| A class of decomposable poverty measures J Foster, J Greer, E Thorbecke Econometrica: journal of the econometric society, 761-766, 1984 | 8973 | 1984 |
| On economic inequality JE Foster Oxford Scholarship Online, 1997 | 8276* | 1997 |
| Counting and multidimensional poverty measurement S Alkire, J Foster Journal of public economics 95 (7-8), 476-487, 2011 | 5606 | 2011 |
| Multidimensional poverty measurement and analysis S Alkire, JM Roche, P Ballon, J Foster, ME Santos, S Seth Oxford University Press, USA, 2015 | 1366 | 2015 |
| Understandings and misunderstandings of multidimensional poverty measurement S Alkire, J Foster The Journal of Economic Inequality 9, 289-314, 2011 | 1216 | 2011 |
| Poverty orderings JE Foster, AF Shorrocks Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 173-177, 1988 | 846 | 1988 |
| E. Thorbecke (1984), A class of decomposable poverty measures J Foster, J Greer Econometrica 52 (3), 761-766, 1984 | 688 | 1984 |
| Polarization and the Decline of the Middle Class: Canada and the US JE Foster, MC Wolfson The Journal of Economic Inequality 8, 247-273, 2010 | 616 | 2010 |
| Absolute versus relative poverty JE Foster The American economic review 88 (2), 335-341, 1998 | 556 | 1998 |
| Subgroup consistent poverty indices JE Foster, AF Shorrocks Econometrica: Journal of the Econometric Society, 687-709, 1991 | 542 | 1991 |
| Transfer sensitive inequality measures AF Shorrocks, JE Foster The Review of Economic Studies 54 (3), 485-497, 1987 | 518 | 1987 |
| On economic poverty: a survey of aggregate measures JE Foster Institute for Research in the Behavioral, Economic, and Management Sciences …, 1983 | 481 | 1983 |
| Poverty orderings and welfare dominance JE Foster, AF Shorrocks Social choice and welfare 5 (2), 179-198, 1988 | 450 | 1988 |
| Measuring health inequality using qualitative data RA Allison, JE Foster Journal of health economics 23 (3), 505-524, 2004 | 440 | 2004 |
| On measuring literacy K Basu, JE Foster The Economic Journal 108 (451), 1733-1749, 1998 | 433 | 1998 |
| The Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) poverty measures: 25 years later J Foster, J Greer, E Thorbecke The Journal of Economic Inequality 8, 491-524, 2010 | 427 | 2010 |
| Measuring the distribution of human development: methodology and an application to Mexico JE Foster, LF Lopez‐Calva, M Szekely Journal of Human Development 6 (1), 5-25, 2005 | 358 | 2005 |
| Black-white inequalities in mortality and life expectancy, 1933–1999: implications for healthy people 2010 RS Levine, JE Foster, RE Fullilove, MT Fullilove, NC Briggs, PC Hull, ... Public health reports, 2001 | 351 | 2001 |
| Inequality measurement JE Foster Fair allocation 33, 31-68, 1985 | 346 | 1985 |
| Path independent inequality measures JE Foster, AA Shneyerov Journal of Economic Theory 91 (2), 199-222, 2000 | 302 | 2000 |
