| World city networks and hierarchies, 1977-1997: an empirical analysis of global air travel links DA Smith, MF Timberlake American Behavioral Scientist 44 (10), 1656-1678, 2001 | 360 | 2001 |
| Dependence, inequality, and the growth of the tertiary: a comparative analysis of less developed countries PB Evans, M Timberlake American Sociological Review, 531-552, 1980 | 317 | 1980 |
| Conceptualising and mapping the structure of the world system's city system DA Smith, M Timberlake Urban Studies 32 (2), 287-302, 1995 | 308 | 1995 |
| Urbanization in the world-economy M Timberlake Orlando Fla./London England Academic Press 1985., 1985 | 229 | 1985 |
| World cities in Asia: cliques, centrality and connectedness KH Shin, M Timberlake Urban studies 37 (12), 2257-2285, 2000 | 185 | 2000 |
| Hierarchies of dominance among world cities: a network approach DA Smith, M Timberlake Global networks, linked cities, 117-141, 2002 | 179 | 2002 |
| Cities in global matrices: toward mapping the world-system’s city system DA Smith, M Timberlake World cities in a world-system, 79-97, 1995 | 167 | 1995 |
| Economic dependence, overurbanization, and economic growth: a study of less developed countries M Timberlake, J Kentor Sociological Quarterly 24 (4), 489-507, 1983 | 160 | 1983 |
| Economic globalisation and the structure of the world city system: the case of airline passenger data MC Mahutga, X Ma, DA Smith, M Timberlake Urban Studies 47 (9), 1925-1947, 2010 | 127 | 2010 |
| Dependence, political exclusion, and government repression: Some cross-national evidence M Timberlake, KR Williams American Sociological Review, 141-146, 1984 | 112 | 1984 |
| Global cities with Chinese characteristics M Timberlake, YD Wei, X Ma, J Hao Cities 41, 162-170, 2014 | 62 | 2014 |
| Identifying China’s leading world city: a network approach X Ma, MF Timberlake GeoJournal 71 (1), 19, 2008 | 60 | 2008 |
| World-system theory and the study of comparative urbanization M Timberlake | 60 | 1987 |
| World city typologies and national city system deterritorialisation: USA, China and Japan X Ma, M Timberlake Urban Studies 50 (2), 255-275, 2013 | 48 | 2013 |
| World cities: a political economy/global network approach DA Smith, M Timberlake Research in Urban Sociology 3, 181-207, 1993 | 47 | 1993 |
| The world-system perspective and urbanization M Timberlake The Globalizing Cities Reader, 77-82, 2017 | 45 | 2017 |
| Chinese urbanization, state policy, and the world economy F Song, M Timberlake Journal of Urban Affairs 18 (3), 285-306, 1996 | 43 | 1996 |
| Structural Position in the World System, Inequality and Political Violence KR Williams, M Timberlake JPMS: Journal of Political and Military Sociology 15 (1), 1, 1987 | 43 | 1987 |
| The Mississippi Delta: change or continued trouble S Hyland, M Timberlake Forgotten places: Uneven development in rural America, 76-101, 1993 | 38 | 1993 |
| CITIES AND THE SPATIAL ARTICULATION OF THE WORLD ECONOMY THROUGH AIR TRAVEL. D Smith, M Timberlake Space and Transport in the World-system, 1998 | 30 | 1998 |