| Capital in the twenty-first century T Piketty Harvard University Press, 2014 | 36920* | 2014 |
| Income inequality in the United States, 1913–1998 T Piketty, E Saez The Quarterly journal of economics 118 (1), 1-41, 2003 | 5496 | 2003 |
| Top incomes in the long run of history AB Atkinson, T Piketty, E Saez Journal of economic literature 49 (1), 3-71, 2011 | 3695 | 2011 |
| Capital and ideology T Piketty Harvard University Press, 2020 | 2286 | 2020 |
| Social mobility and redistributive politics T Piketty The Quarterly journal of economics 110 (3), 551-584, 1995 | 1941 | 1995 |
| World inequality report 2018 F Alvaredo, L Chancel, T Piketty, E Saez, G Zucman Harvard University Press, 2018 | 1924 | 2018 |
| Capital is back: Wealth-income ratios in rich countries 1700–2010 T Piketty, G Zucman The Quarterly journal of economics 129 (3), 1255-1310, 2014 | 1739 | 2014 |
| Distributional national accounts: methods and estimates for the United States T Piketty, E Saez, G Zucman The Quarterly Journal of Economics 133 (2), 553-609, 2018 | 1465 | 2018 |
| Top incomes over the twentieth century: a contrast between continental european and english-speaking countries AB Atkinson, T Piketty oup Oxford, 2007 | 1393 | 2007 |
| The top 1 percent in international and historical perspective F Alvaredo, AB Atkinson, T Piketty, E Saez Journal of Economic perspectives 27 (3), 3-20, 2013 | 1358 | 2013 |
| Inequality in the long run T Piketty, E Saez Science 344 (6186), 838-843, 2014 | 1341 | 2014 |
| The evolution of top incomes: a historical and international perspective T Piketty, E Saez American economic review 96 (2), 200-205, 2006 | 1332 | 2006 |
| Capital et idéologie T Piketty Média Diffusion, 2019 | 1270 | 2019 |
| Optimal taxation of top labor incomes: A tale of three elasticities T Piketty, E Saez, S Stantcheva American economic journal: economic policy 6 (1), 230-271, 2014 | 1244 | 2014 |
| World inequality report 2022 L Chancel, T Piketty, E Saez, G Zucman Harvard University Press, 2022 | 968 | 2022 |
| Income inequality in France, 1901–1998 T Piketty Journal of political economy 111 (5), 1004-1042, 2003 | 932 | 2003 |
| The dynamics of the wealth distribution and the interest rate with credit rationing T Piketty The Review of Economic Studies 64 (2), 173-189, 1997 | 931 | 1997 |
| Les hauts revenus en France au XXe siècle T Piketty Hachette, 2001 | 802* | 2001 |
| Das Kapital im 21 T Piketty Jahrhundert. München 10 (9783406671326), 2014 | 772 | 2014 |
| How progressive is the US federal tax system? A historical and international perspective T Piketty, E Saez Journal of Economic perspectives 21 (1), 3-24, 2007 | 753 | 2007 |
