| Competing institutions: Law, medicine, and family in neonatal intensive care CA Heimer Law & Society Review 33 (1), 17-66, 1999 | 471 | 1999 |
| Crime and punishment: Changing attitudes in America AL Stinchcombe, R Adams, CA Heimer, KL Scheppele, TW Smith, ... Jossey-Bass, 1980 | 444 | 1980 |
| Reactive risk and rational action: Managing moral hazard in insurance contracts CA Heimer Univ of California Press, 1985 | 401 | 1985 |
| Social structure, psychology, and the estimation of risk CA Heimer Annual review of sociology 14 (1), 491-517, 1988 | 396 | 1988 |
| Solving the problem of trust CA Heimer Trust in Society, 40-88, 2001 | 307 | 2001 |
| For the sake of the children: The social organization of responsibility in the hospital and the home CA Heimer, LR Staffen University of Chicago Press, 1998 | 292 | 1998 |
| Organization theory and project management: Administering uncertainty in Norwegian offshore oil AL Stinchcombe, CA Heimer Norwegian University Press, 1985 | 270 | 1985 |
| Doing your job and helping your friends CA Heimer Sociology of organizations: Structures and relationships 53, 2011 | 190 | 2011 |
| Regulating creativity: research and survival in the IRB iron cage CH Bledsoe, B Sherin, AG Galinsky, NM Headley, CA Heimer, et al. Northwestern University Law Review 101, 593-641, 2007 | 154 | 2007 |
| Cases and biographies: An essay on routinization and the nature of comparison CA Heimer Annual Review of Sociology 27 (1), 47-76, 2001 | 148 | 2001 |
| Bureaucratic ethics: IRBs and the legal regulation of human subjects research CA Heimer, JL Petty Annual Review of Law and Social Science 6 (1), 601-626, 2010 | 113 | 2010 |
| Inert facts and the illusion of knowledge: Strategic uses of ignorance in HIV clinics CA Heimer An Introduction to the Sociology of Ignorance, 17-41, 2016 | 104 | 2016 |
| Old inequalities, new disease: HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa CA Heimer Annu. Rev. Sociol. 33 (1), 551-577, 2007 | 97 | 2007 |
| Allocating information costs in a negotiated information order: Interorganizational constraints on decision making in Norwegian oil insurance CA Heimer Administrative Science Quarterly, 395-417, 1985 | 93 | 1985 |
| Interdependence and reintegrative social control: Labeling and reforming" inappropriate" parents in neonatal intensive care units CA Heimer, LR Staffen American Sociological Review, 635-654, 1995 | 90 | 1995 |
| Comment: On russell hardin’s «the social evolution of cooperation» CA Heimer Cook, KS et Levi, M., éditeurs: The limits of rationality, 378-382, 1990 | 80 | 1990 |
| ‘Wicked’ethics: Compliance work and the practice of ethics in HIV research CA Heimer Social science & medicine 98, 371-378, 2013 | 77 | 2013 |
| Remodeling the garbage can: Implications of the origins of items in decision streams CA Heimer, A l Stinchcombe Organizing Political Institutions: Essays for Johan P. Olsen, 25-57, 1999 | 66 | 1999 |
| Thinking about how to avoid thought: Deep norms, shallow rules, and the structure of attention CA Heimer Regulation & Governance 2 (1), 30-47, 2008 | 64 | 2008 |
| Explaining variation in the impact of law: Organizations, institutions, and professions CA Heimer Stud. L. Pol. & Soc'y 15, 29, 1995 | 63 | 1995 |
