| Aid Under Fire: Development Projects and Civil Conflict B Crost, J Felter, P Johnston American Economic Review 104 (6), 1833-1856, 2014 | 428 | 2014 |
| Does Decapitation Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of Leadership Targeting in Counterinsurgency Campaigns PB Johnston International Security 36 (4), 47-79, 2012 | 360 | 2012 |
| The Impact of US Drone Strikes on Terrorism in Pakistan PB Johnston, AK Sarbahi International Studies Quarterly, 2016 | 222 | 2016 |
| Conditional Cash Transfers, Civil Conflict and Insurgent Influence: Experimental Evidence from the Philippines B Crost, JH Felter, PB Johnston Journal of Development Economics 118, 171–182, 2016 | 138 | 2016 |
| The geography of insurgent organization and its consequences for civil wars: evidence from Liberia and Sierra Leone P Johnston Security Studies 17 (1), 107-137, 2008 | 135 | 2008 |
| Foundations of the Islamic State: Management, Money, and Terror in Iraq, 2005–2010 PB Johnston, JN Shapiro, HJ Shatz, B Bahney, DF Jung, PK Ryan, ... Rand Corporation, 2016 | 84 | 2016 |
| The Future of Insurgency SG Jones, PB Johnston Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 36 (1), 1-25, 2013 | 73 | 2013 |
| Negotiated settlements and government strategy in civil war: evidence from Darfur P Johnston Civil Wars 9 (4), 359-377, 2007 | 69 | 2007 |
| Terrorist Use of Cryptocurrencies C Dion-Schwarz, D Manheim, PB Johnston RAND Corporation, 2019 | 60 | 2019 |
| Timber booms, state busts: the political economy of Liberian timber P Johnston Review of African Political Economy 31 (101), 441-456, 2004 | 58 | 2004 |
| Insurgent Compensation: Evidence from Iraq BW BAHNEY, RK IYENGAR, PB JOHNSTON, DF JUNG, JN SHAPIRO, ... American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 103 (3), 518-522, 2013 | 49 | 2013 |
| US Special Operations Forces in the Philippines, 2001–2014 L Robinson, PB Johnston, GS Oak RAND Corporation, 2016 | 34 | 2016 |
| When the Islamic State comes to town: The economic impact of Islamic State governance in Iraq and Syria E Robinson, D Egel, PB Johnston, S Mann, AD Rothenberg, D Stebbins RAND CORP ARLINGTON VA ARLINGTON, 2017 | 31 | 2017 |
| Countering Others' Insurgencies: Understanding US Small-Footprint Interventions in Local Context S Watts, JH Campbell, PB Johnston, S Lalwani, SH Bana RAND CORP ARLINGTON VA NATIONAL SECURITY RESEARCH DIV, 2014 | 29 | 2014 |
| Countering ISIL’s Financing PB Johnston RAND Corporation, 2014 | 28 | 2014 |
| Financial Futures of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant CP Clarke, K Jackson, PB Johnston, E Robinson, H Shatz RAND Corporation, 2017 | 22* | 2017 |
| Return and Expand: The Finances and Prospects of the Islamic State After the Caliphate PB Johnston, M Alami, CP Clarke, HJ Shatz RAND Corporation Santa Monica United States, 2019 | 16* | 2019 |
| Explaining the duration of counterinsurgency campaigns PB Johnston, BR Urlacher Unpublished manuscript, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| Hitting ISIS Where it Hurts: Disrupt ISIS’s Cash Flow in Iraq P Johnston, B Bahney The New York Times 13, 2014 | 11 | 2014 |
| The treatment of civilians in effective counterinsurgency operations P Johnston Northwestern University, 2009 | 10 | 2009 |
Benjamin CrostUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignVerified email at illinois.edu
