James W. Vaupel

44.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
333 papers, 28.0k citations indexed

About

James W. Vaupel is a scholar working on Demography, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, James W. Vaupel has authored 333 papers receiving a total of 28.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 139 papers in Demography, 116 papers in General Health Professions and 81 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in James W. Vaupel's work include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (133 papers), Global Health Care Issues (108 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (81 papers). James W. Vaupel is often cited by papers focused on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (133 papers), Global Health Care Issues (108 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (81 papers). James W. Vaupel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Denmark and United States. James W. Vaupel's co-authors include Kaare Christensen, Anatoli I. Yashin, Jim Oeppen, Gabriele Doblhammer, Kenneth G. Mantón, Roland Rau, Eric Stallard, Yi Zeng, Niels V. Holm and Bernard Jeune and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and New England Journal of Medicine.

In The Last Decade

James W. Vaupel

326 papers receiving 26.1k citations

Hit Papers

Ageing populations: the c... 1979 2026 1994 2010 2009 1979 2002 1998 2010 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Ageing populations: the challenges ahead
    2009 2.6k citations Kaare Christensen, Roland Rau et al. The Lancet profile →
  2. The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality
    1979 1.7k citations James W. Vaupel et al. profile →
  3. Broken Limits to Life Expectancy
    2002 1.7k citations James W. Vaupel et al. profile →
  4. Biodemographic Trajectories of Longevity
    1998 737 citations James W. Vaupel, Kaare Christensen et al. profile →
  5. Biodemography of human ageing
    2010 686 citations James W. Vaupel profile →
  6. Heterogeneity's Ruses: Some Surprising Effects of Selection on Population Dynamics
    1985 622 citations James W. Vaupel, Anatoli I. Yashin profile →
  7. Diversity of ageing across the tree of life
    2013 620 citations James W. Vaupel et al. profile →
  8. The heritability of human longevity: A population-based study of 2872 Danish twin pairs born 1870–1900
    1996 578 citations Niels V. Holm, James W. Vaupel et al. profile →
  9. Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study
    2017 569 citations Yi Zeng, Kaare Christensen et al. The Lancet profile →
  10. Men: good health and high mortality. Sex differences in health and aging
    2008 474 citations Anna Oksuzyan, Knud Juel et al. profile →
  11. Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics
    2018 203 citations Virginia Zarulli, J. Jones et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
James W. Vaupel Germany 80 7.9k 7.6k 6.4k 5.1k 3.8k 333 28.0k
Kaare Christensen Denmark 87 2.3k 0.3× 3.5k 0.5× 3.8k 0.6× 3.0k 0.6× 6.3k 1.7× 810 33.1k
Eileen M. Crimmins United States 73 3.5k 0.4× 6.0k 0.8× 6.9k 1.1× 736 0.1× 2.7k 0.7× 333 19.8k
Nancy E. Adler United States 100 1.2k 0.1× 14.5k 1.9× 10.4k 1.6× 1.3k 0.3× 4.1k 1.1× 340 41.4k
Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 131 1.4k 0.2× 3.9k 0.5× 4.7k 0.7× 731 0.1× 11.8k 3.1× 1.3k 72.0k
James F. Fries United States 79 1.6k 0.2× 4.2k 0.6× 2.4k 0.4× 264 0.1× 4.0k 1.1× 249 60.5k
Kenneth G. Mantón United States 52 4.2k 0.5× 4.9k 0.6× 4.0k 0.6× 711 0.1× 731 0.2× 217 11.4k
Yi Zeng China 51 1.9k 0.2× 1.7k 0.2× 2.5k 0.4× 572 0.1× 1.2k 0.3× 237 9.5k
David B. Allison United States 114 422 0.1× 3.8k 0.5× 1.1k 0.2× 3.2k 0.6× 17.6k 4.6× 774 56.8k
Ken R. Smith United States 54 842 0.1× 1.4k 0.2× 1.4k 0.2× 721 0.1× 1.7k 0.4× 342 11.6k
Elissa S. Epel United States 87 286 0.0× 4.0k 0.5× 2.5k 0.4× 4.7k 0.9× 10.6k 2.8× 312 34.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zarulli, Virginia, Ilya Kashnitsky, & James W. Vaupel. (2021). Death rates at specific life stages mold the sex gap in life expectancy. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(20). 51 indexed citations
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Christensen, Kaare, Mary K. Wojczynski, Jacob Krabbe Pedersen, et al.. (2020). Mechanisms underlying familial aggregation of exceptional health and survival: A three‐generation cohort study. Aging Cell. 19(10). e13228–e13228. 13 indexed citations
