| A concise history of South Africa R Ross Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 776 | 2008 |
| Cape of torments: Slavery and resistance in South Africa R Ross Routledge, 2022 | 342 | 2022 |
| Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750–1870: a tragedy of manners R Ross Cambridge University Press, 1999 | 328 | 1999 |
| Clothing: A global history R Ross Polity, 2008 | 196 | 2008 |
| Beyond the pale: essays on the history of colonial South Africa R Ross Wesleyan University Press, 1993 | 170 | 1993 |
| Adam Kok's Griquas: a study in the development of stratification in South Africa R Ross | 161 | 1976 |
| The impact of mastectomy on self-concept and social function: A combined cross-sectional and longitudinal study with comparison groups DT Penman, JR Bloom, S Fotopoulos, MR Cook, JC Holland, C Gates, ... Women & Health 11 (3-4), 101-130, 1987 | 150 | 1987 |
| Colonial cities: Essays on urbanism in a colonial context RJ Ross, GJ Telkamp Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 145 | 2012 |
| The cambridge history of South Africa C Hamilton, B Mbenga, R Ross Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 114 | 2010 |
| Racism and colonialism: Essays on ideology and social structure RJ Ross Springer Science & Business Media, 2012 | 108 | 2012 |
| The origins of capitalist agriculture in the Cape Colony: A survey RJ Ross William Beinart, Peter Delius and Stanley Trapido (eds.) Putting a Plough to …, 1986 | 97 | 1986 |
| Missions and Christianity in South African History HC Bredekamp, R Ross Witwatersrand University Press, 1995 | 79 | 1995 |
| The Cambridge History of South Africa: Volume 2, 1885–1994 R Ross, AK Mager, B Nasson Cambridge University Press, 2011 | 71 | 2011 |
| The rise of the Cape gentry R Ross Journal of Southern African Studies 9 (2), 193-217, 1983 | 71 | 1983 |
| Combating spiritual and social bondage: Early missions in the Cape Colony E Elbourne, R Ross Perspectives on Southern Africa 55, 31-50, 1997 | 67 | 1997 |
| The Cape of Good Hope and the world economy, 1652-1835 RJ Ross, R Elphick, H Giliomee R. Elphick and H. Giliomee (eds) The Shaping of South African Society, 1652 …, 1989 | 67 | 1989 |
| The economy of the Cape Colony in the eighteenth century RJ Ross, PC van Duin | 65 | 1987 |
| The borders of race in colonial South Africa R Ross Cambridge University Press, 2014 | 54 | 2014 |
| The ‘white’population of South Africa in the eighteenth century R Ross Familia 12 (4), 79-101, 1975 | 51 | 1975 |
| Missions, respectability and civil rights: The Cape Colony, 1828–1854 R Ross Journal of Southern African Studies 25 (3), 333-345, 1999 | 48 | 1999 |
