| Local commons and global interdependence RO Keohane, E Ostrom Sage, 1994 | 758 | 1994 |
| Analyzing collective action E Ostrom Agricultural economics 41, 155-166, 2010 | 675 | 2010 |
| Nested externalities and polycentric institutions: must we wait for global solutions to climate change before taking actions at other scales? E Ostrom Economic theory 49, 353-369, 2012 | 628 | 2012 |
| Aligning key concepts for global change policy: robustness, resilience, and sustainability JM Anderies, C Folke, B Walker, E Ostrom Ecology and society 18 (2), 2013 | 616 | 2013 |
| The challenge of common-pool resources E Ostrom Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development 50 (4), 8-21, 2008 | 613 | 2008 |
| Generalizing the core design principles for the efficacy of groups DS Wilson, E Ostrom, ME Cox Journal of economic behavior & organization 90, S21-S32, 2013 | 609 | 2013 |
| Rational choice theory and institutional analysis: Toward complementarity E Ostrom American political science review 85 (1), 237-243, 1991 | 560 | 1991 |
| Politicians and poachers: The political economy of wildlife policy in Africa CC Gibson Cambridge University Press, 1999 | 557 | 1999 |
| Rights to nature: ecological, economic, cultural, and political principles of institutions for the environment. SS Hanna, C Folke, KG Maler | 552 | 1996 |
| Introduction: An overview of the knowledge commons C Hess, E Ostrom Mit Press, 2007 | 540 | 2007 |
| Reformulating the commons E Ostrom Ambiente & sociedade, 5-25, 2002 | 539 | 2002 |
| Doing institutional analysis digging deeper than markets and hierarchies E Ostrom Handbook of new institutional economics, 819-848, 2005 | 538 | 2005 |
| Human ecology and resource sustainability: the importance of institutional diversity CD Becker, E Ostrom Annual review of ecology and systematics 26 (1), 113-133, 1995 | 534 | 1995 |
| Democratic decentralisation through a natural resource lens: an introduction AM Larson, JC Ribot The European Journal of Development Research 16, 1-25, 2004 | 504 | 2004 |
| Local government in the United States V Ostrom, RL Bish, E Ostrom (No Title), 1988 | 501 | 1988 |
| Communities and the environment: ethnicity, gender, and the state in community-based conservation A Agrawal, CC Gibson Rutgers University Press, 2001 | 485 | 2001 |
| Crafting analytical tools to study institutional change E Ostrom, X Basurto Journal of institutional economics 7 (3), 317-343, 2011 | 478 | 2011 |
| Lab experiments for the study of social-ecological systems MA Janssen, R Holahan, A Lee, E Ostrom Science 328 (5978), 613-617, 2010 | 456 | 2010 |
| An institutional framework for policy analysis and design MM Polski, E Ostrom 1999, 1999 | 451 | 1999 |
| Robustness of social-ecological systems to spatial and temporal variability MA Janssen, JM Anderies, E Ostrom Society and Natural Resources 20 (4), 307-322, 2007 | 449 | 2007 |
