| The mask of anarchy updated edition: The destruction of Liberia and the religious dimension of an African civil war S Ellis NYU Press, 2006 | 1446 | 2006 |
| Worlds of power: Religious thought and political practice in Africa S Ellis, G Ter Haar Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 | 835 | 2004 |
| Comrades against apartheid: The ANC and the South African Communist Party in exile S Ellis, T Sechaba J. Currey, 1992 | 371 | 1992 |
| West Africa's international drug trade S Ellis African Affairs 108 (431), 171-196, 2009 | 327 | 2009 |
| The role of religion in development: Towards a new relationship between the European Union and Africa G Haar, S Ellis The European journal of development research 18, 351-367, 2006 | 302 | 2006 |
| External mission: The ANC in exile, 1960-1990 S Ellis Oxford University Press, USA, 2013 | 259 | 2013 |
| Tuning in to pavement radio S Ellis African Affairs 88 (352), 321-330, 1989 | 242 | 1989 |
| Of elephants and men: politics and nature conservation in South Africa S Ellis Journal of Southern African Studies 20 (1), 53-69, 1994 | 240 | 1994 |
| Writing histories of contemporary Africa S Ellis The Journal of African History 43 (1), 1-26, 2002 | 225 | 2002 |
| Madagascar: a short history S Randrianja, S Ellis Hurst, 2009 | 210 | 2009 |
| Religion and politics: taking African epistemologies seriously S Ellis, G Ter Haar The Journal of Modern African Studies 45 (3), 385-401, 2007 | 210 | 2007 |
| The historical significance of South Africa's third force S Ellis Journal of Southern African Studies 24 (2), 261-299, 1998 | 208 | 1998 |
| Entreprises et entrepreneurs africains YA Fauré Karthala Editions, 1995 | 172 | 1995 |
| How to rebuild Africa S Ellis Foreign Aff. 84, 135, 2005 | 166 | 2005 |
| History of Madagascar: Comprising Also the Progress of the Christian Mission Established in 1818... W Ellis Fisher, 1838 | 165 | 1838 |
| Research on sub-Saharan Africa's unrecorded international trade: Some methodological and conceptual problems S Ellis, J MacGaffey African Studies Review 39 (2), 19-41, 1996 | 145 | 1996 |
| Liberia’s warlord insurgency S Ellis African guerrillas, 1998 | 139 | 1998 |
| Movers and shakers: Social movements in Africa S Ellis, I Van Kessel Brill, 2009 | 137 | 2009 |
| Rumour and power in Togo S Ellis Africa 63 (4), 462-476, 1993 | 121 | 1993 |
| Season of rains: Africa in the world S Ellis University of Chicago Press, 2012 | 107 | 2012 |
