Most cited papers in Culture, Economy, and Development Studies

The most cited paper in Culture, Economy, and Development Studies is "A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation" (Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt, 1999), with 11,313 citations. Next come "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation" (8,584) and "The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply" (6,126).

Showing 50 of 97 papers. Every paper with more than 1,167 citations is listed.

Citations are OpenAlex's own counts, from its 2026-09-23 snapshot, so the ranking can differ from Google Scholar or Web of Science. A paper is listed for a field when OpenAlex files it under one of the field's topics; retracted papers and papers whose citation count cannot be traced to citing works are left out, and a preprint and the article it became are shown once. Release dates are OpenAlex's: where a source gave only a month or a year, that is what is shown. How the lists are chosen.