Subfield · Demography
Most cited papers in Demography
What are the most cited papers in Demography?
The most cited paper in Demography is "Regression Models and Life-Tables" (D. R. Cox, 1972), with 39,869 citations. Next come "Regression Models and Life-Tables" (26,650) and "Special Care Units and Traditional Care in Dementia: Relationship with Behavior, Cognition, Functional Status and Quality of Life - A Review" (20,652).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 2,351 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Regression Models and Life-Tables D. R. Cox · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) | 1972 | 39,869 |
| 2 | Regression Models and Life-Tables David R. Cox · Springer series in statistics | 1992 | 26,650 |
| 3 | Special Care Units and Traditional Care in Dementia: Relationship with Behavior, Cognition, Functional Status and Quality of Life - A Review Jeroen S. Kok, Ina J. Berg, Erik Scherder · Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra | 5 Oct 2013 | 20,652 |
| 4 | Older Adults' Reasons for Using Technology while Aging in Place Sebastiaan Theodorus Michaël Peek, Katrien Ger Luijkx, M. D. Rijnaard et al. · Gerontology | 4 Jun 2015 | 19,753 |
| 5 | The measurement and antecedents of affective, continuance and normative commitment to the organization Natalie J. Allen, John P. Meyer · Journal of Occupational Psychology | Mar 1990 | 11,671 |
| 6 | A Theory of Fairness, Competition, and Cooperation Ernst Fehr, Klaus M. Schmidt · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Aug 1999 | 11,313 |
| 7 | Global, regional, and national age-sex-specific mortality for 282 causes of death in 195 countries and territories, 1980–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Gregory A. Roth et al. · The Lancet | Nov 2018 | 8,782 |
| 8 | The future of employment: How susceptible are jobs to computerisation? Carl Benedikt Frey, Michael A. Osborne · Technological Forecasting and Social Change | Oct 2016 | 8,640 |
| 9 | The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson · American Economic Review | Dec 2001 | 8,584 |
| 10 | The world report on violence and health Etienne G. Krug, James A. Mercy, Linda L. Dahlberg et al. · The Lancet | Oct 2002 | 8,532 |
| 11 | Measuring Dyadic Adjustment: New Scales for Assessing the Quality of Marriage and Similar Dyads Graham B. Spanier · Journal of Marriage and the Family | Feb 1976 | 7,120 |
| 12 | Alternative projections of mortality and disability by cause 1990–2020: Global Burden of Disease Study Christopher J L Murray, Alan D López · The Lancet | May 1997 | 7,055 |
| 13 | Perceived organizational support. Robert Eisenberger, Robin Huntington, Steven Hutchison et al. · Journal of Applied Psychology | Aug 1986 | 6,928 |
| 14 | Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015 Haidong Wang et al. · The Lancet | Oct 2016 | 6,750 |
| 15 | Romantic love conceptualized as an attachment process. Cindy Hazan, Phillip R. Shaver · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1987 | 6,318 |
| 16 | The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Empirical Investigation: Reply Daron Acemoğlu, Simon Johnson, James A. Robinson · American Economic Review | Oct 2012 | 6,126 |
| 17 | Justice at the millennium: A meta-analytic review of 25 years of organizational justice research. Jason A. Colquitt, Donald Edward Conlon, Michael J. Wesson et al. · Journal of Applied Psychology | Jun 2001 | 5,924 |
| 18 | Trust, Reciprocity, and Social History Joyce E. Berg, John W. Dickhaut, Kevin McCabe · Games and Economic Behavior | Jul 1995 | 5,694 |
| 19 | ERC: A Theory of Equity, Reciprocity, and Competition Gary Eugene Bolton, Axel Ockenfels · American Economic Review | Mar 2000 | 5,583 |
| 20 | Estimation of the global prevalence of dementia in 2019 and forecasted prevalence in 2050: an analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 Emma L. Nichols et al. · The Lancet Public Health | 6 Jan 2022 | 5,503 |
| 21 | Authentic leadership development: Getting to the root of positive forms of leadership Bruce J. Avolio, William L. Gardner · The Leadership Quarterly | 26 Apr 2005 | 5,436 |
| 22 | Unobservable Selection and Coefficient Stability: Theory and Evidence Emily F. Oster · Journal of Business and Economic Statistics | 10 Sep 2016 | 5,390 |
