| The nation-state and the natural environment over the twentieth century DJ Frank, A Hironaka, E Schoter American sociological review 65 (1), 96-116, 2000 | 1161 | 2000 |
| The structuring of a world environmental regime, 1870–1990 JW Meyer, DJ Frank, A Hironaka, E Schofer, NB Tuma International Organization 51 (04), 623-651, 1997 | 877 | 1997 |
| Higher education as an institution JW Meyer, FO Ramirez, DJ Frank, E Schofer Sociology of higher education: Contributions and their contexts, 187-221, 2008 | 689 | 2008 |
| University expansion and the knowledge society DJ Frank, JW Meyer Theory and Society 36 (4), 287-311, 2007 | 571 | 2007 |
| Reconstructing the university: Worldwide shifts in academia in the 20th century DJ Frank, J Gabler Stanford Univ Pr, 2006 | 448 | 2006 |
| Worldwide trends in the criminal regulation of sex, 1945 to 2005 DJ Frank, BJ Camp, SA Boutcher American sociological review 75 (6), 867-893, 2010 | 351 | 2010 |
| The profusion of individual roles and identities in the postwar period DJ Frank, JW Meyer Sociological Theory 20 (1), 86-105, 2002 | 332 | 2002 |
| Science, nature, and the globalization of the environment, 1870–1990 DJ Frank Social Forces 76 (2), 409-435, 1997 | 315 | 1997 |
| The individualization of society and the liberalization of state policies on same-sex sexual relations, 1984–1995 DJ Frank, EH McEneaney Social Forces 77 (3), 911-943, 1999 | 298 | 1999 |
| Sociological institutionalism and world society E Schofer, A Hironaka, D John, W Longhofer The Wiley‐Blackwell companion to political sociology, 57-68, 2012 | 261 | 2012 |
| The university and the global knowledge society DJ Frank, JW Meyer Princeton University Press, 2020 | 237 | 2020 |
| The social bases of environmental treaty ratification, 1900–1990 DJ Frank Sociological Inquiry 69 (4), 523-550, 1999 | 205 | 1999 |
| Population control for national development: From world discourse to national policies D Barrett, DJ Frank Constructing world culture: International nongovernmental organizations …, 1999 | 170* | 1999 |
| World society, NGOs and environmental policy reform in Asia DJ Frank, W Longhofer, E Schofer International Journal of Comparative Sociology 48 (4), 275-295, 2007 | 167 | 2007 |
| What counts as history: A cross-national and longitudinal study of university curricula DJ Frank, SY Wong, JW Meyer, FO Ramirez Comparative Education Review 44 (1), 29-53, 2000 | 163* | 2000 |
| The individualist polity and the prevalence of professionalized psychology: A cross-national study DJ Frank, JW Meyer, D Miyahara American Sociological Review, 360-377, 1995 | 146 | 1995 |
| The rationalization and organization of nature in world culture DJ Frank, A Hironaka, JW Meyer, E Schofer, NB Tuma Constructing world culture: International nongovernmental organizations …, 1999 | 144* | 1999 |
| NGOs, INGOs, and environmental policy reform, 1970–2010 W Longhofer, E Schofer, N Miric, DJ Frank Social Forces 94 (4), 1743-1768, 2016 | 143 | 2016 |
| The global dimensions of rape-law reform: A cross-national study of policy outcomes DJ Frank, T Hardinge, K Wosick-Correa American Sociological Review 74 (2), 272-290, 2009 | 127 | 2009 |
| Environmentalism as a global institution: Reply to Buttel DJ Frank, A Hironaka, E Schofer American Sociological Review 65 (1), 122-127, 2000 | 109 | 2000 |
