| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Gene discovery and polygenic prediction from a genome-wide association study of educational attainment in 1.1 million individuals | Nature Genetics | 2018 | 1,835 |
| 2 | Redefine statistical significance | Nature Human Behaviour | 2018 | 1,763 |
| 3 | Association studies of up to 1.2 million individuals yield new insights into the genetic etiology of tobacco and alcohol use | Nature Genetics | 2019 | 1,307 |
| 4 | Nonstandard Employment Relations: Part-time, Temporary and Contract Work | Annual Review of Sociology | 2000 | 1,024 |
| 5 | Latent Variables in Psychology and the Social Sciences | Annual Review of Psychology | 2002 | 826 |
| 6 | The mechanisms mediating the effects of poverty on children’s intellectual development | Demography | 2000 | 553 |
| 7 | Genome-wide association analyses of risk tolerance and risky behaviors in over 1 million individuals identify hundreds of loci and shared genetic influences | Nature Genetics | 2019 | 536 |
| 8 | Local solutions in the estimation of growth mixture models. | Psychological Methods | 2006 | 515 |
| 9 | Access (Not) Denied: The Impact of Financial, Human, and Cultural Capital on Entrepreneurial Entryin the United States | Small Business Economics | 2006 | 489 |
| 10 | Urban Industrial Transition and the Underclass | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science | 1989 | 450 |
| 11 | Continuities and Consequences of Interactional Styles Across the Life Course | Journal of Personality | 1989 | 413 |
| 12 | Intergenerational Bonding in School: The Behavioral and Contextual Correlates of Student-Teacher Relationships | Sociology of Education | 2004 | 399 |
| 13 | Social determinants of health and survival in humans and other animals | Science | 2020 | 369 |
| 14 | Organizing Flexibility: The Flexible Firm in a New Century | British Journal of Industrial Relations | 2001 | 343 |
| 15 | Sample size and bentler and Bonett's nonnormed fit index | Psychometrika | 1986 | 322 |
| 16 | Large-scale GWAS reveals insights into the genetic architecture of same-sex sexual behavior | Science | 2019 | 245 |
| 17 | Cohort Profile: The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2019 | 234 |
| 18 | Genetic analysis of social-class mobility in five longitudinal studies | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2018 | 204 |
| 19 | A large-scale genome-wide association study meta-analysis of cannabis use disorder | Lancet Psychiatry,the | 2020 | 200 |
| 20 | Putting people into place | Demography | 2007 | 193 |
| 21 | The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Twin Data | Twin Research and Human Genetics | 2006 | 170 |
| 22 | Externalizing employment: flexible staffing arrangements in US organizations | Social Science Research | 2003 | 167 |
| 23 | BIC and Alternative Bayesian Information Criteria in the Selection of Structural Equation Models | Structural Equation Modeling | 2014 | 160 |
| 24 | Social Isolation and Adult Mortality | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2013 | 159 |
| 25 | Community and contraceptive choice in rural Thailand: A case study of Nang Rong | Demography | 1996 | 157 |
| 26 | Characterizing biobank organizations in the U.S.: results from a national survey | Genome Medicine | 2013 | 157 |
| 27 | Sex Differences in Age Trajectories of Physiological Dysregulation: Inflammation, Metabolic Syndrome, and Allostatic Load | Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences | 2011 | 156 |
| 28 | Sibling, peer, neighbor, and schoolmate correlations as indicators of the importance of context for adolescent development | Demography | 2001 | 152 |
| 29 | Measuring Psychological Well-Being in the Canadian Study of Health and Aging | International Psychogeriatrics | 2001 | 148 |
| 30 | Can personality traits and intelligence compensate for background disadvantage? Predicting status attainment in adulthood. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2015 | 140 |
| 31 | The emergence of the maker movement: Implications for entrepreneurship research | Journal of Business Venturing | 2019 | 138 |
| 32 | Multivariate analysis of 1.5 million people identifies genetic associations with traits related to self-regulation and addiction | Nature Neuroscience | 2021 | 137 |
| 33 | The VNTR 2 repeat in MAOA and delinquent behavior in adolescence and young adulthood: associations and MAOA promoter activity | European Journal of Human Genetics | 2008 | 136 |
| 34 | The influence of habitus in the relationship between cultural capital and academic achievement | Social Science Research | 2013 | 132 |
| 35 | More than a Metaphor: Assessing the Historical Legacy of Resource Dependence and its Contemporary Promise as a Theory of Environmental Complexity | Academy of Management Annals | 2013 | 129 |
| 36 | The emergence of entrepreneurship as an academic field: A personal essay on institutional entrepreneurship | Research Policy | 2012 | 127 |
| 37 | The Sociology of Intellectuals | Annual Review of Sociology | 2002 | 125 |
| 38 | Democracy’s effect on economic growth: A pooled time-series analysis, 1951–1980 | Studies in Comparative International Development | 2002 | 123 |
| 39 | How do entrepreneurs know what to do? learning and organizing in new ventures | Journal of Evolutionary Economics | 2014 | 122 |
| 40 | Mental Health, Mental Illness, and Psychological Distress: Same Continuum or Distinct Phenomena? | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 2009 | 117 |
| 41 | Out of sight but not out of mind: Why failure to account for left truncation biases research on failure rates | Journal of Business Venturing | 2012 | 109 |
| 42 | Social Capital and Entrepreneurship | Foundations and Trends in Entrepreneurship | 2005 | 108 |
| 43 | Specifying the Impact of Conservative Protestantism on Educational Attainment | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | 2004 | 102 |
| 44 | Challenging Myths About China’s One-Child Policy | China Journal | 2015 | 102 |
| 45 | STRUCTURAL FACTORS AFFECTING THE LOCATION AND TIMING OF URBAN UNDERCLASS GROWTH | Urban Geography | 1990 | 96 |
| 46 | R&D consortia in the United States and Japan | Research Policy | 1995 | 95 |
| 47 | A life course model of self-rated health through adolescence and young adulthood | Social Science and Medicine | 2012 | 95 |
| 48 | The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) Twin Data | Twin Research and Human Genetics | 2006 | 94 |
| 49 | Staying Back and Dropping Out: The Relationship Between Grade Retention and School Dropout | Sociology of Education | 2007 | 92 |
| 50 | Decrease in Incidence of Colorectal Cancer Among Individuals 50 Years or Older After Recommendations for Population-based Screening | Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology | 2017 | 92 |
