| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Empowerment through Photo Novella: Portraits of Participation | Health Education Quarterly | 1994 | 831 |
| 2 | Infectious disease in an era of global change | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2022 | 509 |
| 3 | Rethinking the evolutionary theory of aging: Transfers, not births, shape senescence in social species | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2003 | 327 |
| 4 | Rectangularization revisited: Variability of age at death within human populations* | Demography | 1999 | 323 |
| 5 | On the Limits of Life Stages in Ethnography: Toward a Theory of Vital Conjunctures | American Anthropologist | 2002 | 307 |
| 6 | Burden of Neurological Disorders Across the US From 1990-2017 | JAMA Neurology | 2021 | 262 |
| 7 | Psychosocial job factors and return-to-work after compensated low back injury: A disability phase-specific analysis | American Journal of Industrial Medicine | 2001 | 233 |
| 8 | Increase of Maximum Life-Span in Sweden, 1861-1999 | Science | 2000 | 221 |
| 9 | Demography of longevity: past, present, and future trends | Experimental Gerontology | 2000 | 212 |
| 10 | Stochastic Population Forecasts for the United States: Beyond High, Medium, and Low | Journal of the American Statistical Association | 1994 | 195 |
| 11 | Demographic perspectives on the mortality of COVID-19 and other epidemics | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2020 | 191 |
| 12 | The plateau of human mortality: Demography of longevity pioneers | Science | 2018 | 178 |
| 13 | Incidence, clinical outcomes, and transmission dynamics of severe coronavirus disease 2019 in California and Washington: prospective cohort study | BMJ, The | 2020 | 166 |
| 14 | Subliminal Strengthening | Psychological Science | 2014 | 162 |
| 15 | On the momentum of population growth | Demography | 1971 | 161 |
| 16 | Trends in Black and White Opioid Mortality in the United States, 1979–2015 | Epidemiology | 2018 | 144 |
| 17 | Utilization of care during pregnancy in rural Guatemala: does obstetrical need matter? | Social Science and Medicine | 2003 | 141 |
| 18 | Immigration, Social Security, and Broader Fiscal Impacts | American Economic Review | 2000 | 139 |
| 19 | Lifespan adversity and later adulthood telomere length in the nationally representative US Health and Retirement Study | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 136 |
| 20 | Modeling and forecasting US sex differentials in mortality | International Journal of Forecasting | 1992 | 129 |
| 21 | Rising longevity, education, savings, and growth | Journal of Development Economics | 2003 | 124 |
| 22 | AGING: The Future of Human Longevity: A Demographer's Perspective | Science | 1998 | 115 |
| 23 | Using Time-Use Data to Parameterize Models for the Spread of Close-Contact Infectious Diseases | American Journal of Epidemiology | 2008 | 113 |
| 24 | Do Chronic Stressors Lead to Physiological Dysregulation? Testing the Theory of Allostatic Load | Psychosomatic Medicine | 2007 | 112 |
| 25 | Data Resource Profile: The Human Mortality Database (HMD) | International Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 103 |
| 26 | Quantifying population contact patterns in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic | Nature Communications | 2021 | 103 |
| 27 | International variation in radiation dose for computed tomography examinations: prospective cohort study | BMJ: British Medical Journal | 2019 | 98 |
| 28 | Kinship resources for the elderly | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences | 1997 | 97 |
| 29 | Modelling the impact of a combined varicella and zoster vaccination programme on the epidemiology of varicella zoster virus in England | Vaccine | 2011 | 97 |
| 30 | Rectangularization revisited: variability of age at death within human populations | Demography | 1999 | 97 |
| 31 | On the Modernity of Traditional Contraception: Time and the Social Context of Fertility | Population and Development Review | 2002 | 96 |
| 32 | A decomposition method based on a model of continuous change | Demography | 2008 | 90 |
| 33 | Is land being degraded? A multi-scale investigation of landscape change in southwestern Burkina Faso | Land Degradation and Development | 1999 | 89 |
| 34 | Biologic markers determine both the risk and the timing of recurrence in breast cancer | Breast Cancer Research and Treatment | 2011 | 89 |
| 35 | The Leverage of Demographic Dynamics on Carbon Dioxide Emissions: Does Age Structure Matter? | Demography | 2011 | 89 |
| 36 | Population Policy for Americans: Is the Government Being Misled? | Science | 1969 | 88 |
| 37 | Extreme longevity in five countries | European Journal of Population | 1996 | 84 |
| 38 | Perceived stress and physiological dysregulation in older adults | Stress | 2005 | 83 |
| 39 | Vaccinating the oldest against COVID-19 saves both the most lives and most years of life | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2021 | 79 |
| 40 | The lesser shame: abortion among educated women in southern Cameroon | Social Science and Medicine | 2002 | 75 |
| 41 | Markov mortality models: implications of quasistationarity and varying initial distributions | Theoretical Population Biology | 2004 | 71 |
| 42 | A general investigation into the mortality and multiplication of the human species | Theoretical Population Biology | 1970 | 70 |
| 43 | Sociality, selection, and survival: Simulated evolution of mortality with intergenerational transfers and food sharing | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2008 | 69 |
| 44 | Little Italy: An Agent-Based Approach to the Estimation of Contact Patterns- Fitting Predicted Matrices to Serological Data | PLoS Computational Biology | 2010 | 69 |
| 45 | Secular changes in the short-term preventive, positive, and temperature checks to population growth in Europe, 1460 to 1909 | Climatic Change | 1994 | 64 |
| 46 | Physiological dysregulation and changes in health in an older population | Experimental Gerontology | 2006 | 63 |
| 47 | Welfare and generational equity in sustainable unfunded pension systems | Journal of Public Economics | 2011 | 61 |
| 48 | Geographically targeted COVID-19 vaccination is more equitable and averts more deaths than age-based thresholds alone | Science Advances | 2021 | 61 |
| 49 | A New Method for Deriving Global Estimates of Maternal Mortality | Statistics, Politics, and Policy | 2012 | 60 |
| 50 | Residential Proximity to Methyl Bromide Use and Birth Outcomes in an Agricultural Population in California | Environmental Health Perspectives | 2013 | 57 |
