| Network Analysis for International Relations | International Organization | 2009 | 498 |
| Alone in the crowd: the structure and spread of loneliness in a large social network | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 445 |
| Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 304 |
| Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan | Studies in Comparative International Development | 2009 | 251 |
| Political decentralization and corruption: Evidence from around the world | Journal of Public Economics | 2009 | 239 |
| Opiates for the Matches: Matching Methods for Causal Inference | Annual Review of Political Science | 2009 | 190 |
| Model of genetic variation in human social networks | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 161 |
| Open economy politics: A critical review | Review of International Organizations | 2009 | 153 |
| The Gender Gap in Latin America: Contextual and Individual Influences on Gender and Political Participation | British Journal of Political Science | 2009 | 104 |
| DECENTRING POLICY NETWORKS: A THEORETICAL AGENDA | Public Administration | 2009 | 102 |
| Evaluating the Nuclear Peace Hypothesis: A Quantitative Approach | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2009 | 87 |
| Recovering a Basic Space from Elite Surveys: Evidence from Latin America | Legislative Studies Quarterly | 2009 | 77 |
| Export-Oriented Populism: Commodities and Coalitions in Argentina | Studies in Comparative International Development | 2009 | 74 |
| Strategic voting in established and new democracies: Ticket splitting in mixed-member electoral systems | Electoral Studies | 2009 | 69 |
| The role of egalitarian motives in altruistic punishment | Economics Letters | 2009 | 68 |
| Ethnofederalism and the Mismanagement of Conflicting Nationalisms | Regional and Federal Studies | 2009 | 60 |
| Candidate Faces and Election Outcomes: Is the Face–Vote Correlation Caused by Candidate Selection? | Quarterly Journal of Political Science | 2009 | 56 |
| Democracy and noncitizen voting rights | Citizenship Studies | 2009 | 52 |
| The presidential and parliamentary elections in Kenya, December 2007 | Electoral Studies | 2009 | 51 |
| A fully general index of political competition | Electoral Studies | 2009 | 44 |
| Bargaining, Nuclear Proliferation, and Interstate Disputes | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2009 | 43 |
| Knowing when to trust others: an ERP study of decision making after receiving information from unknown people | Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience | 2009 | 42 |
| Comparing NOMINATE and IDEAL: Points of Difference and Monte Carlo Tests | Legislative Studies Quarterly | 2009 | 40 |
| A neo-Weberian approach to religion in international politics | International Theory | 2009 | 35 |
| Who Blinks First? Legislative Patience and Bargaining with Governors | Legislative Studies Quarterly | 2009 | 34 |
