| The phonology and morphology of Arabic JCE Watson OUP Oxford, 2007 | 1239 | 2007 |
| The directionality of emphasis spread in Arabic JCE Watson Linguistic Inquiry 30 (2), 289-300, 1999 | 161 | 1999 |
| The structure of Mehri JCE Watson Harrassowitz, 2012 | 144 | 2012 |
| Word stress in Arabic JCE Watson | 136 | 2011 |
| The Semitic languages: An international handbook G Khan, MP Streck, JCE Watson Walter de Gruyter, 2011 | 134 | 2011 |
| Syllabification patterns in Arabic dialects: Long segments and mora sharing JCE Watson Phonology 24 (2), 335-356, 2007 | 95 | 2007 |
| Arabic in the city: Issues in dialect contact and language variation C Miller, E Al-Wer, D Caubet, JCE Watson Routledge, 2007 | 90 | 2007 |
| A syntax of San'ani Arabic JCE Watson | 90 | 1993 |
| A syntax of Ṣanʻānī Arabic JCE Watson Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 1993 | 83 | 1993 |
| Arabic dialects (general article) J Watson Walter de Gruyter, 2011 | 82 | 2011 |
| Standard Arabic student's book: An advanced course J Dickins, JCE Watson Cambridge University Press, 1999 | 54 | 1999 |
| Arabic morphology: diminutive verbs and diminutive nouns in San’ani Arabic JCE Watson Morphology 16 (2), 189-204, 2006 | 51 | 2006 |
| South Arabian and Yemeni dialects JCE Watson Salford Working Papers in Linguistics and Applied Linguistics 1, 2011 | 39 | 2011 |
| Phonation and glottal states in Modern South Arabian and San’ani Arabic JCE Watson, B Heselwood Perspectives on Arabic Linguistics 28, 3-37, 2016 | 31 | 2016 |
| The Arabic definite article does not assimilate B Heselwood, J Watson Leeds Working Papers in Linguistics and Phonetics 18, 34-53, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
| Mehri-Texte aus der jemenitischen Šarqīyah A Sima, JCE Watson Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, 2009 | 31 | 2009 |
| The language of Jabal Rāziḥ: Arabic or something else? JCE Watson, BG Stalls, K Al-Razihi, S Weir Proceedings of the seminar for Arabian studies, 35-41, 2006 | 29 | 2006 |
| Kaškaša with reference to modern Yemeni dialects JCE Watson Zeitschrift für arabische Linguistik, 60-81, 1992 | 28 | 1992 |
| A detective story: Emphatics in Mehri JCE Watson, A Bellem Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, 345-355, 2010 | 27 | 2010 |
| Arabic teaching in Britain and Ireland J Dickins, JCE Watson Handbook for Arabic language teaching professionals in the 21st century, 107-114, 2013 | 26 | 2013 |
