| ‘This Culture of Ours’: intellectual transitions in T’ang and Sung China PK Bol Stanford University Press, 1994 | 730 | 1994 |
| Neo-Confucianism in history PK Bol Neo-Confucianism in History, 1-5, 2008 | 424 | 2008 |
| Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization P Turchin, TE Currie, H Whitehouse, P François, K Feeney, D Mullins, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 115 (2), E144-E151, 2018 | 222 | 2018 |
| Sung Dynasty uses of the I Ching K Smith Jr, PK Bol, JA Adler, DJ Wyatt Princeton University Press, 2014 | 202 | 2014 |
| The rise of local history: history, geography, and culture in southern Song and Yuan Wuzhou PK Bol Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 61 (1), 37-76, 2001 | 137 | 2001 |
| The" localist turn" and" local identity" in later imperial China PK Bol Late Imperial China 24 (2), 1-50, 2003 | 100 | 2003 |
| Seeking Common Ground: Han Literati under Jurchen Rule PK Bol Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 47 (2), 461-538, 1987 | 76 | 1987 |
| Government, society, and state: on the political visions of Ssu-ma Kuang and Wang An-shih PK Bol Ordering the World: Approaches to State and Society in Sung Dynasty China …, 1993 | 72 | 1993 |
| The Sung Examination System and the Shih PK Bol Asia Major, 149-171, 1990 | 62 | 1990 |
| Chu Hsi's redefinition of literati learning PK Bol Neo-Confucian education: The formative stage 151, 1989 | 62 | 1989 |
| China historical GIS PK Bol, J Ge CHGIS, Harvard Yenching Institute, 2003 | 56 | 2003 |
| Ways with words: Writing about reading texts from early China P Yu Univ of California Press, 2000 | 54 | 2000 |
| From heaven-and-earth to nature: Chinese concepts of the environment and their influence on policy implementation RP Weller, PK Bol Confucianism and ecology, 313-342, 1998 | 49 | 1998 |
| Creating a GIS for the history of China PK Bol, AK Knowles, A Hillier Placing history: How maps, spatial data, and GIS are changing historical …, 2007 | 45 | 2007 |
| WorldMap–a geospatial framework for collaborative research WW Guan, PK Bol, BG Lewis, M Bertrand, ML Berman, JC Blossom Annals of GIS 18 (2), 121-134, 2012 | 44 | 2012 |
| Neo-Confucianism and local society, twelfth to sixteenth century: A case study PK Bol The song-Yuan-Ming transition in Chinese history, 241-283, 2003 | 41 | 2003 |
| On the unsupervised analysis of domain-specific Chinese texts K Deng, PK Bol, KJ Li, JS Liu Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (22), 6154-6159, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the Seshat Databank P Turchin, H Whitehouse, J Larson, E Cioni, J Reddish, D Hoyer, ... Religion, Brain & Behavior 13 (2), 167-194, 2023 | 35 | 2023 |
| Examinations and orthodoxies: 1070 and 1313 compared PK Bol Culture and State in Chinese History, 29-57, 1997 | 35 | 1997 |
| Whither the emperor? Emperor Huizong, the new policies, and the Tang-Song transition PK Bol Journal of Song-Yuan Studies, 103-134, 2001 | 32 | 2001 |
