| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Identity Theory and Social Identity Theory | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2000 | 2,224 |
| 2 | The Past, Present, and Future of an Identity Theory | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2000 | 2,102 |
| 3 | Social Well-Being | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1998 | 1,673 |
| 4 | Time, Human Agency, and Social Change: Perspectives on the Life Course | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1994 | 1,657 |
| 5 | The Self-Regulation of Attitudes, Intentions, and Behavior | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1992 | 1,478 |
| 6 | A Tale of Two Theories: A Critical Comparison of Identity Theory with Social Identity Theory | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1995 | 1,424 |
| 7 | The Terms of Agreement: Indexing Epistemic Authority and Subordination in Talk-in-Interaction | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2005 | 1,212 |
| 8 | Seeing Disorder: Neighborhood Stigma and the Social Construction of “Broken Windows” | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2004 | 1,117 |
| 9 | Informal Networks and Organizational Crises: An Experimental Simulation | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1988 | 876 |
| 10 | Self-Identity and the Theory of Planned Behavior: Assesing the Role of Identification with "Green Consumerism" | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1992 | 807 |
| 11 | Identity Salience and Psychological Centrality: Equivalent, Overlapping, or Complementary Concepts? | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1994 | 714 |
| 12 | On Merging Identity Theory and Stress Research | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1991 | 647 |
| 13 | Socioeconomic Differentials in Health: A Review and Redirection | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1990 | 620 |
| 14 | Analyzing Single Episodes of Interaction: An Exercise in Conversation Analysis | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1987 | 563 |
| 15 | Accountability: A Social Check on the Fundamental Attribution Error | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1985 | 554 |
| 16 | An Identity Theory Approach to Commitment | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1991 | 511 |
| 17 | Value Priorities and Religiosity in Four Western Religions | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1995 | 510 |
| 18 | The Link Between Identity and Role Performance | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1981 | 509 |
| 19 | The Self: Measurement Requirements from an Interactionist Perspective | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1980 | 488 |
| 20 | Trust and Commitment through Self-Verification | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1999 | 486 |
| 21 | Role Identity and Reasoned Action in the Prediction of Repeated Behavior | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1988 | 477 |
| 22 | Role-Identity Salience | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1985 | 474 |
| 23 | Values as the Core of Personal Identity: Drawing Links between Two Theories of Self | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2003 | 441 |
| 24 | Identity Structures and Psychological Well-Being: Gender and Marital Status Comparisons | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1992 | 435 |
| 25 | Accountability and the Perseverance of First Impressions | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1983 | 393 |
| 26 | Paving an Alternative Route: Gender Differences in Managerial Networks | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1997 | 371 |
| 27 | Emotional Labor, Burnout, and Inauthenticity: Does Gender Matter? | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2001 | 365 |
| 28 | The Group as the Container of Generalized Reciprocity | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2000 | 350 |
| 29 | Surprise As an Interactional Achievement: Reaction Tokens in Conversation | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2006 | 349 |
| 30 | Beyond the Looking-Glass Self: Social Structure and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1983 | 348 |
| 31 | A Critical Examination of the Causal Structure of the Fishbein/Ajzen Attitude-Behavior Model | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1984 | 348 |
| 32 | Managing Emotions in Medical School: Students' Contacts with the Living and the Dead | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1989 | 343 |
| 33 | Generalized Exchange and Social Dilemmas | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1993 | 343 |
| 34 | Prejudice And Minority Proportion: Contact Instead Of Threat Effects | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2006 | 339 |
| 35 | Ethnomethodology's Program | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1996 | 333 |
| 36 | Stratum Identification and Consciousness | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1980 | 332 |
| 37 | The Structure of Reciprocity | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2010 | 308 |
| 38 | Identity Change | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2006 | 296 |
| 39 | Status As a Valued Resource | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2004 | 292 |
| 40 | Age and the Sense of Control | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1995 | 290 |
| 41 | The Provision of a Sanctioning System in the United States and Japan | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1988 | 288 |
| 42 | Multiple Routes for Social Influence: The Role of Compliance, Internalization, and Social Identity | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2002 | 286 |
| 43 | Forgetfulness as an Interactive Resource | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1987 | 283 |
| 44 | How do We Learn to Trust? A Confirmatory Tetrad Analysis of the Sources of Generalized Trust | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2007 | 279 |
| 45 | Dependence and Risk: Transforming the Structure of Social Exchange | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1994 | 278 |
| 46 | National Identification And Anti-Immigrant Prejudice: Individual And Contextual Effects Of National Definitions | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2009 | 278 |
| 47 | Racial Stereotypes: Associations and Ascriptions of Positive and Negative Characteristics | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1983 | 277 |
| 48 | Socialization and Racial Identity Among Black Americans | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1990 | 273 |
| 49 | Double Standards in the Evaluation of Men and Women | Social Psychology Quarterly | 1996 | 269 |
| 50 | Identities and Social Structure: The 2003 Cooley-Mead Award Address | Social Psychology Quarterly | 2004 | 267 |
