| Parenthood and psychological well-being S McLanahan, J Adams Annual review of sociology 13 (1), 237-257, 1987 | 801 | 1987 |
| The familial state: Ruling families and merchant capitalism in early modern Europe J Adams Cornell University Press, 2005 | 526 | 2005 |
| States of memory: Continuities, conflicts, and transformations in national retrospection J Adams, G Steinmetz, FC Corney, SF Zamponi Duke University Press, 2003 | 399 | 2003 |
| Remaking modernity: politics, history, and sociology J Adams, ES Clemens, AS Orloff Duke University Press, 2005 | 398 | 2005 |
| Principals and agents, colonialists and company men: The decay of colonial control in the Dutch East Indies J Adams American sociological review, 12-28, 1996 | 325 | 1996 |
| Social theory, modernity, and the three waves of historical sociology J Adams, E Clemens, AS Orloff Remaking modernity: Politics, history and sociology, 1-72, 2005 | 216 | 2005 |
| The effects of children on adults' psychological well-being: 1957–1976 S McLanahan, J Adams Social Forces 68 (1), 124-146, 1989 | 198 | 1989 |
| Signs and regimes: Rereading feminist work on welfare states J Adams, T Padamsee Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 8 (1), 1-23, 2001 | 168 | 2001 |
| The familial state: Elite family practices and state-making in the early modern Netherlands J Adams Theory and Society, 505-539, 1994 | 111 | 1994 |
| The rule of the father: Patriarchy and patrimonialism in early modern Europe J Adams Max Weber’s economy and society: A critical companion 7 (2), 237-266, 2005 | 100 | 2005 |
| Culture in rational-choice theories of state-formation J Adams State/culture: State formation after the cultural turn, 98-122, 1999 | 91 | 1999 |
| August B. Hollingshead’s “Four Factor Index of Social Status”: from unpublished paper to citation classic J Adams, DL Weakliem Yale Journal of Sociology 8 (11), 11-17, 2011 | 89 | 2011 |
| Who counts as a notable sociologist on wikipedia? gender, race, and the “professor test” J Adams, H Brückner, C Naslund Socius 5, 2378023118823946, 2019 | 73 | 2019 |
| Introduction: Patrimonialism, past and present MM Charrad, J Adams The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 636 (1), 6-15, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| Trading states, trading places: the role of patrimonialism in early modern Dutch development J Adams Comparative Studies in Society and History 36 (2), 319-355, 1994 | 59 | 1994 |
| Wikipedia, sociology, and the promise and pitfalls of Big Data J Adams, H Brückner Big Data & Society 2 (2), 2053951715614332, 2015 | 38 | 2015 |
| Culture in the transitions to modernity: seven pillars of a new research agenda IA Reed, J Adams Theory and Society 40, 247-272, 2011 | 38 | 2011 |
| Signs and regimes revisited T Padamsee, J Adams Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 9 (2), 187-202, 2002 | 33 | 2002 |
| Defending modernity? High politics, feminist anti-modernism, and the place of gender J Adams, AS Orloff Politics & Gender 1 (1), 166-182, 2005 | 30 | 2005 |
| The ladies vanish?: American sociology and the genealogy of its missing women on Wikipedia W Luo, J Adams, H Brueckner Comparative sociology 17 (5), 519-556, 2018 | 26 | 2018 |
Ann Shola OrloffProfessor of Sociology and Political Science, Northwestern UniversityVerified email at northwestern.edu
