| Kenya: between hope and despair, 1963-2011 D Branch Yale University Press, 2011 | 646 | 2011 |
| Defeating Mau Mau, creating Kenya: counterinsurgency, civil war, and decolonization D Branch Cambridge University Press, 2009 | 488* | 2009 |
| Democratization, sequencing, and state failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya D Branch, N Cheeseman African Affairs 108 (430), 1-26, 2009 | 439 | 2009 |
| The politics of control in Kenya: Understanding the bureaucratic-executive state, 1952–78 D Branch, N Cheeseman Review of African Political Economy 33 (107), 11-31, 2006 | 214 | 2006 |
| The enemy within: loyalists and the war against Mau Mau in Kenya D Branch The Journal of African History 48 (2), 291-315, 2007 | 148 | 2007 |
| Our turn to eat: Politics in Kenya since 1950 D Branch, N Cheeseman, L Gardner | 74 | 2010 |
| Imprisonment and colonialism in Kenya, c. 1930-1952: Escaping the carceral archipelago D Branch The International journal of African historical studies 38 (2), 239-265, 2005 | 74 | 2005 |
| Revisiting counterinsurgency D Branch, EJ Wood Politics & Society 38 (1), 3-14, 2010 | 55 | 2010 |
| Violence, decolonisation and the Cold War in Kenya's north-eastern province, 1963–1978 D Branch Journal of Eastern African Studies 8 (4), 642-657, 2014 | 53 | 2014 |
| Loyalists, Mau Mau, and Elections in Kenya: The First Triumph of the System, 1957-1958 D Branch Africa Today, 27-50, 2006 | 50 | 2006 |
| Political Traffic: Kenyan Students in Eastern and Central Europe, 1958–69 D Branch Journal of Contemporary History 53 (4), 811-831, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
| Footprints in the sand: British colonial counterinsurgency and the war in Iraq D Branch Politics & Society 38 (1), 15-34, 2010 | 40 | 2010 |
| The search for the remains of Dedan Kimathi: the politics of death and memorialization in post-colonial Kenya D Branch Past and Present 206 (suppl_5), 301-320, 2010 | 32 | 2010 |
| Introduction: Allies at the End of Empire—Loyalists, Nationalists and the Cold War, 1945–76 DM Anderson, D Branch Allies at the End of Empire, 1-13, 2017 | 29 | 2017 |
| Another world? East Africa, decolonisation, and the global history of the mid-twentieth century I Milford, G McCann, E Hunter, D Branch The Journal of African History 62 (3), 394-410, 2021 | 26 | 2021 |
| Introduction: Our turn to eat D Branch, N Cheeseman Our Turn to Eat: Politics in Kenya Since, 1-22, 1950 | 23 | 1950 |
| A very British massacre D Anderson, H Bennet, D Branch History today 56 (8), 20, 2006 | 19 | 2006 |
| Why Kenya Invaded Somalia D Branch Foreign Affairs, 2011 | 18 | 2011 |
| Briefing: Using opinion polls to evaluate Kenyan politics, March 2004-January 2005 D Branch, N Cheeseman African Affairs 104 (415), 325-336, 2005 | 15 | 2005 |
| Election fever: Kenya’s crisis D Branch, N Cheeseman Journal of Eastern African Studies 2 (2), 2008 | 10 | 2008 |