| Ethnicity, insurgency, and civil war JD Fearon, DD Laitin American political science review 97 (1), 75-90, 2003 | 11994 | 2003 |
| Identity in formation: The Russian-speaking populations in the near abroad DD Laitin Cornell University Press, 1998 | 2480 | 1998 |
| Explaining interethnic cooperation JD Fearon, DD Laitin American political science review 90 (4), 715-735, 1996 | 2339 | 1996 |
| Violence and the social construction of ethnic identity JD Fearon, DD Laitin International organization 54 (4), 845-877, 2000 | 1784 | 2000 |
| A theory of endogenous institutional change A Greif, DD Laitin American political science review 98 (4), 633-652, 2004 | 1633 | 2004 |
| Ethnic and nationalist violence R Brubaker, DD Laitin Annual Review of sociology 24 (1), 423-452, 1998 | 1319 | 1998 |
| Hegemony and culture: Politics and religious change among the Yoruba DD Laitin University of Chicago Press, 1986 | 1309 | 1986 |
| Are ethnic groups biological “species” to the human brain? Essentialism in our cognition of some social categories FJ GilWhite Current anthropology 42 (4), 515-553, 2001 | 882 | 2001 |
| Neotrusteeship and the problem of weak states JD Fearon, DD Laitin International security 28 (4), 5-43, 2004 | 749 | 2004 |
| Religion, terrorism and public goods: Testing the club model E Berman, DD Laitin Journal of public Economics 92 (10-11), 1942-1967, 2008 | 705 | 2008 |
| Nations, states, and violence DD Laitin Oxford University Press, 2007 | 674 | 2007 |
| Somalia: Nation in search of a state AI Samatar Northeast African Studies 9 (3), 88-93, 1987 | 658* | 1987 |
| Language repertoires and state construction in Africa DD Laitin (No Title), 1992 | 611 | 1992 |
| Promoting transparency in social science research E Miguel, C Camerer, K Casey, J Cohen, KM Esterling, A Gerber, ... Science 343 (6166), 30-31, 2014 | 569 | 2014 |
| Kto kogo?: A cross-country study of the origins and targets of terrorism AB Krueger, DD Laitin Terrorism, economic development, and political openness 5, 148-173, 2008 | 530 | 2008 |
| Identifying barriers to Muslim integration in France CL Adida, DD Laitin, MA Valfort Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 107 (52), 22384-22390, 2010 | 504 | 2010 |
| Sons of the soil, migrants, and civil war JD Fearon, DD Laitin World development 39 (2), 199-211, 2011 | 492 | 2011 |
| States of memory: Continuities, conflicts, and transformations in national retrospection J Adams, G Steinmetz, FC Corney, SF Zamponi Duke University Press, 2003 | 421 | 2003 |
| Why Muslim integration fails in Christian-heritage societies CL Adida, DD Laitin, MA Valfort Harvard University Press, 2016 | 385 | 2016 |
| Politics, language, and thought: The Somali experience DD Laitin University of Chicago Press, 1977 | 369 | 1977 |
