Jim Oeppen

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Jim Oeppen is a scholar working on Demography, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Jim Oeppen has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Demography, 9 papers in General Health Professions and 7 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Jim Oeppen's work include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (10 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). Jim Oeppen is often cited by papers focused on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (10 papers), Global Health Care Issues (9 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). Jim Oeppen collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United Kingdom and Germany. Jim Oeppen's co-authors include James W. Vaupel, Gabriele Doblhammer, Ronald Lee, T. H. Hollingsworth, E. A. Wrigley, Roger Schofield, Chris Wilson, Michael Chisholm, Anatoli I. Yashin and Alexander Begun and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Jim Oeppen

23 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Broken Limits to Life Expectancy 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 500 1000 1.5k
What are hit papers?

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. Broken Limits to Life Expectancy
    2002 1.7k citations Jim Oeppen, James W. Vaupel Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jim Oeppen Denmark 14 1.1k 1.0k 660 363 255 24 2.3k
Natalia S. Gavrilova United States 28 930 0.9× 783 0.8× 577 0.9× 116 0.3× 711 2.8× 91 2.9k
Frans van Poppel Netherlands 29 815 0.8× 526 0.5× 594 0.9× 390 1.1× 41 0.2× 131 2.5k
Vladimir Canudas‐Romo Australia 27 1.0k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 902 1.4× 200 0.6× 28 0.1× 96 2.2k
Mikko Myrskylä Germany 36 1.4k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 923 1.4× 259 0.7× 31 0.1× 152 4.0k
Rune Lindahl‐Jacobsen Denmark 29 275 0.3× 467 0.5× 445 0.7× 117 0.3× 138 0.5× 89 2.5k
Jacques Véron France 11 690 0.6× 749 0.7× 513 0.8× 186 0.5× 18 0.1× 69 1.8k
Michel Poulain Belgium 20 294 0.3× 215 0.2× 288 0.4× 64 0.2× 200 0.8× 108 1.3k
Graziella Caselli Italy 15 394 0.4× 389 0.4× 276 0.4× 49 0.1× 101 0.4× 55 833
Isaac Sasson United States 22 282 0.3× 559 0.5× 601 0.9× 72 0.2× 31 0.1× 37 2.6k
Denny Vågerö Sweden 40 254 0.2× 1.4k 1.4× 1.4k 2.1× 182 0.5× 32 0.1× 87 4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Jim Oeppen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Jim Oeppen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jim Oeppen

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Jim Oeppen. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Jim Oeppen based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Jim Oeppen. Jim Oeppen is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bergeron-Boucher, Marie-Pier, et al.. (2025). Modeling and Forecasting Healthy Life Expectancy With Compositional Data Analysis. Demography. 62(3). 787–810.
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Bergeron-Boucher, Marie-Pier, et al.. (2024). Inequalities in lifespan and mortality risk in the US, 2015–2019: a cross-sectional analysis of subpopulations by social determinants of health. BMJ Open. 14(6). e079534–e079534. 1 indexed citations
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Alter, George, et al.. (2020). Re-introducing the Cambridge Group Family Reconstitutions. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 9. 24–48. 4 indexed citations
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Kjærgaard, Søren, et al.. (2020). Longevity Forecasting by Socio-Economic Groups Using Compositional Data Analysis. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A (Statistics in Society). 183(3). 1167–1187. 1 indexed citations
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Bergeron-Boucher, Marie-Pier, Jim Oeppen, Niels V. Holm, et al.. (2019). Understanding Differences in Cancer Survival between Populations: A New Approach and Application to Breast Cancer Survival Differentials between Danish Regions. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16(17). 3093–3093. 4 indexed citations
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Kjærgaard, Søren, et al.. (2019). Forecasting Causes of Death by Using Compositional Data Analysis: The Case of Cancer Deaths. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C (Applied Statistics). 68(5). 1351–1370. 21 indexed citations
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Lindahl‐Jacobsen, Rune, Jim Oeppen, Silvia Rizzi, et al.. (2016). Why did Danish women’s life expectancy stagnate? The influence of interwar generations’ smoking behaviour. European Journal of Epidemiology. 31(12). 1207–1211. 15 indexed citations
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Chisholm, Michael & Jim Oeppen. (2016). The Changing Pattern of Employment. 1 indexed citations
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Kühn, Michael, Stefan Wrzaczek, & Jim Oeppen. (2009). Recognizing progeny in the value of life. Economics Letters. 107(1). 17–21. 7 indexed citations
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Oeppen, Jim. (2008). Coherent forecasting of multiple-decrement life tables: a test using Japanese cause of death data. Universitat de Girona Digital Repository (Universitat de Girona). 25 indexed citations
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Brakefield, Paul M., David Gems, Tim Cowen, et al.. (2004). What are the effects of maternal and pre-adult environments on ageing in humans, and are there lessons from animal models?. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 126(3). 431–438. 39 indexed citations
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Doblhammer, Gabriele & Jim Oeppen. (2003). Reproduction and longevity among the British peerage: the effect of frailty and health selection. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 270(1524). 1541–1547. 109 indexed citations
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Yashin, Anatoli I., et al.. (2002). New age patterns of survival improvement in Sweden: do they characterize changes in individual aging?. Mechanisms of Ageing and Development. 123(6). 637–647. 43 indexed citations
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Oeppen, Jim & James W. Vaupel. (2002). Broken Limits to Life Expectancy. Science. 296(5570). 1029–1031. 1701 indexed citations breakdown →
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Oeppen, Jim, et al.. (2001). Patterns of morbidity in late medieval England: a sample from Westminster Abbey. The Economic History Review. 54(2). 215–239. 6 indexed citations
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Bengtsson, Tommy & Jim Oeppen. (1993). A reconstruction of the population of Scania 1650-1760.. Lund University Publications (Lund University). 7 indexed citations
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Oeppen, Jim. (1993). Back Projection and Inverse Projection: Members of a Wider Class of Constrained Projection Models. Population Studies. 47(2). 245–267. 34 indexed citations
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Wilson, Chris, et al.. (1988). What Is Natural Fertility? The Modelling of a Concept. PubMed. 54(1). 4–4. 56 indexed citations
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Johnson, James H., et al.. (1975). Housing and the Migration of Labour in England and Wales. Geographical Journal. 141(2). 285–285. 30 indexed citations
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Chisholm, Michael & Jim Oeppen. (1973). The Changing Pattern of Employment: Regional Specialisation and Industrial Localisation in Britain. 12 indexed citations

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