| Democracy and international conflict: An evaluation of the democratic peace proposition JL Ray (No Title), 1995 | 1022 | 1995 |
| Does democracy cause peace? JL Ray Annual Review of Political Science 1 (1), 27-46, 1998 | 374 | 1998 |
| Global politics JL Ray (No Title), 1987 | 343 | 1987 |
| Explaining interstate conflict and war: What should be controlled for? J Lee Ray Conflict Management and Peace Science 20 (2), 1-31, 2003 | 279 | 2003 |
| Wars between democracies: Rare, or nonexistent? JL Ray International Interactions 18 (3), 251-276, 1993 | 255 | 1993 |
| Measuring the concentration of power in the international system JL Ray, JD Singer Sociological Methods & Research 1 (4), 403-437, 1973 | 254 | 1973 |
| The abolition of slavery and the end of international war JL Ray International Organization 43 (3), 405-439, 1989 | 238 | 1989 |
| New tests of the democratic peace: Controlling for economic interdependence, 1950-85 JR Oneal, JL Ray Political Research Quarterly 50 (4), 751-775, 1997 | 207 | 1997 |
| Constructing multivariate analyses (of dangerous dyads) JL Ray Conflict Management and Peace Science 22 (4), 277-292, 2005 | 173 | 2005 |
| No Clear and Present Danger: A Skeptical View of the United States Entry into World War II BM Russett Routledge, 2018 | 151 | 2018 |
| A Lakatosian View of the Democratic Peace Research Program JL Ray Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field/MIT Press, 2003 | 129 | 2003 |
| Democracy: On the level (s), does democracy correlate with peace JL Ray What do we know about war, 299-316, 2000 | 120 | 2000 |
| Global politics J Kaarbo, J Ray Cengage Learning, 2010 | 114 | 2010 |
| The future as arbiter of theoretical controversies: Predictions, explanations and the end of the cold war JL Ray, B Russett British Journal of Political Science 26 (4), 441-470, 1996 | 111 | 1996 |
| The democratic path to peace JL Ray Journal of Democracy 8 (2), 49-64, 1997 | 108 | 1997 |
| A generalized index of concentration R Taagepera, J Lee Ray Sociological Methods & Research 5 (3), 367-384, 1977 | 99 | 1977 |
| Integrating levels of analysis in world politics JL Ray Journal of theoretical politics 13 (4), 355-388, 2001 | 85 | 2001 |
| Beginners and winners: The fate of initiators of interstate wars involving great powers since 1495 K Wang, JL Ray International Studies Quarterly 38 (1), 139-154, 1994 | 84 | 1994 |
| Friends as foes: International conflict and wars between formal allies JL Ray Prisoners of war, 73-91, 1990 | 77 | 1990 |
| Dependency and economic growth in Latin America JL Ray, T Webster International Studies Quarterly 22 (3), 409-434, 1978 | 68 | 1978 |
