| Historical dictionary of Nigeria T Falola, A Genova, MM Heaton Rowman & Littlefield, 2018 | 198 | 2018 |
| The African diaspora: Slavery, modernity, and globalization T Falola University Rochester Press, 2013 | 170 | 2013 |
| Nigeria, nationalism, and writing history T Falola, S Aderinto University Rochester Press, 2010 | 117 | 2010 |
| The Women's War of 1929: A history of anti-colonial resistance in eastern Nigeria T Falola, A Paddock | 66 | 2011 |
| Ritual archives T Falola The Palgrave handbook of African social ethics, 473-497, 2020 | 58 | 2020 |
| Movements, borders, and identities in Africa T Falola, AA Usman University Rochester Press, 2009 | 57 | 2009 |
| Encyclopedia of the Yoruba T Falola, A Akinyemi Indiana University Press, 2016 | 52 | 2016 |
| The Palgrave handbook of African colonial and postcolonial history MS Shanguhyia, T Falola Palgrave Macmillan, 2018 | 48* | 2018 |
| The Yoruba from prehistory to the present A Usman, T Falola Cambridge University Press, 2019 | 47 | 2019 |
| Decolonizing African studies: Knowledge production, agency, and voice T Falola Boydell & Brewer, 2022 | 45 | 2022 |
| Èṣù: Yoruba God, Power, and the Imaginative Frontiers T Falola Carolina Academic Press, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| Pentecostalism and politics in Africa A Afolayan, O Yacob-Haliso, T Falola Springer, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| The political economy of development and underdevelopment in Africa T Falola, J Achberger Routledge, 2013 | 39 | 2013 |
| The Palgrave handbook of African philosophy A Afolayan, T Falola Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| Music, performance and African identities T Falola, T Fleming Routledge, 2012 | 35 | 2012 |
| The palgrave handbook of african women's studies O Yacob-Haliso, T Falola Palgrave Macmillan, Springer Nature Switzerland, 2021 | 32 | 2021 |
| Ethnicity and Nigeria politics: The past in the Yoruba present T Falola Ethnicity and Democracy in Africa. Oxford: James Currey, 148-65, 2004 | 31 | 2004 |
| The Palgrave handbook of African education and indigenous knowledge JM Abidogun, T Falola Springer International Publishing, 2020 | 30 | 2020 |
| Africa’s big men: predatory state-society relations in Africa K Kalu, O Yacob-Haliso, T Falola Routledge, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
| Nigerian cities T Falola, SJ Salm Africa World Press, 2004 | 30 | 2004 |