| AHR Conversation: On Transnational History CA Bayly, S Beckert, M Connelly, I Hofmeyr, W Kozol, P Seed The American Historical Review 111 (5), 1441-1464, 2006 | 677 | 2006 |
| The Portable Bunyan: a transnational history of the Pilgrim's Progress I Hofmeyr Princeton University Press, 2018 | 519 | 2018 |
| We spend our years as a tale that is told: oral historical narrative in a South African chiefdom I Hofmeyr (No Title), 1994 | 490 | 1994 |
| Building a nation from words: Afrikaans language, literature and ethnic identity, 1902–1924 I Hofmeyr The politics of race, class and nationalism in twentieth century South …, 2014 | 299 | 2014 |
| The Black Atlantic meets the Indian Ocean: forging new paradigms of transnationalism for the Global South–literary and cultural perspectives I Hofmeyr Social dynamics 33 (2), 3-32, 2007 | 292 | 2007 |
| Gandhi's Printing Press: Experiments in Slow Reading I Hofmeyr Harvard University Press, 2013 | 264 | 2013 |
| Universalizing the Indian Ocean I Hofmeyr pmla 125 (3), 721-729, 2010 | 177 | 2010 |
| The complicating sea: The Indian Ocean as method I Hofmeyr Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 32 (3), 584-590, 2012 | 150 | 2012 |
| Eyes across the Water: navigating the Indian Ocean P Gupta, I Hofmeyr, M Pearson Unisa Press, 2010 | 106 | 2010 |
| Popularizing history: the case of Gustav Preller I Hofmeyr The Journal of African History 29 (3), 521-535, 1988 | 90 | 1988 |
| Provisional notes on hydrocolonialism I Hofmeyr English Language Notes 57 (1), 11-20, 2019 | 74 | 2019 |
| Oceanic routes:(Post-it) notes on hydro-colonialism K Bystrom, I Hofmeyr Comparative Literature 69 (1), 1-6, 2017 | 72 | 2017 |
| Holding their ground: class, locality and culture in 19th and 20th century South Africa PL Bonner Raven Press (South Africa), 1989 | 69 | 1989 |
| Introduction: print cultures, nationalisms and publics of the Indian Ocean I Hofmeyr, P Kaarsholm, BF Frederiksen Africa 81 (1), 1-22, 2011 | 68 | 2011 |
| Ten books that shaped the British Empire: creating an imperial commons A Burton, I Hofmeyr Duke University Press, 2014 | 53 | 2014 |
| Dockside reading: Hydrocolonialism and the custom house I Hofmeyr Duke University Press, 2021 | 51 | 2021 |
| South Africa and India: shaping the global south I Hofmeyr, M Williams NYU Press, 2011 | 51 | 2011 |
| Sea tracks and trails: Indian Ocean worlds as method A Burton, M Kale, I Hofmeyr, C Anderson, CJ Lee, N Green History Compass 11 (7), 497-502, 2013 | 44 | 2013 |
| Specificities:'Who can bwogo me?'Popular culture in Kenya I Hofmeyr, J Nyairo, J Ogude Social Identities 9 (3), 373-382, 2003 | 40 | 2003 |
| The Idea of ‘Africa’ in Indian Nationalism: Reporting the Diaspora in The Modern Review 1907–1929 I Hofmeyr South African Historical Journal 57 (1), 60-81, 2007 | 39 | 2007 |
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