| The English indices of deprivation 2004 M Noble, G Wright, C Dibben, GAN Smith, D McLennan, C Anttila, ... London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister 180, 2004 | 969* | 2004 |
| Making policy with ‘good ideas’: Policy networks and the ‘intellectuals’ of New Labour SJ Ball, S Exley Journal of education policy 25 (2), 151-169, 2010 | 336 | 2010 |
| Something old, something new: understanding Conservative education policy S Exley, SJ Ball The conservative party and social policy, 97-118, 2011 | 108 | 2011 |
| The Academies programme: Progress, problems and possibilities A Curtis, S Exley, A Sasia, S Tough, G Whitty London: The Sutton Trust, 2008 | 84 | 2008 |
| Neo-liberalism and English education S Exley, SJ Ball Neo-liberal Educational Reforms, 13-31, 2013 | 72 | 2013 |
| Global education policy: Networks and flows S Exley, A Braun, S Ball Critical Studies in Education 52 (3), 213-218, 2011 | 51 | 2011 |
| Making working-class parents think more like middle-class parents: Choice Advisers in English education S Exley Journal of Education Policy 28 (1), 77-94, 2013 | 50 | 2013 |
| Dimensions of British identity J Tilley, S Exley, A Heath British social attitudes: The 21st report, 147-168, 2004 | 49 | 2004 |
| Are Quasi‐markets in Education what the B ritish Public Wants? S Exley Social Policy & Administration 48 (1), 24-43, 2014 | 39 | 2014 |
| Selective schooling and its relationship to private tutoring: The case of South Korea S Exley Comparative Education 56 (2), 218-235, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| The politics of educational policy making under New Labour: an illustration of shifts in public service governance S Exley Policy & Politics 40 (2), 227-244, 2012 | 24 | 2012 |
| Exploring pupil segregation between specialist and non‐specialist schools SR Exley Oxford Review of Education 35 (4), 451-470, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| Private schools, choice and the ethical environment S Exley, J Suissa British Journal of Educational Studies 61 (3), 345-362, 2013 | 23 | 2013 |
| Think tanks and policy networks in English education S Exley Studying public policy: An international approach, 179-190, 2014 | 21 | 2014 |
| Stuck in our cars? Mapping transport preferences S Exley, I Christie British Social Attitudes, The 20th Report: Continuity and Change Over Two …, 2003 | 19 | 2003 |
| A country on its way to full privatisation? Private schools and school choice in England S Exley Private Schools and School Choice in Compulsory Education: Global Change and …, 2017 | 17 | 2017 |
| The influence of overseas examples on DES policy-making for the school system in England, 1985–1995 G Smith, S Exley Comparative Inquiry and Educational Policy Making, 31-54, 2007 | 17 | 2007 |
| Locked in: Understanding the ‘irreversibility’of powerful private supplementary tutoring markets S Exley Oxford Review of Education 48 (1), 78-94, 2022 | 16 | 2022 |
| Off the buses? S Exley, I Christie British social attitudes: The 19th report, 1-26, 2002 | 16 | 2002 |
| Education and learning S Exley Social advantage and disadvantage, 112-135, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |