| Policing sexuality: The Mann Act and the making of the FBI JR Pliley Harvard University Press, 2014 | 148 | 2014 |
| Claims to protection: The rise and fall of feminist abolitionism in the League of Nations' Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children, 1919–1936 JR Pliley Journal of Women's History 22 (4), 90-113, 2010 | 71 | 2010 |
| Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890–1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and'Immorality' JR Pliley, R Kramm, H Fischer-Tiné Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 27 | 2016 |
| Fighting modern slavery and human trafficking: History and contemporary policy G LeBaron, JR Pliley, DW Blight Cambridge University Press, 2021 | 15 | 2021 |
| Vice Queens and White Slaves: The FBI’s Crackdown on Elite Brothel Madams in 1930s New York City J Pliley Journal of the History of Sexuality 25 (1), 137-167, 2016 | 11 | 2016 |
| Claims to Protection: The Rise and Fall of Feminist Abolitionism in the League of Nations J Pliley Committee on the Traffic in Women and Children 1936 (2010), 22, 1919 | 11 | 1919 |
| The Petticoat Inspectors: Women Boarding Inspectors and the Gendered Exercise of Federal Authority J Pliley Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 12 (1), 95-126, 2013 | 8 | 2013 |
| Prostitution in America J Pliley Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| Introduction. A Plea for a'Vicious Turn'in Global History JR Pliley, R Kramm, H Fischer-Tiné Global Anti-Vice Activism, 1890-1950: Fighting Drinks, Drugs, and'Immorality …, 2016 | 7 | 2016 |
| Trafficked White Slaves and Misleading Marriages in the Campaigns Against Sex Trafficking, 1885-1927 JR Pliley Fed. Hist. 11, 60, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| Any Other Immoral Purpose: The Mann Act, Policing Women, and the American State, 1900–1941 JR Pliley The Ohio State University, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| Voting for the Devil: Unequal Partnerships in the Ohio Women's Suffrage Campaign of 1914 JR Pliley Ohio History 115 (1), 4-27, 2008 | 2 | 2008 |
| Ambivalent abolitionist legacies J Pliley Fighting modern slavery and human trafficking: History and contemporary …, 2021 | 1 | 2021 |
| Archival Trouble: Researching Sex Trafficking in Early Twentieth-Century America JR Pliley PROCEEDINGS-BRITISH ACADEMY 220 (1), 183-199, 2018 | 1 | 2018 |
| The Sex Wars: Prostitution, Carceral Feminists, and the Consolidation of Police Power JR Pliley Journal of Urban History, 00961442241242500, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Publishing Women’s and Gender History JR Pliley, C Cancellaro, D Gershenowitz, A Syring 137th Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2024), 2024 | | 2024 |
| Intimate Labor and Global Migrations J Pliley 137th Annual Meeting (January 4-7, 2024), 2024 | | 2024 |
| Recruiting and Retaining Women and Students of Color: The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians’ AHA–NEH-Funded Pilot J Pliley, LD Meyer, B Molony, S Richmond, A Jennings, K Aguilar, ... 136th Annual Meeting (January 5-8, 2023), 2023 | | 2023 |
| Perpetual Banishment: Enforcing Trafficking Law along the US–Canadian Border, 1937–45 JR Pliley AHA22 Online, 2022 | | 2022 |
| The Immigration and Ethnic History Newsletter JR Pliley | | 2021 |
