| Age of secession: The international and domestic determinants of state birth RD Griffiths Cambridge University Press, 2016 | 223 | 2016 |
| Membership has its privileges: The changing benefits of statehood TM Fazal, RD Griffiths International Studies Review 16 (1), 79-106, 2014 | 129 | 2014 |
| Between dissolution and blood: How administrative lines and categories shape secessionist outcomes RD Griffiths International Organization 69 (3), 731-751, 2015 | 97 | 2015 |
| Does violent secessionism work? RD Griffiths, LM Wasser Journal of Conflict Resolution 63 (5), 1310-1336, 2019 | 53 | 2019 |
| Admission to the sovereignty club: The past, present, and future of the international recognition regime RD Griffiths Territorial Designs and International Politics, 44-56, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
| Between Eurocentrism and Babel: A framework for the analysis of states, state systems, and international orders CR Butcher, RD Griffiths International Studies Quarterly 61 (2), 328-336, 2017 | 48 | 2017 |
| Secession and the invisible hand of the international system R Griffiths Review of International Studies 40 (3), 559-581, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Between the sword and the wall: S pain's limited options for C atalan secessionism RD Griffiths, P Guillen Alvarez, F Martinez i Coma Nations and nationalism 21 (1), 43-61, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| Introducing the international system (s) dataset (ISD), 1816–2011 RD Griffiths, CR Butcher International Interactions 39 (5), 748-768, 2013 | 45 | 2013 |
| Secession and the sovereignty game: Strategy and tactics for aspiring nations RD Griffiths Cornell University Press, 2021 | 41 | 2021 |
| Strategies of secession and counter-secession RD Griffiths, D Muro Ecpr Press, 2021 | 39* | 2021 |
| Secessionist strategy and tactical variation in the pursuit of independence RD Griffiths Journal of Global Security Studies 6 (1), ogz082, 2021 | 33 | 2021 |
| A State of One's Own: The Rise of Secession Since World War II T Fazal, R Griffiths Brown J. World Aff. 15, 199, 2008 | 28 | 2008 |
| States, nations, and territorial stability: Why Chinese hegemony would be better for international order RD Griffiths Security Studies 25 (3), 519-545, 2016 | 26 | 2016 |
| Local conditions and the demand for independence: A dataset of secessionist grievances RD Griffiths, A Martinez Nations and Nationalism 27 (2), 580-590, 2021 | 20 | 2021 |
| Alternative international systems? System structure and violent conflict in nineteenth-century West Africa, Southeast Asia, and South Asia C Butcher, R Griffiths Review of International Studies 41 (4), 715-737, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| States and their international relations since 1816: introducing version 2 of the International System (s) Dataset (ISD) CR Butcher, RD Griffiths International Interactions 46 (2), 291-308, 2020 | 19 | 2020 |
| The Waltzian ordering principle and international change: A two-dimensional model RD Griffiths European Journal of International Relations 24 (1), 130-152, 2018 | 18 | 2018 |
| Globalization and separatism: The influence of internal and external interdependence on the strategies of separatism RD Griffiths, I Savić The Nation in the Global Era: Conflict and Transformation, 319, 2009 | 17 | 2009 |
| The future of self-determination and territorial integrity in the Asian Century R Griffiths The Pacific Review 27 (3), 457-478, 2014 | 15 | 2014 |
