| The great agricultural transition: crisis, change, and social consequences of twentieth century US farming L Lobao, K Meyer Annual review of sociology 27 (1), 103-124, 2001 | 552 | 2001 |
| Locality and inequality: Farm and industry structure and socioeconomic conditions LM Lobao SUNY Press, 1990 | 436 | 1990 |
| The sociology of spatial inequality LM Lobao, G Hooks, AR Tickamyer Suny Press, 2007 | 321 | 2007 |
| Austerity in the city: economic crisis and urban service decline? B Donald, A Glasmeier, M Gray, L Lobao Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 7 (1), 3-15, 2014 | 296 | 2014 |
| Public concern with animal well‐being: Place, social structural location, and individual experience HA Kendall, LM Lobao, JS Sharp Rural Sociology 71 (3), 399-428, 2006 | 273 | 2006 |
| Coal mining, economic development, and the natural resources curse MR Betz, MD Partridge, M Farren, L Lobao Energy Economics 50, 105-116, 2015 | 220 | 2015 |
| The community effects of industrialized farming: Social science research and challenges to corporate farming laws L Lobao, CW Stofferahn Agriculture and Human Values 25, 219-240, 2008 | 206 | 2008 |
| The Prison Industry: Carceral Expansion and Employment in U.S. Counties, 1969–1994* G Hooks, C Mosher, T Rotolo, L Lobao Social Science Quarterly 85 (1), 37-57, 2004 | 177 | 2004 |
| Midwestern agriculture in US Fordism: From the new deal to economic restructuring M Kenney, LM Lobao, J Curry, WR Goe Sociologia Ruralis 29 (2), 131-148, 1989 | 176 | 1989 |
| A Sociology of the Periphery Versus a Peripheral Sociology: Rural Sociology and the Dimension of Space1 L Lobao Rural Sociology 61 (1), 77-102, 1996 | 168 | 1996 |
| Continuity and change in place stratification: Spatial inequality and middle‐range territorial units L Lobao Rural Sociology 69 (1), 1-30, 2004 | 161 | 2004 |
| Spatial inequality and diversity as an emerging research area L Lobao, R Saenz Rural Sociology 67 (4), 497-511, 2002 | 151 | 2002 |
| Advancing the sociology of spatial inequality LM Lobao, G Hooks, AR Tickamyer The sociology of spatial inequality, 1-28, 2007 | 140* | 2007 |
| The emerging roles of county governments in metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas: Findings from a national survey L Lobao, DS Kraybill Economic Development Quarterly 19 (3), 245-259, 2005 | 133 | 2005 |
| The shrinking state? Understanding the assault on the public sector L Lobao, M Gray, K Cox, M Kitson Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 11 (3), 389-408, 2018 | 125 | 2018 |
| Public employment, welfare transfers, and economic well-being across local populations: Does a lean and mean government benefit the masses? L Lobao, G Hooks Social Forces 82 (2), 519-556, 2003 | 125 | 2003 |
| Poverty, place, and coal employment across Appalachia and the United States in a new economic era L Lobao, M Zhou, M Partridge, M Betz Rural Sociology 81 (3), 343-386, 2016 | 119 | 2016 |
| Rescaling the state: new modes of institutional–territorial organization L Lobao, R Martin, A Rodríguez-Pose Cambridge journal of regions, economy and society 2 (1), 3-12, 2009 | 114 | 2009 |
| Psychosocial Consequences of Agricultural Transformation: The Farm Crisis and Depression1 MJ Belyea, LM Lobao Rural Sociology 55 (1), 58-75, 1990 | 109 | 1990 |
| Local economic development in an age of devolution: The question of rural localities S Dewees, L Lobao, LE Swanson Rural Sociology 68 (2), 182-206, 2003 | 108 | 2003 |
