| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Forecasting life expectancy, years of life lost, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality for 250 causes of death: reference and alternative scenarios for 2016–40 for 195 countries and territories | Lancet, The | 2018 | 1,317 |
| 2 | Values and their Effect on Pro-Environmental Behavior | Environment and Behavior | 1996 | 555 |
| 3 | Social Psychology of Identities | Annual Review of Sociology | 2000 | 461 |
| 4 | Distributive Justice, Equity, and Equality | Annual Review of Sociology | 1983 | 383 |
| 5 | Two Approaches to Social Structure: Exchange Theory and Network Analysis | Annual Review of Sociology | 1992 | 365 |
| 6 | The Prevalence of Confirmed Maltreatment Among US Children, 2004 to 2011 | JAMA Pediatrics | 2014 | 343 |
| 7 | The Race Discrimination System | Annual Review of Sociology | 2012 | 336 |
| 8 | Brokerage | Annual Review of Sociology | 2012 | 333 |
| 9 | Why Fertility Changes | Annual Review of Sociology | 1994 | 295 |
| 10 | Adult Child–Parent Relationships | Annual Review of Sociology | 1996 | 256 |
| 11 | The African American “Great Migration” and Beyond | Annual Review of Sociology | 2003 | 248 |
| 12 | The educational enrollment of immigrant youth: A test of the segmented-assimilation hypothesis | Demography | 2001 | 243 |
| 13 | “Every Shut Eye, Ain’t Sleep”: The Role of Racism-Related Vigilance in Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Sleep Difficulty | Race and Social Problems | 2013 | 238 |
| 14 | Policy Domains: Organization, Culture, and Policy Outcomes | Annual Review of Sociology | 1991 | 227 |
| 15 | Religion and Delinquency: the Ecology of a "Lost" Relationship | Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency | 1982 | 225 |
| 16 | Human inbreeding avoidance: Culture in nature | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 1983 | 224 |
| 17 | Even in Sweden: The Effect of Immigration on Support for Welfare State Spending | European Sociological Review | 2010 | 209 |
| 18 | Network Analysis and Political Science | Annual Review of Political Science | 2011 | 207 |
| 19 | Becoming a Nazi: A model for narrative networks | Poetics | 2000 | 199 |
| 20 | “White Box” Epidemiology and the Social Neuroscience of Health Behaviors | Society and Mental Health | 2013 | 191 |
| 21 | Strengthening standardised interpretation of verbal autopsy data: the new InterVA-4 tool | Global Health Action | 2012 | 181 |
| 22 | Constraints, Satisfaction and Residential Mobility: Speare’s Model Reconsidered | Demography | 1985 | 178 |
| 23 | Legitimating beliefs: Sources and indicators | Regulation and Governance | 2009 | 176 |
| 24 | Returning home to die: Circular labour migration and mortality in South Africa 1 | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health | 2007 | 173 |
| 25 | Living under surveillance: Gender, psychological distress, and stop-question-and-frisk policing in New York City | Social Science and Medicine | 2016 | 158 |
| 26 | What properties of culture should we measure? | Poetics | 1994 | 151 |
| 27 | MOTHERHOOD AND CRIMINAL DESISTANCE IN DISADVANTAGED NEIGHBORHOODS* | Criminology | 2010 | 151 |
| 28 | Measuring the predictability of life outcomes with a scientific mass collaboration | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 142 |
| 29 | Using Twitter for Demographic and Social Science Research: Tools for Data Collection and Processing | Sociological Methods and Research | 2017 | 140 |
| 30 | Issues in the measurement of satisfaction with treatment | American Journal of Managed Care | 1997 | 140 |
| 31 | The meaning and measurement of race in the U.S. census: Glimpses into the future | Demography | 2000 | 135 |
| 32 | Internalized Values as Motivators of Altruism | | 1984 | 135 |
| 33 | Occupational careers and mortality of elderly men | Demography | 1990 | 131 |
| 34 | The effects of air pollution on individual psychological distress | Health and Place | 2017 | 130 |
| 35 | The Origins of the Chinese Fertility Decline | Demography | 1990 | 123 |
| 36 | Why most sociologists don't (and won't) think evolutionarily | Sociological Forum | 1990 | 123 |
| 37 | Personal Relationships | Annual Review of Sociology | 1988 | 114 |
| 38 | The influence of women’s work opportunities on marriage rates | Demography | 1975 | 113 |
| 39 | Measuring crime seriousness perceptions | Journal of Criminal Justice | 2003 | 110 |
| 40 | The associations between socio-economic status and major depressive disorder among Blacks, Latinos, Asians and non-Hispanic Whites: findings from the Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Studies | Psychological Medicine | 2010 | 106 |
| 41 | Key questions for modelling COVID-19 exit strategies | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 2020 | 106 |
| 42 | Family sizes of children and family sizes of women | Demography | 1976 | 104 |
| 43 | Trends in professional advice to lose weight among obese adults, 1994 to 2000 | Journal of General Internal Medicine | 2005 | 103 |
| 44 | Detecting survival effects of socioeconomic status: Problems in the use of aggregate measures | Journal of Clinical Epidemiology | 1994 | 102 |
| 45 | Famine, social disruption, and involuntary fetal loss: Evidence from chinese survey data | Demography | 2005 | 101 |
| 46 | Monetary Sanctions: Legal Financial Obligations in US Systems of Justice | Annual Review of Criminology | 2018 | 99 |
| 47 | The mobility experience and neighborhood attachment | Demography | 1997 | 96 |
| 48 | RACIAL INEQUALITIES IN CONNECTEDNESS TO IMPRISONED INDIVIDUALS IN THE UNITED STATES | Du Bois Review | 2015 | 96 |
| 49 | Causes and consequences of the Protestant Reformation | Explorations in Economic History | 2016 | 96 |
| 50 | Spatial heterogeneity can lead to substantial local variations in COVID-19 timing and severity | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 89 |
