| The truth of truth commissions: Comparative lessons from Haiti, South Africa, and Guatemala AR Chapman, P Ball Human Rights Quarterly 23 (1), 1-43, 2001 | 393 | 2001 |
| State violence in Guatemala, 1960-1996: a quantitative reflection PD Ball, P Kobrak, HF Spirer Advancement of Science, 1999 | 299 | 1999 |
| Views to a kill: Exploring the implications of source selection in the case of Guatemalan state terror, 1977-1995 C Davenport, P Ball Journal of conflict resolution 46 (3), 427-450, 2002 | 294 | 2002 |
| Killings and refugee flow in Kosovo March-June 1999 P Ball, W Betts, F Scheuren, J Dudukovich, J Asher Report to the Intl Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, 2002 | 130 | 2002 |
| Updated statistical analysis of documentation of killings in the Syrian Arab Republic M Price, A Gohdes, P Ball Human Rights Data Analysis Group, Geneva, 14-15, 2014 | 121 | 2014 |
| The population debate in American popular magazines, 1946-90 JR Wilmoth, P Ball The Population and Development Review, 631-668, 1992 | 115 | 1992 |
| How many Peruvians have died P Ball, J Asher, D Sulmont, D Manrique Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science 17 (1), 3, 2003 | 103 | 2003 |
| Making the Case: Investigating Large Scale Human Rights Violations Using Information Systems and P Ball, HF Spirer, L Spirer, ... American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2000 | 88 | 2000 |
| Who did what to whom?: planning and implementing a large scale human rights data project PD Ball American Association for the Advancement of Science 85281, 183-203, 1996 | 74 | 1996 |
| Violencia institucional en Guatemala, 1960 a 1996: Una reflexión cuantitativa PD Ball, P Kobrak, HF Spirer American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1999 | 70 | 1999 |
| The Bosnian book of dead: assessment of the database (full report) P Ball, E Tabeau, P Verwimp HiCN Research Design Notes, 2007 | 57 | 2007 |
| Who did what to whom P Ball Planning and implementing a large scale human rights data project. American …, 1996 | 56 | 1996 |
| Rights Movements: A Cross-National Quantitative Comparison P Ball Globalizations and social movements: culture, power, and the transnational …, 2000 | 51 | 2000 |
| Measuring elusive populations with bayesian model averaging for multiple systems estimation: A case study on lethal violations in casanare, 1998-2007 K Lum, M Price, T Guberek, P Ball Statistics, Politics, and Policy 1 (1), 2010 | 50 | 2010 |
| Big data, selection bias, and the statistical patterns of mortality in conflict M Price, P Ball SAIS Review of International Affairs 34 (1), 9-20, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| The profile of human rights violations in timor-leste, 1974-1999 R Silva, PD Ball Benetech Initiative, 2006 | 49 | 2006 |
| Asesinatos a líderes sociales en Colombia en 2016–2017: Una estimación del universo P Ball, C Rodríguez, V Rozo Djusticia, 2018 | 47 | 2018 |
| Arguments and action in the life of a social problem: A case study of “overpopulation” 1946-1990 JR Wilmoth, P Ball Social Problems 42 (3), 318-343, 1995 | 46 | 1995 |
| The Bosnian book of dead: assessment of the database P Ball, E Tabeau, P Verwimp Households in Conflict Network Research Design Note 5, 2007 | 38 | 2007 |
| Documents of war: Understanding the Syrian conflict M Price, A Gohdes, P Ball Significance 12 (2), 14-19, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
