| Social stratification in science JR Cole, S Cole, D deB. Beaver American Journal of Physics 42 (10), 923-924, 1974 | 2737 | 1974 |
| Scientific output and recognition: A study in the operation of the reward system in science S Cole, JR Cole American sociological review, 377-390, 1967 | 1123 | 1967 |
| Fair science JR Cole | 875 | 1979 |
| Chance and consensus in peer review S Cole, JR Cole, GA Simon Science 214 (4523), 881-886, 1981 | 870 | 1981 |
| The productivity puzzle JR Cole, H Zuckerman Advances in motivation and achievement 2, 217-258, 1984 | 798 | 1984 |
| Marriage, motherhood and research performance in science JR Cole, H Zuckerman Scientific American 256 (2), 119-125, 1987 | 638 | 1987 |
| The Ortega Hypothesis: Citation analysis suggests that only a few scientists contribute to scientific progress. JR Cole, S Cole Science 178 (4059), 368-375, 1972 | 595 | 1972 |
| The outer circle: Women in the scientific community. HE Zuckerman, JR Cole, JT Bruer This volume is based on papers from four symposia held at Stanford …, 1991 | 513 | 1991 |
| The great American university: Its rise to preeminence, its indispensable national role, why it must be protected JR Cole PublicAffairs, 2010 | 445 | 2010 |
| Measuring the Quality of Sociological Research: Problems in the Use of the" Science Citation Index" J Cole, S Cole The American Sociologist, 23-29, 1971 | 348 | 1971 |
| Peer Review in the National Science Foundation: Phase One of a Study. S Cole Office of Publications, National Academy of Sciences, 2101 Constitution Ave …, 1978 | 293 | 1978 |
| A theory of limited differences: Explaining the productivity puzzle in science JR Cole, B Singer The outer circle: Women in the scientific community, 277-310, 1991 | 266 | 1991 |
| Women in American science H Zuckerman, JR Cole Minerva, 82-102, 1975 | 246 | 1975 |
| The emergence of a scientific specialty: The self-exemplifying case of the sociology of science JR Cole, Z Harriet The idea of social structure, 139-174, 2017 | 202 | 2017 |
| Peer review and the support of science S Cole, L Rubin, JR Cole Scientific American 237 (4), 34-41, 1977 | 199 | 1977 |
| Visibility and the structural bases of awareness of scientific research S Cole, JR Cole American sociological review, 397-413, 1968 | 195 | 1968 |
| A short history of the use of citations as a measure of the impact of scientific and scholarly work JR Cole The web of knowledge a festschrift in honor of eugene garfield, 281-300, 2000 | 171 | 2000 |
| Facial expression recognition by people with Möbius syndrome AJ Calder, J Keane, J Cole, R Campbell, AW Young Cognitive neuropsychology 17 (1-3), 73-87, 2000 | 163 | 2000 |
| The great American university JR Cole Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 64 (3), 27-35, 2011 | 155 | 2011 |
| Balancing acts: Dilemmas of choice facing research universities JR Cole Daedalus 122 (4), 1-36, 1993 | 125 | 1993 |
