| Police in Africa: The street level view J Beek, M Göpfert, O Owen, J Steinberg Oxford University Press, 2017 | 92 | 2017 |
| Producing stateness: Police work in Ghana J Beek Producing Stateness, 2016 | 69 | 2016 |
| Police violence in West Africa: Perpetrators’ and ethnographers’ dilemmas J Beek, M Göpfert Ethnography 14 (4), 477-500, 2013 | 66 | 2013 |
| ‘There should be no open doors in the police’: criminal investigations in northern Ghana as boundary work J Beek The Journal of Modern African Studies 50 (4), 551-572, 2012 | 43 | 2012 |
| „Ground work “und „paper work “: Feldzugang bei Polizeiorganisationen in Westafrika J Beek, M Göpfert Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, 189-213, 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Bureaucrats as para-ethnologists: The use of culture in state practices J Beek, T Bierschenk Sociologus, 1-17, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| Travelling police: the potential for change in the wake of police reform in West Africa J Beek, M Göpfert Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 23 (4), 465-479, 2015 | 18 | 2015 |
| State violence specialists in West Africa J Beek, M Göpfert Sociologus, 103-124, 2013 | 18* | 2013 |
| Étiqueter les «déviants»: le travail des policiers au Nord-Ghana J Beek Déviance et Société 34 (2), 279-290, 2010 | 16 | 2010 |
| Mapping out an anthropology of defrauding and faking J Beek, C Kilian, M Krings Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 27 (3), 425-437, 2019 | 15 | 2019 |
| Orders of trade: regulating Accra's Makola market J Beek, A Thiel The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law 49 (1), 34-53, 2017 | 15 | 2017 |
| Money, morals and law: the legitimacy of police traffic checks in Ghana J Beek | 15 | 2017 |
| Cybercrime, police work and storytelling in West Africa J Beek Africa 86 (2), 305-323, 2016 | 15 | 2016 |
| “Every car has an offence on it “: Register polizeilichen Handelns bei Verkehrskontrollen in Nordghana J Beek Sociologus, 197-222, 2011 | 15 | 2011 |
| Friend of the police: Polizei in Nord-Ghana (Upper West Region) J Beek | 13 | 2008 |
| Travelling multi‐level marketing schemes and whispers of fraud in Kenya J Beek Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 27 (3), 501-516, 2019 | 10 | 2019 |
| Introduction: Policing in Africa Reconsidered J Beek, M Göpfert, O Owen, J Steinberg Police in Africa: The Street Level View. Hurst & Company, 1-15, 2017 | 10 | 2017 |
| How not to fall in love J Beek Mistrust, 49, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Afrasian Transformations: Transregional Perspectives on Development Cooperation, Social Mobility, and Cultural Change R Achenbach, J Beek, JN Karugia, R Mageza-Barthel, F Schulze-Engler Brill, 2020 | 7 | 2020 |
| Waiting, relationships and money in a Ponzi scheme in Northern Ghana J Beek Critical African Studies 12 (1), 107-120, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
