| The Pen-Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities by Charles Francis Hutchison. A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony (met een editors … MR Doortmont Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2005 | 39 | 2005 |
| Yoruba Historiography T Falola (No Title), 1991 | 32 | 1991 |
| The transatlantic slave trade: Landmarks, legacies, expectations JK Anquandah, NJ Opoku-Agyemang, MR Doortmont Sub-Saharan Publishers, 2007 | 27 | 2007 |
| The invention of the Yorubas: regional and Pan-African nationalism versus ethnic provincialism RM Doortmont EPRINTS-BOOK-TITLE, 1990 | 25 | 1990 |
| Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands: An annotated guide to the Dutch archives relating to Ghana and West Africa in the Nationaal Archief 1593-1960 J Smit Sources for the Mutual History of Ghana and the Netherlands, 2007 | 22 | 2007 |
| Iwe itan Ọyọ: A traditional Yoruba history and its author T FalỌla, MR Doortmont The Journal of African History 30 (2), 301-329, 1989 | 21 | 1989 |
| An overview of Dutch relations with the Gold Coast in the light of David van Nyendael's mission to Ashanti in 1701-1702 MR Doortmont Merchants, Missionaries and Migrants. 300 years of Dutch-Ghanaian relations …, 2002 | 18 | 2002 |
| The Pen-pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities: A Collective Biography of Elite Society in the Gold Coast Colony CF Hutchison, MR Doortmont Brill, 2005 | 16 | 2005 |
| Recapturing the Past: Samuel Johnson and the Construction of the History of the Yoruba MR Doortmont PhD Diss. Erasmus U [Rotterdam], 1994 | 14 | 1994 |
| Recapturing the past: Samuel Johnson and the construction of Yorùbá history MR Doortmont Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam, 1994 | 12 | 1994 |
| Samuel Johnson (1846-1901): missionary, diplomat, and historian MR Doortmont Yoruba Gurus: Indigenous Production of Knowledge in Africa, 169-181, 1991 | 11 | 1991 |
| Producing a Received View of Gold Coast Elite Society? CF Hutchison's Pen Pictures of Modern Africans and African Celebrities1 MR Doortmont History in Africa 33, 473-493, 2006 | 10 | 2006 |
| The roots of Yoruba historiography: classicism, traditionalism and pragmatism MR Doortmont EPRINTS-BOOK-TITLE, 1993 | 9 | 1993 |
| Tussen de Goudkust, Nederland en Suriname: De Euro-Afrikaanse families Van Bakergem, Woortman, Rühle en Huydecoper MR Doortmont, NC Everts, JJ Vrij Koninklijk Nederlandsch Genootschap voor Geslacht-en Wapenkunde, 2000 | 6 | 2000 |
| The invention of the Yorubas: Regional and pan-nationalism versus ethnic provincialism MR Doortmont, PF Moraes Farias, K Barber Self-assertion and Brokerage: Early Nationalism in West Africa. Birmingham …, 1989 | 6 | 1989 |
| Making History in Africa: David Henige and the Quest for Method in African History MR Doortmont History in Africa 38, 7-20, 2011 | 4 | 2011 |
| 'The Dutch Atlantic Slave Trade as Family Business: The Case of the Van der Noot de Gietere–Van Bakergem Family’ MR Doortmont The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Landmarks, Legacies, Expectations, 92-137, 2007 | 4 | 2007 |
| The Ankobra gold route: Studies in the historical relationship between Western Ghana and the Dutch MR Doortmont, P Valsecchi, JR Anquandah | 3 | 2013 |
| Kamerling in Ghana: a Euro-African family history and an old-fashioned love story MR Doortmont De Nederlandsche Leeuw: maandblad van het Koninklijk Nederlandsch …, 2012 | 3 | 2012 |
| Vrouwen, familie en eigendom op de Goudskust MR Doortmont, N Everts Geld & Goed, 114-130, 1997 | 3 | 1997 |
