| Resource wars: the anthropology of mining C Ballard, G Banks Annual review of anthropology 32 (1), 287-313, 2003 | 1009 | 2003 |
| Foreign bodies: Oceania and the science of race 1750-1940 B Douglas, C Ballard Anu Press, 2008 | 167 | 2008 |
| The ship as symbol in the prehistory of Scandinavia and Southeast Asia C Ballard, R Bradley, LN Myhre, M Wilson World Archaeology 35 (3), 385-403, 2004 | 163 | 2004 |
| The Ok Tedi settlement: issues, outcomes and implications. G Banks, C Ballard | 134 | 1997 |
| It's the land, stupid! The moral economy of resource ownership in Papua New Guinea C Ballard The governance of common property in the Pacific region, 47-65, 1997 | 119 | 1997 |
| Oceanic historicities C Ballard The Contemporary Pacific 26 (1), 96-124, 2014 | 108 | 2014 |
| The centre cannot hold. Trade networks and sacred geography in the Papua New Guinea Highlands C Ballard Archaeology in Oceania 29 (3), 130-148, 1994 | 98 | 1994 |
| Human rights and the mining sector in Indonesia: a baseline study C Ballard International Institute for Environment and Development, 2002 | 97 | 2002 |
| The sweet potato in Oceania: a reappraisal C Ballard (No Title), 2005 | 95 | 2005 |
| Monitoring the environmental impact of mining in remote locations through remotely sensed data D Paull, G Banks, C Ballard, D Gillieson Geocarto International 21 (1), 33-42, 2006 | 82 | 2006 |
| Dudumahan: a rock art site on Kai Kecil, SE Moluccas C Ballard Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association, 139-161, 1988 | 77 | 1988 |
| The death of a great land: ritual history and subsistence revolution in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea C Ballard | 76 | 2011 |
| Painted rock art sites in western Melanesia: locational evidence for an ‘Austronesian’tradition C Ballard State of the art: regional rock art studies in Australia and Melanesia, 94-106, 1992 | 76 | 1992 |
| Strange alliance: Pygmies in the colonial imaginary C Ballard World Archaeology 38 (1), 133-151, 2006 | 64 | 2006 |
| The return of the past: on drawing and dialogic history C Ballard The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 14 (2), 136-148, 2013 | 62 | 2013 |
| Chapter Three'Oceanic Negroes': British anthropology of Papuans, 1820-1869 C Ballard Foreign Bodies, 157, 2008 | 61 | 2008 |
| The sun by night: Huli moral topography and myths of a time of darkness C Ballard Fluid Ontologies: myth, ritual and philosophy in the Highlands of Papua New …, 1998 | 49 | 1998 |
| The fire next time: the conversion of the Huli apocalypse C Ballard Ethnohistory 47 (1), 205-225, 2000 | 48 | 2000 |
| Stepping stones across the Lihir Islands: developing cultural heritage management in the context of a gold-mining operation NA Bainton, C Ballard, K Gillespie, N Hall International Journal of Cultural Property 18 (1), 81-110, 2011 | 47 | 2011 |
| The end of the beginning? Mining, sacred geographies, memory and performance in Lihir NA Bainton, C Ballard, K Gillespie The Australian Journal of Anthropology 23 (1), 22-49, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
