| Sport tourism: Interrelationships, impacts and issues BW Ritchie, D Adair Channel View Publications, 2004 | 231 | 2004 |
| Sport in Australian history. D Adair, W Vamplew Sport in Australian history., 1997 | 193 | 1997 |
| Sporting nationalisms: Identity, ethnicity, immigration and assimilation M Cronin, D Mayall Routledge, 2005 | 176 | 2005 |
| The wearing of the green: a history of St Patrick's Day M Cronin, D Adair Routledge, 2004 | 163 | 2004 |
| Australian leisure AJ Veal, S Darcy, R Lynch Pearson Higher Education AU, 2015 | 146 | 2015 |
| The growing recognition of sport tourism B Ritchie, D Adair Taylor & Francis Group 5 (1), 1-6, 2002 | 114 | 2002 |
| Global Sport-for-Development: Critical Perspectives N Schulenkorf, D Adair Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 | 96* | 2014 |
| Sport tourism: An introduction and overview BW Ritchie, D Adair Sport tourism: Interrelationships, impacts and issues 15 (6), 1-29, 2004 | 64 | 2004 |
| Managing the Olympics S Frawley, D Adair Palgrave Macmillan, 2013 | 57* | 2013 |
| Lords of the square ring: Future capital and career transition issues for elite indigenous Australian boxers MM Stronach, D Adair Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 2 (2), 46-70, 2010 | 51 | 2010 |
| Sport sponsorship alliances: relationship management for shared value H Dolles, S Söderman, A Morgan, D Adair, T Taylor, A Hermens Sport, Business and Management: An International Journal, 2014 | 50 | 2014 |
| Beyond boundaries?‘Race’, ethnicity and identity in sport D Adair, D Rowe International Review for the Sociology of Sport 45 (3), 251-257, 2010 | 44 | 2010 |
| The Olympics: A critical reader V Girginov Routledge, 2010 | 43 | 2010 |
| Managing ethnocultural and'racial'diversity in sport: Obstacles and opportunities D Adair, T Taylor, S Darcy Sport Management Review, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Sport tourism: An introduction and overview D Adair European Journal for Sport and Society 4 (2), 117-132, 2007 | 39 | 2007 |
| Australian sport history: From the founding years to today D Adair Sport in History 29 (3), 405-436, 2009 | 34 | 2009 |
| Playing fields through to battle fields: The development of Australian sporting manhood in its imperial context, c. 1850–1918 D Adair, J Nauright, M Phillips Journal of Australian Studies 22 (56), 51-67, 1998 | 34 | 1998 |
| Pasifika diaspora and the changing face of Australian Rugby League D Lakisa, D Adair, T Taylor The Contemporary Pacific, 347-367, 2014 | 32 | 2014 |
| Darkness and a little light:'race'and sport in Australia C Tatz, D Adair Australian Aboriginal Studies, 1-14, 2009 | 32 | 2009 |
| Natural-born athletes? Australian Aboriginal people and the double-edged lure of professional sport D Adair, M Stronach Sport and challenges to racism, 117-134, 2011 | 30 | 2011 |
