| Ageing populations: the challenges ahead K Christensen, G Doblhammer, R Rau, JW Vaupel The lancet 374 (9696), 1196-1208, 2009 | 4952 | 2009 |
| Broken limits to life expectancy J Oeppen, JW Vaupel Science 296 (5570), 1029-1031, 2002 | 3850 | 2002 |
| The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality JW Vaupel, KG Manton, E Stallard Demography 16 (3), 439-454, 1979 | 3450 | 1979 |
| Biodemography of human ageing JW Vaupel Nature 464 (7288), 536-542, 2010 | 1430 | 2010 |
| Biodemographic trajectories of longevity JW Vaupel, JR Carey, K Christensen, TE Johnson, AI Yashin, NV Holm, ... Science 280 (5365), 855-860, 1998 | 1336 | 1998 |
| Heterogeneity's ruses: some surprising effects of selection on population dynamics JW Vaupel, AI Yashin The American Statistician 39 (3), 176-185, 1985 | 1172 | 1985 |
| The heritability of human longevity: a population-based study of 2872 Danish twin pairs born 1870–1900 AM Herskind, M McGue, NV Holm, TIA Sørensen, B Harvald, JW Vaupel Human genetics 97, 319-323, 1996 | 1038 | 1996 |
| Diversity of ageing across the tree of life OR Jones, A Scheuerlein, R Salguero-Gómez, CG Camarda, R Schaible, ... Nature 505 (7482), 169-173, 2014 | 1016 | 2014 |
| Slowing of mortality rates at older ages in large medfly cohorts JR Carey, P Liedo, D Orozco, JW Vaupel Science 258 (5081), 457-461, 1992 | 766 | 1992 |
| Men: good health and high mortality. Sex differences in health and aging A Oksuzyan, K Juel, JW Vaupel, K Christensen Aging clinical and experimental research 20, 91-102, 2008 | 715 | 2008 |
| Transition analysis: a new method for estimating age from skeletons JL Boldsen, GR Milner, LW Konigsberg, JW Wood Paleodemography, 73-106, 2002 | 688 | 2002 |
| The quest for genetic determinants of human longevity: challenges and insights K Christensen, TE Johnson, JW Vaupel Nature Reviews Genetics 7 (6), 436-448, 2006 | 667 | 2006 |
| Early childhood assessment: Why, what, and how National Research Council | 622* | 2008 |
| Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study Y Zeng, Q Feng, T Hesketh, K Christensen, JW Vaupel The Lancet 389 (10079), 1619-1629, 2017 | 593 | 2017 |
| The force of mortality at ages 80 to 120 AR Thatcher Odense University Press, 1998 | 587 | 1998 |
| Lifespan depends on month of birth G Doblhammer, JW Vaupel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (5), 2934-2939, 2001 | 535 | 2001 |
| Reductions in mortality at advanced ages: several decades of evidence from 27 countries V Kannisto, J Lauritsen, AR Thatcher, JW Vaupel Population and development review, 793-810, 1994 | 524 | 1994 |
| Genetic influence on human lifespan and longevity JB Hjelmborg, I Iachine, A Skytthe, JW Vaupel, M McGue, M Koskenvuo, ... Human genetics 119, 312-321, 2006 | 520 | 2006 |
| Demography of genotypes: failure of the limited life-span paradigm in Drosophila melanogaster JW Curtsinger, HH Fukui, DR Townsend, JW Vaupel Science 258 (5081), 461-463, 1992 | 511 | 1992 |
| Paleodemography: age distributions from skeletal samples RD Hoppa, JW Vaupel Cambridge University Press, 2008 | 471 | 2008 |
