| Violence & memory: one hundred years in the'dark forests' of Matabeleland J Alexander, JA McGregor, TO Ranger (No Title), 2000 | 660 | 2000 |
| The unsettled land: state-making & the politics of land in Zimbabwe, 1893-2003 J Alexander (No Title), 2006 | 479 | 2006 |
| Wildlife and politics: CAMPFIRE in Zimbabwe J Alexander, JA McGregor Development and Change 31 (3), 605-627, 2000 | 210 | 2000 |
| The local state in post-war Mozambique: political practice and ideas about authority J Alexander Africa 67 (1), 1-26, 1997 | 192 | 1997 |
| An overview of fast track land reform in Zimbabwe: editorial introduction L Cliffe, J Alexander, B Cousins, R Gaidzanwa Outcomes of Post-2000 Fast Track Land Reform in Zimbabwe, 1-32, 2014 | 181 | 2014 |
| Introduction: Politics, patronage and violence in Zimbabwe J Alexander, JA McGregor Journal of Southern African Studies 39 (4), 749-763, 2013 | 181 | 2013 |
| 'Squatters', veterans and the state in Zimbabwe J Alexander | 162 | 2002 |
| State, peasantry and resettlement in Zimbabwe J Alexander Review of African Political Economy 21 (61), 325-345, 1994 | 159 | 1994 |
| Dissident perspectives on Zimbabwe's post-independence war J Alexander Africa 68 (2), 151-182, 1998 | 133 | 1998 |
| War stories: Guerrilla narratives of Zimbabwe’s liberation war J Alexander, JA McGregor History Workshop Journal 57 (1), 79-100, 2004 | 99 | 2004 |
| The unsettled land: the politics of land redistribution in Matabeleland, 1980–1990 J Alexander Journal of Southern African Studies 17 (4), 581-610, 1991 | 96 | 1991 |
| Elections, land and the politics of opposition in Matabeleland J Alexander, JA McGregor Journal of Agrarian Change 1 (4), 510-533, 2001 | 81 | 2001 |
| Things fall apart, the center can hold: processes of post-war political change in Zimbabwe's rural areas J Alexander Occasional Paper, 131-162, 1993 | 81 | 1993 |
| A tale of two elections: Zimbabwe at the polls in 2008 J Alexander, BM Tendi Politique africaine 111 (3), 111-129, 2008 | 64 | 2008 |
| Militarisation and state institutions:‘Professionals’ and ‘Soldiers’ inside the Zimbabwe Prison Service J Alexander Journal of Southern African Studies 39 (4), 807-828, 2013 | 63 | 2013 |
| Terra e Autoridade Política no Pós-Guerra em Moçambique: O caso da província de Manica J Alexander Arquivo: Boletim do Arquivo Histórico de Moçambique, 5-94, 1994 | 63 | 1994 |
| The state, agrarian policy and rural politics in Zimbabwe: case studies of Insiza and Chimanimani districts, 1940-1990 J Alexander (No Title), 1993 | 55 | 1993 |
| The historiography of land in Zimbabwe: strengths, silences, and questions J Alexander Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies 8 (2), 183-198, 2007 | 49 | 2007 |
| Modernity and ethnicity in a frontier society: understanding difference in northwestern Zimbabwe J Alexander, JA McGregor Journal of Southern African Studies 23 (2), 187-201, 1997 | 45 | 1997 |
| Death and disease in Zimbabwe's prisons J Alexander The Lancet 373 (9668), 995-996, 2009 | 44 | 2009 |
