Eliashberg ha ricevuto il Premio della Società matematica di Leningrado nel 1972. Nel 1986,[2] 1998[3] e 2006[4] è stato un relatore invitato al Congresso internazionale dei matematici. Ha tenuto diverse conferenze su invito in tutto il mondo. Nel 1995 ha ricevuto il Guggenheim Fellowship.
Eliashberg, Y. Classification of overtwisted contact structures on 3-manifolds. Invent. Math. 98 (1989), no. 3, 623–637.
Eliashberg, Yakov. Filling by holomorphic discs and its applications. Geometry of low-dimensional manifolds, 2 (Durham, 1989), 45–67, London Math. Soc. Lecture Note Ser., 151, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1990.
Eliashberg, Yakov. Topological characterization of Stein manifolds of dimension >2. Internat. J. Math. 1 (1990), no. 1, 29–46.
Eliashberg, Yakov; Gromov, Mikhael. Convex symplectic manifolds. Several complex variables and complex geometry, Part 2 (Santa Cruz, CA, 1989), 135–162, Proc. Sympos. Pure Math., 52, Part 2, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 1991.
Eliashberg, Yakov. Contact 3-manifolds twenty years since J. Martinet's work. Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble) 42 (1992), no. 1-2, 165–192.
Eliashberg, Y.; Givental, A.; Hofer, H. Introduction to symplectic field theory. GAFA 2000 (Tel Aviv, 1999). Geom. Funct. Anal. 2000, Special Volume, Part II, 560–673.
Bourgeois, F.; Eliashberg, Y.; Hofer, H.; Wysocki, K.; Zehnder, E. Compactness results in symplectic field theory. Geom. Topol. 7 (2003), 799–888.
Libri
Eliashberg, Yakov M.; Thurston, William P. Confoliations. University Lecture Series, 13. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1998. x+66 pp. ISBN 0-8218-0776-5
Eliashberg, Y.; Mishachev, N. Introduction to the h-principle. Graduate Studies in Mathematics, 48. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2002. xviii+206 pp. ISBN 0-8218-3227-1
Cieliebak, Kai; Eliashberg, Yakov. From Stein to Weinstein and back. Symplectic geometry of affine complex manifolds. American Mathematical Society Colloquium Publications, 59. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 2012. xii+364 pp. ISBN 978-0-8218-8533-8