| Oil palm: A global history JE Robins UNC Press Books, 2021 | 30 | 2021 |
| Cotton and race across the Atlantic: Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920 J Robins Boydell & Brewer, 2016 | 22 | 2016 |
| Colonial cuisine: food in British Nigeria, 1900-1914 J Robins Cultural Studies? Critical Methodologies 10 (6), 457-466, 2010 | 20 | 2010 |
| Slave Cocoa and Red Rubber: ED Morel and the Problem of Ethical Consumption JE Robins Comparative Studies in Society and History 54 (03), 592-611, 2012 | 14 | 2012 |
| “Food comes first”: the development of colonial nutritional policy in Ghana, 1900–1950 JE Robins Global Food History 4 (2), 168-188, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
| Shallow roots: The early oil palm industry in Southeast Asia, 1848–1940 J Robins Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 51 (4), 538-560, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Oil Boom J Robins Journal of World History 29 (3), 313-342, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| A Common Brotherhood for Their Mutual Benefit: Sir Charles Macara and Internationalism in the Cotton Industry, 1904–1914 JE Robins Enterprise & Society 16 (4), 847-888, 2015 | 7 | 2015 |
| Coercion and resistance in the colonial market: Cotton in Britain’s African empire JE Robins Global histories, imperial commodities, local interactions, 100-120, 2013 | 6 | 2013 |
| Fats of the Land: New Histories of Agricultural Oils J Infante-Amate, B Luedtke, J MacFadyen, J Robins, K Stevens Agricultural History 93 (3), 520-546, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| Smallholders and Machines in the West African Palm Oil Industry, 1850–1950 JE Robins African Economic History 46 (1), 69-103, 2018 | 5 | 2018 |
| Humans and other pollinators in the oil palm plantation complex J Robins Arcadia, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| “Imbibing the lesson of defiance”: oil palms and alcohol in Colonial Ghana, 1900–40 J Robins Environmental History, 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
| Lancashire and the “Undeveloped Estates”: The British Cotton Growing Association Fund-Raising Campaign, 1902–1914 J Robins Journal of British Studies 54 (4), 869-897, 2015 | 4 | 2015 |
| Food and Drink: Palm Oil versus Palm Wine in Colonial Ghana JE Robins | 3 | 2016 |
| The cotton crisis: Globalization and empire in the Atlantic world, 1902–1920 J Robins University of Rochester, 2010 | 3 | 2010 |
| ‘The Black Man’s Crop’: Cotton, Imperialism and Public-Private Development in Britain’s African Colonies, 1900-1918 J Robins | 3 | 2009 |
| Sven Beckert. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. xxii+ 615 pp. ISBN 978-0-375-41414-5, $35 (cloth). JE Robins Enterprise & Society 16 (4), 991-993, 2015 | 2 | 2015 |
| How palm oil became the world’s most hated, most used fat source JE Robins | 1 | 2021 |
| 287 Primary Commodities and Industrial Consumers: The Case of Palm Oil JE Robins The Oxford Handbook of Commodity History, 287-308, 2023 | | 2023 |
