| Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump J Mercieca | 137 | 2020 |
| Founding fictions JR Mercieca University of Alabama Press, 2010 | 70 | 2010 |
| What is the role of the communication discipline in social justice, community engagement, and public scholarship? A visit to the CM Café S Dempsey, M Dutta, LR Frey, HL Goodall, DS Madison, J Mercieca, ... Communication Monographs 78 (2), 256-271, 2011 | 57 | 2011 |
| Analyzing Constitutive Rhetorics The Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and the'Principles of’98' J Jasinski, J Mercieca Blackwell, 2010 | 56 | 2010 |
| Dangerous demagogues and weaponized communication JR Mercieca Rhetoric Society Quarterly 49 (3), 264-279, 2019 | 51 | 2019 |
| “A Discovered Dissembler Can Achieve Nothing Great”; Or, Four Theses on the Death of Presidential Rhetoric in an Age of Empire SJ Hartnett, JR Mercieca Presidential Studies Quarterly 37 (4), 599-621, 2007 | 43 | 2007 |
| The rhetoric of heroic expectations: Establishing the Obama presidency JS Vaughn, J Mercieca Texas A&M University Press, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| The culture of honor: How slaveholders responded to the abolitionist mail crisis of 1835 JR Mercieca Rhetoric & Public Affairs 10 (1), 51-76, 2007 | 28 | 2007 |
| " Has Your Courage Rusted?": National Security and the Contested Rhetorical Norms of Republicanism in Post-Revolutionary America, 1798-1801 SJ Hartnett, JR Mercieca Rhetoric & Public Affairs 9 (1), 79-112, 2006 | 24 | 2006 |
| The rhetorical brilliance of Trump the demagogue J Mercieca The Conversation 11, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| A vernacular republican rhetoric: William Manning's Key of Libberty JR Mercieca, J Arnt Aune Quarterly Journal of Speech 91 (2), 119-143, 2005 | 20 | 2005 |
| Barack Obama and the rhetoric of heroic expectations J Mercieca, J Vaughn Texas A&M University Press, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| The irony of the democratic style JR Mercieca Rhetoric & Public Affairs 11 (3), 441-449, 2008 | 14 | 2008 |
| The post-rhetorical legacy of George W. Bush JR Mercieca, JS Vaughn Perspectives on the legacy of George W. Bush, 31-52, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| A field guide to Trump’s dangerous rhetoric J Mercieca The Conversation 19, 2020 | 10 | 2020 |
| Afterword: Trump as Anarchist and Sun King J Mercieca SOCIETAS, 2018 | 7 | 2018 |
| How Donald Trump Gets Away with Saying Things Other Candidates Can’t J Mercieca Washington Post 9, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| Michelle Obama,‘Mom-in-Chief’: Gender, Race, and Familialism in Media Representations of the First Lady BJ Dow, JS Vaughn, JR Mercieca The rhetoric of heroic expectations: Establishing the Obama presidency, 235-256, 2014 | 6 | 2014 |
| Report of the task force on the presidency and deliberative democracy V Beasley, RB Asen, DM Blair, SJ Hartnett, KK Leeper, JR Mercieca The prospect of presidential rhetoric, 251-71, 2008 | 5 | 2008 |
| Columns to characters: The presidency and the press enter the digital age P Baker, MJ Kumar, R Kirk, D Demarest, RP Hart, TM DeFrank, SA Smith, ... Texas A&M University Press, 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
