| ‘Farming miners’ or ‘mining farmers’?: Diamond mining and rural development in post-conflict Sierra Leone R Maconachie, T Binns Journal of Rural studies 23 (3), 367-380, 2007 | 282 | 2007 |
| Artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM) in sub-Saharan Africa: Re-conceptualizing formalization and ‘illegal’activity G Hilson, A Hilson, R Maconachie, J McQuilken, H Goumandakoye Geoforum 83, 80-90, 2017 | 271 | 2017 |
| Electricity planning and implementation in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review PA Trotter, MC McManus, R Maconachie Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 74, 1189-1209, 2017 | 202 | 2017 |
| Beyond the ‘crisis of youth’? Mining, farming, and civil society in post-war Sierra Leone R Fanthorpe, R Maconachie African Affairs 109 (435), 251-272, 2010 | 190 | 2010 |
| Water, land and health in urban and peri‐urban food production: the case of Kano, Nigeria JA Binns, RA Maconachie, AI Tanko Land Degradation & Development 14 (5), 431-444, 2003 | 190 | 2003 |
| Artisanal and small-scale mining and the Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunities and new directions for sub-Saharan Africa G Hilson, R Maconachie Geoforum 111, 125-141, 2020 | 184 | 2020 |
| “Good governance” and the extractive industries in Sub-Saharan Africa G Hilson, R Maconachie Mineral Processing and Extractive Metallurgy Review 30 (1), 52-100, 2008 | 184 | 2008 |
| Formalising artisanal and small‐scale mining: insights, contestations and clarifications G Hilson, R Maconachie Area 49 (4), 443-451, 2017 | 177 | 2017 |
| Safeguarding livelihoods or exacerbating poverty? Artisanal mining and formalization in West Africa R Maconachie, G Hilson Natural Resources Forum 35 (4), 293-303, 2011 | 168 | 2011 |
| Re‐agrarianising livelihoods in post‐conflict Sierra Leone? Mineral wealth and rural change in artisanal and small‐scale mining communities R Maconachie Journal of International Development 23 (8), 1054-1067, 2011 | 138 | 2011 |
| Re-thinking the child labor “problem” in rural sub-Saharan Africa: the case of Sierra Leone’s half shovels R Maconachie, G Hilson World development 78, 136-147, 2016 | 127 | 2016 |
| Beyond the resource curse? Diamond mining, development and post-conflict reconstruction in Sierra Leone R Maconachie, T Binns Resources policy 32 (3), 104-115, 2007 | 118 | 2007 |
| For the environment: an assessment of recent military intervention in informal gold mining communities in Ghana G Hilson, R Maconachie Land use policy 96, 104706, 2020 | 113 | 2020 |
| Meeting the urban challenge? Urban agriculture and food security in post-conflict Freetown, Sierra Leone K Lynch, R Maconachie, T Binns, P Tengbe, K Bangura Applied Geography 36, 31-39, 2013 | 110 | 2013 |
| Diamonds, governance and ‘local’development in post-conflict Sierra Leone: Lessons for artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa? R Maconachie Resources Policy 34 (1-2), 71-79, 2009 | 109 | 2009 |
| Female faces in informal ‘spaces’: Women and artisanal and small-scale mining in sub-Saharan Africa G Hilson, A Hilson, A Siwale, R Maconachie Africa Journal of Management 4 (3), 306-346, 2018 | 106 | 2018 |
| Descending the energy ladder? Oil price shocks and domestic fuel choices in Kano, Nigeria R Maconachie, A Tanko, M Zakariya Land use policy 26 (4), 1090-1099, 2009 | 100 | 2009 |
| Opportunity or necessity? Conceptualizing entrepreneurship at African small-scale mines G Hilson, A Hilson, R Maconachie Technological forecasting and social change 131, 286-302, 2018 | 97 | 2018 |
| Urban morphology dynamics and environmental change in Kano, Nigeria AS Barau, R Maconachie, ANM Ludin, A Abdulhamid Land Use Policy 42, 307-317, 2015 | 94 | 2015 |
| Artisanal gold mining: a new frontier in post-conflict Sierra Leone? R Maconachie, G Hilson The Journal of Development Studies 47 (4), 595-616, 2011 | 91 | 2011 |
