| Exhibiting Maori: A history of colonial cultures of display C McCarthy Berg, 2007 | 301 | 2007 |
| Museums and Maori: Heritage professionals, indigenous collections, current practice C McCarthy Routledge, 2016 | 202 | 2016 |
| Collecting, ordering, governing: anthropology, museums, and liberal government T Bennett, F Cameron, N Dias, B Dibley, R Harrison, I Jacknis, ... Duke University Press, 2017 | 193 | 2017 |
| ‘The feeling of exclusion’: Young peoples’ perceptions of art galleries DDM Mason, C McCarthy Museum Management and curatorship 21 (1), 20-31, 2006 | 168 | 2006 |
| Destination Museum: A Conversation with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett C McCarthy Museum Worlds 7 (1), 71-81, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Curatopia: Museums and the future of curatorship C McCarthy, P Schorch Manchester University Press, 2018 | 41 | 2018 |
| Globalizing Māori museology: reconceptualizing engagement, knowledge, and virtuality through Mana Taonga P Schorch, C McCarthy, A Hakiwai Museum Anthropology 39 (1), 48-69, 2016 | 38 | 2016 |
| The international handbooks of museum studies S Macdonald, HR Leahy, A Witcomb, C McCarthy, M Henning, ... Wiley-Blackwell, 2015 | 37 | 2015 |
| Grounding museum studies: Introducing practice C McCarthy The international handbooks of museum studies, xxxv-lii, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| The rules of (Maori) art: Bourdieu’s cultural sociology and Maori visitors in New Zealand museums C McCarthy Journal of Sociology 49 (2-3), 173-193, 2013 | 27 | 2013 |
| Museums and the culture of new media: an empirical model of New Zealand museum websites DDM Mason, C McCarthy Museum Management and Curatorship 23 (1), 63-80, 2008 | 27 | 2008 |
| Mana Taonga: Connecting Communities with New Zealand museums through ancestral Maori culture C McCarthy, E Dorfman, A Hakiwai, Ā Twomey Museum International 65 (1-4), 5-15, 2013 | 25 | 2013 |
| Theorising museum practice through practice theory: Museum studies as intercultural practice C McCarthy The Routledge international handbook of intercultural arts research, 24-34, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| From Curio to Taonga: A Genealogy of Display at New Zealand’s National Museum, 1865-2001 C McCarthy Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington, 2004 | 23 | 2004 |
| Indigenisation: reconceptualising museology C McCarthy The contemporary museum, 37-54, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| Museums and museum studies in New Zealand: A survey of historical developments C McCarthy, J Cobley History Compass 7 (2), 395-413, 2009 | 21 | 2009 |
| Te Papa: Reinventing New Zealand's National Museum 1998–2018 C McCarthy Te Papa Press, 2018 | 20 | 2018 |
| Museum practice C McCarthy John Wiley & Sons, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| “Empirical anthropologists advocating cultural adjustments”: The anthropological governance of Āpirana Ngata and the Native Affairs Department C McCarthy History and Anthropology 25 (2), 280-295, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Museum studies and museums: Bringing together theory and practice B Labrum, C McCarthy Te Ara Journal of Museums Aotearoa: Special Issue: Museum Studies in New …, 2005 | 17 | 2005 |
