| Boundary markers: Land surveying and the colonisation of New Zealand G Byrnes Bridget Williams Books, 2001 | 162 | 2001 |
| The new oxford history of New Zealand G Byrnes Oxford University Press, 2009 | 142 | 2009 |
| The Waitangi Tribunal and New Zealand History G Byrnes Oxford University Press, USA, 2004 | 123 | 2004 |
| Living relationships kokiri ngatahi: The Treaty of Waitangi in the new millennium GM Byrnes Kōtare: New Zealand Notes & Queries 2 (2), 1999 | 46 | 1999 |
| Enhancing postgraduate supervision through a process of conversational inquiry D Spiller, G Byrnes, P Bruce Ferguson Higher Education Research & Development 32 (5), 833-845, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| Introduction: Reframing New Zealand History G Byrnes The New Oxford History of New Zealand, 1-18, 2009 | 30 | 2009 |
| “Relic of 1840” or founding document? The treaty, the tribunal and concepts of time G Byrnes Kōtuitui: New Zealand Journal of Social Sciences Online 1 (1), 1-12, 2006 | 23 | 2006 |
| Jackals of the Crown? Historians and the Treaty Claims Process G Byrnes Bronwyn Dalley and Jock Phillips, eds, Going Public: The Changing Face of …, 2001 | 23* | 2001 |
| Jackals of the Crown? Historians and the Treaty Claims Process in New Zealand GM Byrnes The Public Historian 20 (2), 9-23, 1998 | 23 | 1998 |
| Surveying space: constructing the colonial landscape G Byrnes Fragments. New Zealand Social and Cultural History. Auckland University …, 2000 | 21 | 2000 |
| 'A dead sheet covered with meaningless words?'-Place names and the cultural colonization of Tauranga G Byrnes New Zealand Journal of History 36 (1), 18-35, 2002 | 20 | 2002 |
| Nation and Migration POSTCOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES G Byrnes New Zealand Journal of History 43 (2), 123-132, 2009 | 19 | 2009 |
| Nation and identity in the Waitangi Tribunal reports G Byrnes New Zealand identities: Departures and destinations, 88-103, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
| Inventing New Zealand: Surveying, science, and the construction of cultural space, 1840s-1890s GM Byrnes PhD Thesis-University of Auckland, 1995 | 16 | 1995 |
| Editorial Introduction: The Utility and Futility of'The Nation'in Histories of Aotearoa New Zealand G Byrnes, C Coleborne New Zealand Journal of History 45 (1), 1-14, 2011 | 13 | 2011 |
| Rethinking national identity in New Zealand’s history G Byrnes Conference paper presented at the Dominion Status symposium Parliament House …, 2007 | 11 | 2007 |
| “The imperfect authority of the eye”;: Shortland's southern journey and the calligraphy of colonisation GM Byrnes History and Anthropology 8 (1-4), 207-235, 1994 | 10 | 1994 |
| By which standards? History and the Waitangi Tribunal: A reply G Byrnes New Zealand Journal of History 40 (2), 214-229, 2006 | 9 | 2006 |
| Past the post? Time, causation and Treaty claims history. G Byrnes Law Text Culture, 251-276, 2003 | 8 | 2003 |
| Surveying-the Maori and the land: An essay in historical representation GM Byrnes New Zealand Journal of History 31 (1), 85-98, 1997 | 8 | 1997 |
