| Church and university in the Scottish Enlightenment: the moderate literati of Edinburgh RB Sher Edinburgh University Press, 2015 | 679 | 2015 |
| The Enlightenment and the book: Scottish authors and their publishers in eighteenth-century Britain, Ireland, and America RB Sher University of Chicago Press, 2008 | 474 | 2008 |
| Scotland and America in the Age of the Enlightenment RB Sher, JR Smitten Edinburgh University Press, 1990 | 144 | 1990 |
| Adam Ferguson, Adam Smith, and the problem of national defense RB Sher The Journal of Modern History 61 (2), 240-268, 1989 | 89 | 1989 |
| Professors of virtue: The social history of the Edinburgh moral philosophy chair in the eighteenth century RB Sher | 80 | 1990 |
| The Glasgow Enlightenment A Hook, RB Sher Birlinn Ltd, 2001 | 78 | 2001 |
| From Troglodytes to Americans: Montesquieu and the Scottish Enlightenment on liberty, virtue, and commerce RB Sher Republicanism, liberty, and commercial society, 1649-1776, 1994 | 72 | 1994 |
| Sociability and society in eighteenth-century Scotland JA Dwyer, RB Sher | 61 | 1993 |
| Patronage and Party in the Church of Scotland, 1750–1800 R Sher, A Murdoch, N Macdougall Church, politics and society: Scotland, 1408-1929, 1983 | 40 | 1983 |
| Literary and learned culture A Murdoch, RB Sher People and society in Scotland 1, 1760-1830, 1988 | 34 | 1988 |
| " Those Scotch Imposters and their Cabal": Ossian and the Scottish Enlightenment RB Sher Man and Nature 1, 55-63, 1982 | 34 | 1982 |
| Science and medicine in the Scottish Enlightenment: the lessons of book history RB Sher The Scottish Enlightenment: Essays in Reinterpretation 100, p. 129, 2000 | 31 | 2000 |
| Corporatism and consensus in the late eighteenth-century book trade: The Edinburgh Booksellers' Society in comparative perspective RB Sher Book History 1 (1), 32-90, 1998 | 25 | 1998 |
| Commerce, Religion and the enlightenment in eighteenth-century Glasgow RB Sher Glasgow 1, 326-328, 1995 | 24 | 1995 |
| Scotland Transformed: The Eighteenth Century RB Sher Scotland: A History, 150-175, 2005 | 20 | 2005 |
| New Light on the Publication and Reception of the Wealth of Nations RB Sher The Adam Smith Review: Volume 1, 15-41, 2004 | 19 | 2004 |
| Percy, Shaw and the Ferguson'Cheat': National Prejudice in the Ossian Wars RB Sher Ossian Revisited, 207-245, 1991 | 17 | 1991 |
| Witherspoon’s Dominion of Providence and the Scottish Jeremiad Tradition RB Sher Scotland and America in the Age of Enlightenment, 46-64, 1990 | 16 | 1990 |
| Charles V and the book trade: an episode in Enlightenment print culture RB Sher IDEAS IN CONTEXT 45 (1), 164-195, 1997 | 14 | 1997 |
| Moderates, Managers and Popular Politics in Mid-Eighteenth Century Edinburgh: The Drysdale ‘Bustle’of the 1760s’ RB Sher, J Dwyer, RA Mason, A Murdoch New Perspectives on the Politics and Culture of Early Modern Scotland, 179-209, 1982 | 14 | 1982 |
