| Slavery and social death: A comparative study, with a new preface O Patterson Harvard University Press, 2018 | 8373 | 2018 |
| The sociology of slavery: An analysis of the origins, development and structure of Negro slave society in Jamaica O Patterson (No Title), 1967 | 1022 | 1967 |
| Rituals of blood: Consequences of slavery in two American centuries O Patterson (No Title), 1998 | 885 | 1998 |
| Freedom O Patterson Basic Books, 1991 | 845 | 1991 |
| The ordeal of integration: Progress and resentment in America's" racial" crisis O Patterson (No Title), 1997 | 550 | 1997 |
| Context and choice in ethnic allegiance: a theoretical framework and Caribbean case study O Patterson Ethnicity: Theory and experience, 305-349, 1975 | 503 | 1975 |
| Making sense of culture O Patterson Annual review of sociology 40 (1), 1-30, 2014 | 493 | 2014 |
| Cross-national cultural diffusion: The global spread of cricket J Kaufman, O Patterson American sociological review 70 (1), 82-110, 2005 | 288 | 2005 |
| Slavery & Social Death: A Comparative Study O Patterson Harvard University Press, 1982 | 201* | 1982 |
| Slavery and slave revolts: a socio-historical analysis of the first maroon war Jamaica, 1655–1740 O Patterson Social and Economic Studies, 289-325, 1970 | 184 | 1970 |
| Taking culture seriously: A framework and an Afro-American illustration O Patterson Culture matters: How values shape human progress, 202-218, 2000 | 178 | 2000 |
| A poverty of the mind O Patterson New York Times 26, 27, 2006 | 177 | 2006 |
| The children of Sisyphus O Patterson (No Title), 1964 | 155 | 1964 |
| The Cultural Matrix: Understanding Black Youth O Patterson, E Fosse Harvard University Press, 2015 | 137 | 2015 |
| The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's" Racial O Patterson Crisis 46, 1997 | 129 | 1997 |
| Trafficking, gender and slavery: Past and present O Patterson The legal understanding of slavery: From the historical to the contemporary …, 2012 | 122 | 2012 |
| Slavery O Patterson Annual Review of Sociology 3, 407-449, 1977 | 102 | 1977 |
| Toward a future that has no past-reflections on the fate of blacks in the Americas O Patterson The Public Interest 27, 25, 1972 | 72 | 1972 |
| Modern trafficking, slavery, and other forms of servitude O Patterson, X Zhuo Annual Review of Sociology 44 (1), 407-439, 2018 | 65 | 2018 |
| The structural origins of slavery: a critique of the Nieboer‐Domar hypothesis from a comparative perspective O Patterson Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 292 (1), 12-34, 1977 | 64 | 1977 |
