OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Epidemiology is 34. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 in Health-Care Workers: A Living Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Prevalence, Risk Factors, Clinical Characteristics, and Outcomes	481
Racial Capitalism Within Public Health—How Occupational Settings Drive COVID-19 Disparities	202
Measuring Structural Racism: A Guide for Epidemiologists and Other Health Researchers	155
Adjusting Coronavirus Prevalence Estimates for Laboratory Test Kit Error	80
Financial Strain and Suicide Attempts in a Nationally Representative Sample of US Adults	77
What Structural Racism Is (or Is Not) and How to Measure It: Clarity for Public Health and Medical Researchers	69
Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality by Country of Birth in Stockholm, Sweden: A Total-Population–Based Cohort Study	62
Characteristics of the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study: Opportunities for Research on Aging With HIV in the Longest US Observational Study of HIV	61
A Prospective Cohort Study of COVID-19 Vaccination, SARS-CoV-2 Infection, and Fertility	61
Reproducibility and Validity of a Semiquantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire in Men Assessed by Multiple Methods	60
Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Trends in Combined Stimulant/Opioid Overdoses, 2007–2019	59
HIV and COVID-19: Intersecting Epidemics With Many Unknowns	55
Association Between Ultra-Processed Food Intake and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	54
Associations of Body Composition and Physical Activity Level With Multiple Measures of Epigenetic Age Acceleration	53
Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk COVID-19 Patients That Should Be Ramped Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis	53
Determinants and Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Uptake in a National Cohort of US Adults: A Longitudinal Study	52
Identifying and Alleviating Bias Due to Differential Depletion of Susceptible People in Postmarketing Evaluations of COVID-19 Vaccines	51
Causal Effects of Air Pollution on Mortality Rate in Massachusetts	48
A Geography of Risk: Structural Racism and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality in the United States	46
Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality	46
On the Need to Revitalize Descriptive Epidemiology	41
Severe Maternal Morbidity: A Comparison of Definitions and Data Sources	40
Use of Electronic Cigarettes to Aid Long-Term Smoking Cessation in the United States: Prospective Evidence From the PATH Cohort Study	39
Can Cross-Sectional Studies Contribute to Causal Inference? It Depends	39
Misconceptions About the Direction of Bias From Nondifferential Misclassification	39

A Framework for Descriptive Epidemiology	39
Linkages Between Air Pollution and the Health Burden From COVID-19: Methodological Challenges and Opportunities	37
Do Case-Control Studies Always Estimate Odds Ratios?	36
Development and Validation of a Pediatric Comorbidity Index	35
The Impact of Changes in Diagnostic Testing Practices on Estimates of COVID-19 Transmission in the United States	35
Testing Black-White Disparities in Biological Aging Among Older Adults in the United States: Analysis of DNA-Methylation and Blood-Chemistry Methods	35
Recommendations for Using Causal Diagrams to Study Racial Health Disparities	35
Trends in “Deaths of Despair” Among Working-Aged White and Black Americans, 1990–2017	34
Invited Commentary: Sibling-Comparison Designs, Are They Worth the Effort?	34
Study Designs for Extending Causal Inferences From a Randomized Trial to a Target Population	34
Wastewater Surveillance for Infectious Disease: A Systematic Review	34
Mid- to Late-Life Body Mass Index and Dementia Risk: 38 Years of Follow-up of the Framingham Study	34