| Íslenska leiðin: Almannatryggingar og velferð í fjölþjóðlegum samanburði (The Icelandic Welfare Model in an Interntional Comparison) S Ólafsson University of Iceland Press, 1999 | 212* | 1999 |
| Hugarfar og hagvöxtur (Culture and Economic Growth) S Ólafsson Reykjavík: Félagsvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, 1996 | 108* | 1996 |
| Búseta á Íslandi (Settlement patterns and migration within Iceland) S Ólafsson http://www.byggdastofnun.is/static/files/Skyrslur/buseta_a_islandi.pdf, 141, 1997 | 93* | 1997 |
| Búseta á Íslandi (Settlement patterns and migration within Iceland) S Ólafsson Regional Development Agency (Byggðastofnun), 1997 | 93* | 1997 |
| Contemporary Icelanders–Scandinavian or American S Ólafsson Scandinavian Review 91 (1), 6-14, 2003 | 67* | 2003 |
| Íslenska efnahagsundrið. Frá hagsæld til frjálshyggju og fjármálahruns (Icelandic Economic Miracle) S Ólafsson Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration 4 (2), 231-256, 2008 | 61* | 2008 |
| Örorka og velferð á Íslandi: og í öðrum vestrænum löndum S Ólafsson Félagsvísindastofnun Háskóla Íslands, Rannsóknarstöð þjóðmála, 2005 | 57 | 2005 |
| Icelandic Capitalism–From Statism to Neoliberalism and Financial Collapse S Ólafsson Comparative Social Research; Special Volume, editor Lars Mjöset 28, 1-51, 2011 | 55 | 2011 |
| Welfare and the great recession: A comparative study S Ólafsson, M Daly, O Kangas, J Palme Oxford University Press, 2019 | 48 | 2019 |
| Effect of pulse-like near-fault ground motions on utility-scale land-based wind turbines GÖ Sigurðsson, R Rupakhety, SE Rahimi, S Olafsson Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 18, 953-968, 2020 | 47 | 2020 |
| Iceland’s Financial Crisis and Level of Living Consequences S Ólafsson Social Research Centre-http://thjodmalastofnun.hi.is/sites/thjodmalastofnun …, 2011 | 45 | 2011 |
| Aukinn ójöfnuður á Íslandi: áhrif stjórnmála og markaðar í fjölþjóðlegum samanburði (Role of market and politics in increased inequality in Icveland) S Ólafsson Icelandic Review of Politics and Administration 2 (2), 129-156, 2006 | 44* | 2006 |
| The 2015 Mw 7.8 Gorkha Earthquake in Nepal and its aftershocks: analysis of strong ground motion R Rupakhety, S Olafsson, B Halldorsson Bulletin of Earthquake Engineering 15, 2587-2616, 2017 | 43 | 2017 |
| Family policy in Iceland: An overview G Eydal, S Ólafsson Family Policies in the Context of Family Change, edited by Ilona Ostner and …, 2008 | 41 | 2008 |
| Variations within the Scandinavian model: Iceland in the Scandinavian perspective S Ólafsson Welfare trends in the Scandinavian Countries, 61-88, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Analysis of a benchmark building installed with tuned mass dampers under wind and earthquake loads S Elias, R Rupakhety, S Olafsson Shock and Vibration 2019 (1), 7091819, 2019 | 34 | 2019 |
| Lífskjör og lífshættir á Norðurlöndum (Level of Living in the Nordic Countries) S Ólafsson Reykjavík: Iðunn, 1990 | 33* | 1990 |
| Modernization and social stratification in Iceland. S Ólafsson University of Oxford; D.Phil thesis., 1982 | 32 | 1982 |
| From unemployment to disability? Relationship between unemployment rate and new disability pensions in Iceland 1992–2007 S Thorlacius, S Ólafsson The European Journal of Public Health 22 (1), 96-101, 2012 | 31 | 2012 |
| 12 Normative foundations of the Icelandic welfare state S Ólafsson in Normative foundations of the welfare state: The Nordic experience, edited …, 2005 | 31* | 2005 |
