| Small Footprint, Small Payoff: The Military Effectiveness of Security Force Assistance S Biddle, J Macdonald, R Baker Journal of Strategic Studies, 2017 | 186 | 2017 |
| Innovation inhibitors in war: Overcoming obstacles in the pursuit of military effectiveness AM Jungdahl, JM Macdonald Journal of Strategic Studies 38 (4), 467-499, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Explaining the variation in gender composition of personnel contributions to UN peacekeeping operations KF Crawford, JH Lebovic, JM Macdonald Armed Forces & Society 41 (2), 257-281, 2015 | 38 | 2015 |
| Eisenhower's scientists: Policy entrepreneurs and the test-ban debate 1954–1958 JM Macdonald Foreign Policy Analysis 11 (1), 1-21, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| Presidential risk orientation and force employment decisions: the case of unmanned weaponry J Macdonald, J Schneider Journal of Conflict Resolution 61 (3), 511-536, 2017 | 33 | 2017 |
| Battlefield Responses to New Technologies: Views from the Ground on Unmanned Aircraft J Macdonald, J Schneider Security Studies 28 (2), 2019 | 28 | 2019 |
| How To Think About Nuclear Crises MS Bell, J Macdonald Texas National Security Review 2 (2), 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| US Public Support for Drone Strikes J Schneider, J Macdonald Center for a New American Security, https://www.cnas.org/publications …, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| How Dangerous Was Kargil? Nuclear Crises in Comparative Perspective MS Bell, J Macdonald The Washington Quarterly 42 (2), 135-148, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Adopting AI: how familiarity breeds both trust and contempt MC Horowitz, L Kahn, J Macdonald, J Schneider AI & society, 1-15, 2023 | 9 | 2023 |
| Toward Deterrence: The Upside of the Trump-Kim Summit MS Bell, J Macdonald War on the Rocks, 2018 | 8 | 2018 |
| Why drones are still the future of war P Scharre, J Schneider, J Macdonald Available via CNAS. Retrieved March 22, 2019, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| Five Costs of Military Innovation L Andrews, J MacDonald War on the Rocks, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| South Korea, 1950-53-Exogenous Realignment of Preferences J MacDonald Proxy Wars, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| Establishing a marketplace of women in peacekeeping: an analysis of gender mainstreaming and its viability in United Nations peacekeeping operations KF Crawford, J Macdonald APSA 2011 Annual Meeting Paper, 2011 | 6 | 2011 |
| Why Troops Don’t Trust Drones J Schneider, J Macdonald Foreign Affairs 20, 2017 | 5 | 2017 |
| Looking back to look forward: Autonomous systems, military revolutions, and the importance of cost J Schneider, J Macdonald Journal of Strategic Studies, 1-23, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| COVID-19 and public support for autonomous technologies—Did the pandemic catalyze a world of robots? MC Horowitz, L Kahn, J Macdonald, J Schneider Plos one 17 (9), e0273941, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Will Killer Robots Be Banned? Lessons from Past Civil Society Campaigns M Horowitz, J Macdonald Lawfare, https://www.lawfareblog.com/will-killer-robots-be-banned-lessons …, 2017 | 4 | 2017 |
| Credibility in Crises: The Role of Leadership Beliefs in State Threat Assessments JM Macdonald The George Washington University, 2016 | 3 | 2016 |
