| The anger games: Who voted for Donald Trump in the 2016 election, and why? DN Smith, E Hanley Critical sociology 44 (2), 195-212, 2018 | 190 | 2018 |
| Who rules the universities? DN Smith | 165 | 1975 |
| Faith, reason, and charisma: Rudolf Sohm, Max Weber, and the theology of grace DN Smith Sociological Inquiry 68 (1), 32-60, 1998 | 122 | 1998 |
| The psychocultural roots of genocide: Legitimacy and crisis in Rwanda DN Smith American Psychologist 53 (7), 743-753, 1998 | 110 | 1998 |
| The social construction of enemies: Jews and the representation of evil DN Smith Sociological Theory, 203-240, 1996 | 104 | 1996 |
| Accumulation and the clash of cultures: Marx's ethnology in context DN Smith Rethinking Marxism 14 (4), 73-83, 2002 | 37 | 2002 |
| Authoritarianism reimagined: The riddle of Trump’s base DN Smith The Sociological Quarterly 60 (2), 210-223, 2019 | 33 | 2019 |
| The spectral reality of value: Sieber, Marx, and commodity fetishism D Norman Smith Marx's Capital and Capitalism, edited by Paul Zarembka, 47-66, 2001 | 31 | 2001 |
| The ambivalent worker: Max Weber, Critical theory and the antinomies of authority DN Smith Social Thought & Research, 35-83, 1998 | 29 | 1998 |
| Charisma disenchanted: Max Weber and his critics DN Smith Current Perspectives in Social Theory, 3-74, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| Marx's Capital illustrated DN Smith, P Evans Haymarket, 2014 | 25* | 2014 |
| The hegemony of common sense: Wisdom and mystification in everyday life DW Manders, DN Smith (No Title), 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
| The genesis of genocide: The fatal dialectic of class and ethnicity DN Smith Humanity and Society 19 (4), 57-74, 1995 | 20 | 1995 |
| Judeophobia, myth, and critique DN Smith The Seductiveness of Jewish Myth: Challenge or Response, edited by S. Daniel …, 1997 | 15 | 1997 |
| The beloved dictator: Adorno, Horkheimer, and the critique of domination DN Smith Current Perspectives in Social Theory 12, 195-230, 1992 | 15 | 1992 |
| Authority fetishism and the Manichaæn vision: Stigma, stereotyping, and charisma as keys to "pseudo-orientation in an estranged society" DN Smith The Evolution of Alienation, edited by Lauren Langman and Deborah Kalekin …, 2006 | 13* | 2006 |
| Theory and class consciousness DN Smith The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Theory, edited by Michael Thompson, 369-423, 2017 | 11 | 2017 |
| Authorities, deities, and commodities: Classical sociology and the problem of domination DN Smith The University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988 | 11 | 1988 |
| Populism, nationalism, and US foreign policy D Smith Comparative Politics Newsletter 26 (2), 101-106, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| The ethnological imagination: Making and remaking history DN Smith Ethnohistorische Wege und Lehrjahre eines Philosophen: Festschrift für …, 1995 | 10* | 1995 |
