| Young Europeans: A Portrait of Diversity JM Pais, D Cairns, L Pappámikail Tempo Social 17 (2), 109-140, 2005 | 89* | 2005 |
| Youth Transitions, International Student Mobility and Spatial Reflexivity: Being Mobile? D Cairns Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 | 87 | 2014 |
| “I Wouldn't Stay Here”: Economic Crisis and Youth Mobility in Ireland D Cairns International Migration 52 (3), 236–249, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
| I Wouldn’t Mind Moving Actually: Exploring Student Mobility in Northern Ireland D Cairns, J Smyth International Migration 49 (2), 135-161, 2011 | 49 | 2011 |
| Another ‘Missing Middle’? The Marginalised Majority of Tertiary-Educated Youth in Portugal during the Economic Crisis D Cairns, K Growiec, N de Almeida Alves Journal of Youth Studies 17 (8), 1046-1060, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Moving in Transition: Northern Ireland Youth and Geographical Mobility D Cairns Young 16 (3), 227-249, 2008 | 44 | 2008 |
| The Object of Sectarianism: The Material Reality of Sectarianism in Ulster Loyalism D Cairns Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6 (3), 437-452, 2000 | 44 | 2000 |
| Youth on the Move: European Youth and Geographical Mobility D Cairns Springer, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
| Families and Transitions in Europe: Survey Report of Young Adults in Education and Training Institutions. A Biggart, D Cairns, J Pais, L Pappámikail, R Bendit, K Hein European Commission, 2010 | 35 | 2010 |
| Leaving Northern Ireland: Youth Mobility Field, Habitus and Recession among Undergraduates in Belfast D Cairns, K Growiec, J Smyth British Journal of Sociology of Education 34 (4), 544-562, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Spatial Reflexivity and Undergraduate Transitions in the Republic of Ireland after the Celtic Tiger D Cairns, K Growiec, J Smyth Journal of Youth Studies 15 (7), 841-857, 2012 | 29 | 2012 |
| Youth unemployment and job precariousness: Political participation in a neo-liberal era D Cairns, N de Almeida Alves, A Alexandre, A Correia Palgrave Macmillan, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| Families and Transitions in Europe: State of the Art Report A Biggart, R Bendit, D Cairns, K Hein, S Morch European Commission, 2010 | 26 | 2010 |
| Youth, Precarity and the Future: Undergraduate Housing Transitions in Portugal during the Economic Crisis D Cairns Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas, 9-25, 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
| The Consequences of Mobility: Reflexivity, Social Inequality and the Reproduction of Precariousness in Highly Qualified Migration D Cairns, V Cuzzocrea, D Briggs, L Veloso Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| Representing Islam and Lisbon Youth. Portuguese Muslims of Indian-mozambican Origin NC Tiesler, D Cairns Lusotopie 14 (1), 223-238, 2007 | 20 | 2007 |
| If I can make their life a little easier, then I'm happy: Study of Young Carers in the Irish Population,. Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. Dublin: The … D Cairns, B Brady, D Kennan, J Canavan, A Fives The Stationery Office, Dublin, 2010 | 17* | 2010 |
| The Erasmus undergraduate exchange programme: a highly qualified success story? D Cairns Children's Geographies, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Mapping the Youth Mobility Field DC Cairns Handbuch Kindheits- und Jugendsoziologie, 1-16, 2015 | 14 | 2015 |
| Families and Transitions in Europe: Comparative Report A Biggart, D Cairns European Commission, 2004 | 14 | 2004 |