| A national game: The history of Australian Rules football R Hess, M Nicholson, B Stewart, G De Moore Penguin, 2008 | 77 | 2008 |
| 'Ladies are specially invited’: women in the culture of Australian rules football R Hess The International Journal of the History of Sport 17 (2-3), 111-141, 2000 | 72 | 2000 |
| More than a game: an unauthorized history of Australian Rules Football R Hess, B Stewart (No Title), 1998 | 72 | 1998 |
| Women, football and history: international perspectives J Williams, R Hess The international journal of the history of sport 32 (18), 2115-2122, 2015 | 40 | 2015 |
| Women and Australian rules football in colonial melbourne1 R Hess The International Journal of the History of Sport 13 (3), 356-372, 1996 | 33 | 1996 |
| Play On! The Hidden History of Women's Australian Rules Football BLR Hess Echo Publishing, 2016 | 22* | 2016 |
| Playing with ‘patriotic fire’: Women and football in the antipodes during the great war R Hess International journal of the history of sport 28 (10), 1388-1408, 2011 | 21 | 2011 |
| A new breed apart? Work practices of Australian internet sport journalists KM Lange, M Nicholson, R Hess Sport in Society 10 (4), 662-679, 2007 | 20 | 2007 |
| Grassroots football development in Japan M Sugiyama, S Khoo, R Hess The international Journal of the History of Sport 34 (17-18), 1854-1871, 2017 | 19 | 2017 |
| Sport and spirituality: An exercise in everyday theology G Preece, R Hess Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World 11 (1), 5-9, 2009 | 18 | 2009 |
| The Victorian football league takes over, 1897–1914 R Hess More than a Game: An Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football, 86-113, 1998 | 18 | 1998 |
| The Victorian football league takes over, 1897–1914 R Hess More than a Game: An Unauthorised History of Australian Rules Football, 86-113, 1998 | 18 | 1998 |
| A mania for bicycles: The impact of cycling on Australian Rules Football R Hess Sporting Traditions 14 (2), 3-24, 1998 | 17 | 1998 |
| For the Love of Sensation: Case Studies in the Early Development of Women's Football in Victoria 1921-1981 R Hess | 14 | 2005 |
| Australian rules football B Stewart, R Hess, C Dixon Sporting immigrants: sport and ethnicity in Australia, 185-198, 1997 | 11 | 1997 |
| Missing in Action? New Perspectives on the Origins and Diffusion of Women’s Football in Australia during the Great War R Hess Sport, War and Society in Australia and New Zealand, 46-64, 2018 | 10 | 2018 |
| Chinese footballers and female players: Discontinuous and marginalized histories R Hess Maribyrnong Press, 2004 | 10 | 2004 |
| “A death blow to the white Australia policy”: Australian rules football and Chinese communities in Victoria, 1892–1908 R Hess Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor (eds), 1860-1940, 2004 | 10 | 2004 |
| Against the tide: New work on Australasian aquatic cultures R Hess, C Parker The International Journal of the History of Sport 26 (14), 2060-2068, 2009 | 9 | 2009 |
| Beyond the Barassi line: the origins and diffusion of football codes in Australia R Hess, M Nicholson Games Are Not the Same: The Political Economy of Football in Australia: The …, 2007 | 8 | 2007 |
