| China returns to Africa C Alden, D Large, R Soares de Oliveira Columbia University Press, 2008 | 563* | 2008 |
| Oil and Politics in the Gulf of Guinea R Soares de Oliveira Hurst Publishers and Columbia University Press, 2007 | 479* | 2007 |
| Magnificent and beggar land: Angola since the civil war RS de Oliveira Oxford University Press, 2015 | 393* | 2015 |
| Bottom of the barrel: Africa's oil boom and the poor I Gary, TL Karl, R Soares de Oliveira Catholic Relief Services, 2003 | 351 | 2003 |
| Business success, Angola-style: postcolonial politics and the rise and rise of Sonangol RS De Oliveira The Journal of Modern African Studies 45 (4), 595-619, 2007 | 266 | 2007 |
| Illiberal peacebuilding in Angola RS De Oliveira The Journal of Modern African Studies 49 (2), 287-314, 2011 | 212 | 2011 |
| Energy and security A Cherp, A Adenikinju, A Goldthau, F Hernandez, L Hughes, J Jewell, ... Global energy assessment: Toward a sustainable future, 325-383, 2012 | 185* | 2012 |
| Africa's illiberal state-builders W Jones Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford Department of International Development, 2013 | 162 | 2013 |
| Business and politics in São Tomé e Príncipe: from cocoa monoculture to petro‐state JG Frynas, G Wood, R Soares de Oliveira African Affairs 102 (406), 51-80, 2003 | 116 | 2003 |
| Making sense of Chinese oil investment in Africa RS de Oliveira | 97* | 2008 |
| The New Protectorates: international tutelage and the making of liberal states J Mayall, RS de Oliveira Hurst Publishers and Columbia University Press, 2011 | 58 | 2011 |
| ‘Our identity is our currency’: South Africa, the responsibility to protect and the logic of African intervention H Verhoeven, CSR Murthy, R Soares de Oliveira Conflict, Security & Development 14 (4), 509-534, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Taming intervention: Sovereignty, statehood and political order in Africa RS De Oliveira, H Verhoeven Survival 60.2, 7-32, 2018 | 43* | 2018 |
| “O Governo Está Aqui”: Post-war state-making in the Angolan periphery RS de Oliveira Politique africaine, 165-187, 2013 | 43 | 2013 |
| The good/bad nexus in global energy governance T Benner, RS de Oliveira, F Kalinke Global energy governance: The new rules of the game, 287-314, 2010 | 41* | 2010 |
| The political economy of banking in Angola ME Ferreira, R Soares de Oliveira African Affairs 118 (470), 49-74, 2019 | 37 | 2019 |
| Angola’s elections and the politics of presidential succession J Pearce, D Péclard, R Soares de Oliveira African Affairs 117 (466), 146-160, 2018 | 33 | 2018 |
| A África desde o fim da Guerra Fria R Soares de Oliveira Relações Internacionais, 2009 | 31* | 2009 |
| The UK’s kleptocracy problem: How servicing post-Soviet elites weakens the rule of law J Heathershaw, AC Cooley, T Mayne, C Michel, T Prelec, J Sharman, ... Chatham House, 2021 | 22* | 2021 |
| The struggle for the state and the politics of belonging in contemporary Angola, 1975–2015 R Soares de Oliveira Social Dynamics 42 (1), 69-84, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
