| Ariadne's Thread: Literacy, scale and meaning making across time and space C Kell Language, literacy and diversity: Moving words, 2015 | 98* | 2015 |
| Literacy practices, text/s and meaning making across time and space C Kell The future of literacy studies, 75-99, 2009 | 98 | 2009 |
| Inequalities and crossings: Literacy and the spaces-in-between C Kell International Journal of Educational Development 31 (6), 606-613, 2011 | 96 | 2011 |
| Crossing the margins: Literacy, semiotics and the recontextualisation of meanings. C Kell Travel Notes from the New Literacy Studies: Instances of Practice. Pahl, K …, 2006 | 90 | 2006 |
| Making people happen: Materiality and movement in meaning making trajectories C Kell Social Semiotics 25 (4), 2015 | 77 | 2015 |
| 12. Literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula C Kell The social uses of literacy, 235, 1996 | 76 | 1996 |
| Peer assessment using Aropä J Hamer, C Kell, F Spence Proceedings of the ninth Australasian conference on Computing education …, 2007 | 74 | 2007 |
| Objects and language in trans-contextual communication G Budach, C Kell, D Patrick Social Semiotics 25 (4), 387-400, 2015 | 62 | 2015 |
| Seeking impact and visibility: Scholarly communication in Southern Africa H Trotter, C Kell, M Willmers, E Gray, T King African Minds, 2014 | 49 | 2014 |
| Traveling texts, translocal/transnational literacies, and transcontextual analysis C Kell The Routledge handbook of migration and language, 413-430, 2017 | 38 | 2017 |
| ‘Making Things Happen’: Literacy and Agency in Housing Struggles in South Africa C Kell The Journal of Development Studies 44 (6), 892-912, 2008 | 36 | 2008 |
| Teaching letters: the recontextualisation of letter-writing practices in literacy classes for unschooled adults in South Africa C Kell Letter writing as a social practice, 209-232, 2008 | 25 | 2008 |
| Weighing the scales: recontextualization as horizontal scaling C Kell Globalization and Language in Contact: Scale, Migration and Communicative …, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| Moment by moment: Contexts and crossings in the study of literacy in social practice CL Kell The Open University, 2006 | 16 | 2006 |
| Literacy, literacies and ABET in South Africa: On the knife-edge, new cutting edge or thin end of the wedge C Kell Powerful literacies, 94-107, 2001 | 16 | 2001 |
| Moving targets: A located perspective on literacy policy in South Africa M Prinsloo, C Kell Literacy and numeracy studies 7 (2), 83-102, 1997 | 16 | 1997 |
| Scholarly communication at the University of Botswana: Case study report H Trotter, C Kell, M Willmers, E Gray, A Totolo, T King | 15 | 2014 |
| An analysis of literacy practices in an informal settlement in the Cape Peninsula CL Kell University of Cape Town, 1994 | 15 | 1994 |
| How are we failing our children? Reconceptualising language and literacy education S Abdulatief, X Guzula, C Kell, G Lloyd, P Makoe, C McKinney, R Tyler Position Paper of the Bua-Lit Collective, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Ethnographic studies and adult literacy policy in South Africa C Kell Applied Linguistics Methods A Reader, 203-224, 2010 | 13 | 2010 |
