| Papua New Guinea, a political history J Griffin, H Nelson, S Firth Australia: Heinemann Educational, 1979 | 229 | 1979 |
| Australia in international politics: an introduction to Australian foreign policy S Firth Routledge, 2020 | 179 | 2020 |
| New Guinea under the Germans S Firth (No Title), 1983 | 167 | 1983 |
| Nuclear playground S Firth Routledge, 2020 | 161 | 2020 |
| The Pacific Islands and the globalization agenda S Firth The Contemporary Pacific 12 (1), 177-192, 2000 | 129 | 2000 |
| The 2006 military takeover in Fiji: A coup to end all coups? J Fraenkel, F Stewart Firth, VL Brij ANU Press, 2009 | 108 | 2009 |
| Sovereignty and independence in the contemporary Pacific S Firth The Contemporary Pacific, 75-96, 1989 | 88 | 1989 |
| German firms in the Western Pacific islands, 1857–1914 S Firth The Journal of Pacific History 8 (1), 10-28, 1973 | 72 | 1973 |
| Politics and State-building in the Solomon Islands S Dinnen, S Firth ANU Press, 2008 | 70 | 2008 |
| From Election to Coup The 2006 Campaign and its Aftermath J Fraenkel, S Firth Anu Press, 2007 | 70 | 2007 |
| Globalisation and Governance in the Pacific Islands: State, Society and Governance in Melanesia S Firth ANU Press, 2006 | 65 | 2006 |
| Colonial Administration and the Invention of the Native S Firth The Cambridge history of the Pacific islanders 254, 1997 | 56 | 1997 |
| German Recruitment and Employment of Labourers in the Western Pacific Before the First World War. SG Firth University of Oxford, 1973 | 50 | 1973 |
| Pacific islands trade, labor, and security in an era of globalization S Firth The Contemporary Pacific, 111-135, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |
| The transformation of the labour trade in German New Guinea, 1899–1914 S Firth The Journal of Pacific History 11 (1), 51-65, 1976 | 47 | 1976 |
| Instability in the Pacific Islands: A status report S Firth Lowy Institute for International Policy, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| The enigmas of Fiji’s good governance coup J Fraenkel, S Firth The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji: A Coup to End All Coups, 3-17, 2009 | 38 | 2009 |
| German firms in the Pacific Islands, 1857-1914 SG Firth Germany in the Pacific and Far East 1914, 3-25, 1870 | 37 | 1870 |
| Future directions for Pacific studies S Firth The Contemporary Pacific, 139-148, 2003 | 36 | 2003 |
| A nuclear Pacific S Firth, K Von Strokirch The Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, 324-358, 1997 | 36 | 1997 |
