| NGOs and the policy‐making process in Russia: The case of child welfare reform E Bindman, M Kulmala, E Bogdanova Governance 32 (2), 207-222, 2019 | 82 | 2019 |
| Paradoxes of agency: Democracy and welfare in Russia. M Kulmala, M Kainu, J Nikula, M Kivinen Demokratizatsiya 22 (4), 2014 | 75 | 2014 |
| Interest representation and social policy making: Russian veterans’ organisations as brokers between the state and society M Kulmala, A Tarasenko Russian Modernisation, 138-163, 2018 | 58 | 2018 |
| Overhauling Russia’s child welfare system: institutional and ideational factorsbehind the paradigm shift K Meri, R Michael, C Zhanna Журнал исследований социальной политики 15 (3), 353-366, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Russian state and civil society in interaction: an ethnographic approach K Kulmala Laboratorium. Журнал социальных исследований 3 (1), 51-83, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| The carrot or the stick? Constraints and opportunities of Russia’s CSO policy E Bogdanova, LJ Cook, M Kulmala Europe-Asia Studies 70 (4), 501-513, 2018 | 43 | 2018 |
| The Russian welfare state system: with special reference to regional inequality 291 M Kainu, M Kulmala, J Nikula, M Kivinen The Routledge international handbook to welfare state systems, 323-348, 2017 | 42 | 2017 |
| Street-level practice of Russia's social policymaking in Saint Petersburg: Federalism, informal politics, and domestic violence JE Johnson, M Kulmala, M Jäppinen Journal of Social Policy 45 (2), 287-304, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| Post-Soviet" Political"?:" Social" and" Political" in the Work of Russian Socially Oriented CSOs M Kulmala Demokratizatsiya: The Journal of Post-Soviet Democratization 24 (2), 199-224, 2016 | 35 | 2016 |
| State and society in small-town Russia: A feminist-ethnographic inquiry into the boundaries of society in the Finnish-Russian borderland M Kulmala Deaprtment of Social Research, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| “Women Rule This Country”: Women’s Community Organizing and Care in Rural Karelia M Kulmala Anthropology of East Europe Review 28 (2), 164-185, 2010 | 24 | 2010 |
| Rethinking state-society boundaries in a small-town context of Russian Karelia M Kulmala Gazing at welfare, gender and agency in post-socialist countries, 170-198, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Global deinstitutionalisation policy in the post-Soviet space: A comparison of child-welfare reforms in Russia and Kazakhstan S An, M Kulmala Global social policy 21 (1), 51-74, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| Intersections of Welfare, Gender, and Agency M Jäppinen, M Kulmala, A Saarinen Gazing at Welfare, Gender and Agency in Post-socialist Countries, 1-12, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| Gazing at welfare, gender and agency in post-socialist countries M Jäppinen, M Kulmala, A Saarinen Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010 | 13 | 2010 |
| Kansalaisyhteiskunta ja valtio Venäjän Karjalassa M Kulmala Futura 27 (2), 43-61, 2008 | 13 | 2008 |
| " Po slozhnosti–eto rabotra, po sostaianiu dushi–semia”: professionalizatsiia premenogo roditel’stva v sovremennoi Rossii Z Chernova, MS Kulmala Žurnal sociologii i socialʹnoj antropologii: Журнал социологии и социальной …, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Kanssatutkimus: Ihanteet ja käytännöt C Bettin, O Hietala, M Kulmala, S Raittila-Salo, S Spišák, S Venäläinen, ... Tampere University Press, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| Paradigm shift in Russian child welfare policy M Kulmala Russian Analytical Digest, 5-10, 2017 | 10 | 2017 |
| Työn ja perheen yhteensovittaminen Venäjällä M Kulmala, Ž Tšernova Idäntutkimus 22 (2), 17-34, 2015 | 10 | 2015 |
