| Politics: an introduction B Axford, V Browne, R Huggins, R Isaacs Routledge, 2005 | 195 | 2005 |
| Party system formation in Kazakhstan: Between formal and informal politics R Isaacs Routledge, 2011 | 171 | 2011 |
| Between “imagined” and “real” nation-building: Identities and nationhood in post-Soviet Central Asia R Isaacs, A Polese Nationalities Papers 43 (3), 371-382, 2015 | 142 | 2015 |
| Nation-building and identity in the post-Soviet space R Isaacs, A Polese Taylor & Francis, 2016 | 108* | 2016 |
| ‘Papa’–Nursultan Nazarbayev and the Discourse of Charismatic Leadership and Nation‐Building in Post‐Soviet Kazakhstan R Isaacs Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism 10 (3), 435-452, 2010 | 103 | 2010 |
| Informal politics and the uncertain context of transition: Revisiting early stage non-democratic development in Kazakhstan R Isaacs Democratization 17 (1), 1-25, 2010 | 93 | 2010 |
| Nomads, warriors and bureaucrats: nation-building and film in post-Soviet Kazakhstan R Isaacs Nationalities Papers 43 (3), 399-416, 2015 | 80 | 2015 |
| Neopatrimonialism and beyond: reassessing the formal and informal in the study of Central Asian politics R Isaacs Contemporary Politics 20 (2), 229-245, 2014 | 66 | 2014 |
| Nur Otan, informal networks and the countering of elite instability in Kazakhstan: Bringing the ‘formal’back in R Isaacs Europe-Asia Studies 65 (6), 1055-1079, 2013 | 66* | 2013 |
| The limited agency and life-cycles of personalized dominant parties in the post-Soviet space: The cases of United Russia and Nur Otan R Isaacs, S Whitmore Democratization 21 (4), 699-721, 2014 | 48 | 2014 |
| Film and Identity in Kazakhstan: Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture in Central Asia R Isaacs London/New York: IB Tauris., 2018 | 45 | 2018 |
| The Nazarbayev generation: youth in Kazakhstan M Laruelle, U Bigozhin, D Blum, A Burkhanov, RR Hanks, S Insebayeva, ... (No Title), 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| Charismatic routinization and problems of post-charisma succession in Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan R Isaacs Studies of Transition States and Societies 7 (1), 58-76, 2015 | 35 | 2015 |
| Russia–Kazakhstan relations and the Tokayev–Nazarbayev tandem R Isaacs University of Lincoln, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
| Parliamentary elections in Kazakhstan, August 2007 R Isaacs University of Lincoln, 2008 | 33 | 2008 |
| Theorizing Central Asian Politics: The State, Ideology and Power R Isaacs, A Frigerio Palgrave Macmillan, 2019 | 31 | 2019 |
| Island in the neoliberal stream: energy security and soft re-nationalisation in Hungary R Isaacs, A Molnar Journal of Contemporary European Studies 25 (1), 107-126, 2017 | 27 | 2017 |
| Between informal and formal politics: neopatrimonialism and party development in post-Soviet Kazakhstan R Isaacs Oxford Brookes University, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Central Asia R Isaacs, E Marat Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022 | 16* | 2022 |
| Legitimacy and legitimation in Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan S Du Boulay, R Isaacs Theorizing central Asian politics: The state, ideology and power, 17-41, 2019 | 16 | 2019 |
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