science policy | International Organization | 1993 | 709 |
| 48 | Human rights, principled issue-networks, and sovereignty in Latin America | International Organization | 1993 | 709 |
| 49 | Democratic Governance and Multinational Corporations: Political Regimes and Inflows of Foreign Direct Investment | International Organization | 2003 | 706 |
| 50 | Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe | International Organization | 2007 | 677 |
