| The truly disadvantaged: The inner city, the underclass, and public policy WJ Wilson University of Chicago Press, 2012 | 26315 | 2012 |
| When work disappears: The world of the new urban poor WJ Wilson Vintage, 2011 | 11599 | 2011 |
| The declining significance of race: Blacks and changing American institutions WJ Wilson Inequality in the 21st Century, 319-328, 2018 | 5833 | 2018 |
| Toward a theory of race, crime, and urban inequality RJ Sampson, WJ Wilson Race, crime, and justice, 177-189, 2013 | 2552 | 2013 |
| The effects of neighborhood disadvantage on adolescent development DS Elliott, WJ Wilson, D Huizinga, RJ Sampson, A Elliott, B Rankin Journal of research in crime and delinquency 33 (4), 389-426, 1996 | 1419 | 1996 |
| More than just race: Being black and poor in the inner city (issues of our time) WJ Wilson WW Norton & Company, 2009 | 1254 | 2009 |
| Regression analysis RJ Freund, WJ Wilson, P Sa Elsevier, 2006 | 1168 | 2006 |
| Statistical methods RJ Freund, WJ Wilson Elsevier, 2003 | 1168 | 2003 |
| Studying inner-city social dislocations: The challenge of public agenda research: 1990 presidential address WJ Wilson American Sociological Review, 1-14, 1991 | 1024 | 1991 |
| The cost of racial and class exclusion in the inner city LJD Wacquant, WJ Wilson The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 501 (1), 8-25, 1989 | 990 | 1989 |
| Poverty and family structure: The widening gap between evidence and public policy issues WJ Wilson University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1985 | 612 | 1985 |
| The geography of opportunity: Race and housing choice in metropolitan America WJ Wilson Rowman & Littlefield, 2006 | 601 | 2006 |
| Power, Racism and Privledge WJ Wilson Simon and Schuster, 1976 | 567 | 1976 |
| The bridge over the racial divide: Rising inequality and coalition politics WJ Wilson University of California Press, 2019 | 484 | 2019 |
| There goes the neighborhood: Racial, ethnic, and class tensions in four Chicago neighborhoods and their meaning for America WJ Wilson, RP Taub Vintage, 2007 | 428 | 2007 |
| America Becoming: racial trends and their consequences, volume 1 NJ Smelser, WJ Wilson, F Mitchell National Academies Press, 2001 | 409 | 2001 |
| The ghetto underclass WJ Wilson Sage, 1993 | 373 | 1993 |
| The role of theory in ethnographic research WJ Wilson, A Chaddha Ethnography 10 (4), 549-564, 2009 | 364 | 2009 |
| Good kids from bad neighborhoods: Successful development in social context DS Elliott, S Menard, B Rankin, A Elliott, WJ Wilson, D Huizinga Cambridge University Press, 2006 | 319 | 2006 |
| Public policy research and the truly disadvantaged WJ Wilson The urban underclass 460, 461, 1991 | 308 | 1991 |
