| Broken windows: The Police and Neighborhood Safety GL Kelling, JQ Wilson Atlantic Monthly 249 (3), 29-38, 1982 | 8091* | 1982 |
| Bureaucracy: What government agencies do and why they do it JQ Wilson Basic Books, 2019 | 6430 | 2019 |
| Organizations A Etzioni, P Marcus, RK Merton, A Reiss, JQ Wilson, H White Prentice-Hall Publishing Co., Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1964 | 4960 | 1964 |
| Crime and Human Nature: The Definitive Study of the Causes of Crime JQ Wilson, RJ Herrnstein Free Press, 1998 | 4022 | 1998 |
| Thinking about crime J Wilson Basic Books (AZ), 2013 | 3079 | 2013 |
| The politics of regulation JQ Wilson | 2869* | 1980 |
| Political organizations JQ Wilson Princeton University Press, 1995 | 2765 | 1995 |
| The moral sense JQ Wilson American Political Science Review 87 (1), 1-11, 1993 | 1597 | 1993 |
| Incentive systems: A theory of organizations PB Clark, JQ Wilson Administrative science quarterly, 129-166, 1961 | 1410 | 1961 |
| City politics EC Banfield, JQ Wilson Vintage Books, 1966 | 1356 | 1966 |
| Liberal pluralism: The implications of value pluralism for political theory and practice WA Galston, WA Galston Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 864 | 2002 |
| Innovation in organization: Notes toward a theory JQ Wilson Center for the Advanced Study of Educational Administration, 1965 | 621 | 1965 |
| The amateur Democrat: Club politics in three cities JQ Wilson University of Chicago Press, 1962 | 580 | 1962 |
| Understanding and controlling crime: Toward a new research strategy DP Farrington, LE Ohlin, JQ Wilson Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 555 | 2012 |
| American government: Institutions and policies JQ Wilson, JJ DiIulio Jr, M Bose, MS Levendusky Cengage Learning, 2018 | 484 | 2018 |
| Who really cares: The surprising truth about compassionate conservatism--america's charity divide--who gives, who doesn't, and why it matters AC Brooks Basic Books (AZ), 2007 | 399 | 2007 |
| The effect of the police on crime JQ Wilson, B Boland Law and Society Review, 367-390, 1978 | 372 | 1978 |
| Culture and health AD Napier, C Ancarno, B Butler, J Calabrese, A Chater, H Chatterjee, ... The Lancet 384 (9954), 1607-1639, 2014 | 343 | 2014 |
| Crime and public policy JQ Wilson, J Petersilia Oxford University Press, 2010 | 343 | 2010 |
| Community A Simpson The Brand Strategist’s Guide to Desire, 19-49, 2014 | 324 | 2014 |