| Geography of islands SA Royle Routledge, 2002 | 461 | 2002 |
| Urban landslide hazards: incidence and causative factors in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil CG Smyth, SA Royle Applied Geography 20 (2), 95-118, 2000 | 133 | 2000 |
| Tropical cyclone perceptions, impacts and adaptation in the Southwest Pacific: an urban perspective from Fiji, Vanuatu and Tonga AD Magee, DC Verdon-Kidd, AS Kiem, SA Royle Natural hazards and earth system sciences 16 (5), 1091-1105, 2016 | 93 | 2016 |
| The historical geography of islands Introduction: Rethinking islands D Klaus, RA Stephen Journal of historical geography 29 (4), 487-498, 2003 | 66 | 2003 |
| A human geography of islands SA Royle Geography, 106-116, 1989 | 64 | 1989 |
| Postcolonialism and islands: introduction G Baldacchino, SA Royle Space and Culture 13 (2), 140-143, 2010 | 51 | 2010 |
| Accessibility and the Irish islands S Royle, D Scott Geography: Journal of the Geographical Association 81 (2), 111, 1996 | 47 | 1996 |
| Recontinentalizing Canada: Arctic ice’s liquid modernity and the imagining of a Canadian archipelago P Vannini, G Baldacchino, L Guay, SA Royle, PE Steinberg Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada, 2009 | 44 | 2009 |
| Islands: nature and culture SA Royle Reaktion Books, 2014 | 43 | 2014 |
| Definitions and typologies SA Royle, L Brinklow The Routledge international handbook of island studies, 3-20, 2018 | 41 | 2018 |
| The Company's Island: St Helena, Company colonies and the colonial endeavour S Royle Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 | 40 | 2020 |
| Island spaces and identities: definitions and typologies S Royle A world of islands, 33-56, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| The Falkland Islands, 1833-1876: the establishment of a colony SA Royle Geographical Journal, 204-214, 1985 | 39 | 1985 |
| Postcolonial culture on dependent islands SA Royle Space and Culture 13 (2), 203-215, 2010 | 36 | 2010 |
| Enduring city: Belfast in the twentieth century S Royle, F Boal Blackstaff: Belfast, 2006 | 35 | 2006 |
| St Helena as a Boer prisoner of war camp, 1900–2: information from the Alice Stopford Green papers SA Royle Journal of Historical Geography 24 (1), 53-68, 1998 | 32 | 1998 |
| Company, crown and colony: The Hudson's Bay Company and territorial endeavour in Western Canada S Royle Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020 | 31 | 2020 |
| From marginality to resurgence: the case of the Irish Islands. SA Royle Islandscapes and Tourism: An Anthology, 145-156, 2023 | 30 | 2023 |
| Industrialisation in Indonesia: the example of Batam island SA Royle Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 18 (1), 89-98, 1997 | 28 | 1997 |
| The development of small towns in Britain SA Royle The Cambridge Urban History of Britain 3, 1840-1950, 1840 | 28 | 1840 |
