| Women's Recreational Surfing: A Patronising Experience R Olive, L McCuaig, MG Phillips Sport, Education and Society, 2012 | 155 | 2012 |
| Deconstructing sport history: A postmodern analysis A Munslow State University of New York Press, 2012 | 130 | 2012 |
| 2.3 History of physical education MG Phillips, AP Roper Handbook of physical education, 123, 2006 | 82 | 2006 |
| Golf MG Phillips Oxford Companion to Australian Sport, 157-159, 1992 | 74* | 1992 |
| From sidelines to centre field: A history of sports coaching in Australia M Phillips UNSW Press, 2000 | 68 | 2000 |
| Broadening horizons in sport history: Films, photographs, and monuments MG Phillips, ME O'Neill, G Osmond Journal of Sport History, 271-293, 2007 | 61 | 2007 |
| An illusory image: A report on the media coverage and portrayal of Women's sport in Australia (1996) MG Phillips Australian Sports Commission, 1997 | 58 | 1997 |
| Gender, sport and the body politic: Framing femininity in the golden girls of sport calendar and the Atlanta dream JM Mikosza, MG Phillips International review for the sociology of sport 34 (1), 5-16, 1999 | 57 | 1999 |
| Representing the sporting past in museums and halls of fame MG Phillips Routledge, 2012 | 56 | 2012 |
| ‘Putting up Your Dukes’: Statues Social Memory and Duke Paoa Kahanamoku G Osmond, MG Phillips, M O'Neill The International Journal of the History of Sport 23 (1), 82-103, 2006 | 54 | 2006 |
| Deconstructing sport history: The postmodern challenge MG Phillips Journal of Sport History 28 (3), 327-343, 2001 | 54 | 2001 |
| Sport History as Modes of Expression: Material Culture and Cultural Spaces in Sport and History L Borish, MG Phillips Rethinking History 16 (4), 465-477, 2012 | 49 | 2012 |
| ‘The bloke with a stroke’ Alick Wickham, the ‘crawl’and social memory G Osmond, MG Phillips The Journal of Pacific History 39 (3), 309-324, 2004 | 47 | 2004 |
| Playing fields through to battle fields: The development of Australian sporting manhood in its imperial context, c. 1850–1918 D Adair, J Nauright, M Phillips Journal of Australian Studies 22 (56), 51-67, 1998 | 46 | 1998 |
| Sport history in the digital era G Osmond, MG Phillips University of Illinois Press, 2015 | 43* | 2015 |
| Losing control of the ball: The political economy of football and the media in Australia MG Phillips, B Hutchins Journal of Sport and Social Issues 27 (3), 215-232, 2003 | 41 | 2003 |
| Football, Class and War: The Rugby Codes in New South Wales, 1907-1918 M Phillips Making men: Rugby and masculine identity, 169-174, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| ‘Look at that kid crawling’: Race, myth and the ‘crawl’stroke G Osmond, MG Phillips Australian Historical Studies 37 (127), 43-62, 2006 | 35 | 2006 |
| Enveloping the past: Sport stamps, visuality and museums G Osmond, MG Phillips The Visual in Sport, 52-69, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Swimming Australia: one hundred years MG Phillips University of New South Wales Press, 2008 | 33 | 2008 |
