| Seeing ghosts: Parsing China’s “ghost city” controversy MD Woodworth, JL Wallace Urban Geography 38 (8), 1270-1281, 2017 | 99 | 2017 |
| China's urban speed machine: The politics of speed and time in a period of rapid urban growth S Chien, MD Woodworth International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 42 (4), 723-737, 2018 | 77 | 2018 |
| Ordos Municipality: A market-era resource boomtown MD Woodworth Cities 43, 115-132, 2015 | 54 | 2015 |
| Frontier boomtown urbanism in Ordos, Inner Mongolia autonomous region MD Woodworth Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review 1 (1), 74-101, 2012 | 48 | 2012 |
| Disposable Ordos: The making of an energy resource frontier in western China MD Woodworth Geoforum 78, 133-140, 2017 | 41 | 2017 |
| Taking part: The social experience of informal finance in Ordos, Inner Mongolia MD Woodworth, M Ulfstjerne The Journal of Asian Studies 75 (3), 649-672, 2016 | 29 | 2016 |
| Exploring China’s borderlands in an era of BRI-induced change MD Woodworth, A Joniak-Lüthi Eurasian Geography and Economics 61 (1), 1-12, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| China's coal production goes west: Assessing recent geographical restructuring and industrial transformation MD Woodworth The Professional Geographer 67 (4), 630-640, 2015 | 19 | 2015 |
| From the shadows of the spectacular city: Zhang Dali’s Dialogue and counter-spectacle in globalizing Beijing, 1995–2005 MD Woodworth Geoforum 65, 413-420, 2015 | 19 | 2015 |
| Landscape and the cultural politics of China’s anticipatory urbanism MD Woodworth Landscape Research 43 (7), 891-905, 2018 | 15 | 2018 |
| Picturing urban China in ruin:“Ghost City” photography and speculative urbanization MD Woodworth GeoHumanities 6 (2), 233-251, 2020 | 13 | 2020 |
| Booms, busts and urban variation among ‘Resource-based Cities’ in China’s northwest MD Woodworth Inner Asia 18 (1), 97-120, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| Inner city culture wars MD Woodworth Reclaiming Chinese Society, 219-236, 2009 | 9 | 2009 |
| Finding a place for boomtowns in energy geographies MD Woodworth Area 51 (2), 307-314, 2019 | 7 | 2019 |
| Irrigation society in China’s northern frontier, 1860s-1920s J Du, MD Woodworth Cross-currents: East Asian history and culture review 1 (1), 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
| Entrepreneurial and modular urbanism in China: New cities and new areas in the 2000s SS Chien, M Woodworth Transactions in Planning and Urban Research 1 (3-4), 219-234, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| New cities in China: Tracking urban projects in the city fringe MD Woodworth, SS Chien Geography Compass 16 (3), e12612, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Researching China during the COVID-19 pandemic MD Woodworth, X Ren, J Rodenbiker, E Santi, Y Tan, L Zhang, Y Zhou COVID-19 and a World of Ad Hoc Geographies, 2705-2721, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Spaces of the Gigantic: Extraction and Urbanization on China's Energy Frontier MD Woodworth Frontier assemblages: The emergent politics of resource frontiers in Asia …, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Frontier Boomtown Urbanism: City Building in Ordos Municipality, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 2001-2011 MD Woodworth UC Berkeley, 2013 | 3 | 2013 |
