| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years | New England Journal of Medicine | 2007 | 4,084 |
| 2 | Evaluating Online Labor Markets for Experimental Research: Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk | Political Analysis | 2012 | 3,101 |
| 3 | The causes of corruption: a cross-national study | Journal of Public Economics | 2000 | 2,686 |
| 4 | Why Did the West Extend the Franchise? Democracy, Inequality, and Growth in Historical Perspective | Quarterly Journal of Economics | 2000 | 1,321 |
| 5 | Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2008 | 1,289 |
| 6 | Political Trust and Trustworthiness | Annual Review of Political Science | 2000 | 1,283 |
| 7 | Expanded Trade and GDP Data | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2002 | 1,112 |
| 8 | What Have We Learned About the Causes of Corruption from Ten Years of Cross-National Empirical Research? | Annual Review of Political Science | 2007 | 1,103 |
| 9 | A Theory of Political Transitions | American Economic Review | 2001 | 1,009 |
| 10 | What Do We Know about Natural Resources and Civil War? | Journal of Peace Research | 2004 | 817 |
| 11 | European Opinion About Immigration: The Role of Identities, Interests and Information | British Journal of Political Science | 2007 | 774 |
| 12 | TIME-SERIES–CROSS-SECTIONDATA: What Have We Learned in the Past Few Years? | Annual Review of Political Science | 2001 | 732 |
| 13 | What Have We Learned about the Resource Curse? | Annual Review of Political Science | 2015 | 607 |
| 14 | Alone in the crowd: The structure and spread of loneliness in a large social network. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2009 | 593 |
| 15 | Delegation and accountability in parliamentary democracies | European Journal of Political Research | 2000 | 587 |
| 16 | Private Global Business Regulation | Annual Review of Political Science | 2008 | 544 |
| 17 | Machine behaviour | Nature | 2019 | 536 |
| 18 | How Much Should We Trust Estimates from Multiplicative Interaction Models? Simple Tools to Improve Empirical Practice | Political Analysis | 2019 | 536 |
| 19 | A Closer Look at Oil, Diamonds, and Civil War | Annual Review of Political Science | 2006 | 522 |
| 20 | Generalized Synthetic Control Method: Causal Inference with Interactive Fixed Effects Models | Political Analysis | 2017 | 487 |
| 21 | Egalitarian motives in humans | Nature | 2007 | 461 |
| 22 | Reconceptualizing Collective Action in the Contemporary Media Environment | Communication Theory | 2005 | 453 |
| 23 | Sources of Corruption: A Cross-Country Study | British Journal of Political Science | 2002 | 445 |
| 24 | Estimating Regression Models in Which the Dependent Variable Is Based on Estimates | Political Analysis | 2005 | 421 |
| 25 | The evolution of overconfidence | Nature | 2011 | 410 |
| 26 | Durably reducing transphobia: A field experiment on door-to-door canvassing | Science | 2016 | 406 |
| 27 | Social network determinants of depression | Molecular Psychiatry | 2011 | 405 |
| 28 | Managing Transboundary Crises: Identifying the Building Blocks of an Effective Response System | Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management | 2010 | 404 |
| 29 | Altruistic punishment and the origin of cooperation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2005 | 392 |
| 30 | The Dangers of Extreme Counterfactuals | Political Analysis | 2006 | 381 |
| 31 | Partisanship, health behavior, and policy attitudes in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic | PLoS ONE | 2021 | 378 |
| 32 | Neural Representation of Subjective Value Under Risk and Ambiguity | Journal of Neurophysiology | 2010 | 372 |
| 33 | Connecting the Congress: A Study of Cosponsorship Networks | Political Analysis | 2006 | 364 |
| 34 | Monoamine oxidase A gene (MAOA) predicts behavioral aggression following provocation | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2009 | 360 |
| 35 | Political decentralization and corruption: Evidence from around the world | Journal of Public Economics | 2009 | 359 |
| 36 | Who Toes the Party Line? Cues, Values, and Individual Differences | Political Behavior | 2005 | 352 |
| 37 | Conditioning the Effects of Aid: Cold War Politics, Donor Credibility, and Democracy in Africa | International Organization | 2004 | 349 |
| 38 | DEMOCRACY AND DICHOTOMIES: A Pragmatic Approach to Choices about Concepts | Annual Review of Political Science | 1999 | 342 |
| 39 | Sex, Lies, and War: How Soft News Brings Foreign Policy to the Inattentive Public | American Political Science Review | 2002 | 342 |
| 40 | Neoliberalism: From New Liberal Philosophy to Anti-Liberal Slogan | Studies in Comparative International Development | 2009 | 341 |
| 41 | The Relationships Between Mass Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy: Toward a Theoretical Synthesis | Annual Review of Political Science | 2008 | 340 |
| 42 | War, Casualties, and Public Opinion | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 1998 | 326 |
| 43 | Distributive Politics Around the World | Annual Review of Political Science | 2013 | 326 |
| 44 | Computer-Assisted Text Analysis for Comparative Politics | Political Analysis | 2015 | 311 |
| 45 | Death and development | Journal of Economic Growth | 2008 | 308 |
| 46 | Does Taxation Lead to Representation? | British Journal of Political Science | 2004 | 297 |
| 47 | Partisan Bias in Factual Beliefs about Politics | Quarterly Journal of Political Science | 2015 | 290 |
| 48 | Toward a Structural Understanding of Coup Risk | Journal of Conflict Resolution | 2003 | 269 |
| 49 | Emotion and the Framing of Risky Choice | Political Behavior | 2008 | 263 |
| 50 | Facebook and political engagement: A study of online political group membership and offline political engagement | Computers in Human Behavior | 2012 | 262 |
