| Human Behavior and the Principle of Least Effort: An Introduction to Human Ecology GK Zipf Addison-Wesley, 1949 | 13798* | 1949 |
| The psycho-biology of language : an introduction to dynamic philology GK Zipf Houghton Mifflin, 1935 | 3479* | 1935 |
| The P1 P2/D hypothesis: On the intercity movement of persons GK Zipf American sociological review 11 (6), 677-686, 1946 | 1064 | 1946 |
| Selected studies of the principle of relative frequency in language. GK Zipf Harvard Univ. Press, 1932 | 946 | 1932 |
| National unity and disunity; the nation as a bio-social organism GK Zipf The Principia Pres, 1941 | 380 | 1941 |
| Relative Frequency as a Determinant of Phonetic Change GK Zipf Harvard studies in classical philology 40, 1-95, 1929 | 378 | 1929 |
| The meaning-frequency relationship of words GK Zipf The Journal of General Psychology 33 (2), 251-256, 1945 | 263 | 1945 |
| Schizophrenic language JC Whitehorn, GK Zipf Archives of Neurology & Psychiatry 49 (6), 831-851, 1943 | 67 | 1943 |
| Some determinants of the circulation of information GK Zipf The American Journal of Psychology 59 (3), 401-421, 1946 | 62 | 1946 |
| Who's afraid of George Kingsley Zipf? Or: Do children and chimps have language? C Yang Significance 10 (6), 29-34, 2013 | 59 | 2013 |
| Phonemes and Variphones in four present-day Romance Languages and Classical Latin from the viewpoint of dynamic Philology GK Zipf, FM Rogers Archives néerlandaises de phonétique expérimentale 15, 111-147, 1939 | 52 | 1939 |
| Human behaviour and the principle of least effort. Cambridge (Mass.) GK Zipf B. Applications of Distance Decay Concepts, 1949 | 45 | 1949 |
| The repetition of words, time-perspective, and semantic balance GK Zipf The Journal of General Psychology 32 (1), 127-148, 1945 | 43 | 1945 |
| The unity of nature, least-action, and natural social science GK Zipf Sociometry 5 (1), 48-62, 1942 | 42 | 1942 |
| The hypothesis of theminimum equation'as a unifying social principle: with attempted synthesis GK Zipf American Sociological Review 12 (6), 627-650, 1947 | 36 | 1947 |
| La psychobiologie du langage : une introduction à la philologie dynamique GK Zipf RETZ-CEPL, 1974 | 26 | 1974 |
| Observations of the Possible Effect of Mental Age Upon the Frequency-Distribution of Words, from the Viewpoint of Dynamic Philology GK Zipf The Journal of Psychology 4 (1), 239-244, 1937 | 22 | 1937 |
| Homogeneity and heterogeneity in language; in answer to Edward L. Thorndike. GK Zipf The Psychological Record 2, 347-367, 1938 | 20 | 1938 |
| Children's speech G Kingsley Zipf Science 96 (2493), 344-345, 1942 | 18* | 1942 |
| Statistical Methods and Dynamic Philology GK Zipf Language 13 (1), 60-70, 1937 | 17 | 1937 |
