| The Code is not the Text (unless it is the Text) J Cayley Electronic Book Review 9 (10), 2002 | 127 | 2002 |
| Time code language: new media poetics and programmed signification J Cayley New Media Poetics: Contexts, Technotexts, and Theories, 307-334, 2006 | 55 | 2006 |
| Grammalepsy: essays on digital language art J Cayley Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN: 9781501335761, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Writing on complex surfaces J Cayley Dichtung-Digital 35 (2), 2005 | 37* | 2005 |
| Beyond codexspace: potentialities of literary cybertext J Cayley Media poetry: an international anthology, 105-125, 2007 | 32* | 2007 |
| Beyond codexspace: Potentialities of literary cybertext J Cayley Visible language 30 (2), 164-183, 1996 | 32 | 1996 |
| Europe Studies China: Papers from an International Conference on the History of European Sinology M Wilson, J Cayley Han-Shan Tang Books, 1995 | 31 | 1995 |
| Literal Art: neither lines nor pixels but letters J Cayley Electronic Book Review, 2004 | 27 | 2004 |
| Terms of Reference & Vectoralist Transgressions: Situating Certain Literary Transactions over Networked Services J Cayley Amodern 2 (10), 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| The translation of process J Cayley Amodern 8, 2018 | 21 | 2018 |
| Overboard: an example of ambient time-based poetics in digital art J Cayley Dichtung-Digital 32 (2), 2004 | 21* | 2004 |
| How it is in common tongues J Cayley, DC Howe NLLF Press, 2012 | 19* | 2012 |
| Writing to be Found and Writing Readers J Cayley Digital Humanities Quarterly 5 (3), 2011 | 19 | 2011 |
| Lens: the practice and poetics of writing in immersive VR: a case study with maquette J Cayley Leonardo Electronic Almanac, New Media Poetry and Poetics special issue 14 (5-6), 2006 | 19* | 2006 |
| Literal art: neither lines nor pixels but letters J Cayley First person: new media as story, performance, and game, 208-217, 2004 | 19 | 2004 |
| Translation J Cayley The Electronic Literature Collection (and personal website) 1, 2004 | 19* | 2004 |
| The advent of aurature and the end of (electronic) literature J Cayley The Bloomsbury handbook of electronic literature, 73-94, 2018 | 17 | 2018 |
| Of programmatology J Cayley Mute 11, 72, 1998 | 17 | 1998 |
| The Gravity of the Leaf: phenomenologies of literary inscription in media-constituted diegetic worlds J Cayley Beyond the Screen: Transformations of Literary Structures, Interfaces …, 2010 | 14 | 2010 |
| Hallucination and coherence J Cayley, L Yang positions: east asia cultures critique 10 (3), 773-784, 2002 | 14 | 2002 |
Daniel C. HoweUAL, SCM, Brown, RISD