| Mercenaries: the history of a norm in international relations SV Percy Oxford University Press, USA, 2007 | 581 | 2007 |
| Mercenaries: Strong norm, weak law SV Percy International Organization 61 (2), 367-397, 2007 | 218 | 2007 |
| An introduction to international relations R Devetak, J George, S Percy Cambridge University Press, 2017 | 216 | 2017 |
| The business of piracy in Somalia S Percy, A Shortland Journal of strategic studies 36 (4), 541-578, 2013 | 181 | 2013 |
| Regulating the private security industry S Percy Routledge, 2006 | 131* | 2006 |
| Morality and regulation S Percy From Mercenaries to Market, 11-28, 2009 | 72 | 2009 |
| Why norms rarely die SV Percy, W Sandholtz European Journal of International Relations 28 (4), 934-954, 2022 | 67 | 2022 |
| Bringing the ‘outside’in and the ‘inside’out: crossing the criminology/IR divide I Loader, S Percy Taylor & Francis, 2012 | 65 | 2012 |
| Regulating the private security industry: a story of regulating the last war S Percy International Review of the Red Cross 94 (887), 941-960, 2012 | 53 | 2012 |
| Private security companies and civil wars S Percy Civil Wars 11 (1), 57-74, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| Illegal fishing and Australian security J Lindley, S Percy, E Techera Australian Journal of International Affairs 73 (1), 82-99, 2019 | 39 | 2019 |
| Maritime crime and naval response S Percy Survival 58 (3), 155-186, 2016 | 39 | 2016 |
| Counter-piracy in the Indian Ocean: A new form of military cooperation S Percy Journal of Global Security Studies 1 (4), 270-284, 2016 | 32 | 2016 |
| This gun's for hire: a new look at an old issue SV Percy International Journal 58 (4), 721-736, 2003 | 32 | 2003 |
| Contemporary maritime piracy: Five obstacles to ending Somali piracy S Percy, A Shortland Global Policy 4 (1), 65-72, 2013 | 28 | 2013 |
| What makes a norm robust: the norm against female combat S Percy Journal of global security studies 4 (1), 123-138, 2019 | 26 | 2019 |
| The pirates of Somalia: Coastguards of anarchy S Percy, A Shortland Brunel University, 2009 | 25 | 2009 |
| Maritime security S Percy | 19 | 2018 |
| The Unimplemented Norm S Percy Implementation and World Politics, 68-84, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Governance, naval intervention and piracy in Somalia A Shortland, S Percy Peace Economics, Peace Science and Public Policy 19 (2), 275-283, 2013 | 18 | 2013 |