| Terrorist (e) motives: The existential attractions of terrorism S Cottee, K Hayward Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 34 (12), 963-986, 2011 | 253 | 2011 |
| The apostates: When muslims leave islam S Cottee Oxford University Press, 2015 | 132 | 2015 |
| Incel (E) motives: Resentment, shame and revenge S Cottee Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 44 (2), 93-114, 2020 | 126 | 2020 |
| Jihadism as a subcultural response to social strain: Extending Marc Sageman's “Bunch of Guys” thesis S Cottee Terrorism and Political Violence 23 (5), 730-751, 2011 | 112 | 2011 |
| “What ISIS Really Wants” Revisited: Religion Matters in Jihadist Violence, but How? S Cottee Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 40 (6), 439-454, 2017 | 67 | 2017 |
| Why it’s so hard to stop ISIS propaganda S Cottee The Atlantic, 2015 | 64 | 2015 |
| Watching ISIS: How young adults engage with official English-language ISIS videos S Cottee, J Cunliffe Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 43 (3), 183-207, 2020 | 52 | 2020 |
| Mind Slaughter: The Neutralizations of Jihadi Salafism S Cottee Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 33 (4), 330-352, 2010 | 44 | 2010 |
| We need to talk about Mohammad: Criminology, theistic violence and the murder of Theo Van Gogh S Cottee British Journal of Criminology 54 (6), 981-1001, 2014 | 37 | 2014 |
| The challenge of jihadi cool S Cottee The Atlantic, 1-2, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| ISIS and the Pornography of Violence S Cottee Anthem Press, 2019 | 25 | 2019 |
| What ISIS women want S Cottee Foreign Policy, 2016 | 25 | 2016 |
| Christopher Hitchens and his critics: Terror, Iraq, and the left T Cushman, S Cottee, C Hitchens NYU Press, 2008 | 24 | 2008 |
| The calypso caliphate: how Trinidad became a recruiting ground for ISIS S Cottee International Affairs 95 (2), 297-317, 2019 | 21 | 2019 |
| Pilgrims to the Islamic state S Cottee The Atlantic, 1-2, 2015 | 20 | 2015 |
| The pornography of jihadism S Cottee The Atlantic, 2014 | 19 | 2014 |
| Fear, boredom, and joy: Sebastian Junger's piercing phenomenology of war S Cottee Studies in Conflict & Terrorism 34 (5), 439-459, 2011 | 17 | 2011 |
| What motivates terrorists? S Cottee The Atlantic, 1-2, 2015 | 16 | 2015 |
| The Myth of the ISIS Female Suicide Bomber S Cottee, M Bloom The Atlantic 8, 2017 | 14 | 2017 |
| Sex and shame: What Incels and Jihadists have in common S Cottee New York Times 30, 2018 | 13 | 2018 |
