James W. Vaupel

Broken Limits to Life Expectancy

Jim Oeppen, James W. Vaupel · Science · 2002 · 2.8K citations

Public Affairs, Economics, Finance +17

The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality

James W. Vaupel, Kenneth G. Mantón, Eric Stallard · Demography · 1979 · 2.6K citations · Full text

Medicine, Biostatistics, Geriatric Medicine +12

Diversity of ageing across the tree of life

Owen R. Jones, Alexander Scheuerlein, Roberto Salguero‐Gómez et al. · Nature · 2013 · 1.1K citations · Full text

Education, Biology, Aging +9

The heritability of human longevity: A population-based study of 2872 Danish twin pairs born 1870–1900

Anne Maria Herskind, Matthew McGue, Niels V. Holm et al. · Human Genetics · 1996 · 874 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Aging +10

Survival, disabilities in activities of daily living, and physical and cognitive functioning among the oldest-old in China: a cohort study

Yi Zeng, Qiushi Feng, Thérèse Hesketh et al. · The Lancet · 2017 · 871 citations · Full text

Medicine, Geriatric Medicine, Geriatric Rehabilitation +14