| Bandwagoning for profit: Bringing the revisionist state back in RL Schweller International security 19 (1), 72-107, 1994 | 2437 | 1994 |
| Unanswered threats: Political constraints on the balance of power RL Schweller Princeton University Press, 2010 | 1804* | 2010 |
| Deadly imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's strategy of world conquest RL Schweller Columbia University Press, 1998 | 1050 | 1998 |
| After unipolarity: China's visions of international order in an era of US decline RL Schweller, X Pu International security 36 (1), 41-72, 2011 | 861 | 2011 |
| Neorealism's status‐quo bias: What security dilemma? RL Schweller Security Studies 5 (3), 90-121, 1996 | 809 | 1996 |
| Domestic structure and preventive war: are democracies more pacific? RL Schweller World Politics 44 (2), 235-269, 1992 | 539 | 1992 |
| A tale of two realisms: Expanding the institutions debate RL Schweller, D Priess Mershon International Studies Review 41 (Supplement_1), 1-32, 1997 | 447 | 1997 |
| The progressiveness of neoclassical realism RL Schweller | 441 | 2003 |
| New realist research on alliances: Refining, not refuting, Waltz's balancing proposition RL Schweller American Political Science Review 91 (4), 927-930, 1997 | 387 | 1997 |
| Managing the rise of great powers: history and theory RL Schweller Engaging China: The management of an emerging power, 1-31, 1999 | 346 | 1999 |
| Emerging powers in an age of disorder R Schweller Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International …, 2011 | 284 | 2011 |
| Tripolarity and the Second World War RL Schweller International Studies Quarterly 37 (1), 73-103, 1993 | 199 | 1993 |
| The problem of international order revisited: A review essay RL Schweller International Security 26 (1), 161-186, 2001 | 198 | 2001 |
| Realism and the present great power system: Growth and positional conflict over scarce resources RL Schweller Unipolar politics: Realism and state strategies after the Cold War, 28-68, 1999 | 169 | 1999 |
| Power test: Evaluating realism in response to the end of the cold war RL Schweller, WC Wohlforth Security Studies 9 (3), 60-107, 2000 | 164 | 2000 |
| Correspondence: Brother, can you spare a paradigm?(or was anybody ever a realist?) PD Feaver, G Hellman, RL Schweller, JW Taliaferro, WC Wohlforth, ... The Realism Reader, 518-523, 2014 | 162 | 2014 |
| Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple: Global Discord in the New Millennium RL Schweller | 136 | 2014 |
| Maxwell's Demon and the Golden Apple RL Schweller Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014 | 136* | 2014 |
| Knowing the unknown unknowns: Misplaced certainty and the onset of war J Mitzen, RL Schweller Security studies 20 (1), 2-35, 2011 | 131 | 2011 |
| Opposite but compatible nationalisms: a neoclassical realist approach to the future of US–China relations R Schweller The Chinese Journal of International Politics 11 (1), 23-48, 2018 | 128 | 2018 |
