| Evolution of genetic redundancy MA Nowak, MC Boerlijst, J Cooke, JM Smith Nature 388 (6638), 167-171, 1997 | 878 | 1997 |
| Self-organization of vegetation in arid ecosystems M Rietkerk, MC Boerlijst, F Van Langevelde, R HilleRisLambers, ... The American Naturalist 160 (4), 524-530, 2002 | 820 | 2002 |
| Nestling weight and survival in individual great tits (Parus major) JM Tinbergen, MC Boerlijst The Journal of Animal Ecology, 1113-1127, 1990 | 534 | 1990 |
| Spiral wave structure in pre-biotic evolution: hypercycles stable against parasites MC Boerlijst, P Hogeweg Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 48 (1), 17-28, 1991 | 524 | 1991 |
| A resurgent HIV-1 epidemic among men who have sex with men in the era of potent antiretroviral therapy D Bezemer, F de Wolf, MC Boerlijst, A van Sighem, TD Hollingsworth, ... Aids 22 (9), 1071-1077, 2008 | 221 | 2008 |
| Evolutionary origins and maintenance of redundant gene expression during metazoan development J Cooke, MA Nowak, M Boerlijst, J Maynard-Smith Trends in Genetics 13 (9), 360-364, 1997 | 203 | 1997 |
| Viral quasi-species and recombination MC Boerlijst, S Bonhoeffer, MA Nowak Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1996 | 143 | 1996 |
| Catastrophic collapse can occur without early warning: examples of silent catastrophes in structured ecological models MC Boerlijst, T Oudman, AM de Roos PloS one 8 (4), e62033, 2013 | 130 | 2013 |
| Self-structuring and selection M Boerlijst, P Hogeweg Artificial life II, 255-276, 1992 | 126 | 1992 |
| HIV-1 evolution and disease progression MA Nowak, RM Anderson, MC Boerlijst, S Bonhoeffer, RM May, ... Science 274 (5289), 1008-1011, 1996 | 125 | 1996 |
| Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 subtypes have a distinct long terminal repeat that determines the replication rate in a host-cell-specific manner T van Opijnen, RE Jeeninga, MC Boerlijst, GP Pollakis, V Zetterberg, ... Journal of virology 78 (7), 3675-3683, 2004 | 121 | 2004 |
| The logic of contrition MC Boerlijst, MA Nowak, K Sigmund Journal of Theoretical Biology 185 (3), 281-293, 1997 | 117 | 1997 |
| Transmission networks of HIV-1 among men having sex with men in the Netherlands D Bezemer, A van Sighem, VV Lukashov, L van der Hoek, N Back, ... Aids 24 (2), 271-282, 2010 | 110 | 2010 |
| Selection at the level of the community: the importance of spatial structure CR Johnson, MC Boerlijst Trends in Ecology & Evolution 17 (2), 83-90, 2002 | 106 | 2002 |
| Evolutionary consequences of spiral waves in a host—parasitoid system MC Boerlijst, ME Lamers, P Hogeweg Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences …, 1993 | 101 | 1993 |
| Emergent trade-offs and selection for outbreak frequency in spatial epidemics WM van Ballegooijen, MC Boerlijst Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 101 (52), 18246-18250, 2004 | 96 | 2004 |
| Diversity and virulence thresholds in AIDS. RJ de Boer, MC Boerlijst Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 91 (2), 544-548, 1994 | 88 | 1994 |
| 27 years of the HIV epidemic amongst men having sex with men in the Netherlands: an in depth mathematical model-based analysis D Bezemer, F de Wolf, MC Boerlijst, A van Sighem, TD Hollingsworth, ... Epidemics 2 (2), 66-79, 2010 | 65 | 2010 |
| Equal pay for all prisoners MC Boerlijst, MA Nowak, K Sigmund The American mathematical monthly 104 (4), 303-305, 1997 | 63 | 1997 |
| Spatial gradients enhance persistence of hypercycles MC Boerlijst, P Hogeweg Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena 88 (1), 29-39, 1995 | 61 | 1995 |