| An economic geography of the United States: From commutes to megaregions GD Nelson, A Rae PloS one 11 (11), e0166083, 2016 | 195 | 2016 |
| Walking and talking through Walks and Talks: traveling in the English landscape with Frederick Law Olmsted, 1850 and 2011 GD Nelson Journal of Historical Geography 48, 47-57, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| Mosaic and tapestry: Metaphors as geographical concept generators GD Nelson Progress in Human Geography 43 (5), 853-870, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| Peaks of people: using topographic prominence as a method for determining the ranked significance of population centers GD Nelson, R McKeon The Professional Geographer 71 (2), 342-354, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
| Communities, complexity, and the ‘conchoration’: Network analysis and the ontology of geographic units GD Nelson Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie 112 (4), 351-369, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| An Appalachian Trail: A project in regional planning GD Nelson Places Journal, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| From ‘big data’to big regions: The geography of the American commute A Rae, GD Nelson Big data for regional science, 191-203, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Regional planning as cultural criticism: Reclaiming the radical wholes of interwar regional thinkers GD Nelson Regional Studies 55 (1), 127-137, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| Rexford Guy Tugwell and the Case for Big Urbanism GD Nelson Places Journal, 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
| Towards the new ruralism GD Nelson Harvard University, 2009 | 4 | 2009 |
| Rural America Reimagined: Introduction M Fraser, GD Nelson Dissent 66 (4), 18-22, 2019 | 3 | 2019 |
| Bending Lines: Maps and Data from Distortion to Deception GD Nelson Cartographic Perspectives, 51–60-51–60, 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
| Making stories significant: Possibilities and challenges at the intersection of digital methods and historic preservation R Summer, GD Nelson Area 52 (2), 282-290, 2020 | 2 | 2020 |
| What Makes a Place Rural? GD Nelson Dissent 66 (4), 38-47, 2019 | 2 | 2019 |
| Making the single city: the constitutive landscape and the struggle for ‘Greater Boston,’1891–1911 GD Nelson Landscape Research 42 (3), 243-255, 2017 | 2 | 2017 |
| On the road again: the geography and characteristics of American commuter megaregions A Rae, GD Nelson Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| The Splendor of Our Public and Common Life GD Nelson Places Journal, 2019 | 1 | 2019 |
| The Town Was Us GD Nelson Places Journal, 2018 | | 2018 |
| 16 From ‘big data’to big regions A Rae, GD Nelson Big Data for Regional Science, 2017 | | 2017 |
| A Nation of Neighborhoods: Imagining Cities, Communities, and Democracy in Postwar America GD Nelson Journal of Historical Geography 100 (56), 148-149, 2017 | | 2017 |
