| Convergences and divergences in mortality: a new approach of health transition J Vallin, F Meslé Demographic research 2, 11-44, 2004 | 533 | 2004 |
| Causes of the Russian mortality crisis: evidence and interpretations VM Shkolnikov, GA Cornia, DA Leon, F Meslé World development 26 (11), 1995-2011, 1998 | 352 | 1998 |
| Mortality in Central and Eastern Europe: long-term trends and recent upturns F Meslé Demographic research 2, 45-70, 2004 | 299 | 2004 |
| The Demography of Sub-Saharan Africa from the 1950s to the 2000s D Tabutin, B Schoumaker, M Rabenoro Population 59 (3), 455-555, 2004 | 288* | 2004 |
| Mortality in Europe: the divergence between east and west F Meslé, J Vallin, Y Obadia Population 57 (1), 157-197, 2002 | 283* | 2002 |
| Tables de mortalité françaises pour les XIX et XX siecles et projections pour le XXI siecle J Vallin, F Meslé (No Title), 2001 | 213 | 2001 |
| Mortality reversal in Russia: the story so far VM Shkolnikov, EM Andreev, DA Leon, M McKee, F Meslé, J Vallin Hygiea Internationalis 4 (4), 29-80, 2004 | 206 | 2004 |
| Epidemiologic transition theory exceptions G Caselli, F Meslé, J Vallin Genus, 9-51, 2002 | 204 | 2002 |
| Les causes de décès en France de 1925 à 1978 J Vallin, F Meslé Population (French Edition), 165-179, 1988 | 179 | 1988 |
| The recent mortality decline in Russia: beginning of the cardiovascular revolution? P Grigoriev, F Meslé, VM Shkolnikov, E Andreev, A Fihel, M Pechholdova, ... Population and Development review 40 (1), 107-129, 2014 | 175 | 2014 |
| The segmented trend line of highest life expectancies J Vallin, F Meslé Population and Development Review 35 (1), 159-187, 2009 | 171 | 2009 |
| Transition sanitaire: tendances et perspectives. F Meslé, J Vallin Masson, Paris, 2000 | 138 | 2000 |
| Health crisis in Russia I. Recent trends in life expectancy and causes of death from 1970 to 1993 V Shkolnikov, F Meslé, J Vallin Population an English Selection, 123-154, 1996 | 130 | 1996 |
| The Russian epidemiological crisis as mirrored by mortality trends VM Shkolnikov, F Meslé Russia’s demographic “crisis, 113-162, 1996 | 130 | 1996 |
| Tendances récentes de la mortalité par cause en Russie 1965-1994: la crise sanitaire dans les pays de l'ex-URSS F Meslé, V Shkolnikov, V Hertrich, J Vallin Institut national d'études démographiques (France), 1996 | 121 | 1996 |
| Diverging trends in female old‐age mortality: the United States and the Netherlands versus France and Japan F Meslé, J Vallin Population and Development Review 32 (1), 123-145, 2006 | 120 | 2006 |
| Reconstructing long-term series of causes of death: the case of France F Meslé, J Vallin Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History …, 1996 | 119 | 1996 |
| High sex ratios at birth in the Caucasus: Modern technology to satisfy old desires G Duthé, F Meslé, J Vallin, I Badurashvili, K Kuyumjyan Population and Development Review 38 (3), 487-501, 2012 | 117 | 2012 |
| A new estimate of Ukrainian population losses during the crises of the 1930s and 1940s J Vallin, F Meslé, S Adamets, S Pyrozhkov Population Studies 56 (3), 249-264, 2002 | 94 | 2002 |
| Trends in mortality in Europe since 1950: age-, sex-and cause-specific mortality J Vallin, F Meslé Trends in mortality and differential mortality 36, 31-184, 2001 | 90 | 2001 |
