| RETRACTED ARTICLE: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history H Whitehouse, P François, PE Savage, TE Currie, KC Feeney, E Cioni, ... Nature 568 (7751), 226-229, 2019 | 275 | 2019 |
| Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization P Turchin, TE Currie, H Whitehouse, P François, K Feeney, D Mullins, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (2), E144-E151, 2018 | 255 | 2018 |
| Seshat: The global history databank P Turchin, R Brennan, T Currie, K Feeney, P Francois, D Hoyer, ... Cliodynamics 6 (1), 2015 | 227 | 2015 |
| A historical database of sociocultural evolution P Turchin, H Whitehouse, P Francois, E Slingerland, M Collard Cliodynamics 3 (2), 2012 | 123 | 2012 |
| The cultural evolution of religion J Bulbulia, AW Geertz, QD Atkinson, E Cohen, N Evans, P Francois, ... | 111 | 2013 |
| A systematic assessment of “axial age” proposals using global comparative historical evidence DA Mullins, D Hoyer, C Collins, T Currie, K Feeney, P François, ... American Sociological Review 83 (3), 596-626, 2018 | 75 | 2018 |
| Agricultural productivity in past societies: Toward an empirically informed model for testing cultural evolutionary hypotheses TE Currie, A Bogaard, R Cesaretti, N Edwards, P Francois, P Holden, ... Cliodynamics 6 (1), 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| Disentangling the evolutionary drivers of social complexity: A comprehensive test of hypotheses P Turchin, H Whitehouse, S Gavrilets, D Hoyer, P François, JS Bennett, ... Science Advances 8 (25), eabn3517, 2022 | 62 | 2022 |
| The role of ritual in the evolution of social complexity: Five predictions and a drum roll H Whitehouse, P François, P Turchin Cliodynamics 6 (2), 2015 | 57* | 2015 |
| Testing the Big Gods hypothesis with global historical data: a review and “retake” H Whitehouse, P François, PE Savage, D Hoyer, KC Feeney, E Cioni, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 13 (2), 124-166, 2023 | 54* | 2023 |
| Rise of the war machines: Charting the evolution of military technologies from the Neolithic to the Industrial Revolution P Turchin, D Hoyer, A Korotayev, N Kradin, S Nefedov, G Feinman, ... PLoS One 16 (10), e0258161, 2021 | 50 | 2021 |
| Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank P Turchin, H Whitehouse, J Larson, E Cioni, J Reddish, D Hoyer, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 13 (2), 167-194, 2023 | 49 | 2023 |
| A macroscope for global history-Seshat global history databank: a methodological overview P Francois, J Manning, H Whitehouse, R Brennan, T Currie, K Feeney, ... Digital Humanities Quarterly, 2016 | 44 | 2016 |
| If It's 1815, This Must Be Belgium: The Origins of the Modern Travel Guide P François Book History 15 (1), 71-92, 2012 | 40 | 2012 |
| An Introduction to Seshat: Global History Databank P Turchin, H Whitehouse, P François, D Hoyer, A Alves, J Baines, D Baker, ... | 39 | 2020 |
| Cultural evolution of the structure of human groups FM Jordan, C Van Schaik, P François, H Gintis, D Haun, DJ Hruschka, ... | 32 | 2013 |
| Retraction note: Complex societies precede moralizing gods throughout world history H Whitehouse, P François, PE Savage, TE Currie, KC Feeney, E Cioni, ... Nature 595 (7866), 320-320, 2021 | 25 | 2021 |
| Evolutionary pathways to statehood: Old theories and new data P Turchin, H Whitehouse, A Korotayev, P Francois, D Hoyer, P Peregrine, ... SocArXiv Prepr 10, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Conclusion: was there ever an Axial Age? H Whitehouse, P François, E Cioni, J Levine, D Hoyer, J Reddish, ... Beresta Books, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
| The Equinox2020 seshat data release P Turchin, D Hoyer, J Bennett, K Basava, E Cioni, K Feeney, P Francois, ... Cliodynamics 11 (1), 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
