| On the road of the winds: an archaeological history of the Pacific Islands before European contact PV Kirch Univ of California Press, 2017 | 1613 | 2017 |
| The evolution of the Polynesian chiefdoms PV Kirch Cambridge University Press, 1989 | 1371 | 1989 |
| The Lapita peoples: ancestors of the oceanic world. The Peoples of South-East Asia and the Pacific PV Kirch Oxford: Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1997 | 890 | 1997 |
| Hawaiki, ancestral Polynesia: an essay in historical anthropology PV Kirch, RC Green Cambridge University Press, 2001 | 707 | 2001 |
| Feathered gods and fishhooks: An introduction to Hawaiian archaeology and prehistory PV Kirch University of Hawaii Press, 1997 | 602 | 1997 |
| Tikopia. The prehistory and ecology of a Polynesian outlier PV Kirch, DE Yen Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin Honolulu, 1-396, 1982 | 451 | 1982 |
| The wet and the dry: irrigation and agricultural intensification in Polynesia PV Kirch University of Chicago Press, 1994 | 445 | 1994 |
| Phylogeny and ancient DNA of Sus provides insights into neolithic expansion in Island Southeast Asia and Oceania G Larson, T Cucchi, M Fujita, E Matisoo-Smith, J Robins, A Anderson, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 104 (12), 4834-4839, 2007 | 384 | 2007 |
| How chiefs became kings: Divine kingship and the rise of archaic states in ancient Hawai'i PV Kirch Univ of California Press, 2010 | 358 | 2010 |
| The impact of the prehistoric Polynesians on the Hawaiian ecosystem PV Kirch University of Hawai’i Press, 1982 | 304 | 1982 |
| Archaeology and global change: the Holocene record PV Kirch Annu. Rev. Environ. Resour. 30, 409-440, 2005 | 291 | 2005 |
| Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 1: Historical Ethnography PV Kirch, M Sahlins University of Chicago Press, 1994 | 276 | 1994 |
| Historical ecology in the Pacific Islands: Prehistoric environmental and landscape change PV Kirch, TL Hunt (No Title), 1997 | 271 | 1997 |
| History, Phylogeny, and Evolution in Polynesia [and Comments and Reply] PV Kirch, RC Green, PS Bellwood, RC Dunnell, T Dye, C Gosden, ... Current Anthropology 28 (4), 431-456, 1987 | 263 | 1987 |
| Microcosmic histories: Island perspectives on" global" change PV Kirch American Anthropologist 99 (1), 30-42, 1997 | 247 | 1997 |
| Climate change and the integrity of science PH Gleick, RM Adams, RM Amasino, E Anders, DJ Anderson, ... Science 328 (5979), 689-690, 2010 | 237 | 2010 |
| Soils, agriculture, and society in precontact Hawaii PM Vitousek, TN Ladefoged, PV Kirch, AS Hartshorn, MW Graves, ... Science 304 (5677), 1665-1669, 2004 | 228 | 2004 |
| Peopling of the Pacific: A holistic anthropological perspective VK Patrick Annual Review of Anthropology 39, 131-148, 2010 | 224 | 2010 |
| Rethinking east Polynesian prehistory PV Kirch The Journal of the Polynesian Society 95 (1), 9-40, 1986 | 220 | 1986 |
| Niuatoputapu: The prehistory of a Polynesian chiefdom PV Kirch Burke Museum, 1988 | 211 | 1988 |
