| Memorylands: Heritage and identity in Europe today S Macdonald Routledge, 2013 | 1256 | 2013 |
| Difficult heritage: Negotiating the Nazi past in Nuremberg and beyond S Macdonald Routledge, 2010 | 1116 | 2010 |
| A companion to museum studies S Macdonald John Wiley & Sons, 2011 | 1005 | 2011 |
| The politics of display: Museums, science, culture S Macdonald Routledge, 1998 | 765 | 1998 |
| Theorizing museums: representing identity and diversity in a changing world S Macdonald, G Fyfe | 696* | 1998 |
| Behind the scenes at the science museum S Macdonald Routledge, 2020 | 670 | 2020 |
| Museums, national, postnational and transcultural identities SJ Macdonald Museum studies: An anthology of contexts, 273-286, 2012 | 663 | 2012 |
| A people's story: Heritage, identity and authenticity S Macdonald Heritage, Museums and Galleries, 299-319, 2004 | 378 | 2004 |
| Expanding museum studies: An introduction S Macdonald A companion to museum studies, 1-12, 2006 | 375 | 2006 |
| Reimagining culture: Histories, identities and the Gaelic renaissance S Macdonald Routledge, 2020 | 361 | 2020 |
| Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibition S Macdonald The politics of display: Museums, science, culture, 1-24, 1998 | 359 | 1998 |
| Inside European Identities: Ethnography in Western Europe S Macdonald Routledge, 2020 | 308 | 2020 |
| Exhibition experiments S Macdonald, P Basu John Wiley & Sons, 2008 | 300* | 2008 |
| Undesirable heritage: Fascist material culture and historical consciousness in Nuremberg S Macdonald International journal of heritage studies 12 (1), 9-28, 2006 | 300 | 2006 |
| Collecting practices S Macdonald A companion to museum studies, 81-97, 2006 | 248 | 2006 |
| Heritage futures: comparative approaches to natural and cultural heritage practices R Harrison, C DeSilvey, C Holtorf, S Macdonald, N Bartolini, E Breithoff, ... UCL press, 2020 | 245 | 2020 |
| Images of women in peace and war: cross-cultural and historical perspectives S Macdonald, P Holden, S Ardener Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1988 | 217* | 1988 |
| Accessing audiences: visiting visitor books S Macdonald Museum & Society 3 (3), 119-136, 2005 | 214 | 2005 |
| Theorizing museums: an introduction S Macdonald Theorizing museums, 1-18, 1996 | 209 | 1996 |
| Interconnecting: museum visiting and exhibition design S Macdonald CoDesign 3 (S1), 149-162, 2007 | 202 | 2007 |