| 23 | Ethical leadership: A social learning perspective for construct development and testing Michael E. Brown, Linda Klebe Treviño, David A. Harrison · Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | 28 Apr 2005 | 5,373 |
| 24 | Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values Ronald F. Inglehart, Wayne E. Baker · American Sociological Review | Feb 2000 | 4,575 |
| 25 | Global, regional, and national disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) for 359 diseases and injuries and healthy life expectancy (HALE) for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Hmwe Hmwe Kyu et al. · The Lancet | Nov 2018 | 4,225 |
| 26 | The inventory of parent and peer attachment: Individual differences and their relationship to psychological well-being in adolescence Gay C. Armsden, Mark T. Greenberg · Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Oct 1987 | 4,040 |
| 27 | Rationalist explanations for war James D. Fearon · International Organization | 1995 | 4,017 |
| 28 | Entrepreneurship: Productive, unproductive, and destructive William J. Baumöl · Journal of Business Venturing | 1996 | 4,014 |
| 29 | The causes of corruption: a cross-national study Daniel S. Treisman · Journal of Public Economics | Jun 2000 | 3,968 |
| 30 | Ethical leadership: A review and future directions Michael E. Brown, Linda Klebe Treviño · The Leadership Quarterly | 21 Nov 2006 | 3,961 |
| 31 | Natural Selection of Parental Ability to Vary the Sex Ratio of Offspring Robert L. Trivers, Dan E. Willard · Science | 5 Jan 1973 | 3,886 |
| 32 | The Epidemiologic Transition: A Theory of the Epidemiology of Population Change Abdel R. Omran · Milbank Quarterly | 9 Nov 2005 | 3,862 |
| 33 | Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development Mancur Olson · American Political Science Review | Sep 1993 | 3,845 |
| 34 | Mortality, morbidity, and risk factors in China and its provinces, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017 Maigeng Zhou et al. · The Lancet | 25 Jun 2019 | 3,826 |
| 35 | Ageing populations: the challenges ahead Kaare Christensen, Gabriele Doblhammer, Roland Rau et al. · The Lancet | Oct 2009 | 3,802 |
| 36 | The Determinants of Parenting: A Process Model Jay Belsky · Child Development | Feb 1984 | 3,777 |
| 37 | Modernization, cultural change, and democracy the human development sequence Ronald F. Inglehart, Christian Welzel | 2005 | 3,725 |
| 38 | Extraordinary Sex Ratios William D. O. Hamilton · Science | 28 Apr 1967 | 3,722 |
| 39 | Methodological nationalism and beyond: nation–state building, migration and the social sciences Andreas Wimmer, Nina Glick Schiller · Global Networks | Oct 2002 | 3,715 |
| 40 | Organizational citizenship behavior: Its nature and antecedents. Crystal Smith, Dennis W. Organ, Janet P. Near · Journal of Applied Psychology | Nov 1983 | 3,700 |
| 41 | The Motivational Effects of Charismatic Leadership: A Self-Concept Based Theory Boas Shamir, Robert James House, Michael B. Arthur · Organization Science | Nov 1993 | 3,649 |
| 42 | Does Culture Affect Economic Outcomes? Luigi Guiso, Paola Sapienza, Luigi Zingales · The Journal of Economic Perspectives | May 2006 | 3,579 |
| 43 | Adult attachment, working models, and relationship quality in dating couples. Nancy L. Collins, Stephen John Read · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1990 | 3,540 |
| 44 | Catching Up, Forging Ahead, and Falling Behind Moses Abramovitz · The Journal of Economic History | Jun 1986 | 3,519 |
| 45 | Beyond “Culture”: Space, Identity, and the Politics of Difference Akhil Gupta, JAMES G. FERGUSON · Cultural Anthropology | Feb 1992 | 3,466 |
| 46 | Does Oil Hinder Democracy? Michael L. Ross · World Politics | Apr 2001 | 3,423 |
| 47 | Journal of Universal Computer Science Arto K. Salomaa, Cristian S. Calude, Hermann A. Maurer · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 7 Apr 2020 | 3,394 |
| 48 | Incentives and Prosocial Behavior Roland Bénabou, Jean Tirole · American Economic Review | Nov 2006 | 3,379 |
| 49 | Fractionalization Alberto Alesina, Arnaud Devleeschauwer, William Russell Easterly et al. · Journal of Economic Growth | Jun 2003 | 3,343 |
| 50 | The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins Rafael La Porta, Florencio López‐de‐Silanes, Andrei Shleifer · Journal of Economic Literature | May 2008 | 3,306 |
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