John R. Wilmoth

John R. Wilmoth publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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John R. Wilmoth D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

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Best Publications

• World population stabilization unlikely this century

  Patrick Gerland;Adrian E. Raftery;Hana Ševčíková;Nan Li

  1804
  Citations

• Rectangularization revisited: Variability of age at death within human populations*

  John R. Wilmoth;Shiro Horiuchi

  575
  Citations

• Life-long sustained mortality advantage of siblings of centenarians

  Thomas T. Perls;John Wilmoth;Robin Levenson;Maureen Drinkwater

  483
  Citations

• Demography of longevity: past, present, and future trends.

  J.R. Wilmoth

  400
  Citations

• Deceleration in the age pattern of mortality at olderages

  Shiro Horiuchi;John R. Wilmoth

  387
  Citations

• Increase of maximum life-span in Sweden, 1861-1999.

  J. R. Wilmoth;L. J. Deegan;H. Lundström;S. Horiuchi

  346
  Citations

• The Future of Human Longevity: A Demographer's Perspective

  John R. Wilmoth

  235
  Citations

• A Decomposition Method Based on a Model of Continuous Change

  Shiro Horiuchi;Shiro Horiuchi;John R. Wilmoth;Scott D. Pletcher

  199
  Citations

• A new method for estimating smoking-attributable mortality in high-income countries

  Samuel H Preston;Dana A Glei;John R Wilmoth

  174
  Citations

• Understanding global trends in maternal mortality.

  Sarah Zureick-Brown;Holly Newby;Doris Chou;Nobuko Mizoguchi

  161
  Citations

• Data Resource Profile: The Human Mortality Database (HMD)

  Magali Barbieri;John R Wilmoth;Vladimir M Shkolnikov;Dana Glei

  158
  Citations

• The Cancer Transition in Japan since 1951

  Omer Gersten;John R. Wilmoth

  153
  Citations

• Are well functioning civil registration and vital statistics systems associated with better health outcomes

  David E Phillips;Carla AbouZahr;Alan D Lopez;Lene Mikkelsen

  146
  Citations

• A flexible two-dimensional mortality model for use in indirect estimation.

  John Wilmoth;Sarah Zureick;Vladimir Canudas-Romo;Mie Inoue

  145
  Citations

• Extreme longevity in five countries: presentation of trends with special attention to issues of data quality.

  John R. Wilmoth;Hans Lundström

  130
  Citations

• Development of Oldest-Old Mortality, 1950-1990: Evidence from 28 Developed Countries

  Unknown

  126
  Citations

• Age Patterns of the Life Table Aging Rate for Major Causes of Death in Japan, 1951–1990

  Shiro Horiuchi;John R. Wilmoth

  117
  Citations

• The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines, 1946-90

  John R. Wilmoth;Patrick Ball

  106
  Citations

• The Population Debate in American Popular Magazines, 1946-90

  John R. Wilmoth;Patrick Ball

  106
  Citations

• Are mortality projections always more pessimistic when disaggregated by cause of death

  John R. Wilmoth

  94
  Citations