| Free improvisation: What it is, and why we should apply it in our general music classrooms N Niknafs General Music Today 27 (1), 29-34, 2013 | 33 | 2013 |
| “You got to know us”: a hopeful model for music education in urban schools F Martignetti, BC Talbot, M Clauhs, T Hawkins, N Niknafs Visions of research in music education 23, 2013 | 31 | 2013 |
| Teaching and learning popular music in higher education through interdisciplinary collaboration: Practice what you preach L Przybylski, N Niknafs IASPM Journal 5 (1), 100-123, 2015 | 23 | 2015 |
| Music education as the herald of a cosmopolitan collective imperative: On being human N Niknafs International Journal of Music Education 38 (1), 3-17, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| The use of improvisation by K–8 general music teachers in illinois: A mixed methods study N Niknafs Northwestern University, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| " Ma'am! You're Being Randomly Checked": A Music Education Terrorized. N Niknafs Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education 16 (3), 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
| In a box: a narrative of a/n (under) grounded Iranian musician N Niknafs Music Education Research 18 (4), 351-363, 2016 | 13 | 2016 |
| “Khas-o-Khâshâk” 1: Anarcho-Improv in the Tehrani Music Education Scene N Niknafs Punk Pedagogies, 30-42, 2017 | 12 | 2017 |
| Tehran's Epistemic Heterotopia Resisting Music Education N Niknafs Philosophy of Music Education Review 26 (2), 155-175, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| Popular music and (r) evolution of the classroom space: Occupy Wall Street in the music school N Niknafs, L Przybylski The Routledge research companion to popular music education, 412-424, 2017 | 10 | 2017 |
| Engaging with popular music from a cultural standpoint: A concept-oriented framework N Niknafs Music Educators Journal 106 (1), 25-30, 2019 | 9 | 2019 |
| Ingratitude and the politics of obligation: The problem of (un) mutual recognition in music education N Niknafs Difference and division in music education, 11-25, 2020 | 8 | 2020 |
| “Something for all of us”: Indie ethics in popular music education L McArton, N Niknafs Bloomsbury Handbook of Popular Music Education, New York:: Bloomsbury, 351-62, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
| Necropolitical effigy of music education: Democracy's double N Niknafs Philosophy of Music Education Review 29 (2), 174-193, 2021 | 7 | 2021 |
| Wherein Apocalypse: The Time Being in Music Education. N Niknafs Action, Criticism & Theory for Music Education 21 (2), 2022 | 3 | 2022 |
| Poetics of suffering and acoustic properties of endurance in Iran N Niknafs Trauma and resilience in music education, 172-185, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| The story of a man without lips: Representational politics in Iranian music education N Niknafs Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, 119-135, 2017 | 3 | 2017 |
| Ethnomusicology and cultural diplomacy R Abiolu, L Braithwaite, K Choudhary, M Heimonen, ML Jakobsen, J Li, ... Rowman & Littlefield, 2022 | 2 | 2022 |
| Locating profound sensitivity and high intensity in facing trauma in music education SM Griffin, N Niknafs Traumas Resisted and (Re) Engaged, 1-15, 2023 | 1 | 2023 |
| Soft war and multilateral musical pathways in Iran N Niknafs Ethnomusicology and cultural diplomacy, 119-136, 2022 | 1 | 2022 |
