| Dancing in the glory of monsters: The collapse of the Congo and the great war of Africa J Stearns Public affairs, 2012 | 712 | 2012 |
| North Kivu: The background to conflict in North Kivu province of eastern Congo J Stearns | 136 | 2012 |
| The landscape of armed groups in the Eastern Congo J Stearns, C Vogel Congo Research Group at New York University, CIC, 2015 | 118 | 2015 |
| The national army and armed groups in the eastern Congo: Untangling the Gordian knot of insecurity J Stearns, J Verweijen, ME Baaz Rift Valley Institute, 2013 | 113 | 2013 |
| From CNDP to M23: The evolution of an armed movement in eastern Congo JK Stearns Rift Valley Institute, 2012 | 107 | 2012 |
| PARECO: land, local strongmen, and the roots of militia politics in North Kivu J Stearns Rift Valley Institute, 2013 | 54 | 2013 |
| Causality and conflict: Tracing the origins of armed groups in the eastern Congo JK Stearns Peacebuilding 2 (2), 157-171, 2014 | 52 | 2014 |
| COVID-19 on the African continent CR Wells, JK Stearns, P Lutumba, AP Galvani The Lancet Infectious Diseases 20 (12), 1368-1370, 2020 | 47 | 2020 |
| Laurent Nkunda and the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP) J Stearns L’Afrique des Grands Lacs: Annuaire 2008, 245-67, 2007 | 47 | 2007 |
| Turkey in Somalia: Shifting Paradigms of Aid G Sucuoglu, J Stearns South African Institute of international affairs, 2016 | 42 | 2016 |
| Raia Mutomboki: The flawed peace process in the DRC and the birth of an armed franchise J Stearns Rift Valley Institute, 2013 | 42 | 2013 |
| Kivu’s intractable security conundrum, revisited C Vogel, JK Stearns African Affairs 117 (469), 695-707, 2018 | 39 | 2018 |
| The landscape of armed groups in Eastern Congo: fragmented, politicized networks J Stearns, C Vogel Kivu security tracker, 2017 | 36 | 2017 |
| Banyamulenge: Insurgency and exclusion in the mountains of South Kivu J Stearns, J Verweijen Rift Valley Institute, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
| The war that doesn't say its name: the unending conflict in the Congo JK Stearns Princeton University Press, 2023 | 30 | 2023 |
| Mai-Mai Yakutumba: Resistance and Racketeering in Fizi, South Kivu J Stearns, J Verweijen Rift Valley Institute (RVI). London, 2013 | 27 | 2013 |
| Helping Congo Help Itself: What It Will Take to End Africa's Worst War JK Stearns Foreign Aff. 92, 99, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| Congo's Peace: Miracle or Mirage? JK Stearns Current History 106 (700), 202, 2007 | 20 | 2007 |
| Bad karma: Accountability for Rwandan crimes in the Congo J Stearns, F Borello na, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| Congo's Inescapable State J Stearns, K Vlassenroot, K Hoffmann, T Carayannis Foreign Affairs, 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
