| The war on the Uyghurs SR Roberts The war on the Uyghurs, 2021 | 242 | 2021 |
| The biopolitics of China’s “war on terror” and the exclusion of the Uyghurs SR Roberts Critical Asian Studies 50 (2), 232-258, 2018 | 209 | 2018 |
| A “land of borderlands”: Implications of Xinjiang's trans-border interactions SR Roberts Xinjiang, 216-237, 2015 | 105 | 2015 |
| Negotiating locality, Islam, and national culture in a changing borderlands: The revival of the Mäshräp ritual among young Uighur men in the Ili valley SR Roberts Central Asian Survey 17 (4), 673-699, 1998 | 73 | 1998 |
| Imaginary terrorism? The global war on terror and the narrative of the Uyghur terrorist threat S Roberts The Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES), Elliott …, 2012 | 64 | 2012 |
| Imagining Uyghurstan: re-evaluating the birth of the modern Uyghur nation1 SR Roberts Central Asian Survey 28 (4), 361-381, 2009 | 55 | 2009 |
| The Uighurs of the Kazakstan borderlands: Migration and the nation SR Roberts Nationalities Papers 26 (3), 511-530, 1998 | 55 | 1998 |
| Doing the Democracy Dance in Kazakhstan: Democracy Development as Cultural Encounter SR Roberts Slavic Review 71 (2), 308-330, 2012 | 32 | 2012 |
| The narrative of Uyghur terrorism and the self-fulfilling prophecy of Uyghur militancy S Roberts, M Clarke Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in China: Domestic and Foreign Policy …, 2018 | 23 | 2018 |
| 21. Everyday Negotiations of Islam in Central Asia: Practicing Religion in the Uyghur Neighborhood of Zarya Vostoka in Almaty, Kazakhstan SR Roberts Everyday life in Central Asia: Past and present, 539, 2007 | 19 | 2007 |
| The Ukraine conflict and the future of Kazakhstan’s multi-vector foreign policy S Roberts PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo 388, 1-6, 2015 | 17 | 2015 |
| Toasting Uyghurstan: Negotiating stateless nationalism in transnational ritual space SR Roberts Journal of Ritual Studies, 86-105, 2004 | 16 | 2004 |
| ‘The Dawn of the East’: A Portrait of a Uyghur Community Between China and Kazakhstan SR Roberts Situating the Uyghurs between China and Central Asia, 229-244, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| Uyghur neighborhoods and nationalisms in the former Sino-Soviet borderland: An historical ethnography of a stateless nation on the margins of modernity SR Roberts University of Southern California, 2003 | 13* | 2003 |
| Development with Chinese characteristics in Xinjiang: a solution to ethnic tension or part of the problem? S Roberts China’s Frontier Regions: Ethnicity, Economic Integration and Foreign …, 2016 | 12 | 2016 |
| Changing corrupt behaviors assessment: addressing everyday corruption in Ukraine SR Roberts, R Orttung Ukraine Mission of the United States Agency for International Development …, 2015 | 9 | 2015 |
| Waiting for Uighurstan: A Documentary SR Roberts Center for Visual Anthropology, USC, 1996 | 9* | 1996 |
| The Roots of Cultural Genocide in Xinjiang: China’s Imperial Past Hangs Over the Uyghurs SR Roberts Foreign Affairs, 2021 | 8* | 2021 |
| Saving democracy promotion from short-term US policy interests in Central Asia S Roberts The Century Foundation Report, 1-34, 2009 | 8 | 2009 |
| Kazakhstan and the United States: Twenty Years of Ambiguous Partnership SR Roberts Atlantic Council., 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
