| Fighting for Britain: African soldiers in the second world war D Killingray, M Plaut Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2012 | 183 | 2012 |
| Who rules South Africa?: Pulling the strings in the battle for power M Plaut, P Holden Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2012 | 98 | 2012 |
| Understanding Eritrea: Inside Africa's Most Repressive State M Plaut Oxford University Press, 2016 | 95 | 2016 |
| Unfinished business: Ethiopia and Eritrea at war D Jacquin-Berdal, M Plaut Red Sea Press, 2005 | 78 | 2005 |
| Power!: black workers, their unions and the struggle for freedom in South Africa D MacShane, M Plaut, D Ward South End Press, 1984 | 62 | 1984 |
| War in the Horn: the conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia P Gilkes, M Plaut Royal Institute of International Affairs, 1999 | 59 | 1999 |
| Ethiopia and Eritrea: allergic to persuasion S Healy, M Plaut Royal Institute of International Affairs, 2007 | 40 | 2007 |
| Class struggle and the state D Innes, M Plaut Review of African Political Economy 5 (11), 51-61, 1978 | 33 | 1978 |
| The birth of the Eritrean reform movement M Plaut Taylor & Francis Group 29 (91), 119-124, 2002 | 31 | 2002 |
| Uganda donors cut aid after president passes anti-gay law M Plaut The guardian 25, 2014 | 27 | 2014 |
| The war between Ethiopia and Eritrea P Gilkes, M Plaut Foreign Policy in Focus 5 (25), 1-1, 2000 | 26 | 2000 |
| Ethiopia's Oromo Liberation Front M Plaut Review of African political economy 33 (109), 587-593, 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
| Rwanda—Looking beyond the Slaughter M Plaut The World Today 50 (8/9), 149-153, 1994 | 23 | 1994 |
| Gandhi's decisive South African 1913 campaign: A personal perspective from the letters of Betty Molteno C Corder, M Plaut South African Historical Journal 66 (1), 22-54, 2014 | 22 | 2014 |
| Robert Mugabe S Onslow, M Plaut Ohio University Press, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| How unstable is the Horn of Africa? M Plaut Review of African Political Economy 40 (136), 321-330, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Violence and identity along the Eritrean—Ethiopian border P Gilkes, M Plaut na, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| The conflict and its aftermath M Plaut na, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| Who are Sudan’s Darfur Rebels?’ M Plaut BBC News 30, 2004 | 17 | 2004 |
| Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War M Plaut, S Vaughan Hurst Publishers, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
