Nicholas Sims-Williams ist an mehreren Publikationen zu den 1957 entdeckten „Dokumenten von Baktrien“ beteiligt. Er hat zudem mehrere Artikel für die Encyclopædia Iranica geschrieben.
Publikationen
Sogdian and other Iranian Inscriptions of the Upper Indus (= Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Teil 2: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Band 3: Sogdian. 2, 1–2). 2 Teile. School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1989–1992, ISBN 0-7286-0153-2 (Tl. 1), ISBN 0-7286-0194-X (Tl. 2).
Bactrian ownership inscriptions. In: Bulletin of the Asia Institute. Bd. 7, 1993, ISSN0890-4464. S. 173–179.
mit Joe Cribb: A New Bactrian Inscription of Kanishka the Great. In: Silk Road Art and Archaeology. Band 4, 1995/1996, S. 75–142.
Further Notes on the Bactrian Inscription of Rabatak, with an Appendix on the Names of Kujula Kadphises and Vima Taktu in Chinese. In: Nicholas Sims-Williams (Hrsg.): Proceedings of the Third European Conference of Iranian Studies. Teil 1: Old and Middle Iranian Studies. Wiesbaden 1998, S. 79–93.
From the Kushan-Shahs to the Arabs. New Bactrian Documents Dated in the Era of the Tochi Inscriptions. In: Michael Alram, Deborah. E. Klimburg-Salter (Hrsg.): Coins Art and Chronology. Wien 1999.
Legal and economic documents (= Corpus Inscriptionum Iranicarum. Teil 2: Inscriptions of the Seleucid and Parthian periods and of Eastern Iran and Central Asia. Band 6: Bactrian: Bactrian documents from Northern Afghanistan. Teil 1 = Studies in the Khalili Collection. Band 3, 1). Nour Foundation in Association with Azimuth Edition and Oxford University Press, London 2000, ISBN 0-19-727502-8.
Recent discoveries in the Bactrian language and their historical significance (= SPACH Library Series. Bd. 4). Society for the Preservation of Afghanistan’s Cultural Heritage, Kabul 2004.
Some Bactrian seal-inscriptions. In: Osmund Bopearachchi, Marie-Françoise Boussac (Hrsg.): Afghanistan – ancien carrefour entre l'est et l'ouest. Actes du colloque international au Musée Archéologique Henri-Prades-Lattes du 5 au 7 mai 2003 (= Indicopleustoi. Archaeologies of the Indian Ocean. Bd. 3). Brepols, Turnhout 2005, ISBN 2-503-51681-5, S. 335–346.