| Policing Morals: The Metropolitan Police and the Home Office 1870-1914 S Petrow | 189 | 1994 |
| The Last Man: The mutilation of William Lanne in 1869 and its aftermath S Petrow Aboriginal History 21, 90-112, 1997 | 32 | 1997 |
| Sanatorium of the South S Petrow Public Health and Politics in Hobart and Launceston 1875–1914, 1995 | 31* | 1995 |
| Policing in a Penal Colony: Governor Arthur's Police System in Van Diemen's Land, 1826-1836 S Petrow Law and History Review 18 (2), 351-395, 2000 | 29 | 2000 |
| Charity Law in Australia and New Zealand G Dal Pont, S Petrow | 25 | 2000 |
| The Rise of the Detective in London 1869-1914 S Petrow University Of Tasmania, 1993 | 24 | 1993 |
| Law of Charity G Dal Pont, S Petrow University Of Tasmania, 2017 | 21 | 2017 |
| The antiquarian mind: Tasmanian history and the Royal Society of Tasmania 1899-1927 S Petrow University Of Tasmania, 2003 | 13 | 2003 |
| Knocking Down the House? The Introduction of the Torrens System to Tasmania'(1992) S Petrow University of Tasmania Law Review 11 (2), 167-181, 1992 | 12* | 1992 |
| ” Convict-Phobia”: Combating Vandemonian Convicts in 1850s and 1860s Victoria S Petrow Journal of Australian Colonial History 14, 260-71, 2012 | 10 | 2012 |
| Varieties of Vice-Regal Life (Van Diemen’s Land Section) by Sir William and Lady Denison R Davis, S Petrow Hobart: Tasmanian Historical Research Association, 2004 | 10 | 2004 |
| Planning pioneer: RA McInnis and town planning in Queensland 1922/1944 S Petrow Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland 16 (7), 285-299, 1997 | 10* | 1997 |
| After Arthur: Policing in Van Diemen's Land S Petrow Policing the Lucky Country, 176-98, 2001 | 9* | 2001 |
| Claims of the colony: Tasmania's dispute with Britain over the Port Arthur penal establishment 1856/1877.-Paper presented to Tasmanian Historical Research Association meeting … S Petrow Papers and Proceedings: Tasmanian Historical Research Association 44 (4), 221-40, 1997 | 9 | 1997 |
| The English model? Policing in late nineteenth-century Tasmania S Petrow Crime and Empire 1840-1940, 135-148, 2013 | 8* | 2013 |
| Civilizing mission: animal protection in Hobart 1878–1914 S Petrow Britain and the World 5 (1), 69-95, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| Growing with Strength: A History of the Hobart City Council 1846-2000 S Petrow, AA Alexander | 8 | 2008 |
| Progressivism in Australia: the case of John Daniel Fitzgerald, 1900-1922. S Petrow Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society 90 (1), 53-74, 2004 | 8 | 2004 |
| Going to the Mechanics: A History of the Launceston Mechanics' Institute 1842-1914 S Petrow | 8 | 1998 |
| A city in search of a plan: Hobart, 1945/1962 S Petrow Tasmanian Historical Studies 5 (1), 132-53, 1995 | 8 | 1995 |
