Birman, Joan S.; Hilden, Hugh M. (1973). “On Isotopies of Homeomorphisms of Riemann Surfaces”. Annals of Mathematics. 97 (3): 424–439. doi:10.2307/1970830. JSTOR1970830.
Birman, Joan S.; Lubotzky, Alex; McCarthy, John (1983). “Abelian and solvable subgroups of the mapping class groups”. Duke Mathematical Journal. 50 (4): 1107–1120. doi:10.1215/S0012-7094-83-05046-9.
Birman, Joan S.; Williams, R.F. (1983). “Knotted periodic orbits in dynamical systems—I: Lorenz's equation”. Topology. 22: 47–82. doi:10.1016/0040-9383(83)90045-9.
Birman, Joan S. (1985). “On the Jones polynomial of closed 3-braids”. Inventiones Mathematicae. 81 (2): 287–294. doi:10.1007/BF01389053.
Birman, Joan S.; Wenzl, Hans (1989). “Braids, link polynomials and a new algebra”. Transactions of the AMS. 313: 249–273. doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-1989-0992598-X.
Birman, Joan S.; Menasco, William W. (1990). “Studying links via closed braids IV: composite links and split links”. Inventiones Mathematicae. 102: 115–139. arXiv:math/0407403. doi:10.1007/BF01233423.
Birman, Joan S.; Lin, Xiao-Song (1993). “Knot polynomials and Vassiliev's invariants”. Inventiones Mathematicae. 111: 225–270. doi:10.1007/BF01231287.
Birman, Joan; Ko, Ki Hyoung; Lee, Sang Jin (1998). “A New Approach to the Word and Conjugacy Problems in the Braid Groups”. Advances in Mathematics. 139 (2): 322–353. arXiv:math/9712211. doi:10.1006/aima.1998.1761.
Birman, Joan S.; Wrinkle, Nancy C. (2000). “On Transversally Simple Knots”. Journal of Differential Geometry. 55 (2): 325–354. arXiv:math/9910170. doi:10.4310/jdg/1090340880.
Birman, Joan S.; Ko, Ki Hyoung; Lee, Sang Jin (2001). “The Infimum, Supremum, and Geodesic Length of a Braid Conjugacy Class”. Advances in Mathematics. 164: 41–56. arXiv:math/0003125. doi:10.1006/aima.2001.2010.
Birman, Joan; Margalit, Dan; Menasco, William (2016). “Efficient geodesics and an effective algorithm for distance in the complex of curves”. Mathematische Annalen. 366 (3–4): 1253–1279. arXiv:1408.4133. doi:10.1007/s00208-015-1357-y.
