| Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434 JF Padgett, CK Ansell American journal of sociology 98 (6), 1259-1319, 1993 | 3264 | 1993 |
| The emergence of organizations and markets JF Padgett, WW Powell Princeton University Press, 2012 | 1076 | 2012 |
| Organizational invention and elite transformation: The birth of partnership systems in Renaissance Florence JF Padgett, PD McLean American journal of Sociology 111 (5), 1463-1568, 2006 | 393 | 2006 |
| Managing garbage can hierarchies JF Padgett Administrative science quarterly, 583-604, 1980 | 378 | 1980 |
| Bounded rationality in budgetary research JF Padgett American Political Science Review 74 (2), 354-372, 1980 | 362 | 1980 |
| The problem of emergence JF Padgett, WW Powell The emergence of organizations and markets 48, 1-29, 2012 | 270 | 2012 |
| Causality in political networks JH Fowler, MT Heaney, DW Nickerson, JF Padgett, B Sinclair American politics research 39 (2), 437-480, 2011 | 248 | 2011 |
| Hierarchy and ecological control in federal budgetary decision making JF Padgett American Journal of Sociology 87 (1), 75-129, 1981 | 220 | 1981 |
| Organizational genesis, identity and control JF Padgett Departament of, 1998 | 171 | 1998 |
| Economic production as chemistry JF Padgett, D Lee, N Collier Industrial and Corporate Change 12 (4), 843-877, 2003 | 134 | 2003 |
| Open elite? Social mobility, marriage, and family in Florence, 1282–1494 JF Padgett Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2), 357-411, 2010 | 123 | 2010 |
| Economic credit in renaissance Florence JF Padgett, PD McLean The Journal of Modern History 83 (1), 1-47, 2011 | 104 | 2011 |
| Marriage and elite structure in Reinassance Florence; 1282-1500 JF Padgett Redes, revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales 21, 0071-97, 2011 | 91* | 2011 |
| The emergence of simple ecologies of skill: A hypercycle approach to economic organization JF Padgett The Economy as an Evolving Complex System II, 199-221, 2018 | 86 | 2018 |
| Was Florence a perfectly competitive market? Transactional evidence from the Renaissance PD McLean, JF Padgett Theory and society 26 (2/3), 209-244, 1997 | 77 | 1997 |
| The emergent organization of plea bargaining JF Padgett American Journal of Sociology 90 (4), 753-800, 1985 | 50 | 1985 |
| Plea bargaining and Prohibition in the federal courts, 1908–1934 JF Padgett Law & Society Review 24 (2), 413-450, 1990 | 43 | 1990 |
| Faulkner’s assembly of memories into history: Narrative networks in multiple times JF Padgett American Journal of Sociology 124 (2), 406-478, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Mobility as control: congressmen through committees JF Padgett Social Mobility and Social Structure, 27-58, 1990 | 32 | 1990 |
| Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life JF Padgett The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, 33-69, 2012 | 25 | 2012 |
