| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Social Construction of Facts and Artefacts: or How the Sociology of Science and the Sociology of Technology might Benefit Each Other | Social Studies of Science | 1984 | 1,720 |
| 2 | The sociology of expectations in science and technology | Technology Analysis and Strategic Management | 2006 | 1,177 |
| 3 | ‘Open’ class repair initiators in response to sequential sources of troubles in conversation | Journal of Pragmatics | 1997 | 561 |
| 4 | Contingency and Action: A Comparison of Two Forms of Requesting | Research on Language and Social Interaction | 2008 | 522 |
| 5 | Children as ‘Being and Becomings’: Children, Childhood and Temporality | Children and Society | 2008 | 464 |
| 6 | The social power of algorithms | Information, Communication and Society | 2017 | 431 |
| 7 | Figures of speech: Figurative expressions and the management of topic transition in conversation | Language in Society | 1998 | 370 |
| 8 | QALY maximisation and people's preferences: a methodological review of the literature | Health Economics (United Kingdom) | 2005 | 324 |
| 9 | Notes on ?latency? in overlap onset | Human Studies | 1986 | 309 |
| 10 | The great equalizer? Patterns of social media use and youth political engagement in three advanced democracies | Information, Communication and Society | 2014 | 300 |
| 11 | NETWORKING DEMOCRACY? | Information, Communication and Society | 2011 | 296 |
| 12 | Lay perspectives: advantages for health research | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 1998 | 287 |
| 13 | Conversation analysis: a method for research into interactions between patients and health-care professionals | Health Expectations | 2001 | 272 |
| 14 | The networked young citizen: social media, political participation and civic engagement | Information, Communication and Society | 2014 | 235 |
| 15 | Understanding the micro and macro politics of health: Inequalities, intersectionality & institutions - A research agenda | Social Science and Medicine | 2018 | 212 |
| 16 | Clear obstacles and hidden challenges: understanding recruiter perspectives in six pragmatic randomised controlled trials | Trials | 2014 | 194 |
| 17 | Conceptualising body work in health and social care | Sociology of Health and Illness | 2011 | 188 |
| 18 | The mundane realities of the everyday lay use of the internet for health, and their consequences for media convergence | Sociology of Health and Illness | 2005 | 182 |
| 19 | Towards an Analysis of Scientific Observation: The Externality and Evidential Significance of Observational Reports in Physics | Social Studies of Science | 1985 | 169 |
| 20 | Young people, social media and connective action: from organisational maintenance to everyday political talk | Journal of Youth Studies | 2015 | 169 |
| 21 | Microanalysis Of Online Data: The methodological development of “digital CA” | Discourse, Context and Media | 2015 | 155 |
| 22 | Going too far: Complaining, escalating and disaffiliation | Journal of Pragmatics | 2009 | 152 |
| 23 | Measuring people's preferences regarding ageism in health: some methodological issues and some fresh evidence | Social Science and Medicine | 2003 | 140 |
| 24 | Conceptualising ‘materialities of care’: making visible mundane material culture in health and social care contexts | Sociology of Health and Illness | 2018 | 133 |
| 25 | A review of reporting of participant recruitment and retention in RCTs in six major journals | Trials | 2009 | 131 |
| 26 | Studying trans: recommendations for ethical recruitment and collaboration with transgender participants in academic research | Psychology and Sexuality | 2018 | 131 |
| 27 | Using qualitative research methods to improve recruitment to randomized controlled trials: The Quartet study | Journal of Health Services Research and Policy | 2008 | 129 |
| 28 | Focus Article | The Housingory and Society | 2010 | 128 |
| 29 | On the interactional unpackaging of a ‘gloss’ | Language in Society | 1985 | 123 |
| 30 | Updating cultural capital theory: A discussion based on studies in Denmark and in Britain | Poetics | 2011 | 120 |
| 31 | Regulatory science—Towards a sociological framework | Futures | 1997 | 117 |
| 32 | Rhetorics of Hope and Fear in the Great Embryo Debate | Social Studies of Science | 1993 | 114 |
| 33 | The intellectual challenges and emotional consequences of equipoise contributed to the fragility of recruitment in six randomized controlled trials | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 2014 | 114 |
| 34 | Unravelling the omnivore: A field analysis of contemporary musical taste in the United Kingdom | Poetics | 2011 | 112 |
| 35 | ‘Unilateral’ and ‘bilateral’ practitioner approaches in decision-making about treatment | Social Science and Medicine | 2005 | 109 |
| 36 | Central gender theoretical concepts in health research: the state of the art | Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health | 2014 | 106 |
| 37 | Gender sameness and difference in recovery from heroin dependence: A qualitative exploration | International Journal of Drug Policy | 2014 | 105 |
| 38 | Blood Ties: Banking the Stem Cell Promise | Technology Analysis and Strategic Management | 2006 | 104 |
| 39 | From Bedside to Bench? Communities of Promise, Translational Research and the Making of Blood Stem Cells | Science As Culture | 2008 | 104 |
| 40 | Treatment Recommendations as Actions | Health Communication | 2018 | 98 |
| 41 | The biosocial genome? | EMBO Reports | 2017 | 96 |
| 42 | Smoking in pregnancy: The attitudes of expectant mothers | Social Science & Medicine | 1976 | 90 |
| 43 | The Mediating Role of the Scientific Elite | Social Studies of Science | 1976 | 88 |
| 44 | Architecture and health care: a place for sociology | Sociology of Health and Illness | 2015 | 88 |
| 45 | The ‘window of opportunity’ for death after severe brain injury: family experiences | Sociology of Health and Illness | 2013 | 84 |
| 46 | Thinking about changing mobility practices: how a social practice approach can help | Sociology of Health and Illness | 2014 | 84 |
| 47 | Initiating decision‐making in neurology consultations: ‘recommending’ versus ‘option‐listing’ and the implications for medical authority | Sociology of Health and Illness | 2013 | 81 |
| 48 | Junior doctors’ experiences of managing patients with medically unexplained symptoms: a qualitative study: Table 1 | BMJ Open | 2015 | 79 |
| 49 | Violent Hypocrisy | European Journal of Criminology | 2005 | 76 |
| 50 | Warranting Scientific Belief | Social Studies of Science | 1982 | 73 |
