| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Self-Compassion | Self and Identity | 2003 | 3,836 |
| 2 | Self-Compassion: An Alternative Conceptualization of a Healthy Attitude Toward Oneself | Self and Identity | 2003 | 2,958 |
| 3 | A Three-Factor Model of Social Identity | Self and Identity | 2004 | 798 |
| 4 | Self-compassion, Achievement Goals, and Coping with Academic Failure | Self and Identity | 2005 | 762 |
| 5 | Self-compassion and Psychological Resilience Among Adolescents and Young Adults | Self and Identity | 2010 | 678 |
| 6 | The Importance of Goal Disengagement in Adaptive Self-Regulation: When Giving Up is Beneficial | Self and Identity | 2003 | 477 |
| 7 | Experimental manipulations of self-affirmation: A systematic review | Self and Identity | 2006 | 424 |
| 8 | Implicit Self-Theories in the Academic Domain: Implications for Goal Orientation, Attributions, Affect, and Self-Esteem Change | Self and Identity | 2002 | 415 |
| 9 | Ego Depletion and Self-Control Failure: An Energy Model of the Self's Executive Function | Self and Identity | 2002 | 413 |
| 10 | The Relationship between Self-compassion and Other-focused Concern among College Undergraduates, Community Adults, and Practicing Meditators | Self and Identity | 2013 | 368 |
| 11 | Authentic and Hubristic Pride: The Affective Core of Self-esteem and Narcissism | Self and Identity | 2009 | 302 |
| 12 | The Role of Self-compassion in Romantic Relationships | Self and Identity | 2013 | 267 |
| 13 | Meta-Analysis of Gender Differences in Self-Compassion | Self and Identity | 2015 | 258 |
| 14 | On the Self-regulatory Dynamics Created by the Peculiar Benefits and Costs of Narcissism: A Contextual Reinforcement Model and Examination of Leadership | Self and Identity | 2009 | 252 |
| 15 | Overlap of Self, Ingroup, and Outgroup: Pictorial Measures of Self-Categorization | Self and Identity | 2002 | 250 |
| 16 | Self-compassion, self-regulation, and health | Self and Identity | 2011 | 239 |
| 17 | Self-compassion, Interpersonal Conflict Resolutions, and Well-being | Self and Identity | 2013 | 239 |
| 18 | Intergroup Attitudes as a Function of Different Dimensions of Group Identification and Perceived Intergroup Conflict | Self and Identity | 2002 | 219 |
| 19 | Self-Enhancement Tendencies Among People With High Explicit Self-Esteem: The Moderating Role of Implicit Self-Esteem | Self and Identity | 2003 | 219 |
| 20 | Self-Compassion, Stress, and Coping in the Context of Chronic Illness | Self and Identity | 2015 | 208 |
| 21 | Perceptions of Humility: A Preliminary Study | Self and Identity | 2004 | 206 |
| 22 | Mattering: Empirical Validation of a Social-Psychological Concept | Self and Identity | 2004 | 197 |
| 23 | After Depletion: The Replenishment of the Self's Regulatory Resources | Self and Identity | 2008 | 197 |
| 24 | On taming horses and strengthening riders: Recent developments in research on interventions to improve self-control in health behaviors | Self and Identity | 2011 | 189 |
| 25 | Humility and the Development and Repair of Social Bonds: Two Longitudinal Studies | Self and Identity | 2013 | 179 |
| 26 | Nostalgia as a Resource for the Self | Self and Identity | 2012 | 166 |
| 27 | Procrastination and Stress: Exploring the Role of Self-compassion | Self and Identity | 2014 | 159 |
| 28 | Who Wants Out When the Going Gets Good? Psychological Investment and Preference for Self-Verifying College Roommates | Self and Identity | 2002 | 146 |
| 29 | Do Racial Minorities Respond in the Same Way to Mainstream Beauty Standards? Social Comparison Processes in Asian, Black, and White Women | Self and Identity | 2003 | 144 |
| 30 | Self-compassion and Well-being among Older Adults | Self and Identity | 2012 | 143 |
| 31 | Self-forgiveness versus excusing: The roles of remorse, effort, and acceptance of responsibility | Self and Identity | 2006 | 141 |
| 32 | Contingencies of Self-Worth: Implications for Self-Regulation and Psychological Vulnerability | Self and Identity | 2002 | 133 |
| 33 | Self-Construal and Cooperation: Is the Interdependent Self More Cooperative Than the Independent Self? | Self and Identity | 2004 | 131 |
| 34 | The forest and the trees: Examining the association of self-compassion and its positive and negative components with psychological functioning | Self and Identity | 2018 | 131 |
| 35 | The Context-Sensitive Future Self: Possible Selves Motivate in Context, Not Otherwise | Self and Identity | 2015 | 126 |
| 36 | The Role of Self-compassion in Women's Self-determined Motives to Exercise and Exercise-related Outcomes | Self and Identity | 2010 | 124 |
| 37 | Intellectual humility and openness to the opposing view | Self and Identity | 2018 | 123 |
| 38 | Empathy and the Self-Absorption Paradox: Support for the Distinction Between Self-Rumination and Self-Reflection | Self and Identity | 2002 | 122 |
| 39 | Generational Increases in Agentic Self-evaluations among American College Students, 1966–2009 | Self and Identity | 2012 | 122 |
| 40 | Self-Regulation in a Cognitive--Affective Personality System: Attentional Control in the Service of the Self | Self and Identity | 2002 | 119 |
| 41 | Event self-importance, event rehearsal, and the fading affect bias in autobiographical memory | Self and Identity | 2006 | 117 |
| 42 | Is There a Downside to Good Self-control? | Self and Identity | 2009 | 116 |
| 43 | Experiences with Misgendering: Identity Misclassification of Transgender Spectrum Individuals | Self and Identity | 2015 | 115 |
| 44 | Redefining Disability, Re-imagining the Self: Disability Identification Predicts Self-esteem and Strategic Responses to Stigma | Self and Identity | 2013 | 113 |
| 45 | Self-concept Clarity Mediates the Relation between Stress and Subjective Well-being | Self and Identity | 2011 | 107 |
| 46 | The Effects of Success versus Failure Feedback on Further Self-Control | Self and Identity | 2002 | 106 |
| 47 | Academic Self-concept and Educational Attainment Level: A Ten-year Longitudinal Study | Self and Identity | 2004 | 104 |
| 48 | Empathy and the Self-Absorption Paradox II: Self-Rumination and Self-Reflection as Mediators Between Shame, Guilt, and Empathy | Self and Identity | 2004 | 103 |
| 49 | Beyond nature and nurture: The influence of lay gender theories on self-stereotyping | Self and Identity | 2008 | 101 |
| 50 | Adolescent Self-esteem: Differences by Race/Ethnicity, Gender, and Age | Self and Identity | 2011 | 101 |
