| 1999 | - | The evolution of language - Nowak,Krakauer | :: | 93 |
| 2002 | - | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? - Hauser,Chomsky,Fitch | :: | 82 |
| 1999 | - | The evolutionary language game - Nowak,Plotkin,Krakauer | :: | 51 |
| 2003 | - | Evolving Grounded Communication for Robots - Steels | :: | 38 |
| 2001 | - | The evolutionary dynamics of the lexical matrix - Komarova,Nowak | :: | 20 |
| 2003 | - | Least effort and the origins of scaling in human language - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Sole | :: | 19 |
| 2003 | - | The structure and function of complex networks - Newman | :: | 18 |
| 1998 | - | Collective dynamics of small-world networks - Watts,Strogatz | :: | 15 |
| 2000 | - | The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents - Steels | :: | 13 |
| 2004 | - | Optimizing the mutual intelligibility of linguistic agents in a shared world - Komarova,Niyogi | :: | 10 |
| 2005 | - | The consequences of Zipf's law for syntax and symbolic reference - Ferrer-i-Cancho,Riordan,Bollobas | :: | 6 |
| 2002 | - | Evolution of Networks - Dorogovtsev,Mendes | :: | 4 |
| 2005 | - | Syntax for free? - Sole | :: | 3 |
| 1998 | - | Modern Graph Theory - Bollobas | :: | 2 |
| 2003 | - | The emergent properties of a dolphin social network - Lusseau | :: | 1 |
| 2002 | - | Selection, tinkering and emergence in complex networks - Sole,Cancho,Sole | :: | 1 |
| 1997 | - | Development of syntactic and semantic structure in artificial agents - Hashimoto | :: | 1 |
| 1996 | - | Introduction to Graph Theory - Wilson | :: | 1 |