| The impact of obesity on US mortality levels: the importance of age and cohort factors in population estimates RK Masters, EN Reither, DA Powers, YC Yang, AE Burger, BG Link American journal of public health 103 (10), 1895-1901, 2013 | 416 | 2013 |
| Education and the gender gaps in health and mortality CE Ross, RK Masters, RA Hummer Demography 49 (4), 1157-1183, 2012 | 262 | 2012 |
| Powers. 2012.“Educational Differences in US Adult Mortality: A Cohort Perspective.” RK Masters, RA Hummer, A Daniel American Sociological Review 77 (4), 548-72, 0 | 259* | |
| Trends in US older adult disability: exploring age, period, and cohort effects SF Lin, AN Beck, BK Finch, RA Hummer, RK Master American journal of public health 102 (11), 2157-2163, 2012 | 171 | 2012 |
| Effect of the covid-19 pandemic in 2020 on life expectancy across populations in the USA and other high income countries: simulations of provisional mortality data SH Woolf, RK Masters, LY Aron bmj 373, 2021 | 170 | 2021 |
| Trends in education gradients of ‘preventable’mortality: a test of fundamental cause theory RK Masters, BG Link, JC Phelan Social Science & Medicine 127, 19-28, 2015 | 164 | 2015 |
| Obesity and US mortality risk over the adult life course RK Masters, DA Powers, BG Link American journal of epidemiology 177 (5), 431-442, 2013 | 141 | 2013 |
| Explaining recent mortality trends among younger and middle-aged White Americans RK Masters, AM Tilstra, DH Simon International journal of epidemiology 47 (1), 81-88, 2018 | 129 | 2018 |
| Should age-period-cohort studies return to the methodologies of the 1970s? EN Reither, RK Masters, YC Yang, DA Powers, H Zheng, KC Land Social Science & Medicine 128, 356-365, 2015 | 108 | 2015 |
| Uncrossing the US black-white mortality crossover: The role of cohort forces in life course mortality risk RK Masters Demography 49 (3), 773-796, 2012 | 81 | 2012 |
| Long-Term Trends in Adult Mortality for U.S. Whites and Blacks: An Examination of Period- and Cohort-based Changes RK Masters, RA Hummer, DA Powers, A Beck, SF Lin, BK and Finch Demography 51 (6), 2047-2073, 2014 | 75* | 2014 |
| Changes in life expectancy between 2019 and 2020 in the US and 21 peer countries SH Woolf, RK Masters, LY Aron JAMA Network Open 5 (4), e227067-e227067, 2022 | 74 | 2022 |
| Racial disparities in self-rated health: Trends, explanatory factors, and the changing role of socio-demographics AN Beck, BK Finch, SF Lin, RA Hummer, RK Masters Social Science & Medicine 104, 163-177, 2014 | 73 | 2014 |
| A population-based analysis of increasing rates of suicide mortality in Japan and South Korea, 1985–2010 SY Jeon, EN Reither, RK Masters BMC public health 16, 1-9, 2016 | 54 | 2016 |
| Mortality from suicide, chronic liver disease, and drug poisonings among middle-aged US white men and women, 1980–2013 RK Masters, AM Tilstra, DH Simon Biodemography and social biology 63 (1), 31-37, 2017 | 53 | 2017 |
| Clarifying hierarchical age–period–cohort models: A rejoinder to Bell and Jones EN Reither, KC Land, SY Jeon, DA Powers, RK Masters, H Zheng, ... Social Science & Medicine 145, 125-128, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| Trends in “deaths of despair” among working-aged White and Black Americans, 1990–2017 AM Tilstra, DH Simon, RK Masters American journal of epidemiology 190 (9), 1751-1759, 2021 | 43 | 2021 |
| Worth the weight? Recent trends in obstetric practices, gestational age, and birth weight in the United States AM Tilstra, RK Masters Demography 57 (1), 99-121, 2020 | 35 | 2020 |
| The relationship between education and health among incarcerated men and women in the United States KM Nowotny, RK Masters, JD Boardman BMC public health 16, 1-8, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
| Age-specific mortality during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and life expectancy changes in the United States and peer countries, 1980–2020 RK Masters, SH Woolf, LY Aron The Journals of Gerontology: Series B 77 (Supplement_2), S127-S137, 2022 | 16 | 2022 |
Robert HummerDepartment of Sociology and Carolina Population Center, University of North CarolinaVerified email at email.unc.edu
