| Islam and authoritarianism MS Fish World politics 55 (1), 4-37, 2002 | 1075 | 2002 |
| V-dem codebook v9 M Coppedge, J Gerring, CH Knutsen, SI Lindberg, J Teorell, D Altman, ... | 984* | 2019 |
| V-Dem [country-year/country-date] dataset v8 M Coppedge, J Gerring, CH Knutsen, SI Lindberg, J Teorell, D Altman, ... Varieties of democracy (V-Dem) project 9, 2019 | 981* | 2019 |
| Conceptualizing and measuring democracy: A new approach M Coppedge, J Gerring, D Altman, M Bernhard, S Fish, A Hicken, ... Perspectives on Politics 9 (2), 247-267, 2011 | 890 | 2011 |
| Democracy derailed in Russia: The failure of open politics MS Fish Cambridge University Press, 2005 | 756 | 2005 |
| Democracy from scratch: Opposition and regime in the new Russian revolution MS Fish Princeton University Press, 1996 | 573 | 1996 |
| Stronger legislatures, stronger democracies MS Fish Journal of democracy 17 (1), 5-20, 2006 | 474 | 2006 |
| The determinants of economic reform in the post-communist world MS Fish East European Politics and Societies 12 (01), 31-78, 1998 | 439 | 1998 |
| The handbook of national legislatures: A global survey MS Fish, M Kroenig Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 417 | 2009 |
| Britain after Brexit: A nation divided R Ford, M Goodwin Journal of Democracy 28 (1), 17-30, 2017 | 259 | 2017 |
| Are Muslims distinctive?: a look at the evidence MS Fish OUP USA, 2011 | 234 | 2011 |
| Does diversity hurt democracy? MS Fish, RS Brooks Journal of democracy 15 (1), 154-166, 2004 | 225 | 2004 |
| V-dem dataset v7 M Coppedge, J Gerring, SI Lindberg, SE Skaaning, J Teorell, D Altman, ... | 187* | 2017 |
| Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy RD Anderson, MS Fish, SE Hanson, PG Roeder Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy, 2021 | 156 | 2021 |
| Mongolia: democracy without prerequisites MS Fish Journal of democracy 9 (3), 127-141, 1998 | 155 | 1998 |
| The dynamics of democratic erosion MS Fish Postcommunism and the Theory of Democracy 69, 2001 | 153 | 2001 |
| V-dem [country–year/country–date] dataset v10. varieties of democracy (v-dem) project M Coppedge, J Gerring, CH Knutsen, SI Lindberg, J Teorell, D Altman, ... V-Dem Institute, Department of Political Science, University of Gothenburg …, 2020 | 146 | 2020 |
| Postcommunist subversion: Social science and democratization in East Europe and Eurasia MS Fish Slavic Review 58 (4), 794-823, 1999 | 141 | 1999 |
| V-Dem Codebook V10, Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Project M Coppedge, J Gerring, CH Knutsen, SI Lindberg, J Teorell, D Altman, ... Retrieved June 20, 2019, 2020 | 132 | 2020 |
| Rethinking civil society: Russia's fourth transition MS Fish Journal of democracy 5 (3), 31-42, 1994 | 132 | 1994 |
