| 1 | Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1816–1992: Rationale, Coding Rules, and Empirical Patterns | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 1996 | 821 |
| 2 | The MID3 Data Set, 1993—2001: Procedures, Coding Rules, and Description | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2004 | 538 |
| 3 | Let's Put Garbage-Can Regressions and Garbage-Can Probits Where They Belong | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2005 | 435 |
| 4 | The Correlates of War (Cow) Project Direct Contiguity Data, Version 3.0 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2002 | 415 |
| 5 | The Correlates of War Data On War: an Update To 1997 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2000 | 405 |
| 6 | The Phantom Menace: Omitted Variable Bias in Econometric Research | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2005 | 393 |
| 7 | The Correlates of War 2 International Governmental Organizations Data Version 2.0 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2004 | 388 |
| 8 | Trading Data | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2009 | 383 |
| 9 | Non-state actors in civil wars: A new dataset | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2013 | 318 |
| 10 | Threat and imposition of economic sanctions 1945–2005: Updating the TIES dataset | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2014 | 285 |
| 11 | The MID4 dataset, 2002–2010: Procedures, coding rules and description | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2015 | 265 |
| 12 | Fighting over Oil: Introducing a New Dataset | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2007 | 219 |
| 13 | Politically Relevant Ethnic Groups across Space and Time: Introducing the GeoEPR Dataset | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2011 | 200 |
| 14 | “Draining the Swamp”: An Empirical Examination of the Production of International Terrorism, 1968—1998 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2007 | 176 |
| 15 | Civil war violence and political trust: Microlevel evidence from Nepal | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2016 | 161 |
| 16 | Charting A Course To Conflict: Territorial Issues and Interstate Conflict, 1816-1992 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 1996 | 154 |
| 17 | Conflict Diamonds: A New Dataset | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2005 | 150 |
| 18 | From Words to Deeds: The Implementation of Power-Sharing Pacts in Peace Accords | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2008 | 148 |
| 19 | Transnational Terrorism Hot Spots: Identification and Impact Evaluation | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2007 | 146 |
| 20 | The Threat and Imposition of Economic Sanctions, 1971—2000* | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2009 | 146 |
| 21 | Coup-Proofing and Military Effectiveness in Interstate Wars, 1967–99 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2011 | 145 |
| 22 | The Power of Place and the Future of Spatial Analysis in the Study of Conflict | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2003 | 141 |
| 23 | Complex Dependencies in the Alliance Network | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2012 | 138 |
| 24 | Dude, Where’s My Conflict? | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2010 | 136 |
| 25 | Resource Wealth and the Risk of Civil War Onset: Results from a New Dataset of Natural Resource Rents, 1970—1999 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2007 | 130 |
| 26 | Nonmyopic Equilibria in 2×2 Games | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 1981 | 122 |
| 27 | Explaining Interstate Conflict and War: What Should Be Controlled for? | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2003 | 120 |
| 28 | Generals, Dictators, and Kings | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2010 | 117 |
| 29 | Coercion, Co-optation, or Cooperation? | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2009 | 115 |
| 30 | No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Refugees, Humanitarian Aid, and Terrorism | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2013 | 114 |
| 31 | Real Time, Time Series Forecasting of Inter- and Intra-State Political Conflict | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2011 | 112 |
| 32 | Does poverty cause conflict? Isolating the causal origins of the conflict trap | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2016 | 106 |
| 33 | Territorial Changes, 1816–1996: Procedures and Data | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 1998 | 104 |
| 34 | Opportunities to kill or incentives for restraint? Rebel capabilities, the origins of support, and civilian victimization in civil war | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2014 | 100 |
| 35 | United Nations peacekeeping personnel commitments, 1990–2011 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2013 | 97 |
| 36 | Rule of Three, Let It Be? When More Really Is Better | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2005 | 96 |
| 37 | Geographical Proximity and Issue Salience: Their Effects on the Escalation of Militarized Interstate Conflict | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 1996 | 95 |
| 38 | United Nations peacekeeping dynamics and the duration of post-civil conflict peace | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2016 | 93 |
| 39 | The Duration of Civil War Peace Agreements* | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2009 | 92 |
| 40 | Community counts: The social reintegration of ex-combatants in Colombia | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2018 | 91 |
| 41 | A political economy of human rights: Oil, natural gas, and state incentives to repress1 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2013 | 90 |
| 42 | Rural–urban migration, inequality and urban social disorder: Evidence from African and Asian cities | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2016 | 87 |
| 43 | All Conflict is Local | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2011 | 86 |
| 44 | A Country of their Own: Women and Peacebuilding | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2011 | 86 |
| 45 | Microfoundations in international relations | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2017 | 84 |
| 46 | Post-Cold War sanctioning by the EU, the UN, and the US: Introducing the EUSANCT Dataset | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2022 | 84 |
| 47 | Almost nuclear: Introducing the Nuclear Latency dataset | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2015 | 83 |
| 48 | Militarized Compellent Threats, 1918–2001 | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2011 | 82 |
| 49 | Types of Minority Discrimination and Terrorism | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2012 | 81 |
| 50 | Youth bulge and civil war: Why a country’s share of young adults explains only non-ethnic wars | Conflict Management and Peace Science | 2016 | 76 |