| Demand theories of the fertility transition: An iconoclastic view J Cleland, C Wilson Population studies 41 (1), 5-30, 1987 | 1493 | 1987 |
| Modes of Production, Secularization, and the Pace of the Fertility Decline in Western Europe R Lesthaeghe, C Wilson Princeton University Press, 1986 | 379* | 1986 |
| On the scale of global demographic convergence 1950–2000 C Wilson Population and Development Review 27 (1), 155-171, 2001 | 369 | 2001 |
| The dictionary of demography R Pressat, C Wilson Blackwell Reference, 1985 | 273 | 1985 |
| Convergence towards diversity? Cohort dynamics in the transition to adulthood in contemporary Western Europe FC Billari, C Wilson Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Working Paper WP2001-039, 2001 | 195 | 2001 |
| Natural fertility in pre-industrial England, 1600–1799 C Wilson Population Studies 38 (2), 225-240, 1984 | 149 | 1984 |
| What is natural fertility? The modelling of a concept C Wilson, J Oeppen, M Pardoe Population Index 54 (1), 4-20, 1988 | 144 | 1988 |
| Sterility in a population with natural fertility J Trussell, C Wilson Population Studies 39 (2), 269-286, 1985 | 134 | 1985 |
| Understanding global demographic convergence since 1950 C Wilson Population and Development Review 37 (2), 375-388, 2011 | 126 | 2011 |
| How can a homeostatic perspective enhance demographic transition theory? C Wilson, P Airey Population Studies 53 (2), 117-128, 1999 | 116 | 1999 |
| Fertility below replacement level C Wilson Science 304 (5668), 207-209, 2004 | 101 | 2004 |
| Advances in measuring lifespan in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae N Minois, M Frajnt, C Wilson, JW Vaupel Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 102 (2), 402-406, 2005 | 99 | 2005 |
| The secular increase in fecundity in German village populations: An analysis of reproductive histories of couples married 1750–1899 J Knodel, C Wilson Population studies 35 (1), 53-84, 1981 | 92 | 1981 |
| Migration and intergenerational replacement in Europe C Wilson, T Sobotka, L Williamson, P Boyle Population and Development Review 39 (1), 131-157, 2013 | 69 | 2013 |
| Fertility in England: a long-term perspective C Wilson, R Woods Population Studies 45 (3), 399-415, 1991 | 66 | 1991 |
| Learning and climate change BC O'neill, P Crutzen, A Grübler, MH Duong, K Keller, C Kolstad, ... Taylor & Francis Group 6 (5), 585-589, 2006 | 65 | 2006 |
| The proximate determinants of marital fertility in England, 1600-1799 C Wilson The World We Have Gained, 203-30, 1986 | 53 | 1986 |
| Paradoxes of health transition in Europe's poorest country: Albania 1950-90 A Gjonça, C Wilson, J Falkingham Population and Development Review, 585-609, 1997 | 52 | 1997 |
| Convergence towards diversity FC Billari, C Wilson Cohort dynamics in the transition to adulthood in contemporary Western …, 2001 | 47 | 2001 |
| Les modes de production, la laïcisation et le rythme de baisse de la fécondité en Europe de l'Ouest de 1870 à 1930 R Lesthaeghe, C Wilson Population (French Edition), 623-645, 1982 | 45 | 1982 |