| The rhetoric of ethnographic holism RJ Thornton Cultural Anthropology 3 (3), 285-303, 1988 | 282 | 1988 |
| Unimagined community: sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa R Thornton Univ of California Press, 2008 | 256 | 2008 |
| Space, time, and culture among the Iraqw of Tanzania RJ Thornton (No Title), 1980 | 216 | 1980 |
| For the Culture CY Thornton Inclusion in Linguistics, 153, 2024 | 185 | 2024 |
| Narrative ethnography in Africa, 1850-1920: the creation and capture of an appropriate domain for anthropology R Thornton Man, 502-520, 1983 | 159 | 1983 |
| The potentials of boundaries: steps toward a theory of the social edge R Thornton | 133 | 1994 |
| The transmission of knowledge in South African traditional healing R Thornton Africa 79 (1), 17-34, 2009 | 129 | 2009 |
| Radiofrequency ablation in the management of liver metastases from breast cancer CT Sofocleous, RG Nascimento, M Gonen, M Theodoulou, AM Covey, ... American Journal of Roentgenology 189 (4), 883-889, 2007 | 106 | 2007 |
| The quest for community R Thornton, M Ramphele South African keywords: The uses and abuses of political concepts, 29-39, 1988 | 95 | 1988 |
| Prospective study of outcomes after percutaneous biliary drainage for malignant biliary obstruction PC Robson, N Heffernan, M Gonen, R Thornton, LA Brody, R Holmes, ... Annals of surgical oncology 17, 2303-2311, 2010 | 93 | 2010 |
| The early writings of Bronisław Malinowski RJ Thornton, P Skalník, L Krzyżanowski Cambridge University Press, 1993 | 93* | 1993 |
| 'Imagine Yourself Set Down...': Mach, Frazer, Conrad, Malinowski and the Role of Imagination in Ethnography RJ Thornton Anthropology Today 1 (5), 7-14, 1985 | 81 | 1985 |
| Zamazama,“illegal” artisanal miners, misrepresented by the South African Press and Government R Thornton The Extractive Industries and Society 1 (2), 127-129, 2014 | 51 | 2014 |
| Sexual networks and social capital: multiple and concurrent sexual partnerships as a rational response to unstable social networks R Thornton African Journal of AIDS Research 8 (4), 413-421, 2009 | 44 | 2009 |
| The shooting at Uitenhage, South Africa, 1985: the context and interpretation of violence RJ Thornton American Ethnologist 17 (2), 217-236, 1990 | 44* | 1990 |
| “This dying out race” WHI bleek's approach to the languages of Southern Africa DRJ Thornton Social Dynamics 9 (2), 1-10, 1983 | 36 | 1983 |
| Healing the Exposed Being: A South African Ngoma Tradition R Thornton Wits Univeristy Press, 2017 | 35 | 2017 |
| Environment and land in Bushbuckridge, South Africa R Thornton Human Rights and the Environment, 229-250, 2012 | 33 | 2012 |
| South Africa: countries, boundaries, enemies and friends R Thornton Anthropology Today 10 (6), 7-15, 1994 | 26 | 1994 |
| Modelling of spatial relations in a boundary-marking ritual of the Iraqw of Tanzania R Thornton Man, 528-545, 1982 | 23 | 1982 |
