| 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 | 68 | 1998 |
| Demography of birds VA Payevsky Proc. of Zoological Institut 125, 1985 | 59 | 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 | 53 | 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 | 46 | 2000 |
| Breeding biology, morphometrics, and population dynamics of Sylvia warblers in the Eastern Baltic VA Payevsky Avian Ecol Behav 2, 19-50, 1999 | 46 | 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 | 35 | 2009 |
| 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 | 35 | 2006 |
| 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. J 43, 1671-1681, 1984 | 32 | 1984 |
| Rybachy-type trap VR Dolnik, VA Payevsky Ringing in the study of bird migrations in the USSR, 73-81, 1976 | 29 | 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 | 26 | 1994 |
| Demografiya ptits (Bird Demography) VA Payevsky Len ingrad: Nauka, 1985 | 26 | 1985 |
| 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 | 24* | 1976 |
| Phylogeny and classification of passerine birds, Passeriformes VA Payevsky Biology Bulletin Reviews 4, 143-156, 2014 | 23 | 2014 |
| 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 | 22 | 2016 |
| Mechanisms of population dynamics in trans-Saharan migrant birds: A review VA Payevsky Entomological Review 86, S82-S94, 2006 | 20 | 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 |
| Population dynamics of birds according to trapping data on the Courish Spit of the Baltic Sea during twenty seven years VA Payevsky Zool. zh 69, 80-93, 1990 | 18 | 1990 |
