| Kabul carnival: Gender politics in postwar Afghanistan J Billaud University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015 | 110 | 2015 |
| Between learning and schooling: the politics of human rights monitoring at the Universal Periodic Review JK Cowan, J Billaud Third World Quarterly 36 (6), 1175-1190, 2015 | 72 | 2015 |
| Suicidal performances: voicing discontent in a girls’ dormitory in Kabul J Billaud Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry 36, 264-285, 2012 | 49 | 2012 |
| Keepers of the truth: producing'transparent'documents for the Universal Periodic Review J Billaud Human rights and the Universal Periodic Review: rituals and ritualism, 63-83, 2014 | 40 | 2014 |
| Visible under the Veil: Dissimulation, performance and agency in an Islamic public space J Billaud Journal of International Women's Studies 11 (1), 120-135, 2009 | 39 | 2009 |
| The bureaucratisation of utopia: ethics, affects and subjectivities in international governance processes J Billaud, JK Cowan Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 28 (1), 6-16, 2020 | 34 | 2020 |
| Islamic difference and the return of feminist universalism N Göle, J Billaud European Multiculturalism (s): Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges, 116-41, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| Whores and niqabées: The sexual boundaries of French nationalism J Billaud, J Castro French Politics, Culture & Society 31 (2), 81-101, 2013 | 29 | 2013 |
| Snapshots of British Islam: Exploring self, identity, and the good ethical life in the global megalopolis J Billaud Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 45 (5), 503-528, 2016 | 19 | 2016 |
| The making of modern Afghanistan: reconstruction, transnational governance and gender politics in the new Islamic Republic J Billaud Anthropology of the Middle East 7 (1), 18-37, 2012 | 17 | 2012 |
| Masters of disorder: rituals of communication and monitoring at the International Committee of the Red Cross J Billaud Social Anthropology/Anthropologie sociale 28 (1), 96-111, 2020 | 16 | 2020 |
| Marriage “sharia style”: everyday practices of Islamic morality in England J Billaud Contemporary Islam 13 (2), 217-232, 2019 | 14* | 2019 |
| Ethics and affects in British Sharia councils:“A simple way of getting to paradise” J Billaud Islam and public controversy in Europe, 159-172, 2016 | 14 | 2016 |
| The ‘public’character of the Universal Periodic Review: contested concept and methodological challenge JK Cowan, J Billaud Palaces of Hope: The Anthropology of Global Organizations, 106-126, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| Afterword: A post‐human rights anthropology of human rights? J Billaud PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 2016 | 10 | 2016 |
| No wonder! Kingship and the everyday at the Max Planck Society J Billaud HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6 (1), 121-126, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| HUMANITARIAN THEATRE NORMALITY AND THE CARNIVALESQUEIN AFGHANISTAN J Billaud, A De Lauri The politics of humanitarianism, 57, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| Malalay's sisters: women's public visibility in'post war/reconstruction'Afghanistan J Billaud University of Sussex, 2010 | 8 | 2010 |
| L'Islam d'Occident. Introduction à l'étude des musulmans des sociétés occidentales R Id Yassine Lectures, Les livres, 2011 | 6 | 2011 |
| Gender and Political Violence J Billaud, L Direnberger Oxford Bibliographies Online, 2021 | 5 | 2021 |