| Presidential Use of Executive Orders, 1953-1994 GA Krause, DB Cohen American Politics Quarterly 25 (4), 458-481, 1997 | 187 | 1997 |
| On the Front Line: American Cities and the Challenge of Homeland Security Preparedness BJ Gerber, DB Cohen, B Cannon, D Patterson, K Stewart Urban Affairs Review 41 (2), 182-210, 2005 | 94 | 2005 |
| American National Security and Civil Liberties in an Era of Terrorism DB Cohen, JW Wells Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 | 57 | 2004 |
| Pandemic Disease: A Past and Future Challenge to Governance in the United States AH Cook, DB Cohen Review of Policy Research 25 (5), 449-471, 2008 | 30 | 2008 |
| From the Fabulous Baker Boys to the Master of Disaster: The White House Chief of Staff in the Reagan and GHW Bush Administrations DB Cohen Presidential Studies Quarterly 32 (3), 463-482, 2002 | 30 | 2002 |
| Presidents, Chiefs of Staff, and White House Organizational Behavior: Survey Evidence from the Reagan and Bush Administrations DB Cohen, GA Krause Presidential Studies Quarterly 30 (3), 421-442, 2000 | 27 | 2000 |
| US Cities and Homeland Security: Examining the Role of Financial Conditions and Administrative Capacity in Municipal Preparedness Efforts BJ Gerber, DB Cohen, KB Stewart Public Finance and Management 7 (2), 152, 2007 | 25 | 2007 |
| A Place at the Table: The Emerging Foreign Policy Roles of the White House Chief of Staff DB Cohen, CJ Dolan, JA Rosati Congress & the Presidency 29 (2), 119, 2002 | 18 | 2002 |
| George Bush's Vicar of the West Wing: John Sununu as White House Chief of Staff DB Cohen Congress & the Presidency: A Journal of Capital Studies 24 (1), 37-59, 1997 | 18 | 1997 |
| Manager-in-Chief: Applying Public Management Theory to Examine White House Chief of Staff Performance DB Cohen, JS Vaughn, JD Villalobos Political Research Quarterly 65 (4), 841-854, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
| The Chicago Clan: The Chiefs of Staff in the Obama White House DB Cohen, KM Hult, CE Walcott Social science quarterly 93 (5), 1101-1126, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
| The War About the War: Iraq and the Politics of National Security Advising in the GW Bush Administration's First Term CJ Dolan, DB Cohen Politics & Policy 34 (1), 30-64, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| White House Evolution and Institutionalization: The Office of Chief of Staff since Reagan DB Cohen, KM Hult, CE Walcott Presidential Studies Quarterly 46 (1), 4-29, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| Buckeye Battleground: Ohio, Campaigns, and Elections in the Twenty-First Century DJ Coffey, JC Green, DB Cohen, SC Brooks University of Akron Press, 2011 | 14 | 2011 |
| Katrina and her Waves: Presidential Leadership and Disaster Management in an Intergovernmental Context BJ Gerber, DB Cohen Disaster Management Handbook, 81-104, 2008 | 12 | 2008 |
| Surviving the Ph. D.: Hints for Navigating the Sometimes Stormy Seas of Graduate Education in Political Science DB Cohen PS: Political Science & Politics 35 (3), 585-588, 2002 | 11 | 2002 |
| From Start to Start II: Dynamism and Pragmatism in the Bush Administration's Nuclear Weapon Policies DB Cohen Presidential Studies Quarterly 27 (3), 412-428, 1997 | 11* | 1997 |
| Revisiting El Dorado Canyon: Terrorism, the Reagan Administration, and the 1986 Bombing of Libya DB Cohen, CJ Dolan White House Studies 5 (2), 153-175, 2005 | 9 | 2005 |
| The Office of the Chief of Staff in the Trump White House, 2017–2019 DB Cohen, KM Hult Presidential Studies Quarterly 50 (2), 392-417, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| The Needs of the Many: Biological Terrorism, Disease Containment, and Civil Liberties DB Cohen, AH Cook, DJ Louscher American national security and civil liberties in an era of terrorism, 105-124, 2004 | 8 | 2004 |
