| Struggletown: Public and private life in Richmond 1900–1965 J McCalman Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 2021 | 216 | 2021 |
| Sex and Suffering J McCalman Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 2012 | 139* | 2012 |
| Journeyings J McCalman Melbourne Univ. Publishing, 2015 | 128 | 2015 |
| Fractional identities: The political arithmetic of Aboriginal Victorians L Smith, J McCalman, I Anderson, S Smith, J Evans, G McCarthy, J Beer Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38 (4), 533-551, 2008 | 55 | 2008 |
| Class and respectability in a working‐class suburb: Richmond, Victoria, before the great war J McCalman Australian Historical Studies 20 (78), 90-103, 1982 | 46 | 1982 |
| Research note: The founders and survivors project J Bradley, R Kippen, H Maxwell-Stewart, J McCalman, S Silcot The History of the Family 15 (4), 467-477, 2010 | 41 | 2010 |
| Who Went Where in Who's Who 1988: The Schooling of the Australian Elite M Peel, J McCalman History Department, University of Melbourne, 1992 | 33 | 1992 |
| A mandatory intercalated degree programme: revitalising and enhancing academic and evidence-based medicine JP Collins, S Farish, JS McCalman, GJ McColl Medical teacher 32 (12), e541-e546, 2010 | 31 | 2010 |
| Birthweight and coronary heart disease in a cohort born 1857–1900 in Melbourne, Australia R Morley, J McCalman, JB Carlin International journal of epidemiology 35 (4), 880-885, 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| Colonialism and the health transition: Aboriginal Australians and poor whites compared, Victoria, 1850–1985 J McCalman, L Smith, I Anderson, R Morley, G Mishra The history of the family 14 (3), 253-265, 2009 | 27 | 2009 |
| A health transition: Birth weights, households and survival in an Australian working-class population sample born 1857–1900 J McCalman, R Morley, G Mishra Social Science & Medicine 66 (5), 1070-1083, 2008 | 24 | 2008 |
| Mothers' Health and Babies' Weights: The Biology of Poverty at the Melbourne Lying‐in Hospital, 1857–83 J McCalman, R Morley Social history of medicine 16 (1), 39-56, 2003 | 22 | 2003 |
| Struggletown: Portrait of an Australian Working-Class Community, 1900-1965 J McCalman Penguin, Ringwood, 1984 | 21 | 1984 |
| The life-course demography of convict transportation to Van Diemen’s Land J McCalman, R Kippen The History of the Family 25 (3), 432-454, 2020 | 17 | 2020 |
| Taking control of health: Gurriny's story of organisational change L Reilly, R Fagan, K Tsey, J McCalman, R Andrews, W Earles, B Connolly Third Sector Review 16 (1), 29-49, 2010 | 17 | 2010 |
| Respectability and working‐class politics in late‐Victorian London J McCalman Australian Historical Studies 19 (74), 108-124, 1980 | 16 | 1980 |
| Mortality under and after sentence of male convicts transported to Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania), 1840–1852 R Kippen, J McCalman The History of the Family 20 (3), 345-365, 2015 | 15 | 2015 |
| Family and country: accounting for fractured connections under colonisation in Victoria, Australia J McCalman, L Smith Journal of Population Research 33, 51-65, 2016 | 14 | 2016 |
| Population and health J McCalman, R Kippen The Cambridge History of Australia 1, 294-314, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| Silent witnesses: child health and well-being in England and Australia and the health transition 1870–1940 J McCalman Health Sociology Review 18 (1), 25-35, 2009 | 13 | 2009 |
