| Arbitrary states: social control and modern authoritarianism in Museveni's Uganda R Tapscott Oxford University Press, 2021 | 61 | 2021 |
| Where the wild things are not: crime preventers and the 2016 Ugandan elections R Tapscott Elections in Museveni's Uganda, 137-156, 2018 | 48* | 2018 |
| The Government Has Long Hands: Institutionalized Arbitrariness and Local Security Initiatives in Northern Uganda R Tapscott Development and Change 48 (2), 263–285, 2017 | 46* | 2017 |
| Understanding Breast “Ironing”: A Study of the Methods, Motivations, and Outcomes of Breast Flattening Practices in Cameroon R Tapscott http://fic.tufts.edu/assets/Understanding-breast-flattening.pdf, 2012 | 37* | 2012 |
| Local security and the (un)making of public authority in Gulu, northern Uganda R Tapscott African Affairs 116 (462), 39-59, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| Naked bodies and collective action: repertoires of protest in Uganda’s militarised, authoritarian regime F Abonga, R Kerali, H Porter, R Tapscott Civil Wars 22 (2-3), 198-223, 2020 | 33 | 2020 |
| Militarized masculinity and the paradox of restraint: mechanisms of social control under modern authoritarianism R Tapscott International Affairs 96 (6), 1565-1584, 2020 | 22 | 2020 |
| Policing men: militarised masculinity, youth livelihoods, and security in conflict-affected northern Uganda R Tapscott Disasters 42 (S1), S119–S139, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| Vigilantes and the state: Understanding violence through a security assemblages approach R Tapscott Perspectives on Politics 21 (1), 209-224, 2023 | 16 | 2023 |
| Tomayto Tomahto: The research supply chain and the ethics of knowledge production R Tapscott, D Desai Humanity Journal Blog, 2015 | 14* | 2015 |
| Conceptualizing Militias in Africa R Tapscott Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, 1-23, 2019 | 11 | 2019 |
| Maximizing achievements in human rights development: arguments for a rights-based approach to land tenure reform R Tapscott PRAXIS The Fletcher Journal of Human Security 27, 26-46, 2012 | 11 | 2012 |
| Reviews, Otherwise: Introducing the New Reviews Section of Civil Wars R Tapscott, D Rincón Machón Civil Wars 25 (2-3), 606-613, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| Explaining youth political mobilization and its absence: the case of Bobi Wine and Uganda’s 2021 election A Macdonald, A Owor, R Tapscott Journal of Eastern African Studies 17 (1-2), 280-300, 2023 | 4 | 2023 |
| States of (In) Security: violence, local governance, and institutionalized arbitrariness In Northern Uganda R Tapscott Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts University), 2017 | 3 | 2017 |
| Procedural ethics for social science research: Introducing the Research Ethics Governance dataset R Tapscott, DR Machón Journal of Peace Research, 00223433241249352, 2024 | | 2024 |
| The Origins and Legacies of Unpredictability in Rebel-Incumbent Rule R Tapscott, E Urwin Civil Wars, 1-28, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Uganda's battle for the youth vote-how Museveni keeps Bobi Wine's reach in check R Tapscott, A Macdonald The Conversation, 2024 | | 2024 |
| Institutionalized Arbitrariness as Autocratic Adaptability R Tapscott Autocratization in Contemporary Uganda: Clientelism, Coercion and Social Control, 2024 | | 2024 |
| 25 Years of Civil Wars: Identifying Key Developments Through the Reviews Section R Tapscott, D Rincón Machón Civil Wars 25 (2-3), 554-561, 2023 | | 2023 |
Holly PorterUniversity of Cambridge
Holly PorterUniversity of Cambridge