| South of the West: postcolonialism and the narrative construction of Australia R Gibson Indiana University Press, 1992 | 323 | 1992 |
| Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader R Gibson University of Illinois Press, 1993 | 255* | 1993 |
| Seven versions of an Australian badland R Gibson Univ. of Queensland Press, 2002 | 222 | 2002 |
| The Diminishing Paradise R Gibson Changing Literary Per-ceptions of Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1984 | 153* | 1984 |
| The diminishing paradise: changing literary perceptions of Australia R Gibson Australia: Sirius Book, 1984 | 128 | 1984 |
| The known world R Gibson TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses 8, 1-11, 2010 | 111 | 2010 |
| Voice: Vocal aesthetics in digital arts and media N Neumark, R Gibson, T Van Leeuwen MIT Press, 2010 | 111 | 2010 |
| Formative landscapes R Gibson Australian Cinema, 45-59, 1994 | 74 | 1994 |
| Landscape in Australian Feature Films R Gibson Framework, 47, 1983 | 69 | 1983 |
| 26 Views of the Starburst World: William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788-91 R Gibson UWA Publishing, 2012 | 47 | 2012 |
| Mega screens for mega cities N Papastergiadis, S McQuire, X Gu, A Barikin, R Gibson, A Yue, S Jung, ... Theory, Culture & Society 30 (7-8), 325-341, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| The Searchers-Dismantled.” R Gibson Rogue Press, 2005 | 33* | 2005 |
| Changescapes: Complexity, Mutability, Aesthetics R Gibson Apollo Books, 2015 | 27 | 2015 |
| Changescapes R Gibson Halfway house: the poetics of Australian spaces, 17-33, 2010 | 27* | 2010 |
| Foreword: Cognitive two-steps R Gibson Screen production research: creative practice as a mode of enquiry, iv-xii, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| Remembrance and the Moving Image R Gibson Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2002 | 20 | 2002 |
| The summer exercises R Gibson ISBS, 2008 | 19 | 2008 |
| Acting and breathing R Gibson Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, 1999 | 19 | 1999 |
| Yondering: A Reading of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome R Gibson Art & Text 19, 24-33, 1985 | 19 | 1985 |
| Places Past Disappearance R Gibson Rockhampton, Qld.: Central Queensland University,, 2006 | 18 | 2006 |
