| Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434 JF Padgett, CK Ansell American journal of sociology 98 (6), 1259-1319, 1993 | 2696 | 1993 |
| The emergence of organizations and markets JF Padgett, WW Powell The emergence of organizations and markets, 2012 | 854 | 2012 |
| Managing garbage can hierarchies JF Padgett Administrative science quarterly, 583-604, 1980 | 342 | 1980 |
| 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 | 335 | 2006 |
| Bounded rationality in budgetary research JF Padgett American Political Science Review 74 (2), 354-372, 1980 | 323 | 1980 |
| The problem of emergence JF Padgett, WW Powell The emergence of organizations and markets, 1-29, 2012 | 203 | 2012 |
| Causality in political networks JH Fowler, MT Heaney, DW Nickerson, JF Padgett, B Sinclair American Politics Research 39 (2), 437-480, 2011 | 201 | 2011 |
| Hierarchy and ecological control in federal budgetary decision making JF Padgett American Journal of Sociology 87 (1), 75-129, 1981 | 199 | 1981 |
| Organizational genesis, identity and control JF Padgett Departament of, 1998 | 165 | 1998 |
| Economic production as chemistry JF Padgett, D Lee, N Collier Industrial and Corporate Change 12 (4), 843-877, 2003 | 119 | 2003 |
| Open elite? Social mobility, marriage, and family in Florence, 1282–1494 JF Padgett Renaissance Quarterly 63 (2), 357-411, 2010 | 100 | 2010 |
| Economic credit in renaissance Florence JF Padgett, PD McLean The Journal of Modern History 83 (1), 1-47, 2011 | 88 | 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 | 80 | 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 |
| Introduction to “Marriage and Elite Structure in Renaissance Florence, 1282-1500” JF Padgett Redes. Revista hispana para el análisis de redes sociales 21, 33-41, 2011 | 73 | 2011 |
| The emergent organization of plea bargaining JF Padgett American Journal of Sociology 90 (4), 753-800, 1985 | 43 | 1985 |
| Plea bargaining and prohibition in the federal courts, 1908-1934 JF Padgett LAw & Soc'Y REv. 24, 413, 1990 | 37 | 1990 |
| Autocatalysis in Chemistry and the Origin of Life JF Padgett The Emergence of Organizations and Markets, 33-69, 2012 | 27 | 2012 |
| Mobility as control: congressmen through committees JF Padgett Social Mobility and Social Structure, 27-58, 1990 | 24 | 1990 |
| 6. Transposition and Refunctionality JF Padgett The emergence of organizations and markets, 168-207, 2012 | 23 | 2012 |
