| A sociology of modernity: Liberty and discipline P Wagner Routledge, 2002 | 1840 | 2002 |
| Framing in policy discourse M Rein, D Schon, P Wagner, CH Weiss, B Wittrock Social sciences and modern states: National experiences and theoretical …, 1991 | 587 | 1991 |
| Soziologie der Moderne: Freiheit und Disziplin P Wagner Theorie und Gesellschaft 33, 1995 | 491 | 1995 |
| Modernity as experience and interpretation P Wagner Polity, 2008 | 448 | 2008 |
| Theorizing modernity: Inescapability and attainability in social theory P Wagner Theorizing Modernity, 1-160, 2000 | 446 | 2000 |
| A history and theory of the social sciences: Not all that is solid melts into air P Wagner SAGE Publications Ltd, 2001 | 423 | 2001 |
| Modernity P Wagner Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory, 2020 | 390* | 2020 |
| Sozialwissenschaften und Staat: Frankreich, Italien, Deutschland 1870–1980 P Wagner Campus Verlag, 2021 | 380 | 2021 |
| After justification: Repertoires of evaluation and the sociology of modernity P Wagner European Journal of Social Theory 2 (3), 341-357, 1999 | 295 | 1999 |
| Social sciences and modern states: National experiences and theoretical crossroads P Wagner Cambridge University Press, 1991 | 275 | 1991 |
| Fest-Stellungen P Wagner Identitaeten, 1998 | 263* | 1998 |
| Discourses on society: the shaping of the social science disciplines P Wagner, B Wittrock, RP Whitley Springer Science & Business Media, 1990 | 237 | 1990 |
| Transnational intellectual networks: forms of academic knowledge and the search for cultural identities C Charle, J Schriewer, P Wagner Campus Verlag, 2004 | 222 | 2004 |
| Liberté et discipline: les deux crises de la modernité P Wagner Editions Métailié, 1996 | 204 | 1996 |
| Social science and the modern state: policy knowledge and political institutions in Western Europe and the United States B Wittrock, P Wagner, H Wollmann Social Sciences and Modern States, 28-85, 1991 | 163 | 1991 |
| States, institutions, and discourses: a comparative perspective on the structuration of the social sciences P Wagner, B Wittrock Discourses on society: the shaping of the social science disciplines, 331-357, 1991 | 148 | 1991 |
| Dispute, uncertainty and institution in recent French debates P Wagner Journal of Political Philosophy 2 (3), 270-289, 1994 | 138 | 1994 |
| Progress. A reconstruction P Wagner Polity Press, 2016 | 119 | 2016 |
| Survey article: the nascent political philosophy of the European polity H Friese, P Wagner The Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (3), 342-364, 2002 | 116 | 2002 |
| Multiple trajectories of modernity: Why social theory needs historical sociology P Wagner Thesis Eleven 100 (1), 53-60, 2010 | 103 | 2010 |
