| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Exposure to opposing views on social media can increase political polarization | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 785 |
| 2 | Conservation and the Social Sciences | Conservation Biology | 2003 | 495 |
| 3 | FOREIGN POLICY AND THE ELECTORAL CONNECTION | Annual Review of Political Science | 2006 | 274 |
| 4 | CIVIL-MILITARY RELATIONS | Annual Review of Political Science | 1999 | 248 |
| 5 | Political and economic inequality and the environment | Ecological Economics | 1998 | 235 |
| 6 | Group Membership, Group Identity, and Group Consciousness: Measures of Racial Identity in American Politics? | Annual Review of Political Science | 2009 | 227 |
| 7 | Network Analysis and Political Science | Annual Review of Political Science | 2011 | 207 |
| 8 | Citizen–politician linkages: an introduction | | 2007 | 173 |
| 9 | A Tale of Two Realisms: Expanding the Institutions Debate | International Studies Review | 1997 | 163 |
| 10 | Ethics in Human Subjects Research: Do Incentives Matter? | Journal of Medicine and Philosophy | 2004 | 158 |
| 11 | Assessing the Accuracy of Self-Reported Data: an Evaluation of the Toxics Release Inventory | Journal of Risk and Uncertainty | 2006 | 144 |
| 12 | Social Democracy Constrained: Indirect Taxation in Industrialized Democracies | British Journal of Political Science | 2007 | 139 |
| 13 | The radical right in post-communist Europe. Comparative perspectives on legacies and party competition | Communist and Post-Communist Studies | 2009 | 132 |
| 14 | Bayesian Model Averaging: Theoretical Developments and Practical Applications | Political Analysis | 2010 | 127 |
| 15 | Predicting Conflict in Space and Time | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2010 | 122 |
| 16 | Turnout as a Habit | Political Behavior | 2011 | 122 |
| 17 | Does Politics Influence Hiring? Evidence from a Randomized Experiment | Political Behavior | 2015 | 121 |
| 18 | The University and the Start-Up:Lessons from the Past Two Decades | Journal of Technology Transfer | 2004 | 118 |
| 19 | Do Voters Vote For Government Coalitions? | Party Politics | 2006 | 116 |
| 20 | Constitutional Courts in Comparative Perspective: A Theoretical Assessment | Annual Review of Political Science | 2015 | 116 |
| 21 | Japan's new electoral system: | Electoral Studies | 2000 | 114 |
| 22 | Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Change: A Response to Three Critics | Comparative European Politics | 2003 | 113 |
| 23 | Improving Predictions using Ensemble Bayesian Model Averaging | Political Analysis | 2012 | 108 |
| 24 | Natural resources, aid, and democratization: A best-case scenario | Public Choice | 2007 | 104 |
| 25 | Prison gangs, norms, and organizations | Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | 2012 | 102 |
| 26 | Is There a Clash of Civilizations? Evidence from Patterns of International Conflict Involvement, 1946-97 | Journal of Peace Research | 2002 | 101 |
| 27 | Political Decentralization and Electoral Accountability: The Argentine Experience, 1983–2001 | British Journal of Political Science | 2006 | 100 |
| 28 | Agent-Based Models | Annual Review of Political Science | 2014 | 98 |
| 29 | Fighting for Survival | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2000 | 96 |
| 30 | Reconsidering Judicial Preferences | Annual Review of Political Science | 2013 | 95 |
| 31 | Does Warfare Matter? Severity, Duration, and Outcomes of Civil Wars | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2014 | 93 |
| 32 | Performance in a Hostile World: Economic Growth in Capitalist Democracies, 1974–1982 | World Politics | 1986 | 92 |
| 33 | Gravity's Rainbow: A dynamic latent space model for the world trade network | Network Science | 2013 | 89 |
| 34 | Attracting Trouble | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2001 | 86 |
| 35 | The Politics of Institutional Change | Party Politics | 2008 | 86 |
| 36 | Rulers of the game: central bank independence during the interwar years | International Organization | 1996 | 84 |
| 37 | Worlds Apart: Conflict Exposure and Preferences for Peace | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2019 | 84 |
| 38 | Fear in the Voting Booth: The 2004 Presidential Election | Political Behavior | 2007 | 82 |
| 39 | Perceptions of Competence, Strength, and Age Influence Voters to Select Leaders with Lower-Pitched Voices | PLoS ONE | 2015 | 82 |
| 40 | Bridging Micro and Macro Approaches on Civil Wars and Political Violence | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2014 | 81 |
| 41 | The Political Economy of Development in China and Vietnam | Annual Review of Political Science | 2014 | 81 |
| 42 | Forecasting is difficult, especially about the future | Journal of Peace Research | 2013 | 77 |
| 43 | Taking China’s anticorruption campaign seriously | Economic and Political Studies | 2016 | 76 |
| 44 | The Value of Vagueness: Delegation, Defiance, and Judicial Opinions | SSRN Electronic Journal | 0 | 76 |
| 45 | Explaining sexual exploitation and abuse in peacekeeping missions | Journal of Peace Research | 2016 | 74 |
| 46 | Reconciliation in Conflict-Affected Societies: Multilevel Modeling of Individual and Contextual Factors in the North Caucasus of Russia | Annals of the American Association of Geographers | 2009 | 71 |
| 47 | Between Centralization and Fragmentation: The Club Model of Multilateral Cooperation and Problems of Democratic Legitimacy | SSRN Electronic Journal | 2001 | 67 |
| 48 | Models of Other-Regarding Preferences, Inequality, and Redistribution | Annual Review of Political Science | 2018 | 67 |
| 49 | Reading, Writing, and the Regrettable Status of Education Research in Comparative Politics | Annual Review of Political Science | 2014 | 63 |
| 50 | Democracy, Interdependence, and the Sources of the Liberal Peace | Journal of Peace Research | 2008 | 62 |
