| The new domestic automakers in the United States and Canada: History, impacts, and prospects AJ Jacobs Lexington Books, 2015 | 67 | 2015 |
| Automotive FDI in emerging Europe: Shifting locales in the motor vehicle industry AJ Jacobs Springer, 2017 | 55 | 2017 |
| Embedded autonomy and uneven metropolitan development: A comparison of the Detroit and Nagoya auto regions, 1969-2000 AJ Jacobs Urban Studies 40 (2), 335-360, 2003 | 47 | 2003 |
| Devolving authority and expanding autonomy in Japanese prefectures and municipalities AJ Jacobs Governance 16 (4), 601-623, 2003 | 46 | 2003 |
| Has central Tokyo experienced uneven development? An examination of Tokyo’s 23 Ku relative to America’s largest urban centers AJ Jacobs Journal of Urban Affairs 27 (5), 521-555, 2005 | 44 | 2005 |
| Federations of municipalities: a practical alternative to local government consolidations in Japan? AJ Jacobs Governance 17 (2), 247-274, 2004 | 42 | 2004 |
| Black faculty in predominantly White US institutions of higher education: The influence of Black student enrollment JT Darden, SM Kamel, AJ Jacobs Equity & Excellence 31 (2), 6-18, 1998 | 39 | 1998 |
| The impacts of variations in development context on employment growth: a comparison of central cities in Michigan and Ontario, 1980-2006 AJ Jacobs Economic Development Quarterly 23 (4), 351-371, 2009 | 30 | 2009 |
| The world's cities: Contrasting regional, national, and global perspectives AJ Jacobs Routledge, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Japan’s Evolving Nested Municipal Hierarchy: The Race for Local Power in the 2000s. , 1-14. AJ Jacobs Urban Studies Research 2011 (1), 1-14, 2011 | 26* | 2011 |
| The city as the nexus model: Bridging the state, market, societal, and geospatial contexts AJ Jacobs Cities 51, 84-95, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Uneven Development AJ Jacobs The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, 2007 | 24 | 2007 |
| The automotive industry and European integration: The divergent paths of Belgium and Spain AJ Jacobs Springer, 2019 | 23 | 2019 |
| Collaborative regionalism and foreign direct investment: The case of the Southeast automotive core and the “New Domestics” AJ Jacobs Economic Development Quarterly 26 (3), 199-219, 2012 | 23 | 2012 |
| The nested global city-region: intermunicipal income stratification in the Tokyo Metropolitan Region, 1980-2007 AJ Jacobs Urban Geography 33 (1), 120-146, 2012 | 23 | 2012 |
| Ulsan, South Korea: A global and nested ‘great’industrial city AJ Jacobs The Open Urban Studies Journal 4 (1), 2011 | 23 | 2011 |
| Embedded contrasts in race, municipal fragmentation, and planning: Divergent outcomes in the Detroit and greater Toronto–Hamilton regions 1990–2000 AJ Jacobs Journal of Urban Affairs 31 (2), 147-172, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| Inter-local relations and divergent growth: The Detroit and Tokai auto regions, 1969 to 1996 AJ Jacobs Journal of Urban Affairs 26 (4), 479-504, 2004 | 22 | 2004 |
| Integrated development planning, supportive public policies, and corporate commitment: a recipe for thriving major cities in Aichi, Japan AJ Jacobs Journal of Urban Affairs 24 (2), 175-196, 2002 | 22 | 2002 |
| Embedded localities: Employment decline, inner city population growth, and declining place stratification among Japan's mid‐size and large cities AJ Jacobs City & Community 5 (3), 269-292, 2006 | 21 | 2006 |
