| Handbook of descriptive linguistic fieldwork SL Chelliah, WJ De Reuse Springer Science & Business Media, 2010 | 395 | 2010 |
| A grammar of Meithei SL Chelliah Walter de Gruyter, 2011 | 358 | 2011 |
| Reproducible research in linguistics: A position statement on data citation and attribution in our field AL Berez-Kroeker, L Gawne, SS Kung, BF Kelly, T Heston, G Holton, ... Linguistics 56 (1), 1-18, 2018 | 186 | 2018 |
| The role of text collection and elicitation in linguistic fieldwork SL Chelliah Linguistic fieldwork 152165, 2001 | 122 | 2001 |
| The role of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors in the development of case SL Chelliah, J Barðdal John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009 | 66 | 2009 |
| Semantic role to new information in Meithei SL Chelliah The role of semantic, pragmatic, and discourse factors in the development of …, 2009 | 46 | 2009 |
| Introduction to special issue on optional case marking in Tibeto-Burman SL Chelliah, G Hyslop Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 34 (2), 1-7, 2011 | 45 | 2011 |
| Fieldwork for language description S Chelliah Research methods in linguistics, 51-73, 2013 | 32 | 2013 |
| Asserting nationhood through personal name choice: The case of the Meithei of Northeast India SL Chelliah Anthropological linguistics, 169-216, 2005 | 31 | 2005 |
| The Lamkang language: Grammatical sketch, texts and lexicon H Thounaojam, SL Chelliah Linguistics of the Tibeto-Burman Area 30 (1), 1-212, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| De Reuse. 2011 SL Chelliah, J Willem Handbook of descriptive linguistic fieldwork, 0 | 26 | |
| Constructs of Indian English in language ‘guidebooks’ SL Chelliah World Englishes 20 (2), 161-178, 2001 | 25 | 2001 |
| Meithei SL Chelliah The Sino-Tibetan languages, 427-438, 2003 | 20 | 2003 |
| Organization of knowledge and information in digital archives of language materials M Burke, OL Zavalina, ME Phillips, S Chelliah Journal of Library Metadata 20 (4), 185-217, 2020 | 18 | 2020 |
| User needs in language archives: Findings from interviews with language archive managers, depositors, and end-users M Burke, OL Zavalina, SL Chelliah, ME Phillips University of Hawaii Press, 2022 | 16 | 2022 |
| Why language documentation matters SL Chelliah Springer, 2021 | 16 | 2021 |
| The syntax and semantics of spatial reference in Lamkang verbs SL Chelliah, TP Utt Himalayan Linguistics 16 (1), 2017 | 16 | 2017 |
| Organizing and hosting virtual PPTELL 2020 during the COVID 19 pandemic YJ Lan, KCL Gupta, TY Huang, S Chelliah, JM Spector Educational Technology & Society 24 (1), 64-74, 2021 | 14 | 2021 |
| Lamkang verb conjugation S Chelliah, D Peterson, T Utt, E Blair, S Khular Himalayan Linguistics 18 (1), 2019 | 14 | 2019 |
| De Reuse. 2011. Handbook of descriptive linguistic fieldwork SL Chelliah, J Willem London: Springer, 2005 | 11 | 2005 |