| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Signature pedagogies in the professions | Daedalus | 2005 | 1,223 |
| 2 | Intuitive ethics: how innately prepared intuitions generate culturally variable virtues | Daedalus | 2004 | 1,202 |
| 3 | Bootstrapping & the origin of concepts | Daedalus | 2004 | 453 |
| 4 | A Contextual Approach to Privacy Online | Daedalus | 2011 | 423 |
| 5 | Incarceration & social inequality | Daedalus | 2010 | 376 |
| 6 | Civil religion in America | Daedalus | 2005 | 294 |
| 7 | Deep play: notes on the Balinese cockfight | Daedalus | 2005 | 241 |
| 8 | Class, race & hyperincarceration in revanchist America | Daedalus | 2010 | 238 |
| 9 | Punishment's place: the local concentration of mass incarceration | Daedalus | 2010 | 202 |
| 10 | News & the news media in the digital age: implications for democracy | Daedalus | 2010 | 195 |
| 11 | Where it hurts: Indian material for an ethics of organ transplantation | Daedalus | 1999 | 186 |
| 12 | Twelve Key Findings in Deliberative Democracy Research | Daedalus | 2017 | 176 |
| 13 | Moral experience and ethical reflection: can ethnography reconcile them? A quandary for "the new bioethics | Daedalus | 1999 | 174 |
| 14 | Humans, aliens & autism | Daedalus | 2009 | 164 |
| 15 | Global implications of the U.S.-India deal | Daedalus | 2010 | 152 |
| 16 | A biosocial perspective on parenting | Daedalus | 1977 | 148 |
| 17 | Human universals, human nature & human culture | Daedalus | 2004 | 142 |
| 18 | The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future | Daedalus | 2013 | 133 |
| 19 | What is an epidemic? AIDS in historical perspective | Daedalus | 1989 | 130 |
| 20 | Global Population Aging: Facts, Challenges, Solutions & Perspectives | Daedalus | 2015 | 124 |
| 21 | The responsibility of the individual | Daedalus | 1977 | 123 |
| 22 | on the animal turn | Daedalus | 2007 | 114 |
| 23 | Foundations and ruling class elites | Daedalus | 1987 | 112 |
| 24 | Somewhere between Jim Crow & Post-Racialism: Reflections on the Racial Divide in America Today | Daedalus | 2011 | 109 |
| 25 | Why justice is good for our health: the social determinants of health inequalities | Daedalus | 1999 | 109 |
| 26 | The epidemiological transition: from material scarcity to social disadvantage? | Daedalus | 1994 | 107 |
| 27 | Toward a globally sensitive patriotism | Daedalus | 2008 | 102 |
| 28 | Food, Agriculture & the Environment: Can We Feed the World & Save the Earth? | Daedalus | 2015 | 101 |
| 29 | Meanings, policies, and medicine: on the bioethical enterprise and history | Daedalus | 1999 | 100 |
| 30 | Why race still matters | Daedalus | 2005 | 96 |
| 31 | The economics of happiness | Daedalus | 2004 | 94 |
| 32 | ‘Happiness’ in cross-linguistic & cross-cultural perspective | Daedalus | 2004 | 86 |
| 33 | Doctrine for Cybersecurity | Daedalus | 2011 | 85 |
| 34 | Can happiness be taught? | Daedalus | 2004 | 82 |
| 35 | What is a world? On world literature as world-making activity | Daedalus | 2008 | 82 |
| 36 | Genetics, biosocial groups & the future of identity | Daedalus | 2006 | 81 |
| 37 | The American Family in Black & White: A Post-Racial Strategy for Improving Skills to Promote Equality | Daedalus | 2011 | 80 |
| 38 | The paradox of women's imprisonment | Daedalus | 2010 | 75 |
| 39 | Inequality Generation & Persistence as Multidimensional Processes: An Interdisciplinary Agenda | Daedalus | 2019 | 75 |
| 40 | Securitization, shadow banking & financial fragility | Daedalus | 2010 | 74 |
| 41 | Cosmopolitanism in the modern social imaginary | Daedalus | 2008 | 72 |
| 42 | Reducing Carbon-Based Energy Consumption through Changes in Household Behavior | Daedalus | 2013 | 72 |
| 43 | Immigration & Language Diversity in the United States | Daedalus | 2013 | 72 |
| 44 | Sleep, Memory & Brain Rhythms | Daedalus | 2015 | 72 |
| 45 | The psychology of subjective well-being | Daedalus | 2004 | 69 |
| 46 | The Racialization of “Illegality” | Daedalus | 2021 | 69 |
| 47 | Cultural China: the periphery as the center | Daedalus | 2005 | 68 |
| 48 | The professions in America today: crucial but fragile | Daedalus | 2005 | 68 |
| 49 | George W. Bush & the missionary position | Daedalus | 2004 | 63 |
| 50 | Progress on Nonpoint Pollution: Barriers & Opportunities | Daedalus | 2015 | 63 |
