| Teaching and learning ontology and epistemology in political science SR Bates, L Jenkins Politics 27 (1), 55-63, 2007 | 127 | 2007 |
| Questions to the Prime Minister: A comparative study of PMQs from Thatcher to Cameron SR Bates, P Kerr, C Byrne, L Stanley Parliamentary Affairs 67 (2), 253-280, 2014 | 104 | 2014 |
| Making time for change: On temporal conceptualizations within (critical realist) approaches to the relationship between structure and agency SR Bates Sociology 40 (1), 143-161, 2006 | 71 | 2006 |
| (De) politicisation and the Father’s Clause parliamentary debates S Bates, L Jenkins, F Amery Policy & Politics 42 (2), 243-258, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Re-structuring power SR Bates Polity 42, 352-376, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| Women in the profession: The composition of UK political science departments by sex S Bates, L Jenkins, Z Pflaeger Politics 32 (3), 139-152, 2012 | 41 | 2012 |
| ‘How do we know it's not been done yet?!’Trust, trust building and regulation in stem cell research SR Bates, W Faulkner, S Parry, S Cunningham-Burley Science and Public Policy 37 (9), 703-718, 2010 | 40 | 2010 |
| Gender and journal authorship: an assessment of articles published by women in three top British political science and international relations journals H Williams, S Bates, L Jenkins, D Luke, K Rogers European Political Science 14, 116-130, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Understanding change in political science: On the need to bring space into theoretical positions and empirical analyses SR Bates, NJ Smith Political Studies Review 6 (2), 191-204, 2008 | 34 | 2008 |
| Do UK MPs engage more with Select Committees since the Wright reforms? An interrupted time series analysis, 1979–2016 S Bates, M Goodwin, S McKay Parliamentary Affairs 70 (4), 780-800, 2017 | 30 | 2017 |
| Prime ministerial self-reported actions in Prime Minister's Questions 1979–2010: A corpus-assisted analysis A Sealey, S Bates Journal of Pragmatics 104, 18-31, 2016 | 23 | 2016 |
| Women in the profession: An update on the gendered composition of the discipline and political science departments in the UK Z Pflaeger Young, F Amery, S Holden Bates, S McKay, C Miller, T Billings, ... Political Studies Review 19 (1), 12-36, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
| Metaphors on women in academia: a review of the literature, 2004–2013 F Amery, S Bates, L Jenkins, H Savigny At the center: Feminism, social science and knowledge 20, 245-267, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Struggle (or its absence) during the crisis: what power is left? DJ Bailey, SR Bates Journal of Political Power 5 (2), 195-216, 2012 | 19 | 2012 |
| Electing to do women's work? Gendered divisions of labor in UK select committees, 1979–2016 M Goodwin, SH Bates, S McKAY Politics & Gender 17 (4), 607-639, 2021 | 18 | 2021 |
| The study of legislative committees BJ Gaines, M Goodwin, SH Bates, G Sin The journal of legislative studies 25 (3), 331-339, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Using critical realism to explain indeterminacy in role behaviour systematically D Luke, S Bates Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 45 (3), 331-351, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Battleground: one mother's crusade, the religious right, and the struggle for our schools S Bates (No Title), 1994 | 17 | 1994 |
| The emergent body: Marxism, critical realism and the corporeal in contemporary capitalist society SR Bates Global Society 29 (1), 128-147, 2015 | 16 | 2015 |
| A means to an end and an end in itself: Select committee membership, parliamentary roles and parliamentary careers, 1979–present S McKay, M Goodwin, S Holden Bates Parliamentary Affairs 72 (4), 799-820, 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
