| Overimitation in Kalahari Bushman children and the origins of human cultural cognition M Nielsen, K Tomaselli Psychological science 21 (5), 729-736, 2010 | 456 | 2010 |
| The anglophone problem in Cameroon P Konings, FB Nyamnjoh The Journal of Modern African Studies 35 (2), 207-229, 1997 | 385 | 1997 |
| The cinema of apartheid: race and class in South African film K Tomaselli Routledge, 2013 | 281 | 2013 |
| Appropriating images KG Tomaselli The Semiotics of Visual Representation. Denmark, 1996 | 259 | 1996 |
| (2009) D Scott, KG Tomaselli Cultural Icons, 2008 | 198 | 2008 |
| Self’and ‘other’ KG Tomaselli, L Dyll, M Francis Handbook of critical and indigenous methodologies, 347-372, 2008 | 175 | 2008 |
| ‘Our Culture’vs ‘Foreign Culture’ An Essay on Ontological and Professional Issues in African Journalism KG Tomaselli Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands) 65 (6), 427-441, 2003 | 152 | 2003 |
| Currents of power: State broadcasting in South Africa. RE Teer-Tomaselli, J Muller, KG Tomaselli | 146 | 2021 |
| Where culture takes hold:“Overimitation” and its flexible deployment in Western, Aboriginal, and Bushmen children M Nielsen, I Mushin, K Tomaselli, A Whiten Child development 85 (6), 2169-2184, 2014 | 139 | 2014 |
| The Press in South Africa KG Tomaselli, R Tomaselli, J Muller (No Title), 1989 | 132 | 1989 |
| The alternative press in South Africa KG Tomaselli, PE Louw (No Title), 1991 | 121 | 1991 |
| Ownership and control in the South African print media: black empowerment after apartheid, 1990–1997 K Tomaselli Ecquid Novi 18 (1), 67-68, 1997 | 110 | 1997 |
| Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas KG Tomaselli Rozenberg Publishers, 2006 | 91 | 2006 |
| Cultural tourism and identity: Rethinking indigeneity KG Tomaselli Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2012 | 79 | 2012 |
| Exploring tool innovation: A comparison of Western and Bushman children M Nielsen, K Tomaselli, I Mushin, A Whiten Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 126, 384-394, 2014 | 78 | 2014 |
| Transformation, nation-building and the South African media, 1993-1999 R Teer-Tomaselli, K Tomaselli Media, democracy and renewal in Southern Africa, 123-180, 2001 | 76 | 2001 |
| Rethinking culture KG Tomaselli (No Title), 1988 | 75 | 1988 |
| Where global contradictions are sharpest: Research stories from the Kalahari KG Tomaselli Rozenberg Publishers, 2005 | 74 | 2005 |
| Towards a theory of orality in African cinema KG Tomaselli, A Shepperson, M Eke Research in African literatures 26 (3), 18-35, 1995 | 73 | 1995 |
| South African media, 1994–7: Globalizing via political economy KG Tomaselli De-Westernizing media studies, 247-259, 2005 | 69 | 2005 |
