| South of the West: postcolonialism and the narrative construction of Australia R Gibson Indiana University Press, 1992 | 322 | 1992 |
| Australian Cultural Studies: A Reader R Gibson University of Illinois Press, 1993 | 265* | 1993 |
| Seven versions of an Australian badland R Gibson Univ. of Queensland Press, 2002 | 221 | 2002 |
| The Diminishing Paradise R Gibson Changing Literary Per-ceptions of Australia. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1984 | 156* | 1984 |
| The diminishing paradise: changing literary perceptions of Australia R Gibson Australia: Sirius Book, 1984 | 156 | 1984 |
| Voice: Vocal aesthetics in digital arts and media N Neumark, R Gibson, T Van Leeuwen MIT Press, 2010 | 100 | 2010 |
| The known world R Gibson TEXT: Journal of writing and writing courses 8, 1-11, 2010 | 99 | 2010 |
| Formative landscapes R Gibson Australian Cinema, 45-59, 1994 | 72 | 1994 |
| Landscape in Australian Feature Films R Gibson Framework, 47, 1983 | 68 | 1983 |
| 26 Views of the Starburst World: William Dawes at Sydney Cove 1788-91 R Gibson UWA Publishing, 2012 | 46 | 2012 |
| Mega screens for mega cities N Papastergiadis, S McQuire, X Gu, A Barikin, R Gibson, A Yue, S Jung, ... Theory, Culture & Society 30 (7-8), 325-341, 2013 | 40 | 2013 |
| The Searchers-Dismantled.” R Gibson Rogue Press, 2005 | 33* | 2005 |
| Changescapes: Complexity, Mutability, Aesthetics R Gibson Apollo Books, 2015 | 21 | 2015 |
| Remembrance and the Moving Image R Gibson Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, 2002 | 21 | 2002 |
| Memoryscopes: Remnants, Forensics, Aesthetics R Gibson Apollo Books, 2015 | 19 | 2015 |
| Places Past Disappearance R Gibson Rockhampton, Qld.: Central Queensland University,, 2006 | 19 | 2006 |
| Yondering: A Reading of Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome R Gibson Art & Text 19, 24-33, 1985 | 19 | 1985 |
| The summer exercises R Gibson ISBS, 2008 | 18 | 2008 |
| Acting and breathing R Gibson Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, 1999 | 18 | 1999 |
| Ocean settlement R Gibson Meanjin 53 (4), 665, 1994 | 17 | 1994 |
