| Common ecology quantifies human insurgency JC Bohorquez, S Gourley, AR Dixon, M Spagat, NF Johnson Nature 462 (7275), 911-914, 2009 | 315 | 2009 |
| The dynamics of the Colombian civil conflict: A new data set JA Restrepo, M Spagat, JF Vargas Available at SSRN 480247, 2003 | 247 | 2003 |
| The evolution of modern educational systems: Technical vs. general education, distributional conflict, and growth G Bertocchi, M Spagat Journal of Development Economics 73 (2), 559-582, 2004 | 141 | 2004 |
| The politics of co-optation G Bertocchi, M Spagat Journal of Comparative Economics 29 (4), 591-607, 2001 | 131 | 2001 |
| Special data feature; the severity of the Colombian conflict: cross-country datasets versus new micro-data JA Restrepo, M Spagat, JF Vargas Journal of Peace research 43 (1), 99-115, 2006 | 130 | 2006 |
| Estimating war deaths: An arena of contestation M Spagat, A Mack, T Cooper, J Kreutz Journal of Conflict Resolution 53 (6), 934-950, 2009 | 114 | 2009 |
| Political instability and growth in dictatorships J Overland, KL Simons, M Spagat Public Choice 125 (3), 445-470, 2005 | 100 | 2005 |
| Casualties in civilians and coalition soldiers from suicide bombings in Iraq, 2003–10: a descriptive study MHR Hicks, H Dardagan, PM Bagnall, M Spagat, JA Sloboda The Lancet 378 (9794), 906-914, 2011 | 94 | 2011 |
| Learning, experimentation, and monetary policy G Bertocchi, M Spagat Journal of Monetary Economics 32 (1), 169-183, 1993 | 92 | 1993 |
| Violent deaths of Iraqi civilians, 2003–2008: analysis by perpetrator, weapon, time, and location MHR Hicks, H Dardagan, G Guerrero Serdán, PM Bagnall, JA Sloboda, ... PLoS medicine 8 (2), e1000415, 2011 | 91 | 2011 |
| Human capital, growth, and inequality in Russia CS Fan, J Overland, M Spagat Journal of Comparative Economics 27 (4), 618-643, 1999 | 76 | 1999 |
| El conflicto en Colombia:¿ quién hizo qué a quién? Un enfoque cuantitativo. J Restrepo, M Spagat, J Vargas, F Gutiérrez, M Emma Wills, G Sánchez Nuestra guerra sin nombre: Transformaciones del conflicto en Colombia,, 505-542, 2006 | 71 | 2006 |
| Simple mathematical law benchmarks human confrontations NF Johnson, P Medina, G Zhao, DS Messinger, J Horgan, P Gill, ... Scientific reports 3 (1), 3463, 2013 | 65 | 2013 |
| The weapons that kill civilians—deaths of children and noncombatants in Iraq, 2003–2008 MHR Hicks, H Dardagan, GG Serdán, PM Bagnall, JA Sloboda, M Spagat New England journal of medicine 360 (16), 1585-1588, 2009 | 60 | 2009 |
| Bias in epidemiological studies of conflict mortality NF Johnson, M Spagat, S Gourley, JP Onnela, G Reinert Journal of Peace Research 45 (5), 653-663, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Human capital and the future of transition economies M Spagat Journal of Comparative Economics 34 (1), 44-56, 2006 | 55 | 2006 |
| The dirty war index: a public health and human rights tool for examining and monitoring armed conflict outcomes MHR Hicks, M Spagat PLoS Medicine 5 (12), e243, 2008 | 53 | 2008 |
| From old wars to new wars and global terrorism N Johnson, M Spagat, J Restrepo, J Bohorquez, N Suarez, E Restrepo, ... arXiv preprint physics/0506213, 2005 | 52 | 2005 |
| Truth and death in Iraq under sanctions M Spagat Significance 7 (3), 116-120, 2010 | 34 | 2010 |
| Growth under uncertainty with experimentation G Bertocchi, M Spagat Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 23 (2), 209-231, 1998 | 31 | 1998 |
