| Mythscapes: Memory, Mythology, and National Identity DSA Bell The British Journal of Sociology 54 (1), 63-81, 2003 | 1177 | 2003 |
| The Idea of Greater Britain: Empire and the Future of World Order, 1860-1900 D Bell Princeton University Press, 2007 | 868 | 2007 |
| What is Liberalism? D Bell Political Theory, 2014 | 635 | 2014 |
| (ed.), Memory, Trauma and World Politics: Reflections on the Relationship between Past and Present Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 | 611* | 2006 |
| Reordering the World: Essays on Liberalism and Empire D Bell Princeton University Press, 2016 | 468 | 2016 |
| (ed.), Victorian Visions of Global Order: Empire and International Relations in Nineteenth-Century Political Thought Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 218* | 2010 |
| Writing the World: Disciplinary History and Beyond D Bell International Affairs 85 (1), 3-22, 2009 | 204 | 2009 |
| John Stuart Mill on Colonies D Bell Political Theory, 2010 | 191 | 2010 |
| (ed.), Political Thought and International Relations: Variations on a Realist Theme Oxford University Press, 2008 | 184* | 2008 |
| International Relations: The Dawn of a Historiographical Turn? DSA Bell The British Journal of Politics & International Relations 3 (1), 115-126, 2001 | 164 | 2001 |
| Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-America D Bell Princeton University Press, 2020 | 147 | 2020 |
| Agonistic Democracy and the Politics of Memory D Bell Constellations 15 (1), 148-166, 2008 | 132 | 2008 |
| Empire and International Relations in Victorian Political Thought DSA Bell The Historical Journal 49 (01), 281-298, 2006 | 128 | 2006 |
| Dissolving distance: technology, space, and empire in British political thought, 1770–1900 DSA Bell The Journal of Modern History 77 (3), 523-562, 2005 | 114 | 2005 |
| Under an Empty Sky – Realism and Political Theory D Bell Political Thought and International Relations, 2009 | 107* | 2009 |
| Brexit, CANZUK, and the Legacy of Empire D Bell, S Vucetic | 96 | 2019 |
| (ed.), Uncertain empire: American History and the Idea of the Cold War Oxford University Press, 2012 | 83* | 2012 |
| Political Realism and International Relations D Bell Philosophy Compass 12 (2), 2017 | 82 | 2017 |
| (ed.), Ethics and World Politics Oxford University Press, 2010 | 81* | 2010 |
| Making and Taking Worlds D Bell Global Intellectual History, 2013 | 79 | 2013 |
