| The Biologist's Mistress: Rethinking Self-organization in Art, Literature, and Nature VN Alexander Emergent Publications, 2011 | 42* | 2011 |
| Martin Amis: Between the Influences of Bellow and Nabokov VN Alexander The Antioch Review, 580-590, 1994 | 25 | 1994 |
| Nabokov, teleology, and insect mimicry VN Alexander Nabokov Studies 7 (1), 177-213, 2002 | 22 | 2002 |
| The poetics of purpose VN Alexander Biosemiotics 2 (1), 77-100, 2009 | 17 | 2009 |
| Narrative telos: The ordering tendencies of chance VN Alexander City University of New York, 2002 | 17 | 2002 |
| Creativity: Self-referential mistaking, not negating VN Alexander Biosemiotics 6 (2), 253-272, 2013 | 14 | 2013 |
| Neutral evolution and aesthetics: Vladimir Nabokov and insect mimicry VN Alexander Santa Fe Institute Working Papers, 2001 | 11 | 2001 |
| Living systems are smarter bots: Slime mold semiosis versus AI symbol manipulation VN Alexander, JA Bacigalupi, ÒC Garcia Biosystems 206, 104430, 2021 | 10 | 2021 |
| Fluid biosemiotic mechanisms underlie subconscious habits VN Alexander, V Grimes Biosemiotics 10 (3), 337-353, 2017 | 9 | 2017 |
| AI, stereotyping on steroids and Alan Turing’s biological turn VN Alexander The democratization of artificial intelligence: Net politics in the era of …, 2019 | 6 | 2019 |
| Hopeful monsters: literary teleology and emergence VN Alexander Emergence: Complexity & Organization 7, 95-104, 2005 | 6 | 2005 |
| Siri Fails the Turing Test: Computation, Biosemiosis, and Artificial Life VN Alexander Recherches sémiotiques 39 (1), 231-249, 2019 | 5 | 2019 |
| The mechanism for mimicry: instant biosemiotic selection or gradual Darwinian fine-tuning selection? VN Alexander Biosemiotics 12 (1), 39-55, 2019 | 4 | 2019 |
| Chance, Nature’s Practical Jokes, and the “Non-Utilitarian Delights” of Butterfly Mimicry VN Alexander Fine Lines: The Scientific Art of Vladimir Nabokov, 225-234, 2016 | 4 | 2016 |
| The Crying of Lot 49 and CS Peirce's theory of self-organization VN Alexander Pynchon Notes, 52-53, 2003 | 4 | 2003 |
| Creative agency via higher-dimensional constraints JA Bacigalupi, VN Alexander Biosemiotics 14 (1), 87-93, 2021 | 3 | 2021 |
| Louis Begley: Trying to Make Sense of It VN Alexander The Antioch Review, 292-304, 1997 | 3 | 1997 |
| Introduction: Toward a definition of biosemiosic chance VN Alexander Biosemiotics 7 (3), 329-334, 2014 | 2 | 2014 |
| Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary–By Donald Favareau VN Alexander Journal of Applied Philosophy 28 (4), 412-414, 2011 | 2 | 2011 |
| The creativity of cells: aneural irrational cognition VN Alexander The Journal of Physiology 602 (11), 2479-2489, 2024 | 1 | 2024 |
