| Piracy and the state: the politics of intellectual property rights in China M Dimitrov Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 181 | 2009 |
| Why communism did not collapse: Understanding authoritarian regime resilience in Asia and Europe MK Dimitrov Cambridge University Press, 2013 | 159 | 2013 |
| Internal government assessments of the quality of governance in China MK Dimitrov Studies in Comparative International Development 50, 50-72, 2015 | 130 | 2015 |
| Popular autocrats MK Dimitrov J. Democracy 20, 78, 2009 | 117 | 2009 |
| What the party wanted to know: Citizen complaints as a “barometer of public opinion” in communist Bulgaria MK Dimitrov East European Politics and Societies 28 (2), 271-295, 2014 | 113 | 2014 |
| Understanding communist collapse and resilience MK Dimitrov Why communism did not collapse: Understanding authoritarian regime …, 2013 | 85 | 2013 |
| The social contract revisited: Evidence from communist and state capitalist economies LJ Cook, MK Dimitrov Authoritarian Powers, 8-26, 2018 | 80 | 2018 |
| Tracking public opinion under authoritarianism MK Dimitrov Russian History 41 (3), 329-353, 2014 | 60 | 2014 |
| The resilient authoritarians M Dimitrov Current History 107 (705), 24, 2008 | 53 | 2008 |
| State security, information, and repression: a comparison of communist Bulgaria and Ba'thist Iraq MK Dimitrov, J Sassoon Journal of Cold War Studies 16 (2), 3-31, 2014 | 52 | 2014 |
| Vertical accountability in communist regimes: the role of citizen complaints in Bulgaria and China MK Dimitrov Why communism did not collapse: Understanding authoritarian regime …, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| The political logic of media control in China MK Dimitrov Problems of Post-communism 64 (3-4), 121-127, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| Ideological Introversion and Regime Survival: North Korea’s ‘Our-Style Socialism.’ CK Armstrong, MK Dimitrov Why communism did not collapse: Understanding authoritarian regime …, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China MK Dimitrov Oxford University Press, 2023 | 15 | 2023 |
| Ideological erosion and the breakdown of communist regimes V Tismaneanu, MK Dimitrov Why Communism Did Not Collapse: Understanding Authoritarian Regime …, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| From spies to oligarchs: The party, the state, the secret police and property transformations in postcommunist Europe M Dimitrov Conference on 1989: Twenty Years After, 5-8, 2009 | 11 | 2009 |
| The Functions of Letters to the Editor in Reform-Era Cuba MK Dimitrov Latin American Research Review 54 (1), 1-15, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Anticipating crises in autocracies MK Dimitrov, J Gerschewski, C Stefes Crisis in Autocratic Regimes, 21-42, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| WGS-based characterization of the potentially beneficial Enterococcus faecium EFD from a beehive SG Dimov, A Guyrova, A Vladimirova, M Dimitrov, S Peykov, T Strateva Molecular Biology Reports 47 (8), 6445-6449, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| In vivo antioxidant activity evaluation of peptides produced during the fermentation of yoghourt-like dairy products V Aleksandrova, G Chikov, G Velikova, M Dimitrov, SG Dimov Bulg J Agri Sci 19, 97-100, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
