| The archaeology of Mesopotamia: Theories and approaches R Matthews Routledge, 2013 | 301 | 2013 |
| Evidence of resilience to past climate change in Southwest Asia: Early farming communities and the 9.2 and 8.2 ka events P Flohr, D Fleitmann, R Matthews, W Matthews, S Black Quaternary Science Reviews 136, 23-39, 2016 | 191 | 2016 |
| Ancient pigs reveal a near-complete genomic turnover following their introduction to Europe LAF Frantz, J Haile, AT Lin, A Scheu, C Geörg, N Benecke, M Alexander, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 116 (35), 17231-17238, 2019 | 134 | 2019 |
| Cities, seals and writing: archaic seal impressions from Jemdet Nasr and Ur R Matthews Materialien zu den frühen Schriftzeugnissen des Vorderen Orients, 1993 | 101 | 1993 |
| Anthropology of a frontier zone: Hittite-Kaska relations in Late Bronze Age north-central Anatolia C Glatz, R Matthews Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 339 (1), 47-65, 2005 | 100 | 2005 |
| The early prehistory of Mesopotamia: 500,000 to 4,500 BC R Matthews Subartu 5, 2000 | 83 | 2000 |
| At Empires' Edge: Project Paphlagonia. Regional Survey in North-Central Anatolia R Matthews, C Glatz British Institute at Ankara, 2009 | 75 | 2009 |
| The genetic history of the Southern Arc: A bridge between West Asia and Europe I Lazaridis, S Alpaslan-Roodenberg, A Acar, A Açıkkol, A Agelarakis, ... Science 377 (6609), eabm4247, 2022 | 68 | 2022 |
| The earliest Neolithic of Iran: 2008 excavations at Sheikh-e Abad and Jani Y Mohammadifar Oxbow Books, 2013 | 61 | 2013 |
| Late Holocene droughts in the Fertile Crescent recorded in a speleothem from northern Iraq P Flohr, D Fleitmann, E Zorita, A Sadekov, H Cheng, M Bosomworth, ... Geophysical Research Letters 44 (3), 1528-1536, 2017 | 59 | 2017 |
| The historical geography of north-central Anatolia in the Hittite period: texts and archaeology in concert R Matthews, C Glatz Anatolian Studies 59, 51-72, 2009 | 59 | 2009 |
| Excavations at Tell Brak Vol. 4: Exploring an Upper Mesopotamian Regional Centre, 1994-1996 R Matthews Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2003 | 56 | 2003 |
| Heritage and cultural healing: Iraq in a post-Daesh era R Matthews, QH Rasheed, M Palmero Fernández, S Fobbe, K Nováček, ... International Journal of Heritage Studies 26 (2), 120-141, 2020 | 52 | 2020 |
| Surface scraping and planning R Matthews On the surface: Çatalhöyük 95 (1996), 79-99, 1993 | 52 | 1993 |
| Excavations at Tell Brak, 1994 RJ Matthews, W Matthews, H McDonald Iraq 56, 177-194, 1994 | 48 | 1994 |
| Copper and complexity: Iran and Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium BC R Matthews, H Fazeli Iran 42 (1), 61-75, 2004 | 47 | 2004 |
| Zebu: harbingers of doom in Bronze Age western Asia? R Matthews Antiquity 76 (292), 438-446, 2002 | 44 | 2002 |
| Investigating the Early Neolithic of western Iran: The Central Zagros Archaeological Project (CZAP) R Matthews, Y Mohammadifar, W Matthews, A Motarjem Antiquity 84 (323), 1-3, 2010 | 42 | 2010 |
| Egyptian stone vessels and the politics of exchange (2617–1070 BC) RT Sparks Ancient Perspectives on Egypt, 39-56, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| Ancient Anatolia: fifty years' work by the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara R Matthews British Institute at Ankara, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
