| Performance affects: Applied theatre and the end of effect J Thompson Springer, 2009 | 786 | 2009 |
| Applied theatre: Bewilderment and beyond J Thompson Peter Lang, 2003 | 434 | 2003 |
| Why “social theatre”? J Thompson, R Schechner TDR/The Drama Review 48 (3), 11-16, 2004 | 185 | 2004 |
| Digging up stories: Applied theatre, performance and war J Thompson Manchester University Press, 2005 | 172 | 2005 |
| Towards an aesthetics of care J Thompson Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance …, 2015 | 164 | 2015 |
| Prison Theatre: Perspectives & Practices J Thompson host publication, 1998 | 157 | 1998 |
| Performance in place of war J Thompson, J Hughes, M Balfour Seagull Books, 2009 | 137 | 2009 |
| Drama Workshops for Anger Management & Offending Behavior J Thompson Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1999 | 65 | 1999 |
| Digging up stories: An archaeology of theatre in war J Thompson TDR/The Drama Review 48 (3), 150-164, 2004 | 48 | 2004 |
| Performing care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance A Stuart Fish, J Thompson Manchester University Press, 2020 | 44 | 2020 |
| Humanitarian performance: From disaster tragedies to spectacles of war J Thompson University of Chicago Press, 2014 | 42 | 2014 |
| Performance of pain, performance of beauty J Thompson Research in drama education 11 (1), 47-57, 2006 | 36 | 2006 |
| From the Stocks to the Stage: from prison theatre to the theatre of prison J Thompson Prison theatre: theory and practice, 2004 | 34 | 2004 |
| ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t Got that Swing’: Some questions on participatory theatre, evaluation and impact {1} J Thompson Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance …, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| Theatre and offender rehabilitation: Observations from the USA J Thompson Research in Drama Education 3 (2), 197-210, 1998 | 28 | 1998 |
| Towards an aesthetics of care J Thompson Performing care, 36-48, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Care aesthetics: for artful care and careful art J Thompson Routledge, 2022 | 20 | 2022 |
| Performing the ‘aesthetics of care’ J Thompson Performing care: New perspectives on socially engaged performance, 215-229, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| The ends of applied theatre: Incidents of cutting and chopping J Thompson The applied theatre reader, 116-124, 2008 | 17 | 2008 |
| Doubtful Principles in Arts and Prisons J Thompson Teaching the Arts behind Bars, 2003 | 17 | 2003 |
