| The Australian royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse K Wright, S Swain, K McPhillips Child Abuse & Neglect 74, 1-9, 2017 | 100 | 2017 |
| Popular spiritualities: The politics of contemporary enchantment L Hume, K McPhillips Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2006 | 75 | 2006 |
| Turning public issues into private troubles: Lead contamination, domestic labor, and the exploitation of women's unpaid labor in Australia L Bryson, K McPhillips, K Robinson Gender & Society 15 (5), 754-772, 2001 | 45 | 2001 |
| “Unbearable knowledge”: Managing cultural trauma at the Royal Commission K McPhillips Psychoanalytic Dialogues 27 (2), 130-146, 2017 | 27 | 2017 |
| Understanding trauma as a system of psycho-social harm: Contributions from the Australian Royal Commission into Child Sex Abuse K McPhillips, M Salter, E Roberts-Pedersen, C Kezelman Child Abuse & Neglect 99, 104232, 2020 | 25 | 2020 |
| Local Heroes: Australian crusades from the environmental frontline K McPhillips (No Title), 2002 | 19 | 2002 |
| Contested Feminisms: Women's Religious Leadership and the Politics of Contemporary Western Feminism. K McPhillips Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 29 (2), 2016 | 18 | 2016 |
| Silence, Secrecy and Power: Understanding the Royal Commission Findings into the Failure of Religious Organisations to Protect Children. K McPhillips Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 31 (3), 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| The Church, The Commission and the Truth: Inside the NSW Special Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse. K McPhillips Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 29 (1), 2016 | 17 | 2016 |
| “Soul Murder”: investigating spiritual trauma at the Royal Commission K McPhillips Examining the Past and Shaping the Future, 95-106, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| Theme: Feminisms, religions, cultures, identities K McPhillips Australian Feminist Studies 14 (30), 255-258, 1999 | 15 | 1999 |
| Whose Rights Matter? Women’s Rights, Anti-discrimination Legislation, and the Case of Religious Exceptions K McPhillips Religion after secularization in Australia, 119-135, 2015 | 13 | 2015 |
| Feminist spirituality and the power of ritual K McPhillips Practising the witch’s craft. Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 2003 | 13 | 2003 |
| Rituals, Bodies and Thealogy: Some Questions K McPhillips Feminist theology 6 (18), 9-28, 1998 | 13 | 1998 |
| Shifting selves: the struggle for identity and spirituality in the work of three young women artists K McPhillips, P Mudge, J Johnston International Journal of Children's Spirituality 12 (3), 233-247, 2007 | 12 | 2007 |
| Knowing otherwise: Restorying intuitive knowing as feminist resistance F Mozeley, K McPhillips Women's Studies 48 (8), 844-861, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Religion after the Royal Commission: Challenges to religion–state relations K McPhillips Religions 11 (1), 44, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Post-modern sainthood:'hearing the voice of the saint'and the uses of feminist hagiography K McPhillips Seachanges, 2003 | 10 | 2003 |
| Believing in post-modernity: Technologies of enchantment in contemporary Marian devotion K McPhillips Popular Spiritualities, 147-158, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Re-framing Religious Identity and Belief: Gen X Women and the Catholic Church. T McEwan, K McPhillips Journal for the Academic Study of Religion 30 (3), 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
