| The role of the public protector in fighting corruption G Pienaar African Security Studies 9 (2), 52-66, 2000 | 14 | 2000 |
| Guarding the guardians: South Africa’s Chapter Nine Institutions R Calland, G Pienaar State of the Nation, 65-91, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| State of the Nation: South Africa, 1994-2014: a Twenty-year Review of Freedom and Democracy T Meyiwa, M Nkondo, M Chitiga-Mabugu, M Sithole, FB Nyamnjoh HSRC Press, 2014 | 10 | 2014 |
| Human rights and the fourth industrial revolution in South Africa R Adams Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| The BIG question: COVID-19 and policy support for a basic income grant G Pienaar, YD Davids, B Roberts, M Makoae, T Hart | 6 | 2021 |
| Evidence and policy in South Africa's Department of Environmental Affairs A Wills, M Tshangela, N Bohler-Muller, A Datta, N Funke, L Godfrey, ... | 6 | 2016 |
| Twenty years of constitutional democracy J February, G Pienaar HSRC Press, 2014 | 6* | 2014 |
| Accountability and democracy G Pienaar Testing Democracy: Which Way is, 190, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| The great policy disconnect G Pienaar, S Nakhooda Heinrich Boell Stiftung, Cape Town, 2010 | 6 | 2010 |
| Literature review to support a survey to understand the socio-economic, wellbeing and human rights related experiences of people with disabilities during Covid-19 lockdown in … M Wickenden, T Hart, S Thompson, G Pienaar, T Rubaba, ... | 5 | 2022 |
| Realising socio-economic rights: A reconceptualised constitutional dialogue N Bohler-Muller, G Pienaar, YD Davids, SL Gordon The State of the Nation: Poverty & Inequality: Diagnosis, Prognosis and …, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| Making the road by walking: the evolution of the South African Constitution N Bohler-Muller, M Cosser, G Pienaar Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2018 | 4 | 2018 |
| Evidence-informed policymaking in practice: an overview from South Africa’s Department of Environmental Affairs L Shaxson, M Tshangela, N Bohler-Muller, A Datta, N Funke, L Godfrey, ... DEA: Pretoria, South Africa, 2015 | 4 | 2015 |
| Criminalising racism in tumultuous times N Bohler-Muller, G Pienaar, G Houston, V Barolsky, N Majozi HSRC Policy Brief 1, 2017 | 3 | 2017 |
| Public procurement and experiments in transparency: how not to profit from the poor G Pienaar | 2 | 2017 |
| Upholding democratic ideals and the challenge of regulating political party funding and election campaign finance: case study of southern Africa G Pienaar | 2 | 2016 |
| Synthesis evaluation of state capacity with a special focus on directors-general and heads of department N Bohler-Muller, G Pienaar, G Houston, M Cosser, M Kanyane, K Sausi, ... | 1 | 2022 |
| Municipal skills and capacity assessment study: views from municipal officials at eight South African municipalities YD Davids, G Houston, J Steyn Kotze, K Sausi, D Sanchez Betancourt, ... | 1 | 2022 |
| A big need: Covid-19 has rammed home the necessity of social protection and a universal basic income grant G Pienaar, T Hart, M Makoae, YD Davids, B Roberts Earthscan, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
| Is South Africa winning the war on poverty and inequality?: what do the available statistics tell us? E Sekyere, S Gordon, G Pienaar, N Bohler-Muller E Durojaye & G Mirugi-Mukindi Exploring the Link Between Poverty and Human …, 2020 | 1 | 2020 |
