| A price worth fighting for? Natural resources and conflict recurrence SA Rustad, HM Binningsbø Journal of Peace Research 49 (4), 531-546, 2012 | 218 | 2012 |
| Oil and Insurgency in the Niger Delta: managing the complex politics of petro-violence U Ukiwo, B Ahonsi, R Ako, E Emeseh, I Samual, DC Ukeje, K Soremekun, ... Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011 | 210 | 2011 |
| All conflict is local: Modeling sub-national variation in civil conflict risk SC Aas Rustad, H Buhaug, Å Falch, S Gates Conflict Management and Peace Science 28 (1), 15-40, 2011 | 169 | 2011 |
| Development aid and infant mortality. Micro-level evidence from Nigeria A Kotsadam, G Østby, SA Rustad, AF Tollefsen, H Urdal World Development 105, 59-69, 2018 | 160 | 2018 |
| Sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers: Understanding variation R Nordås, SCA Rustad International Interactions 39 (4), 511-534, 2013 | 152 | 2013 |
| Has the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative been a success? Identifying and evaluating EITI goals SA Rustad, P Le Billon, P Lujala Resources Policy 51, 151-162, 2017 | 128 | 2017 |
| Foliage and fighting: Forest resources and the onset, duration, and location of civil war SCA Rustad, JK Rød, W Larsen, NP Gleditsch Political Geography 27 (7), 761-782, 2008 | 128 | 2008 |
| Artisanal mining, conflict, and sexual violence in Eastern DRC SA Rustad, G Østby, R Nordås The Extractive Industries and Society 3 (2), 475-484, 2016 | 95 | 2016 |
| Trends in armed conflict, 1946–2017 K Dupuy, SA Rustad Conflict Trends 5, 2018, 2018 | 94 | 2018 |
| Trends in armed conflict, 1946–2016 K Dupuy, S Gates, HM Nygård, I Rudolfsen, SA Rustad, H Strand, H Urdal Conflict Trends 2, 1-4, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Trends in armed conflict, 1946–2018 H Strand, SA Rustad, H Urdal, HM Nygård Conflict trends 3, 2019, 2019 | 63 | 2019 |
| Introduction: petro-violence in the Niger Delta–the complex politics of an insurgency C Obi, SA Rustad Oil and insurgency in the Niger Delta: Managing the complex politics of …, 2011 | 63 | 2011 |
| High-value natural resources: A blessing or a curse for peace? P Lujala, SA Rustad Sustainable Development Law & Policy 12 (1), 7, 2012 | 61 | 2012 |
| Building or Spoiling Peace: Lessons from the Management of High-Value Natural Resources SA Rustad, P Lujala, P Le Billon Envtl. L. Rep. News & Analysis 42, 10546, 2012 | 58 | 2012 |
| Socioeconomic Inequalities and Attitudes toward Violence: A Test with New Survey Data in the Niger Delta SA Rustad | 50* | |
| Horizontal inequality and armed conflict: A comprehensive literature review S Hillesund, K Bahgat, G Barrett, K Dupuy, S Gates, HM Nygård, ... Canadian Journal of Development Studies/Revue canadienne d'études du …, 2018 | 49 | 2018 |
| Horizontal inequality, decentralizing the distribution of natural resource revenues, and peace ML Ross, P Lujala, SA Rustad High-value natural resources and post-conflict peacebuilding, 267-276, 2012 | 49 | 2012 |
| Identifying the effect of climate variability on communal conflict through randomization J Nordkvelle, SA Rustad, M Salmivalli Climatic Change 141, 627-639, 2017 | 48 | 2017 |
| Sharing the wealth: A pathway to peace or a trail to nowhere? HM Binningsbø, SA Rustad Conflict Management and Peace Science 29 (5), 547-566, 2012 | 43 | 2012 |
| Structural change and wife abuse: A disaggregated study of mineral mining and domestic violence in sub-Saharan Africa, 1999–2013 A Kotsadam, G Østby, SA Rustad Political Geography 56, 53-65, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
