| Lost in the Australian bush: Outdoor education as curriculum A Brookes Journal of Curriculum studies 34 (4), 405-425, 2002 | 255 | 2002 |
| A critique of neo-Hahnian outdoor education theory. Part one: Challenges to the concept of “character building” A Brookes Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning 3 (1), 49-62, 2003 | 246 | 2003 |
| A critique of Neo-Hahnian outdoor education theory. Part two:“The fundamental attribution error” in contemporary outdoor education discourse A Brookes Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning 3 (2), 119-132, 2003 | 150 | 2003 |
| Astride a long-dead horse: Mainstream outdoor education theory and the central curriculum problem A Brookes Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 8, 22-33, 2004 | 108 | 2004 |
| Gilbert White never came this far South: naturalist knowledge and the limits of universalist environmental education. A Brookes Canadian Journal of Environmental Education (CJEE), 73-87, 2002 | 71 | 2002 |
| Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960–2002. Part 1: Summary of incidents and introduction to fatality analysis A Brookes Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 7, 20-35, 2002 | 58 | 2002 |
| Preventing death and serious injury from falling trees and branches A Brookes Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 11, 50-59, 2007 | 53 | 2007 |
| Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002 Part 3: Environmental circumstances A Brookes Australian Journal of Outdoor Education 8 (1), 44, 2004 | 50 | 2004 |
| Reading between the lines—outdoor experience as environmental text A Brookes Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance 65 (8), 28-39, 1994 | 46 | 1994 |
| Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002. Part 2: Contributing circumstances: Supervision, first aid, and rescue A Brookes New Zealand Journal of Outdoor Education: Ko Tane Mahuta Pupuke 2 (6), 57, 2011 | 45* | 2011 |
| Outdoor education fatalities in Australia 1960-2002. Part 2: Contributing circumstances: Supervision, first aid, and rescue A Brookes Australian Journal of Outdoor Education 2 (7), 34-42, 2003 | 45 | 2003 |
| Foundation myths and the roots of adventure education in the Anglosphere A Brookes Routledge international handbook of outdoor studies, 11-19, 2015 | 42 | 2015 |
| Deep and shallow outdoor education: Can we tell the difference A Brookes The Outdoor Educator, 8-17, 1993 | 42 | 1993 |
| Doing the Franklin: Wilderness Tourism and the Construction of Nature A Brookes Tourist Experience 4, 2017 | 38* | 2017 |
| Research update 2010: Outdoor education fatalities in Australia A Brookes Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 15, 35-55, 2011 | 33 | 2011 |
| Report to Trustees of the Sir Edmund Hillary Outdoor Pursuit Centre of New Zealand. Mangatepopo gorge incident, 15 April 2008 A Brookes, M Smith, B Corkill Turangi: OPC trust, 2009 | 32* | 2009 |
| Research update: Outdoor education fatalities in Australia A Brookes Journal of Outdoor and Environmental Education 11, 3-9, 2006 | 32 | 2006 |
| Situationist outdoor education in the country of lost children AR Brookes Deakin University, 2006 | 26 | 2006 |
| Preventing fatal incidents in outdoor education. Lessons learnt from the Mangatepopo tragedy A Brookes New Zealand Journal of Outdoor Education: Ko Tane Mahuta Pupuke 2 (6), 7-32, 2011 | 25 | 2011 |
| Can outdoor education be dispensed with? An enquiry into some text book approaches to outdoor education A Brookes Connections and disconnections: Examining the reality and rhetoric …, 2004 | 25* | 2004 |
