| Spring temperatures influence year-to-year variations in the breeding phenology of passerines on the Courish Spit, eastern Baltic LV Sokolov, VA Payevsky Avian Ecol. Behav 1, 22-36, 1998 | 70 | 1998 |
| Demography of birds VA Payevsky Proc. of Zoological Institut 125, 1985 | 58 | 1985 |
| Atlas of bird migration according to banding data at the Courland Spit VA Payevsky Bird migration–ecological and physiological factors. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, NY, 1973 | 51 | 1973 |
| Sex-specific survival rates in birds VA Payevsky, VG Vysotsky, VD Yefremov, MY Markovets, YG Morozov, ... Журнал общей биологии 58 (6), 5-20, 1997 | 49 | 1997 |
| Rybachy-type trap VA Payevsky Bird Station Manual, 20-24, 2000 | 47 | 2000 |
| Breeding biology, morphometrics, and population dynamics of Sylvia warblers in the Eastern Baltic VA Payevsky Avian Ecol Behav 2, 19-50, 1999 | 44 | 1999 |
| Songbird Demography: Demographic Structure, Survival Rates, and Population Dynamics of Songbirds with Particular Reference to the Birds of the Eastern Baltic VA Payevsky, M Griffiths Sofia, 2009 | 33 | 2009 |
| The testing of the ability for imprinting and finding the site of future nesting in young Chaffinches LV Sokolov, KV Bolshakov, NV Vinogradova, TV Dolnik, DS Lyuleeva, ... Zool. zh 73, 1671-1681, 1984 | 32 | 1984 |
| Mortality rate and population density regulation in the great tit, Parus major L.: A review VA Payevsky Russian Journal of Ecology 37, 180-187, 2006 | 30 | 2006 |
| Rybachy-type trap VR Dolnik, VA Payevsky Ringing in the study of bird migrations in the USSR, 73-81, 1976 | 26 | 1976 |
| Age and sex structure, mortality and spatial winter distribution of Siskins (Carduelis spinus) migrating through eastern Baltic area VA Payevsky Vogelwarte 37 (3), 190, 1994 | 25 | 1994 |
| Demografiya ptits (Bird Demography) VA Payevsky Len ingrad: Nauka, 1985 | 25 | 1985 |
| Extinction of a Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria population in Eastern Baltic: long-term monitoring, demography, and biometry VA Payevsky, VG Vysotsky, NP Zelenova Avian Ecol. Behav 11, 89-105, 2003 | 23 | 2003 |
| Identification of Sex and Age in Passerine Birds of the USSR NV Vinogradova, VR Dolnik, VD Yefremov, VA Payevsky Nauka Press, Moscow, 1976 | 23 | 1976 |
| Sex-biased survival and philopatry in birds: Do they interact? VA Payevsky Biology Bulletin 43, 804-818, 2016 | 20 | 2016 |
| Demograficheskaya struktura i populyatsionnaya dinamika pevchikh ptits (Demographic Structure and Population Dynamics of Songbirds), St VA Paevskii Petersburg: Tovar. Nauch. Izd. KMK, 2008 | 20 | 2008 |
| Mechanisms of population dynamics in trans-Saharan migrant birds: A review VA Payevsky Entomological Review 86, S82-S94, 2006 | 19* | 2006 |
| Population number dynamics 1961-1990 of Sylvia species caught during autumn migration at some North and Central European bird stations P Busse, J Baumanis, A Leivits, H Pakkala, VA Payevsky, M Ojanen The Ring 17 (1-2), 1995 | 19 | 1995 |
| Opredelenie pola i vozrasta vorob’inykh ptits fauny SSSR [Identification of Sex and Age in Passerine Birds of the USSR] NV Vinogradova, VR Dolnik, VD Yefremov, VA Payevsky Nauka, Moscow, 1976 | 19 | 1976 |
| Phylogeny and classification of passerine birds, Passeriformes VA Payevsky Biology Bulletin Reviews 4, 143-156, 2014 | 18 | 2014 |
