| The sounds of the world's languages P Ladefoged, I Maddieson (No Title), 1996 | 6239 | 1996 |
| Patterns of sounds I Maddieson, W Zonneveld Journal of Phonetics 14 (2), 343-344, 1986 | 4230 | 1986 |
| Phonetic universals in consonant systems B Lindblom, I Maddieson Language, speech and mind 6278, 1988 | 468 | 1988 |
| Phonetic universals I Maddieson, WJ Hardcastle, J Laver UCLA Working Papers in Phonetics, 160-178, 1996 | 442 | 1996 |
| The handbook of phonetic sciences WJ Hardcastle, J Laver, FE Gibbon John Wiley & Sons, 2012 | 433 | 2012 |
| Phonetic cues to syllabification I Maddieson Phonetic linguistics: Essays in honor of Peter Ladefoged 203, 221, 1985 | 373 | 1985 |
| Updating upsid I Maddieson, K Precoda The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 86 (S1), S19-S19, 1989 | 307 | 1989 |
| Universals of tone I Maddieson Universals of human language 2, 335-365, 1978 | 287 | 1978 |
| Tone I Maddieson The world atlas of language structures online, 2013 | 256 | 2013 |
| Consonant inventories I Maddieson The world atlas of language structures online, 2013 | 245 | 2013 |
| Vowel quality inventories I Maddieson The world atlas of language structures online, 2013 | 233 | 2013 |
| Syllable structure I Maddieson The world atlas of language structures online, 2013 | 224 | 2013 |
| Vowels of the world’s languages P Ladefoged, I Maddieson Journal of Phonetics 18 (2), 93-122, 1990 | 193 | 1990 |
| “Tense” and “lax” in four minority languages of China I Maddieson, P Ladefoged Journal of phonetics 13 (4), 433-454, 1985 | 189 | 1985 |
| Stops in the world’s languages C Henton, P Ladefoged, I Maddieson Phonetica 49 (2), 65-101, 1992 | 184 | 1992 |
| Investigating phonation types in different languages P Ladefoged, I Maddieson, M Jackson Vocal physiology: Voice production, mechanisms and functions, 297-317, 1988 | 180 | 1988 |
| An exploration of phonation types in Wu dialects of Chinese C Jianfen, I Maddieson Journal of Phonetics 20 (1), 77-92, 1992 | 170 | 1992 |
| On the universal structure of human lexical semantics H Youn, L Sutton, E Smith, C Moore, JF Wilkins, I Maddieson, W Croft, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113 (7), 1766-1771, 2016 | 159 | 2016 |
| Phonetics of partially nasal consonants I Maddieson, P Ladefoged Nasals, nasalization, and the velum, 251-301, 1993 | 155 | 1993 |
| Tones and tone sandhi in Shanghai: Phonetic evidence and phonological analysis E Zee, I Maddieson UCLA working papers in phonetics 45 (1), 93-129, 1979 | 151 | 1979 |
