| Becoming modern: Individual change in six developing countries A Inkeles, DH Smith Harvard University Press, 1974 | 4220 | 1974 |
| Determinants of voluntary association participation and volunteering: A literature review DH Smith Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 23 (3), 243-263, 1994 | 1193 | 1994 |
| Altruism, volunteers, and volunteerism DH Smith Journal of Voluntary Action Research 10 (1), 21-36, 1981 | 878 | 1981 |
| Grassroots associations DH Smith Sage Publications, 2000 | 580 | 2000 |
| The OM Scale: A comparative socio-psychological measure of individual modernity DH Smith, A Inkeles Sociometry, 353-377, 1966 | 350 | 1966 |
| Voluntary action and voluntary groups DH Smith Annual review of sociology 1, 247-270, 1975 | 305 | 1975 |
| The rest of the nonprofit sector: Grassroots associations as the dark matter ignored in prevailing" flat earth" maps of the sector DH Smith Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly 26 (2), 114-131, 1997 | 288 | 1997 |
| Participation in social and political activities DH Smith, J Macaulay (No Title), 1980 | 211 | 1980 |
| Four sectors or five? Retaining the member-benefit sector DH Smith Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 20 (2), 137-150, 1991 | 197 | 1991 |
| Grassroots associations are important: Some theory and a review of the impact literature DH Smith Nonprofit and voluntary sector quarterly 26 (3), 269-306, 1997 | 185 | 1997 |
| Author Biography DH Smith Voluntaristics Review 2 (5-6), xiv-xiv, 2018 | 167 | 2018 |
| A dictionary of nonprofit terms and concepts DH Smith, RA Stebbins, MA Dover Indiana University Press, 2006 | 159 | 2006 |
| The fate of personal adjustment in the process of modernization A Inkeles, DH Smith International Journal of Comparative Sociology 11, 81, 1970 | 141 | 1970 |
| Voluntary action research: 1974: the nature of voluntary action around the world DH Smith (No Title), 1974 | 139 | 1974 |
| Modernization, modernity, and perceptions of aging: A cross-cultural study VL Bengtson, JJ Dowd, DH Smith, A Inkeles Journal of Gerontology 30 (6), 688-695, 1975 | 136 | 1975 |
| Factors characterizing the most effective nonprofits managed by volunteers DH Smith, C Shen Nonprofit management and Leadership 6 (3), 271-289, 1996 | 133 | 1996 |
| A psychological model of individual participation in formal voluntary organizations: Application to some Chilean data DH Smith American Journal of Sociology 72 (3), 249-266, 1966 | 128 | 1966 |
| State of the world's volunteerism report, 2011: Universal values for global Well-being R Leigh, DH Smith, C Giesing, MJ León, D Haski-Leventhal, BJ Lough, ... United Nations Volunteers, 2011 | 122 | 2011 |
| The Palgrave handbook of volunteering, civic participation, and nonprofit associations DH Smith, RA Stebbins, J Grotz Springer, 2017 | 121 | 2017 |
| The roots of civil society: A model of voluntary association prevalence applied to data on larger contemporary nations DH Smith, C Shen International Journal of Comparative Sociology 43 (2), 93-133, 2002 | 121 | 2002 |