| Delegation and agency in international organizations DG Hawkins, D Lake, D Nielson, MJ Tierney Cambridge Univ Pr, 2006 | 2425* | 2006 |
| Delegation to international organizations: Agency theory and World Bank environmental reform DL Nielson, MJ Tierney International organization 57 (2), 241-276, 2003 | 1187 | 2003 |
| More dollars than sense: Refining our knowledge of development finance using AidData MJ Tierney, DL Nielson, DG Hawkins, JT Roberts, MG Findley, ... World Development 39 (11), 1891-1906, 2011 | 739 | 2011 |
| Aid, China, and growth: Evidence from a new global development finance dataset A Dreher, A Fuchs, B Parks, A Strange, MJ Tierney American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13 (2), 135-174, 2021 | 697 | 2021 |
| African leaders and the geography of China's foreign assistance A Dreher, A Fuchs, R Hodler, BC Parks, PA Raschky, MJ Tierney Journal of Development Economics 140, 44-71, 2019 | 578* | 2019 |
| Apples and dragon fruits: The determinants of aid and other forms of state financing from China to Africa A Dreher, A Fuchs, B Parks, AM Strange, MJ Tierney International Studies Quarterly 62 (1), 182-194, 2018 | 537 | 2018 |
| Greening aid?: Understanding the environmental impact of development assistance RL Hicks, B Parks, T Roberts, MJ Tierney Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 | 369 | 2008 |
| Tracking under-reported financial flows: China's development finance and the aid-conflict nexus revisited A Strange, B Parks, A Fuchs, A Dreher, MJ Tierney Journal of Conflict Resolution 61 (5), 935-963, 2017 | 349 | 2017 |
| China's development finance to Africa: A media-based approach to data collection A Strange, B Park, MJ Tierney, A Fuchs, A Dreher, V Ramachandran Center for Global Development Working Paper, 2013 | 284 | 2013 |
| Who delegates? Alternative models of principals in development aid M Lyne, DL Nielson, MJ Tierney Delegation and Agency in IOs, Cambridge Univ Press 44, 2006 | 275* | 2006 |
| International relations in the US academy D Maliniak, A Oakes, S Peterson, MJ Tierney International Studies Quarterly 55 (2), 437-464, 2011 | 267* | 2011 |
| Bridging the rationalist–constructivist divide: re-engineering the culture of the World Bank DL Nielson, MJ Tierney, CE Weaver Journal of International Relations and Development 9, 107-139, 2006 | 251 | 2006 |
| Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries R Bluhm, A Dreher, A Fuchs, BC Parks, AM Strange, MJ Tierney Journal of Urban Economics 145, 103730, 2025 | 215 | 2025 |
| Banking on Beijing: The aims and impacts of China's overseas development program A Dreher, A Fuchs, B Parks, A Strange, MJ Tierney Cambridge University Press, 2022 | 189 | 2022 |
| TRIP around the world: Teaching, research, and policy views of international relations faculty in 20 countries D Maliniak, S Peterson, MJ Tierney The Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations, The …, 2012 | 158 | 2012 |
| Tracking Chinese Development Finance: An Application of AidData's TUFF 3.0 Methodology S Custer, A Dreher, TB Elston, B Escobar, AF Fedorochko, S Ghose, ... AidData at William & Mary, 2023 | 150 | 2023 |
| Controlling coalitions: Social lending at the multilateral development banks MM Lyne, DL Nielson, MJ Tierney The Review of International Organizations 4, 407-433, 2009 | 143* | 2009 |
| One discipline or many? TRIP survey of international relations faculty in ten countries R Jordan, D Maliniak, A Oakes, S Peterson, MJ Tierney Institute for the Theory and Practice of International Relations, 2009 | 135* | 2009 |
| Is favoritism a threat to Chinese aid effectiveness? A subnational analysis of Chinese development projects A Dreher, A Fuchs, R Hodler, BC Parks, PA Raschky, MJ Tierney World Development 139, 105291, 2021 | 132 | 2021 |
| Is international relations a global discipline? Hegemony, insularity, and diversity in the field D Maliniak, S Peterson, R Powers, MJ Tierney Security Studies 27 (3), 448-484, 2018 | 123 | 2018 |
Daniel L. NielsonProfessor of Government, University of Texas at AustinEmail verificata su utexas.edu