| Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services: challenges and opportunities: a global assessment T Elmqvist, M Fragkias, J Goodness, B Güneralp, PJ Marcotullio, ... Springer Nature, 2013 | 1095 | 2013 |
| (Re) theorizing cities from the Global South: Looking beyond neoliberalism S Parnell, J Robinson Urban geography 33 (4), 593-617, 2012 | 747 | 2012 |
| Uniting a divided city: Governance and social exclusion in Johannesburg J Beall, O Crankshaw, S Parnell Routledge, 2014 | 712 | 2014 |
| Defining a global urban development agenda S Parnell World development 78, 529-540, 2016 | 540 | 2016 |
| Africa's Urban Revolution S Parnell, E Pieterse Zed, 2014 | 528* | 2014 |
| Planning for cities in the global South: a research agenda for sustainable human settlements S Parnell, E Pieterse, V Watson Progress in Planning 72 (2), 233-241, 2009 | 469* | 2009 |
| Urbanization in Africa: challenges and opportunities for conservation B Güneralp, S Lwasa, H Masundire, S Parnell, KC Seto Environmental research letters 13 (1), 015002, 2017 | 445 | 2017 |
| The Routledge Handbook on Cities of the Global South S Parnell, S Oldfield Routledge, 2014 | 441 | 2014 |
| Building a global urban science M Acuto, S Parnell, KC Seto Nature Sustainability 1 (1), 2-4, 2018 | 398 | 2018 |
| The ‘right to the city’: institutional imperatives of a developmental state S Parnell, E Pieterse International journal of urban and regional research 34 (1), 146-162, 2010 | 395 | 2010 |
| Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities X Bai, A Surveyer, T Elmqvist, FW Gatzweiler, B Güneralp, S Parnell, ... Current opinion in environmental sustainability 23, 69-78, 2016 | 394 | 2016 |
| A global outlook on urbanization KC Seto, S Parnell, T Elmqvist Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services: challenges and …, 2013 | 340 | 2013 |
| Rethinking urban south Africa S Parnell, A Mabin Journal of Southern African Studies 21 (1), 39-61, 1995 | 321 | 1995 |
| Sub-Saharan African urbanisation and global environmental change S Parnell, R Walawege Global Environmental Change 21, S12-S20, 2011 | 297 | 2011 |
| Ideas, implementation and indicators: epistemologies of the post-2015 urban agenda C Barnett, S Parnell Environment and Urbanization 28 (1), 87-98, 2016 | 274 | 2016 |
| Urbanization, biodiversity and ecosystem services: challenges and opportunities S Parnell, M Schewenius, M Sendstad, KC Seto, C Wilkinson Springer, Dordrecht, 2013 | 235 | 2013 |
| Democratising local government: the South African experiment S Parnell, E Pieterse Democratising local government: the South African experiment, 2002 | 221 | 2002 |
| Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from the South African Experience VD Mirjam, M Swilling, E Pieterse, S Parnell Cape Town: UCT Press, 2008 | 180* | 2008 |
| Development and urban policy: Johannesburg's city development strategy S Parnell, J Robinson Urban studies 43 (2), 337-355, 2006 | 180 | 2006 |
| The urban planet: Knowledge towards sustainable cities T Elmqvist Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 169 | 2018 |
Ivan TurokNRF Research Professor, University of the Free State; Distinguished Research Fellow, HSRCVerified email at hsrc.ac.za
