| Deciding what's news: A study of CBS evening news, NBC nightly news, Newsweek, and Time HJ Gans Northwestern University Press, 2004 | 12101* | 2004 |
| Urban villagers HJ Gans Simon and Schuster, 1982 | 7349 | 1982 |
| Symbolic ethnicity: The future of ethnic groups and cultures in America HJ Gans Ethnic and racial studies 2 (1), 1-20, 1979 | 3841 | 1979 |
| Popular culture and high culture: An analysis and evaluation of taste HJ Gans Basic books, 2008 | 3324 | 2008 |
| The Levittowners: Ways of life and politics in a new suburban community HJ Gans Columbia University Press, 2017 | 2444 | 2017 |
| Second‐generation decline: Scenarios for the economic and ethnic futures of the post‐1965 American immigrants HJ Gans Ethnic and racial studies 15 (2), 173-192, 1992 | 1663 | 1992 |
| The War against the Poor. The Underclass and Antipoverty Policy. HJ Gans BasicBooks, 10 East 53rd Street, New York, NY 10022-5299, 1995 | 1578 | 1995 |
| Democracy and the News HJ Gans Oxford University Press, 2004 | 1178 | 2004 |
| People and plans: Essays on urban problems and solutions HJ Gans (No Title), 1968 | 1172 | 1968 |
| Urbanism and suburbanism as ways of life: A re-evaluation of definitions HJ Gans Human behavior and social processes, 625-648, 2013 | 946 | 2013 |
| Toward a reconciliation of “assimilation” and “pluralism”: The interplay of acculturation and ethnic retention HJ Gans International migration review 31 (4), 875-892, 1997 | 761 | 1997 |
| Deciding what's news: A study of CBS evening news HJ Gans NBC nightly, 1979 | 624 | 1979 |
| Symbolic ethnicity and symbolic religiosity: Towards a comparison of ethnic and religious acculturation HJ Gans Ethnic and racial studies 17 (4), 577-592, 1994 | 564 | 1994 |
| The Positive Functions of Poverty 1 HJ Gans Welfare Law, 175-189, 2020 | 547 | 2020 |
| The participant-observer as a human being: Observations on the personal aspects of field work HJ Gans Institutions and the Person, 300-138, 2017 | 533 | 2017 |
| Participant observation in the era of “ethnography” HJ Gans Journal of contemporary ethnography 28 (5), 540-548, 1999 | 399 | 1999 |
| Middle American individualism: The future of liberal democracy HJ Gans (No Title), 1988 | 368 | 1988 |
| Comment: Ethnic invention and acculturation, a bumpy-line approach HJ Gans Journal of American Ethnic History, 42-52, 1992 | 364 | 1992 |
| The possibility of a new racial hierarchy in the twenty-first-century United States HJ Gans Social Stratification, Class, Race, and Gender in Sociological Perspective …, 2019 | 348 | 2019 |
| The sociology of space: a use–centered view HJ Gans City & Community 1 (4), 329-339, 2002 | 347 | 2002 |
