| Sport and the New Zealanders: A History G Ryan, G Watson Auckland University Press, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| Sport and ethnicity in New Zealand G Watson History Compass 5 (3), 780-801, 2007 | 36 | 2007 |
| Collective leadership: A case study of the All Blacks T Johnson, AJ Martin, FR Palmer, G Watson, P Ramsey APMBA (Asia Pacific Management and Business Application) 1 (1), 53-67, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| A core value of pride in winning: the all blacks’ team culture and legacy T Johnson, AJ Martin, FR Palmer, G Watson, P Ramsey The International Journal of Sport and Society 4 (1), 1, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| Developing a game and learning-centred flexible teaching model for transforming play DG Slade, AJ Martin, G Watson Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy 24 (5), 434-446, 2019 | 18 | 2019 |
| Sport Development in Action: Plan, Programme and Practice A Astle, S Leberman, G Watson Routledge, 2018 | 18* | 2018 |
| Aotearoa/New Zealand G Watson, F Palmer, G Ryan Routledge Handbook of Sport, Race and Ethnicity, 143-157, 2016 | 14 | 2016 |
| Artefacts and the All Blacks: Rites, rituals, symbols and stories T Johnson, AJ Martin, FR Palmer, G Watson, PL Ramsey Sporting Traditions 30 (1), 43-59, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| Practitioner auto-ethnography: self-reflection for discovery and deeper understanding D Slade, A Martin, G Watson Curriculum Studies in Health and Physical Education 11 (3), 252-264, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
| Interpretations of central Asian influences on Mughal India: The historical debate G Watson South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 18 (2), 1-22, 1995 | 9 | 1995 |
| Affirming Indian identities?: an analysis of imperial rhetoric and orientalism in the tours of Indian hockey teams to New Zealand in 1926, 1935 and 1938 [Article was presented … G Watson Sporting Traditions 21 (2), 119-140, 2005 | 8 | 2005 |
| Representations of Central Asian Ethnicities in British Literature c. 1830-1914 G Watson Asian Ethnicity 3 (2), 137-151, 2002 | 6 | 2002 |
| ‘See These Brilliant Exponents of the Game’: The England Women’s Hockey Team Tour of Australia and New Zealand, 1914 G Watson The International Journal of the History of Sport 33 (17), 2105-2122, 2016 | 5 | 2016 |
| From chronology to confessional: New Zealand sporting biographies in transition G Watson Journal of New Zealand Studies, 19-36, 2015 | 5 | 2015 |
| ‘Failed States’ on the ‘Perilous Frontier’: Historical bases of state formation in Afghanistan and Central Asia G Watson China, Xinjiang and Central Asia, 89-107, 2009 | 5 | 2009 |
| Siting the Stage: Representations of Central Asian Environments in British Literature, c. 1830-1914 G Watson New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 9 (1), 96, 2007 | 5 | 2007 |
| What for the future, from learning the past? Exploring the implications of the compulsory Aotearoa New Zealand histories curriculum C Neill, R Bell, M Belgrave, P Meihana, G Watson Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand Council for …, 2022 | 4 | 2022 |
| Symbolic equality in Aotearoa New Zealand sports organisations A Shanks, S Leberman, S Shaw, G Watson Sport in Aotearoa New Zealand, 81-94, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| Seasons of honour: A centenary history of New Zealand Hockey 1902-2002 G Watson, W Haskell Dunmore Press, 2002 | 4 | 2002 |
| Will to Win: New Zealand netball greats on team culture and leadership A Martin, L McCarthy, G Watson Massey University Press, 2020 | 3 | 2020 |
