| Mozambique: la révolution implosée M Cahen L'Harmattan, 2000 | 150 | 2000 |
| Check on socialism in Mozambique—what check? what socialism? M Cahen Review of African Political Economy 20 (57), 46-59, 1993 | 130 | 1993 |
| Ethnicité politique: pour une lecture réaliste de l'identité M Cahen (No Title), 1994 | 88 | 1994 |
| Les bandits. Un historien au Mozambique, 1994 M Cahen | 73 | 2002 |
| Mozambique: histoire géopolitique d'un pays sans nation M Cahen Lusotopie 1 (1), 213-266, 1994 | 72 | 1994 |
| The mueda case and maconde political ethnicity some notes on a work in progress M Cahen Africana studia, 2020 | 66 | 2020 |
| Imperial migrations: Colonial communities and diaspora in the Portuguese world É Morier-Genoud, M Cahen Springer, 2012 | 65 | 2012 |
| Anticolonialism & Nationalism: Deconstructing Synonymy, Investigating Historical Processes. Notes on the Heterogeneity of Former African Colonial Portuguese Areas M Cahen Sure Road? Nationalisms in Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique, 1-28, 2012 | 60 | 2012 |
| Des caravelles pour le futur? Discours politique et idéologie dans l’" institutionnalisation" de la Communauté des pays de langue portugaise M Cahen Lusotopie 4 (1), 391-431, 1997 | 54 | 1997 |
| L'État Nouveau et la diversification religieuse au Mozambique, 1930-1974. II. La portugalisation désespérée (1959-1974) M Cahen Cahiers d’études africaines 40 (159), 551-592, 2000 | 53 | 2000 |
| ‘Portugal Is in the Sky’: Conceptual Considerations on Communities, Lusitanity, and Lusophony M Cahen Imperial migrations: colonial communities and diaspora in the Portuguese …, 2013 | 49 | 2013 |
| 'Dhlakama É Maningue Nice!': An Atypical Former Guerrilla in the Mozambican Electoral Campaign M Cahen Transformation 35, 1998 | 41 | 1998 |
| Nationalism and ethnicities: lessons from Mozambique M Cahen Ethnicity Kills? The Politics of War, Peace and Ethnicity in SubSaharan …, 2000 | 40 | 2000 |
| Lutte d'émancipation anticoloniale ou mouvement de libération nationale? Processus historique et discours idéologique. M Cahen Revue historique 637 (1), 113-138, 2006 | 39 | 2006 |
| État et pouvoir populaire dans le Mozambique indépendant M Cahen Politique africaine 19 (1), 36-60, 1985 | 39 | 1985 |
| Luta de emancipação anti-colonial ou movimento de libertação nacional? Processo histórico e discurso ideológico–o caso das colónias portuguesas e de Moçambique em particular M Cahen Africana studia, 2020 | 38 | 2020 |
| Introduction: Portugal, Empire, and Migrations—Was There Ever an Autonomous Social Imperial Space? E Morier-Genoud, M Cahen Imperial migrations: Colonial communities and diaspora in the Portuguese …, 2013 | 38 | 2013 |
| " Indigenato" before race? Some proposals on Portuguese forced labour law in Mozambique and the African Empire (1926-1962) M Cahen Racism and ethnic relations in the Portuguese-speaking world, 149-171, 2012 | 38 | 2012 |
| The war within new perspectives on the Civil War in Mozambique, 1976-1992 E Morier-Genoud, M Cahen, D do Rosario james currey, 2018 | 37* | 2018 |
| Arquipélagos da alternância: a vitória da oposição nas ilhas de Cabo Verde e de São Tomé e Príncipe M Cahen, MD Correia | 37 | 1991 |
