Trifon I. Missov

1.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 625 citations indexed

About

Trifon I. Missov is a scholar working on Demography, General Health Professions and Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Trifon I. Missov has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 625 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Demography, 16 papers in General Health Professions and 7 papers in Health. Recurrent topics in Trifon I. Missov's work include Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (22 papers), Global Health Care Issues (15 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). Trifon I. Missov is often cited by papers focused on Insurance, Mortality, Demography, Risk Management (22 papers), Global Health Care Issues (15 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (7 papers). Trifon I. Missov collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Denmark and United States. Trifon I. Missov's co-authors include Ádám Lénárt, James W. Vaupel, Melinda Mills, Jonas Schöley, José Manuel Aburto, Luyin Zhang, Ridhi Kashyap, Charles Rahal, Ilya Kashnitsky and Jennifer B. Dowd and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and International Journal of Epidemiology.

In The Last Decade

Trifon I. Missov

23 papers receiving 598 citations

Hit Papers

Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 50 100 150 200
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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. Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries
    2021 217 citations José Manuel Aburto, Jonas Schöley et al. International Journal of Epidemiology profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Trifon I. Missov Germany 14 325 312 209 72 64 25 625
Ugofilippo Basellini Germany 10 211 0.6× 191 0.6× 145 0.7× 56 0.8× 20 0.3× 26 370
Carl Boe United States 9 467 1.4× 447 1.4× 248 1.2× 65 0.9× 34 0.5× 12 671
Tim Riffe Germany 11 304 0.9× 199 0.6× 236 1.1× 89 1.2× 119 1.9× 33 692
Ádám Lénárt Denmark 11 160 0.5× 177 0.6× 101 0.5× 32 0.4× 8 0.1× 17 561
C. M. Suchindran United States 13 199 0.6× 261 0.8× 114 0.5× 72 1.0× 14 0.2× 48 894
Virginia Zarulli Denmark 11 191 0.6× 119 0.4× 138 0.7× 49 0.7× 18 0.3× 26 447
Francisco Villavicencio United States 9 218 0.7× 199 0.6× 155 0.7× 29 0.4× 9 0.1× 23 486
Bertrand Desjardins Canada 17 154 0.5× 210 0.7× 92 0.4× 64 0.9× 3 0.0× 57 706
Alexander Z. Begun Germany 6 142 0.4× 135 0.4× 143 0.7× 19 0.3× 10 0.2× 10 441
Everton Emanuel Campos de Lima Brazil 9 166 0.5× 79 0.3× 115 0.6× 52 0.7× 46 0.7× 35 429

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Trifon I. Missov

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Missov, Trifon I., et al.. (2024). Makeham mortality models as mixtures: Advancing mortality estimations through competing risks frameworks. Demographic Research. 51. 595–624. 2 indexed citations
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Bergeron-Boucher, Marie-Pier, et al.. (2024). A modal age at death approach to forecasting adult mortality. Population Studies. 79(1). 27–43. 1 indexed citations
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Bergeron-Boucher, Marie-Pier, et al.. (2024). Longevity à la mode: A discretized derivative tests method for accurate estimation of the adult modal age at death. Demographic Research. 50. 325–346.
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Missov, Trifon I., et al.. (2023). Using a penalized likelihood to detect mortality deceleration. PLoS ONE. 18(11). e0294428–e0294428. 1 indexed citations
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Aburto, José Manuel, Jonas Schöley, Ilya Kashnitsky, et al.. (2021). Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries. International Journal of Epidemiology. 51(1). 63–74. 217 indexed citations breakdown →
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Németh, László & Trifon I. Missov. (2018). Adequate life-expectancy reconstruction for adult human mortality data. PLoS ONE. 13(6). e0198485–e0198485. 13 indexed citations
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Vogt, Tobias & Trifon I. Missov. (2017). Estimating the contribution of mortality selection to the East–West German mortality convergence. Population Health Metrics. 15(1). 33–33. 6 indexed citations
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Hartemink, Nienke, Trifon I. Missov, & Hal Caswell. (2017). Stochasticity, heterogeneity, and variance in longevity in human populations. Theoretical Population Biology. 114. 107–116. 30 indexed citations
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Bürger, Oskar & Trifon I. Missov. (2016). Evolutionary theory of ageing and the problem of correlated Gompertz parameters. Journal of Theoretical Biology. 408. 34–41. 23 indexed citations
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Missov, Trifon I. & László Németh. (2015). Sensitivity of model-based human mortality measures to exclusion of the Makeham or the frailty parameter. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 8 indexed citations
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Missov, Trifon I., et al.. (2015). Quantifying the Shape of Aging. PLoS ONE. 10(3). e0119163–e0119163. 48 indexed citations
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Missov, Trifon I., Ádám Lénárt, László Németh, Vladimir Canudas‐Romo, & James W. Vaupel. (2015). The Gompertz force of mortality in terms of the modal age at death. Demographic Research. 32. 1031–1048. 33 indexed citations
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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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Lénárt, Ádám & Trifon I. Missov. (2014). Goodness-of-fit tests for the Gompertz distribution. Communication in Statistics- Theory and Methods. 45(10). 2920–2937. 21 indexed citations
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Vaupel, James W., Trifon I. Missov, & C. Jessica E. Metcalf. (2013). Optimal Semelparity. PLoS ONE. 8(2). e57133–e57133. 4 indexed citations
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Lénárt, Ádám & Trifon I. Missov. (2013). Goodness-of-fit tests for the Gompertz distribution. University of Southern Denmark Research Portal (University of Southern Denmark). 2 indexed citations
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Missov, Trifon I.. (2013). Gamma-Gompertz life expectancy at birth. Demographic Research. 28. 259–270. 34 indexed citations
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Missov, Trifon I. & Ádám Lénárt. (2013). Gompertz–Makeham life expectancies: Expressions and applications. Theoretical Population Biology. 90. 29–35. 42 indexed citations
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Missov, Trifon I. & Maxim Finkelstein. (2011). Admissible mixing distributions for a general class of mixture survival models with known asymptotics. Theoretical Population Biology. 80(1). 64–70. 34 indexed citations
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Missov, Trifon I.. (2007). Integral Evaluation Using the Δ2-distribution. Simulation and Illustration. Monte Carlo Methods and Applications. 13(3).

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