| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Busy Bodies: Activity, aging, and the management of everyday life | Journal of Aging Studies | 2000 | 503 |
| 2 | The information aged: A qualitative study of older adults' use of information and communications technology | Journal of Aging Studies | 2004 | 357 |
| 3 | The body, gender, and age: Feminist insights in social gerontology | Journal of Aging Studies | 2004 | 342 |
| 4 | New sex for old: lifestyle, consumerism, and the ethics of aging well | Journal of Aging Studies | 2003 | 326 |
| 5 | Natural neighborhood networks — Important social networks in the lives of older adults aging in place | Journal of Aging Studies | 2011 | 291 |
| 6 | Gerotranscendence: The contemplative dimension of aging | Journal of Aging Studies | 1997 | 255 |
| 7 | From personhood to citizenship: Broadening the lens for dementia practice and research | Journal of Aging Studies | 2007 | 224 |
| 8 | Discourse of successful aging in The Globe & Mail: Insights from critical gerontology | Journal of Aging Studies | 2010 | 219 |
| 9 | Permanent personhood or meaningful decline? Toward a critical anthropology of successful aging | Journal of Aging Studies | 2014 | 215 |
| 10 | Self-esteem and the intersection of age, class, and gender | Journal of Aging Studies | 2004 | 210 |
| 11 | Who will care for the elderly in China? | Journal of Aging Studies | 2006 | 209 |
| 12 | Daily life in a nursing home | Journal of Aging Studies | 2002 | 206 |
| 13 | Older adults' perspectives on driving cessation | Journal of Aging Studies | 2006 | 206 |
| 14 | Successful Aging And Creativity In Later Life | Journal of Aging Studies | 1999 | 204 |
| 15 | Older people in America's immigrant families | Journal of Aging Studies | 2002 | 197 |
| 16 | Toward a discourse shift in social gerontology: From successful aging to harmonious aging | Journal of Aging Studies | 2012 | 196 |
| 17 | Persistence and challenges to filial piety and informal support of older persons in a modern Chinese society | Journal of Aging Studies | 2002 | 189 |
| 18 | Elder respect: exploration of ideals and forms in East Asia | Journal of Aging Studies | 2001 | 185 |
| 19 | A network typology: From theory to practice | Journal of Aging Studies | 1991 | 159 |
| 20 | In their voices: Identity preservation and experiences of Alzheimer's disease | Journal of Aging Studies | 2004 | 156 |
| 21 | Narrative analysis in aging studies: A typology for consideration | Journal of Aging Studies | 2010 | 155 |
| 22 | “We're Not Old!”: Older Women's Negotiation of Aging and Oldness | Journal of Aging Studies | 1999 | 151 |
| 23 | Celebrating fifty years of research and applications in reminiscence and life review: State of the art and new directions | Journal of Aging Studies | 2014 | 146 |
| 24 | Ageing abjection and embodiment in the fourth age | Journal of Aging Studies | 2011 | 143 |
| 25 | Being at risk of dementia: Fears and anxieties of older adults | Journal of Aging Studies | 2004 | 140 |
| 26 | The social construction of frailty: An anthropological perspective | Journal of Aging Studies | 1994 | 135 |
| 27 | Retirement and the moral economy: An historical interpretation of the German case | Journal of Aging Studies | 1987 | 133 |
| 28 | Toward critical narrativity | Journal of Aging Studies | 2001 | 132 |
| 29 | Revisiting age identity | Journal of Aging Studies | 2002 | 131 |
| 30 | “I've been independent for so damn long!”: Independence, masculinity and aging in a help seeking context | Journal of Aging Studies | 2007 | 130 |
| 31 | Professional caring: Homecare workers as fictive kin | Journal of Aging Studies | 1998 | 125 |
| 32 | Age embodied | Journal of Aging Studies | 2003 | 124 |
| 33 | Beyond words | Journal of Aging Studies | 2002 | 122 |
| 34 | The quest for residential normalcy by older adults: Relocation but one pathway | Journal of Aging Studies | 2011 | 122 |
| 35 | Self-identifying as a caregiver: Exploring the positioning process | Journal of Aging Studies | 2007 | 120 |
| 36 | The experience of quality of life among older people | Journal of Aging Studies | 2005 | 115 |
| 37 | Narrative and identity in Alzheimer's disease: A case study | Journal of Aging Studies | 2009 | 114 |
| 38 | Pathologizing behavior: Meanings of behaviors in dementia care | Journal of Aging Studies | 2012 | 113 |
| 39 | Being central to decision making means I am still here!: The essence of decision making for people with dementia | Journal of Aging Studies | 2013 | 113 |
| 40 | An exploration of actions of filial piety | Journal of Aging Studies | 1998 | 112 |
| 41 | Managing disability and enjoying life: How we reframe dementia through personal narratives | Journal of Aging Studies | 2009 | 110 |
| 42 | Successful ageing: A historical overview and critical analysis of a successful concept | Journal of Aging Studies | 2014 | 110 |
| 43 | Definitions of friendship in the third age: age, gender, and study location effects | Journal of Aging Studies | 2000 | 109 |
| 44 | Unmaking old age: Political and cognitive formats of active ageing | Journal of Aging Studies | 2014 | 109 |
| 45 | Relational autonomy in assisted living: A focus on diverse care settings for older adults | Journal of Aging Studies | 2012 | 107 |
| 46 | The need for a social revolution in residential care | Journal of Aging Studies | 2015 | 107 |
| 47 | Grandparenting and age identity | Journal of Aging Studies | 2003 | 106 |
| 48 | The lived body in dementia | Journal of Aging Studies | 2003 | 103 |
| 49 | Spousal caregiving and crossing gender boundaries: Maintaining gendered identities | Journal of Aging Studies | 2006 | 103 |
| 50 | Elder care as “frustrating” and “boring”: Understanding the persistence of negative attitudes toward older patients among physicians-in-training | Journal of Aging Studies | 2012 | 103 |
