| ‘“Never Expect Power Always:” Electricity Consumers’ Response to Monopoly, Corruption and Inefficient Services in Nigeria,’ A Olukoju African Affairs 103 (410), 51-71, 2004 | 109 | 2004 |
| “The Crisis of Academic Research and Publishing in Nigerian Universities,” A Olukoju African Universities in the Twenty-First Century: Knowledge and Society 2 …, 2004 | 93* | 2004 |
| Infrastructure development and urban facilities in Lagos, 1861-2000 A Olukoju Institut français de recherche en Afrique, 2003 | 80 | 2003 |
| The" Liverpool" of West Africa: The Dynamics and Impact of Maritime Trade in Lagos, 1900-1950 A Olukoju Africa World Press, 2004 | 77 | 2004 |
| Culture and Customs of Liberia A Olukoju | 75 | 2006 |
| The human relationship with our ocean planet EH Allison, J Kurien, Y Ota The High Level Panel for Sustainable Ocean Economy, 2020 | 69 | 2020 |
| Elder Dempster and the shipping trade of Nigeria during the First World War A Olukoju The Journal of African History 33 (2), 255-271, 1992 | 51 | 1992 |
| “Population Pressure, Housing and Sanitation in West Africa’s Premier Port-City: Lagos, 1900-1939,” A Olukoju The Great Circle: Journal of the Australian Association for Maritime History …, 1993 | 43 | 1993 |
| “Prohibition and Paternalism: The State and the Clandestine Liquor Traffic in Northern Nigeria, c.1898-1918,” A Olukoju International Journal of African Historical Studies 24 (2), 349-68, 1991 | 41 | 1991 |
| Nigeria: A historical review A Olukoju New strategies for curbing ethnic and religious conflicts in Nigeria, 12-39, 1997 | 37 | 1997 |
| Maritime trade in Lagos in the Aftermath of the First World War A Olukoju African Economic History, 119-135, 1992 | 35 | 1992 |
| Nigerian Peoples and Cultures A Osuntokun, A Olukoju | 34 | 1997 |
| “The Segregation of Europeans and Africans in Colonial Nigeria,” A Olukoju Security, Crime and Segregation in West African Cities Since the 19th …, 2003 | 30 | 2003 |
| “Exploring the Role of Party Politics in the Governance of African Cities,” C Benit-Gbaffou, A Dubresson, L Fourchard, A Olukoju, K Ginisty, S Jaglin, ... Politics and Policies Governing Cities in Africa, 17-42, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
| ‘“Buy British, Sell Foreign:” External Trade Control Policies in Nigeria During the Second World War and Its Aftermath, 1939-50,’ A Olukoju International Journal of African Historical Studies 35 (2/3), 363-84, 2002 | 24 | 2002 |
| “The Travails of Migrant and Wage Labour in the Lagos Metropolitan Area in the Inter-War Years,” A Olukoju Labour History Review 61 (1), 49-70, 1996 | 24 | 1996 |
| “The United Kingdom and the Political Economy of the Global Oils and Fats Business in the 1930s,” A Olukoju Journal of Global History 4 (1), 105-125, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| ‘“Getting Too Great A Grip:” European Shipping Lines and British West African Lighterage Services in the 1930s,’ A Olukoju Afrika Zamani 9 (10), 19-40, 2001 | 23 | 2001 |
| “Nigerian Cities in Historical Perspective,” A Olukoju Nigerian Cities, 11-46, 2003 | 22 | 2003 |
| The Development of the Port of Lagos, c. 1892–1946 A Olukoju The Journal of Transport History 13 (1), 59-78, 1992 | 20 | 1992 |
