| PISA 2012: How Australia measures up: The PISA 2012 assessment of students’ mathematical, scientific and reading literacy S Thomson, L De Bortoli, S Buckley Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), 2013 | 368 | 2013 |
| PIRLS 2016: Reporting Australia's results S Thomson, K Hillman, M Schmid, S Rodrigues, J Fullarton | 309* | 2017 |
| Student engagement with school: Individual and school-level influences S Fullarton | 305 | 2002 |
| PIRLS 2016: Reporting Australia's results S Thomson, K Hillman, M Schmid, S Rodrigues, J Fullarton | 290* | 2017 |
| TIMSS 2015: Reporting Australia's results S Thomson, N Wernert, EL O'Grady, S Rodriguez | 290 | 2017 |
| Achievement at school and socioeconomic background—an educational perspective S Thomson npj Science of Learning 3 (1), 5, 2018 | 287 | 2018 |
| Challenges for Australian education: Results from PISA 2009 S Thomson, L De Bortoli, M Nicholas, K Hillman, S Buckley Australian Council for Educational Research, 2010 | 212 | 2010 |
| Classroom and school factors affecting mathematics achievement: A comparative study of Australia and the United States using TIMSS S Lamb, S Fullarton Australian Journal of education 46 (2), 154-171, 2002 | 199 | 2002 |
| Patterns of participation in Year 12 S Fullarton, M Walker, J Ainley, K Hillman | 156 | 2003 |
| PISA 2015: A first look at Australia’s results S Thomson, L De Bortoli, C Underwood Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), 2016 | 146 | 2016 |
| Facing the future: A focus on mathematical literacy among Australian 15-year-old students in PISA 2003 S Thomson, J Cresswell, L De Bortoli | 146 | 2004 |
| Summing it up: Mathematics achievement in Australian schools in TIMSS 2002 S Thomson, N Fleming | 133 | 2004 |
| PISA 2018: Reporting Australia’s results. Volume I student performance S Thomson, L De Bortoli, C Underwood, M Schmid Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), 2019 | 131 | 2019 |
| Subject Choice by Students in Year 12 in Australian Secondary Schools. Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth Research Report. S Fullarton, J Ainley Australian Council for Educational Research Customer Service, Private Bag 55 …, 2000 | 128 | 2000 |
| Contextual factors that influence the achievement of Australia’s Indigenous students: Results from PISA 2000–2006 L De Bortoli, S Thomson | 125 | 2010 |
| Monitoring Australian year 4 student achievement internationally: TIMSS and PIRLS 2011 S Thomson, K Hillman, N Wernert, M Schmid, S Buckley, A Munene | 122 | 2012 |
| Understanding and addressing mathematics anxiety using perspectives from education, psychology and neuroscience S Buckley, K Reid, M Goos, OV Lipp, S Thomson Australian Journal of Education 60 (2), 157-170, 2016 | 116 | 2016 |
| Exploring Scientific Literacy: How Australia measures up. The PISA 2006 survey of students' scientific, reading and mathematical literacy skills S Thomson, L De Bortoli | 112 | 2008 |
| Exploring scientific literacy: How Australia measures up S Thomson, L De Bortoli Australian Council for Educational Research, 2007 | 106 | 2007 |
| TIMSS 2015: A first look at Australia's results S Thomson, N Wernert, E O'Grady, S Rodrigues Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER), 2016 | 103 | 2016 |