Shripad Tuljapurkar

13.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
171 papers, 8.3k citations indexed

About

Shripad Tuljapurkar is a scholar working on Demography, Ecology and General Health Professions. According to data from OpenAlex, Shripad Tuljapurkar has authored 171 papers receiving a total of 8.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 53 papers in Demography, 40 papers in Ecology and 37 papers in General Health Professions. Recurrent topics in Shripad Tuljapurkar's work include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (49 papers), Global Health Care Issues (36 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (21 papers). Shripad Tuljapurkar is often cited by papers focused on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (49 papers), Global Health Care Issues (36 papers) and Evolution and Genetic Dynamics (21 papers). Shripad Tuljapurkar collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Shripad Tuljapurkar's co-authors include Tim Coulson, Steven Hecht Orzack, Hal Caswell, Carol C. Horvitz, Ronald Lee, Carl Boe, Ulrich K. Steiner, Nan Li, Dylan Z. Childs and Ryan D. Edwards and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Shripad Tuljapurkar

165 papers receiving 7.8k 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.

Population Dynamics in Variable Environments

1990 565 citations Shripad Tuljapurkar profile →
Coupled dynamics of body mass and population growth in response to environmental change

2010 493 citations Shripad Tuljapurkar, Tim Coulson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shripad Tuljapurkar United States	48	2.8k	2.4k	2.2k	1.7k	1.5k	171	8.3k
Hal Caswell United States	69	9.4k 3.3×	5.0k 2.1×	7.5k 3.4×	2.6k 1.5×	825 0.6×	214	19.5k
Jane Hughes Australia	49	3.8k 1.3×	991 0.4×	3.1k 1.4×	2.9k 1.7×	131 0.1×	423	9.8k
Henry Harpending United States	39	2.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.5×	7.3k 4.3×	318 0.2×	95	13.4k
Peter Turchin United States	45	4.1k 1.4×	1.8k 0.8×	2.3k 1.0×	1.5k 0.9×	265 0.2×	114	8.0k
Stephen C. Stearns United States	56	6.9k 2.4×	6.9k 2.9×	4.9k 2.2×	5.0k 3.0×	268 0.2×	135	18.9k
Alan R. Rogers United States	39	2.7k 0.9×	1.4k 0.6×	1.1k 0.5×	6.5k 3.8×	210 0.1×	95	10.8k
David Nogués‐Bravo Denmark	42	3.2k 1.1×	2.4k 1.0×	3.6k 1.6×	1.4k 0.8×	180 0.1×	116	9.6k
Tim Coulson United Kingdom	64	10.3k 3.6×	5.0k 2.1×	3.5k 1.6×	4.6k 2.7×	125 0.1×	239	15.5k
Jean‐François Guégan France	46	3.9k 1.4×	1.8k 0.8×	3.4k 1.5×	1.6k 0.9×	66 0.0×	196	10.9k
Owen R. Jones United Kingdom	29	1.7k 0.6×	1.6k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	1.5k 0.9×	111 0.1×	87	4.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Shripad Tuljapurkar

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Fields of papers citing papers by Shripad Tuljapurkar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shripad Tuljapurkar

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All Works

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Zuo, Wenyun, Anil Damle, & Shripad Tuljapurkar. (2024). Sensitivity and uncertainty in the Lee–Carter mortality model. International Journal of Forecasting. 41(2). 781–797.

Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Wenyun Zuo, Tim Coulson, Carol C. Horvitz, & Jean‐Michel Gaillard. (2021). Distributions of LRS in varying environments. Ecology Letters. 24(7). 1328–1340. 7 indexed citations

Plard, Floriane, J. Jones, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Tim Coulson, & Shripad Tuljapurkar. (2021). Demographic determinants of the phenotypic mother–offspring correlation. Ecological Monographs. 91(4). 1 indexed citations

Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Wenyun Zuo, Tim Coulson, Carol C. Horvitz, & Jean‐Michel Gaillard. (2020). Skewed distributions of lifetime reproductive success: beyond mean and variance. Ecology Letters. 23(4). 748–756. 26 indexed citations

Zuo, Wenyun, et al.. (2018). Advancing front of old-age human survival. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(44). 11209–11214. 40 indexed citations

Kumar, Siddharth Krishna, Marcus W. Feldman, David H. Rehkopf, & Shripad Tuljapurkar. (2015). Limitations of GCTA as a solution to the missing heritability problem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 113(1). E61–70. 62 indexed citations

Plard, Floriane, Jean‐Michel Gaillard, Tim Coulson, et al.. (2015). Quantifying the influence of measured and unmeasured individual differences on demography. Journal of Animal Ecology. 84(5). 1434–1445. 26 indexed citations

Puleston, Cedric O., Shripad Tuljapurkar, & Bruce Winterhalder. (2014). The Invisible Cliff: Abrupt Imposition of Malthusian Equilibrium in a Natural-Fertility, Agrarian Society. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e87541–e87541. 31 indexed citations

Gaoue, Orou G., Carol C. Horvitz, Tamara Ticktin, Ulrich K. Steiner, & Shripad Tuljapurkar. (2013). Defoliation and bark harvesting affect life‐history traits of a tropical tree. Journal of Ecology. 101(6). 1563–1571. 30 indexed citations

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Steinsaltz, David, Shripad Tuljapurkar, & Carol C. Horvitz. (2011). Derivatives of the stochastic growth rate. Theoretical Population Biology. 80(1). 1–15. 8 indexed citations

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Eggleston, Karen & Shripad Tuljapurkar. (2010). Aging Asia: The Economic and Social Implications of Rapid Demographic Change in China, Japan, and South Korea. 17 indexed citations

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Jongejans, Eelke, Hans de Kroon, Shripad Tuljapurkar, & Katriona Shea. (2010). Plant populations track rather than buffer climate fluctuations. Ecology Letters. 13(6). 736–743. 67 indexed citations

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Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Anant Sudarshan, Ross D. Shachter, Marcus W. Feldman, & Debarun Bhattacharjya. (2008). How can economic schemes curtail the increasing sex ratio at birth in China?. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations

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Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Elizabeth Bruch, & Robert D. Mare. (2008). Neighborhoods and Individual Preferences: A Markovian Model. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 2 indexed citations

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Tuljapurkar, Shripad, Ronald Lee, & Qi Li. (2004). Random Scenario Forecasts versus Stochastic Forecasts. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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Li, Nan, Marcus W. Feldman, & Shripad Tuljapurkar. (2000). Sex ratio at birth and son preference. Mathematical Population Studies. 8(1). 91–107. 18 indexed citations

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Lee, Ronald & Shripad Tuljapurkar. (1998). Uncertain Demographic Futures and Social Security Finances. American Economic Review. 88(2). 237–241. 34 indexed citations

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Tuljapurkar, Shripad & Carl Boe. (1998). Mortality Change and Forecasting. North American Actuarial Journal. 2(4). 13–47. 76 indexed citations

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Dupâquier, Jacques, J. Wacker, J. R. Briegel, et al.. (1981). The sexual politics of reproduction in Britain.. The Journal of Sex Research. 17(3). 15 indexed citations

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Tuljapurkar, Shripad & J. S. Semura. (1979). Stochastic instability and Liapunov stability. Journal of Mathematical Biology. 8(2). 133–145. 6 indexed citations

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