| 2011 | SYSTOR | Case studies in hardware XPath acceleration. | Dorit Nuzman, David Maze, Matthias Nicola, Glenn Marcy, Victor Kaplansky, Sergei Dyshel, Alon Dayan |
| 2010 | Middleware | Comparing XML processing performance in middleware and database: a case study. | Marcus Paradies, Susan Malaika, Matthias Nicola, Kevin Xie |
| 2009 | BTW | Index Challenges in Native XML Database Systems. | Henrik Loeser, Matthias Nicola, Jana Fitzgerald |
| 2009 | CIKM | Generating SQL/XML query and update statements. | Matthias Nicola, Tim Kiefer |
| 2007 | SIGMOD | An XML transaction processing benchmark. | Matthias Nicola, Irina Kogan, Berni Schiefer |
| 2006 | VLDB | On the Path to Efficient XML Queries. | Andrey Balmin, Kevin S. Beyer, Fatma zcan, Matthias Nicola |
| 2005 | VLDB | Native XML Support in DB2 Universal Database. | Matthias Nicola, Bert Van der Linden |
| 2003 | CIKM | XML parsing: a threat to database performance. | Matthias Nicola, Jasmi John |
| 1999 | ICDT | Increasing the Expressiveness of Analytical Performance Models for Replicated Databases. | Matthias Nicola, Matthias Jarke |
| 1995 | VLDB | Improving Performance in Replicated Databases through Relaxed Coherency. | Rainer Gallersdrfer, Matthias Nicola |