| Demography: Measuring and modeling population processes S Preston (No Title), 2000 | 3043 | 2000 |
| The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development SH Preston Population studies 29 (2), 231-248, 1975 | 2497 | 1975 |
| Mortality patterns in national populations: with special reference to recorded causes of death SH Preston Elsevier, 2013 | 1133 | 2013 |
| Children and the elderly: Divergent paths for America’s dependents SH Preston Demography 21, 435-457, 1984 | 1081 | 1984 |
| Educational differentials in mortality: United States, 1979–1985 IT Elo, SH Preston Social science & medicine 42 (1), 47-57, 1996 | 1060 | 1996 |
| Fatal years: Child mortality in late nineteenth-century America SH Preston, MR Haines Princeton University Press, 2014 | 1039 | 2014 |
| Effects of early-life conditions on adult mortality: a review IT Elo, SH Preston Population index, 186-212, 1992 | 864 | 1992 |
| Causes and consequences of mortality declines in less developed countries during the twentieth century SH Preston Population and economic change in developing countries, 289-360, 1980 | 597 | 1980 |
| Causes of death. Life tables for national populations. SH Preston, N Kevfitz, R Schoen | 574 | 1974 |
| Socioeconomic differences in adult mortality and health status SH Preston, P Taubman Demography of aging 1, 279-318, 1994 | 490 | 1994 |
| Age, period, and cohort effects in demography: a review J Hobcraft, J Menken, S Preston Cohort analysis in social research: Beyond the identification problem, 89-135, 1985 | 460 | 1985 |
| The effects of infant and child mortality on fertility. SH Preston | 420 | 1978 |
| Childhood conditions that predict survival to advanced ages among African–Americans SH Preston, ME Hill, GL Drevenstedt Social science & medicine 47 (9), 1231-1246, 1998 | 403 | 1998 |
| Effects of family composition on mortality differentials by sex among children in Matlab, Bangladesh PK Muhuri, SH Preston The Population and Development Review, 415-434, 1991 | 398 | 1991 |
| The formal demography of population aging, transfers, and the economic life cycle RD Lee Demography of aging, 8-49, 1994 | 397 | 1994 |
| Changes in American marriage, 1972 to 1987: Availability and forces of attraction by age and education Z Qian, SH Preston American Sociological Review, 482-495, 1993 | 397 | 1993 |
| Urban growth in developing countries: A demographic reappraisal SH Preston Population and Development Review, 195-215, 1979 | 383 | 1979 |
| Sex mortality differences in the United States: The role of cohort smoking patterns SH Preston, H Wang Demography 43 (4), 631-646, 2006 | 379 | 2006 |
| The changing relation between mortality and level of economic development SH Preston International journal of epidemiology 36 (3), 484-490, 2007 | 354 | 2007 |
| Urban French mortality in the nineteenth century SH Preston, E Van de Walle Population studies 32 (2), 275-297, 1978 | 354 | 1978 |
