| The City RE Park, EW Burgess University of Chicago Press, 1925 | 10385* | 1925 |
| Introduction to the Science of Sociology RE Park, EW Burgess University of Chicago Press, 1921 | 6412 | 1921 |
| The growth of the city: an introduction to a research project EW Burgess The Trend of Population, 85-97, 1925 | 5415* | 1925 |
| The family: From traditional to companionship EW Burgess, HJ Locke, MM Thomes Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1971 | 2129* | 1971 |
| The Family: From Institution to Companionship [by] Ernest W. Burgess, Harvey J. Locke [and] Mary Margaret Thomas EW Burgess American Book Co., 1963 | 1432* | 1963 |
| The family: from institution to companionship. EW Burgess, HJ Locke American Book Co., 1945 | 1432 | 1945 |
| Engagement and marriage EW Burgess, P Wallin Lippincott, 1953 | 1208 | 1953 |
| Predicting success or failure in marriage. EW Burgess, LS Cottrell Jr Prentice-Hall, 1939 | 1121 | 1939 |
| Personal adjustment in old age. RS Cavan, EW Burgess, RJ Havighurst, H Goldhamer Science Research Associates, Inc., 1949 | 772 | 1949 |
| The family as a unity of interacting personalities EW Burgess American Association for Organizing Family Social Work, 1926 | 762 | 1926 |
| Urban Society EW Burgess, DJ Bogue University of Chicago Press, 1967 | 666* | 1967 |
| Aging in western societies EW Burgess University of Chicago Press, 1960 | 618 | 1960 |
| Factors determining success or failure on parole EW Burgess The workings of the indeterminate sentence law and the parole system in …, 1928 | 508 | 1928 |
| Can neighborhood work have a scientific basis? EW Burgess The city, 142-155, 1925 | 492* | 1925 |
| Residential segregation in American cities EW Burgess Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 140, 105-115, 1928 | 447 | 1928 |
| The urban community: selected papers from the proceedings of the American Sociological Society, 1925 EW Burgess University of Chicago Press, 1926 | 409 | 1926 |
| Brothers in Crime. With the Assistance of Henry D. McKay and James F. McDonald; with Special Chapters by Harold B. Hanson and Ernest W. Burgess CR Shaw, HD Mackay, james F. McDonald, HB Hanson, EW Burgess The University of Chicago press, 1938 | 363* | 1938 |
| Urban sociology EW Burgess, DJ Bogue University of Chicago Press, 1967 | 356* | 1967 |
| Contributions to urban sociology EW Burgess, DJ Bogue University of Chicago Press, 1964 | 351 | 1964 |
| Urban sociology EW Burgess, DJ Bogue Univ of Chicago Pr, 1967 | 341* | 1967 |
