| Ancient China and its enemies: the rise of nomadic power in East Asian history N Di Cosmo Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 1051 | 2002 |
| Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD U Büntgen, VS Myglan, FC Ljungqvist, M McCormick, N Di Cosmo, M Sigl, ... Nature geoscience 9 (3), 231-236, 2016 | 934 | 2016 |
| Ancient Inner Asian nomads: their economic basis and its significance in Chinese history N Di Cosmo The Journal of Asian Studies 53 (4), 1092-1126, 1994 | 361 | 1994 |
| Pluvials, droughts, the Mongol Empire, and modern Mongolia N Pederson, AE Hessl, N Baatarbileg, KJ Anchukaitis, N Di Cosmo Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 111 (12), 4375-4379, 2014 | 344 | 2014 |
| State formation and periodization in Inner Asian history N Di Cosmo Journal of World History, 1-40, 1999 | 309 | 1999 |
| Multi-proxy dating the ‘Millennium Eruption’of Changbaishan to late 946 CE C Oppenheimer, L Wacker, J Xu, JD Galván, M Stoffel, S Guillet, ... Quaternary Science Reviews 158, 164-171, 2017 | 194 | 2017 |
| Qing colonial administration in Inner Asia ND Cosmo The International History Review 20 (2), 287-309, 1998 | 177 | 1998 |
| The northern frontier in pre-imperial China N Di Cosmo The Cambridge history of ancient China: From the origins of civilization to …, 1999 | 145 | 1999 |
| Military culture in imperial China N Di Cosmo Harvard University Press, 2009 | 143 | 2009 |
| Political frontiers, ethnic boundaries, and human geographies in Chinese history N Di Cosmo, DJ Wyatt RoutledgeCurzon, 2003 | 104 | 2003 |
| Black Sea emporia and the Mongol empire: A reassessment of the Pax Mongolica N Di Cosmo Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 53 (1-2), 83-108, 2009 | 100 | 2009 |
| Mongols and Merchants on the Black Sea Frontier in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries: Convergences and Conflicts N Di Cosmo Mongols, Turks, and Others, 391-424, 2005 | 89 | 2005 |
| The Eldgjá eruption: timing, long-range impacts and influence on the Christianisation of Iceland C Oppenheimer, A Orchard, M Stoffel, TP Newfield, S Guillet, C Corona, ... Climatic Change 147, 369-381, 2018 | 74 | 2018 |
| Climatic and environmental aspects of the Mongol withdrawal from Hungary in 1242 CE U Büntgen, N Di Cosmo Scientific Reports 6 (1), 1-9, 2016 | 74 | 2016 |
| The Cambridge History of Inner Asia N Di Cosmo, AJ Frank, PB Golden Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 74 | 2009 |
| Empires and Exchanges in Eurasian Late Antiquity: Rome, China, Iran, and the Steppe, ca. 250–750 N Di Cosmo, M Maas Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 71 | 2018 |
| Islamization in the Mongol Empire D DeWeese, ND Cosmo, AJ Frank, PB Golden The Cambridge History of Inner Asia: The Chinggisid Age, 120-34, 2009 | 62 | 2009 |
| Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD, Nat. Geosci., 9, 231–236 U Büntgen, VS Myglan, FC Ljungqvist, M McCormick, N Di Cosmo, M Sigl, ... | 60 | 2016 |
| Ethnogenesis, coevolution and political morphology of the earliest steppe empire: The Xiongnu question revisited N Di Cosmo Xiongnu archaeology: Multidisciplinary perspectives of the first steppe …, 2011 | 57 | 2011 |
| Kirghiz nomads on the Qing frontier: tribute, trade, or gift exchange? N Di Cosmo Political Frontiers, Ethnic Boundaries and Human Geographies in Chinese …, 2005 | 57 | 2005 |
