| Religion and political legitimation DB Billings, SL Scott Annual Review of Sociology 20 (1), 173-202, 1994 | 225 | 1994 |
| Two sides to everything: The cultural construction of class consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky SL Scott State University of New York Press, 1995 | 74 | 1995 |
| The long-term effects of a coal waste disaster on social trust in Appalachian Kentucky SL Scott, S McSpirit, P Breheny, BM Howell Organization & Environment 25 (4), 402-418, 2012 | 41 | 2012 |
| “they don't have to live by the old traditions”: saintly men, sinner women, and an Appalachian Pentecostal revival SL Scott American ethnologist 21 (2), 227-244, 1994 | 37 | 1994 |
| Post disaster interviews with Martin County citizens:" Gray clouds" of blame and distrust SL Scott, S McSpirit, S Hardesty, R Welch Journal of Appalachian Studies 11 (1/2), 7-29, 2005 | 36 | 2005 |
| Drudges, Helpers and Team Players: Oral Historical Accounts of Farm Work in Appalachian Kentucky1 SL Scott Rural Sociology 61 (2), 209-226, 1996 | 34 | 1996 |
| Dead work: The construction and reconstruction of the Harlan Miners Memorial SL Scott Qualitative Sociology 19, 365-393, 1996 | 30 | 1996 |
| Risk perceptions after a coal waste impoundment failure: A survey assessment S McSpirit, S Scott, D Gill, S Hardesty, D Sims Journal of Rural Social Sciences 22 (2), 6, 2007 | 28 | 2007 |
| EPA actions in post disaster Martin County, Kentucky: An analysis of bureaucratic slippage and agency recreancy S McSpirit, SL Scott, S Hardesty, R Welch Journal of Appalachian Studies 11 (1/2), 30-59, 2005 | 26 | 2005 |
| Studying Appalachian studies: Making the path by walking BE Smith, C Green, EA Locklear, DE Davis, C Baker, AL Fickey, ... University of Illinois Press, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Discovering what the people knew: the 1979 Appalachian Land Ownership Study SL Scott Action Research 7 (2), 185-205, 2009 | 20 | 2009 |
| Gender among Appalachian Kentucky farm families: The Kentucky farm family oral history project and beyond SL Scott Journal of Appalachian Studies 2 (1), 103-113, 1996 | 15 | 1996 |
| The Appalachian land ownership study revisited S Scott Appalachian Journal 35 (3), 236-252, 2008 | 14 | 2008 |
| The suspicious, untrusting hillbilly in political-economic contexts: Stereotypes and social trust in the Appalachian coalfields S Scott, S McSpirit Practicing Anthropology 36 (4), 42-46, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| Family and community S Burns, SL Scott, DJ Thompson Encyclopedia of Appalachia, 149-154, 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
| The long-term effects of a coal waste disaster on social trust in eastern Kentucky updated SL Scott, PM Westgate, S McSpirit Journal of Appalachian Studies 22 (2), 261-274, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| Grannies, mothers and babies: an examination of traditional Southern Appalachian midwifery S Scott Central Issues in Anthropology 4 (2), 17-30, 1982 | 8 | 1982 |
| Promoting outdoor recreation and adventure tourism on the Russell Fork: An academic-community partnership report SL Scott, S McSpirit, J Foley Journal of Appalachian Studies 23 (2), 170-180, 2017 | 6 | 2017 |
| Where there is no middle ground: community and class consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky SL Scott University of Calilfornia, Berkeley, 1988 | 6 | 1988 |
| My Mothers,(Grand) Daughters, and Me: A Feminist Reflection on the Trajectory of an Appalachian Family in Troubled Times SL Scott Appalachian Journal 44 (1/2), 52-78, 2016 | 5 | 2016 |
