| Nature's government: Science, Imperial Britain and the ‘Improvement’ of the World R Drayton Yale University Press, 2000 | 1698* | 2000 |
| Discussion: the futures of global history R Drayton, D Motadel Journal of global History 13 (1), 1-21, 2018 | 230 | 2018 |
| Nature's government: science R Drayton Imperial Britain, and the, 2000 | 191 | 2000 |
| Knowledge and empire R Drayton The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume II: The Eighteenth Century …, 1998 | 104 | 1998 |
| Where does the world historian write from? Objectivity, moral conscience and the past and present of Imperialism R Drayton Journal of Contemporary History 46 (3), 671-685, 2011 | 77 | 2011 |
| 'The Collaboration of Labour: Slaves, Empires, and Globalizations in the Atlantic World, c. 1600-1850 R Drayton Globalisation in World History, 98-114, 2002 | 55 | 2002 |
| Science, medicine, and the British Empire R Drayton Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume V: Historiography, 1999 | 48 | 1999 |
| Science and the Euopean empires R Drayton The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 23 (3), 503-510, 1995 | 42 | 1995 |
| Imperial history and the human future R Drayton History Workshop Journal 74 (1), 156-172, 2012 | 41 | 2012 |
| Rhodes must not fall? Statues, postcolonial ‘heritage’and temporality R Drayton Third Text 33 (4-5), 651-666, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Maritime networks and the making of knowledge R Drayton Empire, The Sea and Global History: Britain's Maritime World, c. 1760-c …, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| The problem of the hero (ine) in Caribbean History R Drayton Small Axe 15 (1), 26-45, 2011 | 29 | 2011 |
| Federal utopias and the realities of imperial power R Drayton Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 37 (2), 401-406, 2017 | 28 | 2017 |
| The globalisation of France: Provincial cities and French expansion c. 1500–1800 R Drayton History of European Ideas 34 (4), 424-430, 2008 | 26 | 2008 |
| The wealth of the west was built on Africa's exploitation R Drayton The Guardian 20, 2005 | 26 | 2005 |
| Conversations: George Lamming: Essays, Addresses and Interviews, 1956-1992 R Drayton Karia Press, 1992 | 23 | 1992 |
| Imperial science and a scientific empire: Kew Gardens and the uses of nature, 1772-1903 RH Drayton Yale University, 1993 | 17 | 1993 |
| Secondary Decolonization R Drayton Black Power in the Caribbean, 117, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
| A l'école des Français: la science et le deuxième empire britannique (1783-1830) R Drayton Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire 86 (322), 91-118, 1999 | 14 | 1999 |
| Gilberto Freyre and the twentieth-century rethinking of race in Latin America R Drayton Portuguese Studies 27 (1), 43-47, 2011 | 11 | 2011 |
