| Warfare in Roman Europe, AD 350-425 H Elton Oxford University Press, 1996 | 498 | 1996 |
| Frontiers of the Roman empire H Elton Routledge, 2013 | 305 | 2013 |
| Fifth-century Gaul: a crisis of identity? J Drinkwater, H Elton Cambridge University Press, 2002 | 226 | 2002 |
| The climate and environment of Byzantine Anatolia: Integrating science, history, and archaeology J Haldon, N Roberts, A Izdebski, D Fleitmann, M McCormick, M Cassis, ... Journal of Interdisciplinary History 45 (2), 113-161, 2014 | 184 | 2014 |
| The politics of usurpation in the seventh century: rhetoric and revolution in Byzantium H Elton The Medieval Review 3, 1995 | 79 | 1995 |
| The Roman Empire in late antiquity: A political and military history H Elton Cambridge University Press, 2018 | 73 | 2018 |
| Plagues, climate change, and the end of an empire. A response to Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome (2): Plagues and a crisis of empire J Haldon, H Elton, SR Huebner, A Izdebski, L Mordechai, TP Newfield History Compass 16 (12), e12506, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |
| Plagues, climate change, and the end of an empire: A response to Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome (1): Climate J Haldon, H Elton, SR Huebner, A Izdebski, L Mordechai, TP Newfield History Compass 16 (12), e12508, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |
| Illus and the imperial aristocracy under Zeno H Elton Byzantion 70 (2), 393-407, 2000 | 53 | 2000 |
| Defence in fifth-century Gaul H Elton Fifth-century Gaul: a crisis of identity, 167-76, 1992 | 52 | 1992 |
| Military forces H Elton The Cambridge history of Greek and Roman warfare 2, 270-309, 2007 | 51 | 2007 |
| Defining Romans, barbarians, and the Roman frontier H Elton Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, 126-135, 1996 | 47 | 1996 |
| Not the end of the world? Post-classical decline and recovery in rural Anatolia N Roberts, M Cassis, O Doonan, W Eastwood, H Elton, J Haldon, ... Human Ecology 46, 305-322, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| 14: Warfare and the Military H Elton The Cambridge companion to the age of Constantine 13, 325, 2006 | 36 | 2006 |
| The nature of the sixth-century Isaurians H Elton Ethnicity and culture in Late Antiquity, 293-307, 2000 | 36 | 2000 |
| Plagues, climate change, and the end of an empire: A response to Kyle Harper's The Fate of Rome (3): Disease, agency, and collapse J Haldon, H Elton, SR Huebner, A Izdebski, L Mordechai, TP Newfield History Compass 16 (12), e12507, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
| Imperial politics at the court of Theodosius II H Elton The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity, 151-160, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
| Shifting genres in late antiquity H Elton, G Greatrex Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2015 | 28 | 2015 |
| The economy of Southern Asia Minor and LR 1 amphorae H Elton LRCW I Late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the …, 2005 | 28 | 2005 |
| Evaluating archaeological evidence for demographics, abandonment, and recovery in Late Antique and Byzantine Anatolia M Cassis, O Doonan, H Elton, J Newhard Human Ecology 46, 381-398, 2018 | 27 | 2018 |
