| Trade without rulers: Pre-colonial economic development in South-Eastern Nigeria D Northrup (No Title), 1978 | 418 | 1978 |
| Africa's discovery of Europe, 1450-1850 D Northrup Oxford University Press, 2014 | 290 | 2014 |
| How English became the global language D Northrup Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 | 198 | 2013 |
| The earth and its peoples RW Bulliet, P Crossley, D Headrick, S Hirsch, L Johnson, D Northrup Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1997 | 187 | 1997 |
| Beyond the bend in the river: African labor in eastern Zaire, 1865-1940 D Northrup | 108 | 1988 |
| The growth of trade among the Igbo before 18801 D Northrup The Journal of African History 13 (2), 217-236, 1972 | 107 | 1972 |
| Globalization and the great convergence: Rethinking world history in the long term D Northrup Journal of World History, 249-267, 2005 | 106 | 2005 |
| The Atlantic slave trade D Northrup (No Title), 1994 | 101 | 1994 |
| The diary of Antera Duke, an eighteenth-century African slave trader SD Behrendt, AJH Latham, D Northrup Oxford University Press, 2010 | 90 | 2010 |
| Igbo and Myth Igbo: Culture and ethnicity in the Atlantic world, 1600–1850 D Northrup Slavery and Abolition 21 (3), 1-20, 2000 | 86 | 2000 |
| The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in the Bight of Biafra D Northrup The Journal of African History 17 (3), 353-364, 1976 | 82 | 1976 |
| Becoming African: Identity formation among liberated slaves in nineteenth-century Sierra Leone D Northrup Slavery and abolition 27 (1), 1-21, 2006 | 59 | 2006 |
| Free and unfree labor migration, 1600-1900: an introduction D Northrup Journal of World History, 125-130, 2003 | 36 | 2003 |
| Nineteenth-century patterns of slavery and economic growth in southeastern Nigeria D Northrup The International Journal of African Historical Studies 12 (1), 1-16, 1979 | 33 | 1979 |
| African mortality in the suppression of the slave trade: The case of the Bight of Biafra D Northrup The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 9 (1), 47-64, 1978 | 29 | 1978 |
| Indentured Indians in the French Antilles. Les immigrants indiens engagés aux Antilles françaises D Northrup Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire 87 (326), 245-271, 2000 | 28 | 2000 |
| Globalization in historical perspective D Northrup World System History 1, 196-211, 2009 | 20 | 2009 |
| Vasco da Gama and Africa: An era of mutual discovery, 1497-1800 D Northrup Journal of World History, 189-211, 1998 | 17 | 1998 |
| The ideological context of Slavery in Southeastern Nigeria in the 19th century D Northrup | 17 | 1981 |
| A Church in Search of a State: Catholic Missions in Eastern Zaire, 1879-1930 D Northrup Journal of Church and State, 309-319, 1988 | 16 | 1988 |
