| Saudi Arabia and Iran: power and rivalry in the Middle East S Mabon Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015 | 285 | 2015 |
| T he B attle for B ahrain: I ranian-S audi R ivalry. S Mabon Middle East Policy 19 (2), 2012 | 144 | 2012 |
| The origins of ISIS: the collapse of nations and revolution in the Middle East S Mabon, S Royle Bloomsbury publishing, 2016 | 61 | 2016 |
| Muting the trumpets of sabotage: Saudi Arabia, the US and the quest to securitize Iran S Mabon British journal of Middle Eastern studies 45 (5), 742-759, 2018 | 51 | 2018 |
| Houses built on sand S Mabon Houses built on sand, 211-234, 2020 | 47* | 2020 |
| The End of the Battle for Bahrain and the Securitization of Bahraini Shi ‘a S Mabon Middle East Journal 73 (1), 29-50, 2019 | 38 | 2019 |
| Sectarianism in the Middle East, Policy Department T Matthiesen, S Mabon, L Raphael, R Mansour Directorate-General for External Policies, 1-31, 2017 | 37 | 2017 |
| Kingdom in Crisis? The Arab Spring and Instability in Saudi Arabia S Mabon Contemporary Security Policy 33 (3), 530-553, 2012 | 37 | 2012 |
| Hezbollah: from Islamic resistance to government J Worrall, S Mabon, G Clubb Bloomsbury Publishing USA, 2015 | 36 | 2015 |
| Egypt’s unbreakable curse: Tracing the State of Exception from Mubarak to Al Sisi L Ardovini, S Mabon Mediterranean Politics 25 (4), 456-475, 2020 | 27 | 2020 |
| Desectarianization: Looking beyond the sectarianization of Middle Eastern politics S Mabon The Review of Faith & International Affairs 17 (4), 23-35, 2019 | 27 | 2019 |
| Aiding revolution? wikileaks, communication and the ‘arab spring’in Egypt S Mabon Third World Quarterly 34 (10), 1843-1857, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| It’sa family affair: Religion, geopolitics and the rise of Mohammed bin Salman S Mabon Insight Turkey 20 (2), 51-66, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| Sovereignty, bare life and the Arab uprisings S Mabon Third World Quarterly 38 (8), 1782-1799, 2017 | 23 | 2017 |
| Nationalist Jāhiliyyah and the Flag of the Two Crusaders, or: ISIS, Sovereignty, and the “Owl of Minerva” S Mabon Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 40 (11), 966-985, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| British foreign policy since 1945 M Garnett, S Mabon, R Smith Routledge, 2017 | 22 | 2017 |
| Contested spaces and sectarian narratives in post-uprising Bahrain S Kasbarian, S Mabon Global Discourse 6 (4), 677-696, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Existential threats and regulating life: securitization in the contemporary Middle East S Mabon Securitisation in the Non-West, 42-58, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| The Copenhagen School goes global: securitisation in the Non-West S Kapur, S Mabon Global Discourse 8 (1), 1-4, 2018 | 19 | 2018 |
| De-securitisation and Pragmatism in the Persian Gulf: The future of Saudi-Iranian relations S Mabon, S Nasirzadeh, E Alrefai The International Spectator 56 (4), 66-83, 2021 | 17 | 2021 |
