| Off the books: The underground economy of the urban poor SA Venkatesh Harvard University Press, 2006 | 1261 | 2006 |
| American project: The rise and fall of a modern ghetto SA Venkatesh, SA Venkatesh Harvard University Press, 2009 | 1213* | 2009 |
| Gang leader for a day: A rogue sociologist takes to the streets S Venkatesh Penguin. com, 2008 | 1110 | 2008 |
| An economic analysis of a drug-selling gang's finances SD Levitt, SA Venkatesh The Quarterly Journal of Economics 115 (3), 755-789, 2000 | 1085 | 2000 |
| The social organization of street gang activity in an urban ghetto SA Venkatesh American Journal of Sociology 103 (1), 82-111, 1997 | 523 | 1997 |
| “Are we a family or a business?” History and disjuncture in the urban American street gang SA Venkatesh, SD Levitt Theory and Society 29 (4), 427-462, 2000 | 248 | 2000 |
| Underground gun markets PJ Cook, J Ludwig, S Venkatesh, AA Braga National Bureau of Economic Research, 2005 | 235 | 2005 |
| Underground Gun Markets* PJ Cook, J Ludwig, S Venkatesh, AA Braga The Economic Journal 117 (524), F588-F618, 2007 | 203 | 2007 |
| The urban street gang after 1970 BC Coughlin, SA Venkatesh Annual Review of Sociology, 41-64, 2003 | 172 | 2003 |
| Vice careers: The changing contours of sex work in New York City AK Murphy, SA Venkatesh Qualitative Sociology 29 (2), 129-154, 2006 | 157 | 2006 |
| Doin'the hustle'Constructing the ethnographer in the American ghetto S Venkatesh Ethnography 3 (1), 91-111, 2002 | 153* | 2002 |
| A “Perversion” of Choice Sex Work Offers Just Enough in Chicago's Urban Ghetto E Rosen, SA Venkatesh Journal of contemporary ethnography 37 (4), 417-441, 2008 | 149 | 2008 |
| An empirical analysis of street-level prostitution SD Levitt, SA Venkatesh Preliminary draft, September, 2007 | 125 | 2007 |
| The Reflexive Turn: The Rise of First‐Person Ethnography SA Venkatesh The Sociological Quarterly 54 (1), 3-8, 2013 | 110 | 2013 |
| Growing up in the projects: The economic lives of a cohort of men who came of age in Chicago public housing SD Levitt, SA Venkatesh The American Economic Review 91 (2), 79-84, 2001 | 103 | 2001 |
| Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York's Underground Economy S Venkatesh Penguin, 2013 | 88 | 2013 |
| Chicago public housing transformation: A research report SA Venkatesh Center for Urban Research and Policy, Columbia University, 2004 | 79 | 2004 |
| Chicago's pragmatic planners: American sociology and the myth of community SA Venkatesh Social Science History 25 (2), 275-317, 2001 | 77 | 2001 |
| Chicago’s Pragmatic Planners S Venkatesh | 77* | |
| An economic analysis of a drug-selling gang's finances SD Levitt, SA Venkatesh National Bureau of Economic Research, 1998 | 67 | 1998 |
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