| Rankings and reactivity: How public measures recreate social worlds WN Espeland, M Sauder American journal of sociology 113 (1), 1-40, 2007 | 2736 | 2007 |
| Commensuration as a social process WN Espeland, ML Stevens Annual review of sociology 24 (1), 313-343, 1998 | 2519 | 1998 |
| A sociology of quantification WN Espeland, ML Stevens European Journal of Sociology/Archives européennes de sociologie 49 (3), 401-436, 2008 | 1375 | 2008 |
| The discipline of rankings: Tight coupling and organizational change M Sauder, WN Espeland American sociological review 74 (1), 63-82, 2009 | 1304 | 2009 |
| Accounting for rationality: Double-entry bookkeeping and the rhetoric of economic rationality BG Carruthers, WN Espeland American journal of sociology 97 (1), 31-69, 1991 | 934 | 1991 |
| The struggle for water: Politics, rationality, and identity in the American Southwest WN Espeland University of Chicago Press, 1998 | 759 | 1998 |
| Engines of anxiety: Academic rankings, reputation, and accountability WN Espeland, M Sauder, W Espeland Russell Sage Foundation, 2016 | 681 | 2016 |
| Five ways to ensure that models serve society: a manifesto A Saltelli, G Bammer, I Bruno, E Charters, M Di Fiore, E Didier, ... Nature 582 (7813), 482-484, 2020 | 368 | 2020 |
| What's new with numbers? Sociological approaches to the study of quantification A Mennicken, WN Espeland Annual Review of Sociology 45, 223-245, 2019 | 318 | 2019 |
| Money, meaning, and morality BG Carruthers, WN Espeland American Behavioral Scientist 41 (10), 1384-1408, 1998 | 213 | 1998 |
| Ownership changes, accounting practice and the redefinition of the corporation WN Espeland, PM Hirsch Accounting, Organizations and Society 15 (1-2), 77-96, 1990 | 151 | 1990 |
| Accountability, quantification, and law WN Espeland, BI Vannebo Annu. Rev. Law Soc. Sci. 3, 21-43, 2007 | 141 | 2007 |
| Strength in numbers-the advantages of multiple rankings M Sauder, WN Espeland Ind. lJ 81, 205, 2006 | 140 | 2006 |
| Narrating numbers W Espeland The world of indicators: The making of governmental knowledge through …, 2015 | 114 | 2015 |
| Pollution futures: Commensuration, commodification, and the market for air P Levin, WN Espeland Organizations, policy, and the natural environment, 119-148, 2002 | 109 | 2002 |
| Legally mediated identity: the National Environmental Policy Act and the bureaucratic construction of interests W Espeland Law & Soc'y Rev. 28, 1149, 1994 | 86 | 1994 |
| Commensuration and cognition WN Espeland Culture in mind, 67-92, 2013 | 77 | 2013 |
| Authority by the numbers: Porter on quantification, discretion, and the legitimation of expertise WN Espeland Law & Social Inquiry 22 (4), 1107-1133, 1997 | 67 | 1997 |
| Bureaucratizing democracy, democratizing bureaucracy WN Espeland Law & Social Inquiry 25 (4), 1077-1109, 2000 | 63 | 2000 |
| Power, policy and paperwork: The bureaucratic representation of interests W Espeland Qualitative Sociology 16, 297-317, 1993 | 62 | 1993 |
Michael SauderProfessor of Sociology, University of IowaVerified email at uiowa.edu
