| A descriptive analysis of Adamorobe sign language (Ghana) V Nyst | 281 | 2007 |
| Shared sign languages VAS Nyst, M Pfau, M Steinbach, B Woll Sign language, 552-574, 2012 | 144 | 2012 |
| Sign languages in West Africa VAS Nyst, D Brentari Sign languages-A Cambridge language survey, 2010 | 89 | 2010 |
| Deaf signers in Douentza, a rural area in Mali V Nyst, K Sylla, M Magassouba Sign languages in village communities: Anthropological and linguistic …, 2012 | 68 | 2012 |
| The sign language situation in Mali V Nyst Sign Language Studies 15 (2), 126-150, 2015 | 32 | 2015 |
| Simultaneous constructions in Adamorobe Sign Language (Ghana) V Nyst Simultaneity in signed languages, 127-145, 2007 | 31 | 2007 |
| The phonology of name signs: a comparison between the sign languages of Uganda, Mali, Adamorobe and the Netherlands VAS Nyst, AE Baker, B Bogaerde, OA Crasborn Cross-linguistic perspectives in sign language research. Selected papers …, 2003 | 31 | 2003 |
| Sign language fieldwork V Nyst Research methods in sign language studies: A practical guide, 105-122, 2015 | 29 | 2015 |
| The depiction of size and shape in gestures accompanying object descriptions in Anyi (Côte d’Ivoire) and in Dutch (The Netherlands) V Nyst Gesture 15 (2), 156-191, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
| The time depth and typology of rural sign languages C De Vos, V Nyst Sign Language Studies 18 (4), 477-487, 2018 | 25 | 2018 |
| Size and shape depictions in the manual modality: A taxonomy of iconic devices in Adamorobe Sign Language V Nyst Semiotica 2016 (210), 75-104, 2016 | 24 | 2016 |
| Gesture in Sub Saharan Africa H Brookes, VAS Nyst, C Müller, E Fricke, A Cienki, D McNeill Body–language–communication, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
| Sign language: An international handbook V Nyst, R Pfau, M Steinbach, B Woll De Gruyter Mouton, 2012 | 16 | 2012 |
| Signing as input for a dictionary query: Matching signs based on joint positions of the dominant hand M Fragkiadakis, V Nyst, P Van der Putten Proceedings of the LREC2020 9th Workshop on the Representation and …, 2020 | 14 | 2020 |
| Sign languages: A Cambridge language survey V Nyst, D Brentari Cambridge University Press, 2010 | 14 | 2010 |
| Comparing body-part size and shape constructions in village sign languages with cospeech gesture A Tano, V Nyst Sign Language Studies 18 (4), 517-545, 2018 | 12 | 2018 |
| Cross-linguistic variation in space-based distance for size depiction in the lexicons of six sign languages V Nyst Sign Language & Linguistics 21 (2), 349-378, 2018 | 11 | 2018 |
| The significance of African sign languages for African linguistics and sign language studies V Nyst Selected Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics …, 2013 | 11 | 2013 |
| Verbs of motion in Adamorobe Sign Language. Poster V Nyst In: TISLR 8 Barcelona, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
| Pointing out possession and existence in Adamorobe Sign Language V Nyst Possessive and existential constructions in sign languages, 235-252, 2008 | 8 | 2008 |
