| Nonviolent revolutions: Civil resistance in the late 20th century SE Nepstad Oxford University Press, 2011 | 503 | 2011 |
| Globalization and resistance: Transnational dimensions of social movements J Smith, H Johnston Rowman & Littlefield, 2002 | 486 | 2002 |
| Mutiny and nonviolence in the Arab Spring: Exploring military defections and loyalty in Egypt, Bahrain, and Syria SE Nepstad Journal of Peace Research 50 (3), 337-349, 2013 | 327 | 2013 |
| Convictions of the soul: Religion, culture, and agency in the Central America solidarity movement SE Nepstad Oxford University Press, 2004 | 271 | 2004 |
| When do leaders matter? Hypotheses on leadership dynamics in social movements S Nepstad, C Bob Mobilization: An International Quarterly 11 (1), 1-22, 2006 | 247 | 2006 |
| Persistent resistance: Commitment and community in the Plowshares movement SE Nepstad Social problems 51 (1), 43-60, 2004 | 217 | 2004 |
| Rethinking recruitment to high-risk/cost activism: The case of Nicaragua exchange S Nepstad, C Smith Mobilization: An International Quarterly 4 (1), 25-40, 1999 | 215 | 1999 |
| The social structure of moral outrage in recruitment to the US Central America peace movement SE Nepstad, C Smith Passionate politics: Emotions and social movements, 158-74, 2001 | 155 | 2001 |
| Nonviolent struggle: Theories, strategies, and dynamics SE Nepstad Oxford University Press, 2015 | 153 | 2015 |
| Nonviolent resistance in the arab spring: The critical role of military‐opposition alliances SE Nepstad Swiss Political Science Review 17 (4), 485-491, 2011 | 152 | 2011 |
| Creating transnational solidarity: The use of narrative in the US-Central America peace movement S Nepstad Mobilization: An International Quarterly 6 (1), 21-36, 2001 | 152 | 2001 |
| Religion and war resistance in the Plowshares movement SE Nepstad Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 140 | 2008 |
| The process of cognitive liberation: Cultural synapses, links, and frame contradictions in the US‐Central America peace movement SE Nepstad Sociological Inquiry 67 (4), 470-487, 1997 | 120 | 1997 |
| Kill a leader, murder a movement? Leadership and assassination in social movements C Bob, SE Nepstad American Behavioral Scientist 50 (10), 1370-1394, 2007 | 116 | 2007 |
| Religion, Violence, and Peacemaking. SE Nepstad Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 43 (3), 2004 | 56 | 2004 |
| Religion in rebellion, resistance, and social movements SE Nepstad, RH Williams The Sage HANDBOOK of the Sociology of Religion. London: Sage, 419-437, 2007 | 50 | 2007 |
| Popular religion, protest, and revolt: The emergence of political insurgency in the Nicaraguan and Salvadoran churches of the 1960s–80s SE Nepstad Disruptive Religion, 105-124, 2014 | 47 | 2014 |
| Nonviolent resistance research SE Nepstad Mobilization: An International Quarterly 20 (4), 415-426, 2015 | 39 | 2015 |
| Nonviolent civil resistance and social movements SE Nepstad Sociology Compass 7 (7), 590-598, 2013 | 35 | 2013 |
| Oppositional consciousness among the privileged: Remaking religion in the Central America solidarity movement SE Nepstad Critical Sociology 33 (4), 661-688, 2007 | 32 | 2007 |
