| Phonetic explanations for the development of tones JM Hombert, JJ Ohala, WG Ewan Language, 37-58, 1979 | 824 | 1979 |
| Consonant types, vowel quality, and tone JM HUMBERT Tone, 77-111, 1978 | 610 | 1978 |
| Origins and genetic diversity of pygmy hunter-gatherers from Western Central Africa P Verdu, F Austerlitz, A Estoup, R Vitalis, M Georges, S Théry, A Froment, ... Current Biology 19 (4), 312-318, 2009 | 276 | 2009 |
| Dispersals and genetic adaptation of Bantu-speaking populations in Africa and North America E Patin, M Lopez, R Grollemund, P Verdu, C Harmant, H Quach, G Laval, ... Science 356 (6337), 543-546, 2017 | 255 | 2017 |
| Maternal traces of deep common ancestry and asymmetric gene flow between Pygmy hunter–gatherers and Bantu-speaking farmers L Quintana-Murci, H Quach, C Harmant, F Luca, B Massonnet, E Patin, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (5), 1596-1601, 2008 | 235 | 2008 |
| Inferring the demographic history of African farmers and Pygmy hunter–gatherers using a multilocus resequencing data set E Patin, G Laval, LB Barreiro, A Salas, O Semino, ... PLoS genetics 5 (4), e1000448, 2009 | 214 | 2009 |
| Genetic and demographic implications of the Bantu expansion: insights from human paternal lineages G Berniell-Lee, F Calafell, E Bosch, E Heyer, L Sica, ... Molecular biology and evolution 26 (7), 1581-1589, 2009 | 184 | 2009 |
| Middle to late Holocene Paleoclimatic change and the early Bantu expansion in the rain forests of Western Central Africa K Bostoen, B Clist, C Doumenge, R Grollemund, JM Hombert, JK Muluwa, ... Current Anthropology 56 (3), 354-384, 2015 | 167 | 2015 |
| The impact of agricultural emergence on the genetic history of African rainforest hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists E Patin, KJ Siddle, G Laval, H Quach, C Harmant, N Becker, A Froment, ... Nature communications 5 (1), 3163, 2014 | 122 | 2014 |
| Consonant types, vowel height and tone in Yoruba JM Hombert Studies in African Linguistics 8 (2), 173, 1977 | 105 | 1977 |
| Towards a theory of tonogenesis: an empirical, physiologically and perceptually based account of the development of tonal contrasts in languages JM Hombert University of California, Berkeley, 1975 | 101 | 1975 |
| Sociocultural behavior, sex-biased admixture, and effective population sizes in Central African Pygmies and non-Pygmies P Verdu, NSA Becker, A Froment, M Georges, V Grugni, L Quintana-Murci, ... Molecular biology and evolution 30 (4), 918-937, 2013 | 100 | 2013 |
| Universals of downdrift: their phonetic basis and significance for a theory of tone JM Hombert Studies in African Linguistics 5 (Supplement), 169-183, 1974 | 98 | 1974 |
| The epigenomic landscape of African rainforest hunter-gatherers and farmers M Fagny, E Patin, JL MacIsaac, M Rotival, T Flutre, MJ Jones, KJ Siddle, ... Nature communications 6 (1), 10047, 2015 | 89 | 2015 |
| Bantu historical linguistics: Theoretical and empirical perspectives JM Hombert, LM Hyman CSLI, 1999 | 80 | 1999 |
| Aux origines des langues et du langage JM Hombert, A Civard-Racinais (No Title), 2005 | 73 | 2005 |
| Development of tones from vowel height? JM Hombert Journal of Phonetics 5 (1), 9-16, 1977 | 70 | 1977 |
| Speaking backwards in Bakwiri JM Hombert Studies in African linguistics 4 (3), 227-236, 1973 | 69 | 1973 |
| Word games: Some implications for analysis of tone and other phonological constructs JM Hombert Experimental phonology, 175-186, 1986 | 67 | 1986 |
| Noun classes of the Beboid languages JM Hombert Noun classes in the Grassfields Bantu borderland, 83-98, 1980 | 62 | 1980 |
