| Talking up China: An analysis of China’s rising cultural power and global promotion of the Chinese language S Ding, RA Saunders East Asia 23 (2), 3-33, 2006 | 269 | 2006 |
| The ummah as nation: A reappraisal in the wake of the ‘cartoons affair’ RA Saunders Nations and Nationalism 14 (2), 303-321, 2008 | 111 | 2008 |
| Popular Geopolitics and Nation Branding in the Post-Soviet Realm RA Saunders Routledge, 2016 | 86 | 2016 |
| Undead spaces: Fear, globalisation, and the popular geopolitics of zombiism RA Saunders Geopolitics 17 (1), 80-104, 2012 | 80 | 2012 |
| Ethnopolitics in cyberspace: The internet, minority nationalism, and the web of identity RA Saunders Lexington Books, 2011 | 72 | 2011 |
| Buying into Brand Borat: Kazakhstan's Cautious Embrace of Its Unwanted" Son" RA Saunders Slavic Review, 63-80, 2008 | 58 | 2008 |
| Denationalized digerati in the virtual near abroad: The internet's paradoxical impact on national Identity among minority Russians RA Saunders Global Media and Communication 2 (1), 43-69, 2006 | 55 | 2006 |
| Pagan places Towards a religiogeography of neopaganism RA Saunders Progress in Human Geography 37 (6), 786-810, 2013 | 53 | 2013 |
| Small Screen IR: A Tentative Typology of Geopolitical Television RA Saunders Geopolitics, 1-37, 2017 | 50 | 2017 |
| The many faces of Sacha Baron Cohen: Politics, parody, and the battle over Borat RA Saunders Rowman & Littlefield, 2009 | 49 | 2009 |
| In Defence of Kazakshilik: Kazakhstan's War on Sacha Baron Cohen RA Saunders Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 14 (3), 225-255, 2007 | 43 | 2007 |
| Popular geopolitics: Plotting an evolving interdiscipline RA Saunders, V Strukov Routledge, 2018 | 40 | 2018 |
| Happy slapping: Transatlantic contagion or home-grown, mass-mediated nihilism R Saunders The London Consortium 1, 1-11, 2005 | 36 | 2005 |
| Geopolitical television at the (b)order: liminality, global politics, and world-building in The Bridge RA Saunders Social & Cultural Geography 20 (7), 981-1003, 2019 | 33 | 2019 |
| Historical dictionary of the Russian Federation RA Saunders, V Strukov Scarecrow Press, 2010 | 32* | 2010 |
| The Popular Geopolitics Feedback Loop: Thinking Beyond the ‘Russia against the West’Paradigm RA Saunders, V Strukov Europe-Asia Studies 69 (2), 303-324, 2017 | 26 | 2017 |
| (Profitable) imaginaries of Black Power: The popular and political geographies of Black Panther RA Saunders Political Geography 69, 139-149, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| Imperial Imaginaries: Employing Science Fiction to Talk about Geopolitics RA Saunders Frederica Caso und Caitlin Hamilton (Hg.): Popular Culture and World …, 2015 | 25 | 2015 |
| Wiring the second world: The geopolitics of information and communications technology in post-totalitarian Eurasia RA Saunders Russian Cyberspace Journal 1, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| Digital dragons and cybernetic bears: comparing the overseas Chinese and near abroad Russian web communities RA Saunders, S Ding Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 12 (2), 255-290, 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
