| Strength Peddlers: Eddie O’Callaghan and the selling of Irish strength C Heffernan Sport in History 38 (1), 23-45, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| Women’s Jūjutsu and Judo in the Early Twentieth-Century: The Cases of Phoebe Roberts, Edith Garrud, and Sarah Mayer M Callan, C Heffernan, A Spenn The International Journal of the History of Sport 35 (6), 530-553, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| Physical culture, the Royal Irish Constabulary and police masculinities in Ireland, 1900–14 C Heffernan Irish Historical Studies 43 (164), 237-251, 2019 | 13 | 2019 |
| Truly muscular Gaels? WN Kerr, physical culture and Irish masculinity in the early twentieth century C Heffernan Sport in History 41 (1), 1-24, 2021 | 9 | 2021 |
| The history of physical culture in Ireland C Heffernan Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| Indian club swinging in the early Victorian period C Heffernan Sport in History 37 (1), 95-120, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
| Definition diets and deteriorating masculinity? Bodybuilding diets in Mid-Century America R Murtha, C Heffernan, T Hunt Global Food History 7 (1), 71-91, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Building American Supermen? Bernarr MacFadden, Benito Mussolini and American fascism in the 1930s R Murtha, C Heffernan, T Hunt Sport in Society 24 (11), 1941-1955, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| ‘The iron rusted and decayed in our clubs’: the failure of weightlifting in early twentieth-century Ireland C Heffernan Sport in History 41 (3), 387-408, 2021 | 6 | 2021 |
| The Irish Sandow school: physical culture competitions in fin-de-siècle Ireland C Heffernan Irish Studies Review 27 (3), 402-421, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| Superfood or superficial? Plasmon and the birth of the supplement industry C Heffernan Journal of Sport History 47 (3), 243-262, 2020 | 5 | 2020 |
| Fitness and fun that’s not just for mum: the Women’s League of Health and Beauty in 1930s Ireland C Heffernan Women's History Review 28 (7), 1017-1038, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| ‘Born swinging’: Tom Burrows and the forgotten art of endurance club swinging C Heffernan Sport in History 39 (1), 45-73, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| Hearts and muscles: Emotional communities and physical culture magazines in 1900s Ireland C Heffernan Gender & History 33 (1), 129-148, 2021 | 4 | 2021 |
| Body projects as a historical phenomenon: Irish physical culture and the body as process C Heffernan Rethinking History 24 (3-4), 417-441, 2020 | 4 | 2020 |
| Physical culture and Irish modernity, 1893 to 1918 C Heffernan Leisure/Loisir 43 (2), 159-184, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| Soldiers, Sokol, and Symbolism: Forging a National Identity in 1930s Ireland C Heffernan Éire-Ireland 54 (3), 37-60, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| Competition or community? The backstage experience of men in bodybuilding competitions MC Parent, C Heffernan, N Woznicki, Z Taylor Sex roles 87 (1), 68-84, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| ‘Just Look At His Vascularity:’The Dangerous Theatricality of the World Bodybuilding Federation C Hefferman, C Warden The Journal of American Culture 45 (1), 18-33, 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| ‘A strong woman’s troubles’: Victorina and the strong woman in Victorian Britain C Heffernan Women's History Review 30 (3), 354-374, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
