| Institutions of world literature S Helgesson, P Vermeulen Writing, Translation, Markets. Nueva York: Routledge, 2016 | 103 | 2016 |
| Transnationalism in Southern African Literature: Modernists, realists, and the inequality of print culture S Helgesson routledge, 2008 | 88 | 2008 |
| 3. Radicalizing temporal difference: Anthropology, postcolonial theory, and literary time S Helgesson History and theory 53 (4), 545-562, 2014 | 63 | 2014 |
| Writing in crisis: ethics and history in Gordimer, Ndebele and Coetzee S Helgesson | 61 | 2004 |
| Postcolonialism and world literature: Rethinking the boundaries S Helgesson Interventions 16 (4), 483-500, 2014 | 46 | 2014 |
| Translingual events: World literature and the making of language S Helgesson, C Kullberg Journal of World Literature 3 (2), 136-152, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| ‘Minor Disorders’: Ivan Vladislavić and the Devolution of South African English S Helgesson* Journal of Southern African Studies 30 (4), 777-787, 2004 | 36 | 2004 |
| Introduction: World literature in the Making S Helgesson, P Vermeulen Institutions of World Literature, 1-20, 2015 | 34 | 2015 |
| District 9: A Roundtable MV Moses, LV Graham, J Marx, G Gaylard, R Goodman, S Helgesson Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 11 (1-2), 155-175, 2010 | 33 | 2010 |
| Literature and the World S Helgesson, MR Thomsen Taylor & Francis, 2020 | 26 | 2020 |
| Literary History: Towards a Global Perspective A Pettersson, G Lindberg-Wada, M Petersson, S Helgesson Walter de Gruyter, 2006 | 24 | 2006 |
| Translation and the circuits of world literature S Helgesson The Cambridge companion to world literature 1, 85-99, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| Shifting Fields: Imagining Literary Renewal in" Itinerário" and" Drum" S Helgesson Research in African Literatures, 206-226, 2007 | 20 | 2007 |
| Literary history: Towards a global perspective G Lindberg-Wada, S Helgesson de Gruyter, 2006 | 20 | 2006 |
| Decolonisations of Literature: Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945 S Helgesson Liverpool University Press, 2022 | 19 | 2022 |
| World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan-Vernacular Exchange S Helgesson, A Mörte Alling, Y Lindqvist, H Wulff Stockholm University Press, 2018 | 19* | 2018 |
| How Writing Becomes (World) Literature: Singularity, The Universalizable, and the Implied Writer 1 S Helgesson Institutions of World Literature, 23-38, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| History, Justice and the Time of the Imprescriptible V Fareld, S Helgesson, J Svenungsson The Ethos of History. Time and Responsability. Nueva York, Oxford, Berghahn, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| General Introduction: The Cosmopolitan and the Vernacular in Interaction S Helgesson World Literatures: Exploring the Cosmopolitan–Vernacular Exchange, 1-11, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| Literature, geography, translation: Studies in world writing S Helgesson Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
