| The Prehistory of New Zealand JM Davidson (No Title), 1987 | 491 | 1987 |
| Archaeology in Western Samoa RC Green, JM Davidson Auckland Institute and Museum 1, 278, 1969 | 210 | 1969 |
| Archeology on the island of Mo'orea, French Polynesia RC Green (No Title), 1967 | 120 | 1967 |
| Samoa and Tonga JM Davidson The prehistory of Polynesia, 82-109, 1979 | 113 | 1979 |
| Settlement patterns in Samoa before 1840 JM Davidson The Journal of the Polynesian Society 78 (1), 44-82, 1969 | 84 | 1969 |
| The Lapita occupation at Naitabale, Moturiki Island, central Fiji PD Nunn, T Ishimura, WR Dickinson, K Katayama, F Thomas, R Kumar, ... Asian Perspectives, 96-132, 2007 | 75 | 2007 |
| The Polynesian Foundation J Davidson The Oxford History of New Zealand, 3-27, 1981 | 74 | 1981 |
| Oceanic culture history: Essays in honour of Roger Green JM Davidson (No Title), 1996 | 73 | 1996 |
| Maori: art and culture DC Starzecka, J Davidson (No Title), 1996 | 72 | 1996 |
| The archaeology of Taumako B Leach, J Davidson New Zealand Journal of Archaeology Special Publication, Wellington, 2008 | 68 | 2008 |
| Archaeological excavations in two burial mounds at'Atele, Tongatapu JM Davidson Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum, 251-286, 1969 | 66 | 1969 |
| Assessing human diet and movement in the Tongan maritime chiefdom using isotopic analyses C Stantis, RL Kinaston, MP Richards, JM Davidson, HR Buckley PloS one 10 (3), e0123156, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Western Polynesia and Fiji: prehistoric contact, diffusion and differentiation in adjacent archipelagos JM Davidson World Archaeology 9 (1), 82-94, 1977 | 62 | 1977 |
| Evaluation of a capillary bundle model for describing solute dispersion in aggregated soils PSC Rao, RE Green, LR Ahuja, JM Davidson Soil Science Society of America Journal 40 (6), 815-820, 1976 | 62 | 1976 |
| The Strandlooper concept and J Davidson, F Leach The archaeology of Lapita dispersal in Oceania: papers from the Fourth …, 2001 | 60 | 2001 |
| Archaeology on Nukuoro Atoll: a Polynesian outlier in the eastern Caroline Islands JM Davidson | 59 | 1971 |
| The Lapita site of Natunuku, Fiji J Davidson NZJ Archaeol 12, 121-155, 1990 | 53 | 1990 |
| The use of size–frequency diagrams to characterize prehistoric fish catches and to assess human impact on inshore fisheries F Leach, J Davidson International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 11 (1‐2), 150-162, 2001 | 51 | 2001 |
| Samoan structural remains and settlement patterns JM Davidson Archaeology in Western Samoa 2, 225-244, 1974 | 48 | 1974 |
| The fishermen of Anapua Rock Shelter, Ua Pou, Marquesas Islands F Leach, J Davidson, M Horwood, P Ottino Asian Perspectives, 51-66, 1997 | 45 | 1997 |
