| The cost of being “real”: black authenticity, colourism, and Billboard Rap Chart rankings WM Laybourn Ethnic and Racial Studies 41 (11), 2085-2103, 2018 | 37 | 2018 |
| The evolution of# BlackLivesMatter on Twitter: social movements, big data, and race R Ray, M Brown, W Laybourn Ethnic and racial studies 40 (11), 1795-1796, 2017 | 34 | 2017 |
| Korean transracial adoptee identity formation WM Laybourn Sociology Compass 11 (1), e12444, 2017 | 18 | 2017 |
| Being a Transnational Korean Adoptee, Becoming Asian American WM Laybourn Contexts 17 (4), 30-35, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Diversity in Black Greek Letter Organizations: Breaking the Line WM Laybourn, DR Goss Routledge, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| Adopting the model minority myth: Korean adoption as a racial project SAM Laybourn Social Problems 68 (1), 118-135, 2021 | 8 | 2021 |
| Asian American fraternity hazing: An analysis of community-level factors GS Parks, WM Laybourn Asian Pac. Am. LJ 22, 29, 2017 | 8* | 2017 |
| Brotherhood and the quest for African American social equality: A story of Phi Beta Sigma WM Laybourn, GS Parks U. Md. LJ Race, Religion, Gender & Class 16, 1, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| Omega psi phi fraternity and the fight for civil rights WM Laybourn, GS Parks Wake Forest JL & Pol'y 6, 213, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| The Sons of Indiana: Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity and the Fight for Civil Rights GS Parks, WM Laybourn Ind. LJ 91, 1425, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
| “You’re Either One of Us or You’re Not”: Racial Hierarchy and Non-Black Members of Black Greek-Letter Organizations WM Laybourn, DR Goss, MW Hughey Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 3 (4), 552-565, 2017 | 6 | 2017 |
| “In my heart, I am Cambodian”: symbolic ethnicity among parents who adopt transracially SAM Laybourn, C Goar Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 8 (1), 145-159, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| An OutKast Reader: Essays on Race, Gender, and the Postmodern South F Hadley, MS Hite, LC Wilkins, M Brown, K Story, BJ Johnson, C Braxton, ... University of Georgia Press, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| “I don't say that I'm a who's who”: Negotiating Identity through Humility Work SAM Laybourn Symbolic Interaction 45 (2), 237-256, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
| 2. Refusals of Belonging SAM Laybourn Out of Place, 53-76, 2024 | | 2024 |
| 5. Our Lives, Our Stories SAM Laybourn Out of Place, 139-172, 2024 | | 2024 |
| 3. Adoptable Orphan, Deportable Immigrant SAM Laybourn Out of Place, 77-110, 2024 | | 2024 |
| 1. Feeling White, Feeling Right SAM Laybourn Out of Place, 23-52, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Conclusion: Staking Claims SAM Laybourn Out of Place, 173-178, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Introduction: Exceptional Belonging SAM Laybourn Out of Place, 1-22, 2024 | | 2024 |
