| Social stratification in science JR Cole, S Cole, D deB. Beaver American Journal of Physics 42 (10), 923-924, 1974 | 2739 | 1974 |
| Scientific output and recognition S Cole, JR Cole American sociological review 32 (3), 377-390, 1967 | 1120 | 1967 |
| Chance and consensus in peer review S Cole, JR Cole, GA Simon Science 214 (4523), 881-886, 1981 | 870 | 1981 |
| Fair science: Women in the scientific community JR Cole | 868 | 1979 |
| The productivity puzzle JR Cole, H Zuckerman Advances in Motivation and Achievement. Women in Science (JAI Press, 1984), 1984 | 799 | 1984 |
| Marriage, motherhood and research performance in science JR Cole, H Zuckerman Scientific American 256 (2), 119-125, 1987 | 641 | 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 | 512 | 1991 |
| The great American university: Its rise to preeminence, its indispensable national role, why it must be protected JR Cole PublicAffairs, 2010 | 447 | 2010 |
| Measuring the quality of sociological research JR Cole, S Cole American sociologist 6, 23-29, 1971 | 350 | 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 | 292 | 1978 |
| A theory of limited differences JR Cole, B Singer New York, 1991 | 263 | 1991 |
| Women in American science J Cole, H Zuckerman Minerva 13 (1), 82-102, 1975 | 248 | 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 | 203 | 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 structural bases of awareness in science S Cole, JR Cole American sociological review 33 (3), 387-413, 1968 | 197 | 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 | 170 | 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 | 160 | 2000 |
| Patterns of intellectual influence in scientific research JR Cole Sociology of Education 43 (4), 377-403, 1970 | 132 | 1970 |
| The great American university JR Cole Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 64 (3), 27-35, 2011 | 126 | 2011 |