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Esteve, Albert, Iñaki Permanyer, Diederik Boertien, & James W. Vaupel. (2020). National age and coresidence patterns shape COVID-19 vulnerability. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 117(28). 16118–16120. 81 indexed citations
4.
Thinggaard, Mikael, Bernard Jeune, Merete Osler, et al.. (2020). Are Advances in Survival Among the Oldest Old Seen Across the Spectrum of Health and Functioning?. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 75(12). 2354–2360. 6 indexed citations
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Vaupel, James W., et al.. (2019). Human lifespan records are not remarkable but their durations are. PLoS ONE. 14(3). e0212345–e0212345. 9 indexed citations
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Zarulli, Virginia, J. Jones, Anna Oksuzyan, et al.. (2018). Women live longer than men even during severe famines and epidemics. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(4). E832–E840. 203 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vaupel, James W. & Trifon I. Missov. (2014). Unobserved population heterogeneity: A review of formal relationships. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 40 indexed citations
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Christensen, Kaare, Mikael Thinggaard, Anna Oksuzyan, et al.. (2013). Physical and cognitive functioning of people older than 90 years: a comparison of two Danish cohorts born 10 years apart. The Lancet. 382(9903). 1507–1513. 274 indexed citations
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Christensen, Kaare, Bernard Jeune, Karen Andersen‐Ranberg, & James W. Vaupel. (2013). Flere overlever til de højeste aldre og med bedre funktionsevne. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 1 indexed citations
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Caselli, Graziella, et al.. (2012). Exploring Sardinian longevity and its association with reproductive behaviors and infant mortality. 1 indexed citations
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Christensen, Kaare, Michael Davidsen, Knud Juel, et al.. (2010). The Divergent Life-Expectancy Trends in Denmark and Sweden—and Some Potential Explanations. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 63(7). 787–797. 24 indexed citations
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Skytthe, Axel, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Lise Bathum, et al.. (2006). The Danish Twin Registry in the New Millennium. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 9(6). 763–771. 81 indexed citations
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Skytthe, Axel, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Lise Bathum, et al.. (2006). The Danish Twin Registry in the New Millennium. Twin Research and Human Genetics. 9(6). 763–771. 82 indexed citations
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Vaupel, James W. & Elke Loichinger. (2006). Der demografische Wandel wird schon bald etwas kosten: Neuer Rostocker Index misst wirtschaftliche Folgen. Demographic Research. 3(1). 1–2. 13 indexed citations
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Petersen, Hans, Bernard Jeune, James W. Vaupel, & Kaare Christensen. (2002). Reproduction Life History and Hip Fractures. Annals of Epidemiology. 12(4). 257–263. 25 indexed citations
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Tan, Qihua, Dina Bellizzi, Giuseppina Rose, et al.. (2002). The influences on human longevity by HUMTHO1.STR polymorphism (Tyrosine Hydroxylase gene). Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 123(10). 1403–1410. 15 indexed citations
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Skytthe, Axel, Kirsten Ohm Kyvik, Niels V. Holm, James W. Vaupel, & Kaare Christensen. (2002). The Danish Twin Registry: 127 Birth Cohorts of Twins. Twin Research. 5(5). 352–357. 42 indexed citations
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Zhenyu, Xiao, James W. Vaupel, & Yi Zeng. (2001). The Healthy Longevity Survey and the Active Life Expectancy of the Oldest Old in China.. Population. Vol. 56(HS1). 95–116. 97 indexed citations
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Iachine, Ivan A., et al.. (1998). The Genetic Component of Discrete Disability Traits: An Analysis Using Liability Models with Age-Dependent Thresholds. Behavior Genetics. 28(3). 207–214. 4 indexed citations
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Vaupel, James W., et al.. (1969). The making of multinational enterprise : a sourcebook of tables based on a study of 187 major U.S. manufacturing corporations. 9 indexed citations

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