Roland Rau

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
42 papers, 3.2k citations indexed

About

Roland Rau is a scholar working on General Health Professions, Demography and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Roland Rau has authored 42 papers receiving a total of 3.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in General Health Professions, 29 papers in Demography and 25 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Roland Rau's work include Global Health Care Issues (31 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (29 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (25 papers). Roland Rau is often cited by papers focused on Global Health Care Issues (31 papers), Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (29 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (25 papers). Roland Rau collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Denmark and United States. Roland Rau's co-authors include James W. Vaupel, Gabriele Doblhammer, Kaare Christensen, Magdalena M. Muszyńska, Domantas Jasilionis, Anders Ahlbom, Karin Modig, Marcus Ebeling, Carl P. Schmertmann and Rune Lindahl‐Jacobsen and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, The Lancet and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Roland Rau

41 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Ageing populations: the challenges ahead

2009 2.6k citations Kaare Christensen, Gabriele Doblhammer et al. The Lancet profile →

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Alana Officer Switzerland

À. Otero Spain

Gabriele Doblhammer Germany

Ritu Sadana Switzerland

Richard Suzman United States

Shaun Scholes United Kingdom

Jennifer L. Balfour United States

Kevin Hawkins United States

Henrik Brønnum‐Hansen Denmark

Stefanos Tyrovolas Spain

Alana Officer Switzerland

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1.0k ×1.2

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515 ×1.2

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444 ×1.3

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Countries citing papers authored by Roland Rau

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roland Rau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roland Rau

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Jdanov, Dmitri A., et al.. (2023). Variation in mortality burden of the COVID-19 pandemic across federal states in Germany. European Journal of Public Health. 33(5). 930–936. 3 indexed citations

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Ebeling, Marcus, et al.. (2023). Disease incidence and not case fatality drives the rural disadvantage in myocardial-infarction-related mortality in Germany. Preventive Medicine. 179. 107833–107833. 2 indexed citations

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Feichtinger, Gustav, et al.. (2023). ON THE MOMENTUM OF PSEUDOSTABLE POPULATIONS. Econstor (Econstor). 1. 1–37. 1 indexed citations

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Ebeling, Marcus, Roland Rau, Nikola Sander, Eva Kibele, & Sebastian Klüsener. (2022). Urban–rural disparities in old-age mortality vary systematically with age: evidence from Germany and England & Wales. Public Health. 205. 102–109. 11 indexed citations

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Nitsche, Natalie, et al.. (2021). Stillbirths in Germany: On the rise, but no additional increases during the first COVID‐19 lockdown. International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics. 155(3). 483–489. 8 indexed citations

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Modig, Karin, Roland Rau, & Anders Ahlbom. (2020). Life expectancy: what does it measure?. BMJ Open. 10(7). e035932–e035932. 25 indexed citations

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Rau, Roland & Carl P. Schmertmann. (2020). District-Level Life Expectancy in Germany. Deutsches Ärzteblatt international. 117(29-30). 493–499. 31 indexed citations

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Oksuzyan, Anna, Andreas Höhn, Jacob Krabbe Pedersen, et al.. (2020). Preparing for the future: The changing demographic composition of hospital patients in Denmark between 2013 and 2050. PLoS ONE. 15(9). e0238912–e0238912. 22 indexed citations

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Rau, Roland, et al.. (2018). . BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library). 21 indexed citations

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Cohen, Joel E., et al.. (2018). Gompertz, Makeham, and Siler models explain Taylor's law in human mortality data. Demographic Research. 38. 773–842. 13 indexed citations

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Ebeling, Marcus, Karin Modig, Anders Ahlbom, & Roland Rau. (2018). The effects of increasing longevity and changing incidence on lifetime risk differentials: A decomposition approach. PLoS ONE. 13(4). e0195307–e0195307. 2 indexed citations

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Höhn, Andreas, Lisbeth Aagaard Larsen, Daniel C. Schneider, et al.. (2018). Sex differences in the 1-year risk of dying following all-cause and cause-specific hospital admission after age 50 in comparison with a general and non-hospitalised population: a register-based cohort study of the Danish population. BMJ Open. 8(7). e021813–e021813. 10 indexed citations

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Ebeling, Marcus, et al.. (2017). Lifespan Disparity as an Additional Indicator for Evaluating Mortality Forecasts. Demography. 54(4). 1559–1577. 20 indexed citations

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Rau, Roland, et al.. (2017). Probabilistic mortality forecasting with varying age-specific survival improvements. Genus. 73(1). 1–1. 22 indexed citations

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Rau, Roland, et al.. (2015). Impact of Economic Conditions and Crises on Mortality and its Predictability. KZfSS Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziologie und Sozialpsychologie. 67(S1). 271–294. 11 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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Christensen, Kaare, Gabriele Doblhammer, Roland Rau, & James W. Vaupel. (2009). Ageing populations: the challenges ahead. The Lancet. 374(9696). 1196–1208. 2562 indexed citations breakdown →

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Eilers, Paul H.C., Jutta Gampe, Brian D. Marx, & Roland Rau. (2008). Modulation models for seasonal time series and incidence tables. Statistics in Medicine. 27(17). 3430–3441. 32 indexed citations

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Doblhammer, Gabriele, et al.. (2005). Trends in educational and occupational differentials in all-cause mortality in Austria between 1981/82 and 1991/92. Wiener klinische Wochenschrift. 117(13-14). 468–479. 34 indexed citations

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Rau, Roland & Gabriele Doblhammer. (2003). Seasonal mortality in Denmark. Demographic Research. 9. 197–222. 10 indexed citations

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