| Family and the female life course: the women of Verviers, Belgium, 1849-1880 G Alter Univ of Wisconsin Press, 1988 | 343 | 1988 |
| Frailty, sickness, and death: models of morbidity and mortality in historical populations G Alter, JC Riley Population Studies 43 (1), 25-45, 1989 | 174 | 1989 |
| Prudence and pressure: Reproduction and human agency in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 NO Tsuya, F Wang, G Alter, JZ Lee Mit Press, 2010 | 154 | 2010 |
| Farms and farm families in old and new areas: The northern states in 1860 RA Easterlin, G Alter, GA Condran Family and population in nineteenth-century America, 22-84, 1978 | 147 | 1978 |
| Theories of fertility decline: A nonspecialist’s guide to the current debate G Alter The European experience of declining fertility 1970, 13-27, 1850 | 135 | 1850 |
| Responsible practices for data sharing. G Alter, R Gonzalez American Psychologist 73 (2), 146, 2018 | 118 | 2018 |
| Stature in transition: a micro-level study from nineteenth-century Belgium G Alter, M Neven, M Oris Social Science History 28 (2), 231-247, 2004 | 110 | 2004 |
| Finding useful data across multiple biomedical data repositories using DataMed L Ohno-Machado, SA Sansone, G Alter, I Fore, J Grethe, H Xu, ... Nature genetics 49 (6), 816-819, 2017 | 107 | 2017 |
| DATS, the data tag suite to enable discoverability of datasets SA Sansone, A Gonzalez-Beltran, P Rocca-Serra, G Alter, JS Grethe, ... Scientific data 4 (1), 1-8, 2017 | 102 | 2017 |
| Infant and child mortality M Oris, E Derosas, M Breschi The MIT Press, 2004 | 102 | 2004 |
| Height, frailty, and the standard of living: Modelling the effects of diet and disease on declining mortality and increasing height G Alter Population Studies 58 (3), 265-279, 2004 | 93 | 2004 |
| The savings of ordinary Americans: The Philadelphia Saving Fund Society in the mid-nineteenth century G Alter, C Goldin, E Rotella The Journal of Economic History 54 (4), 735-767, 1994 | 92 | 1994 |
| Immigrants and industry: The Philadelphia experience, 1850-1880 B Laurie, T Hershberg, G Alter Journal of Social History 9 (2), 219-248, 1975 | 88 | 1975 |
| Classifying the dead: toward a history of the registration of causes of death GC Alter, AG Carmichael Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 54 (2), 114-132, 1999 | 83 | 1999 |
| The enduring value of social science research: The use and reuse of primary research data AM Pienta, GC Alter, JA Lyle | 81 | 2010 |
| DataMed–an open source discovery index for finding biomedical datasets X Chen, AE Gururaj, B Ozyurt, R Liu, E Soysal, T Cohen, F Tiryaki, Y Li, ... Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association 25 (3), 300-308, 2018 | 77 | 2018 |
| Gender differences in mortality G Alter, M Manfredini, P Nystedt MIT press, 2004 | 73 | 2004 |
| Widowhood, family size, and post-reproductive mortality: a comparative analysis of three populations in nineteenth-century Europe G Alter, M Dribe, F Van Poppel Demography 44 (4), 785-806, 2007 | 70 | 2007 |
| Family reconstitution as event history analysis MP Gutmann, G Alter Old and new methods in historical demography, 159-177, 1993 | 60 | 1993 |
| Studying causes of death in the past: problems and models G Alter, A Carmichael Historical Methods: A Journal of Quantitative and Interdisciplinary History …, 1996 | 59 | 1996 |
