| ‘Black Economic Empowerment’, business and the state in South Africa S Ponte, S Roberts, L Van Sittert Development and Change 38 (5), 933-955, 2007 | 293 | 2007 |
| Impacts of human activities on marine animal life in the Benguela: a historical overview CL Griffiths, L Van Sittert, PB Best, AC Brown, BM Clark, PA Cook, ... Oceanography and marine biology: an annual review 42, 303-392, 2004 | 119 | 2004 |
| Marine protected area management in South Africa: New policies, old paradigms M Sowman, M Hauck, L Van Sittert, J Sunde Environmental Management 47, 573-583, 2011 | 87 | 2011 |
| Benchmarking the first decade of post-apartheid fisheries reform in South Africa L Van Sittert, G Branch, M Hauck, M Sowman Marine Policy 30 (1), 96-110, 2006 | 73 | 2006 |
| The integration of South African fisheries into the global economy: past, present and future D Crosoer, L van Sittert, S Ponte Marine Policy 30 (1), 18-29, 2006 | 68 | 2006 |
| “Keeping the Enemy at Bay”: the extermination of wild carnivora in the Cape Colony, 1889–1910 L Van Sittert Environmental history 3 (3), 333-356, 1998 | 67 | 1998 |
| The tyranny of the past: why local histories matter in the South African fisheries L Van Sittert Ocean & coastal management 46 (1-2), 199-219, 2003 | 63 | 2003 |
| “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”: comparing fisheries reforms in South Africa L Van Sittert Marine Policy 26 (4), 295-305, 2002 | 63 | 2002 |
| Holding the line: the rural enclosure movement in the Cape Colony, c. 1865–1910 L Van Sittert The Journal of African History 43 (1), 95-118, 2002 | 63 | 2002 |
| ‘Our irrepressible fellow-colonist’: the biological invasion of prickly pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) in the Eastern Cape c. 1890–c. 1910 L Van Sittert Journal of Historical Geography 28 (3), 397-419, 2002 | 62 | 2002 |
| Historical perspectives on global exports and research of African clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis) L Van Sittert, GJ Measey Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 71 (2), 157-166, 2016 | 58 | 2016 |
| The chimera of redistribution in post-apartheid South Africa:‘Black Economic Empowerment’(BEE) in industrial fisheries S Ponte, L Van Sittert African Affairs 106 (424), 437-462, 2007 | 55 | 2007 |
| 'The seed blows about in every breeze': Noxious weed eradication in the Cape Colony, 1860-1909 L Van Sittert Journal of Southern African Studies 26 (4), 655-674, 2000 | 55 | 2000 |
| Canis africanis: A dog history of southern Africa L Van Sittert, S Swart Canis Africanis, 2007 | 54 | 2007 |
| Making the Cape Floral Kingdom: the discovery and defence of indigenous flora at the Cape ca. 1890-1939 L Van Sittert Landscape Research 28 (1), 113-129, 2003 | 52 | 2003 |
| Bringing in the wild: the commodification of wild animals in the Cape Colony/Province c. 1850–1950 L Van Sittert The Journal of African History 46 (2), 269-291, 2005 | 46 | 2005 |
| Historicising perceptions and the national management framework for invasive alien plants in South Africa BM Bennett, L Van Sittert Journal of Environmental Management 229, 174-181, 2019 | 38 | 2019 |
| The other seven tenths L Van Sittert Environmental History 10 (1), 106-109, 2005 | 36 | 2005 |
| The bourgeois eye aloft: Table Mountain in the Anglo urban middle class imagination, c. 1891-1952 L Van Sittert Kronos: Journal of Cape History 28 (1), 161-190, 2002 | 35 | 2002 |
| Canis Familiaris: A Dog History of South Africa L Van Sittert, S Swart South African historical journal 48 (1), 138-173, 2003 | 30 | 2003 |
