Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Epidemiology is 2. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Authors Respond130
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology66
Re. Pre-diagnostic exposures and cancer survival: Can a meaningful causal estimand be specified?59
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?46
Causal identification conditions for the effect of treatment in the treated: Illustration using the Northwest Germany Stroke Registry.45
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?43
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort40
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay40
Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Two Cohorts of Pregnant Women With HIV in Zambia39
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Comparison of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Genetic Predictors: Erratum36
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models36
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects36
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression35
Mendelian Randomization With Repeated Measures of a Time-varying Exposure34
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data34
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies32
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders27
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research27
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study25
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?25
Use of routinely collected data to classify planned mode of delivery among pregnancies with a previous cesarean delivery: a validation study25
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome24
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study24
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–202024
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?23
Visual Acuity and the Risk of Cycling Injuries23
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach22
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data22
The Author Responds22
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?22
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth22
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects21
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize21
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population21
Using measurement error parameters from validation data21
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data20
Comparative risks of opioid overdose in patients on oxycodone initiating selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors19
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–201819
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown19
Impact of washout duration to account for left truncation in register-based epidemiologic studies: Estimating the risk of mental disorders18
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness18
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.17
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States17
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding17
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures16
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates16
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care15
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth15
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women15
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias14
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study14
Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II14
Meconium Concentrations of Pesticides and Risk of Hypospadias: A Case–Control Study in Brittany, France14
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods14
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 202014
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters14
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research14
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?13
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden13
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome13
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study12
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina12
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records12
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide12
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk12
Could Smoking Initiation Among Youth by E-cigarettes Warrant a Shorter Definition for Epidemiology?12
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive12
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models12
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study12
Thanks to Our Reviewers12
The Joint Effects of Depression and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders on Suicide Deaths12
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive11
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure11
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables11
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study11
The Authors Respond11
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure11
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties11
First Episodes of Norovirus and Sapovirus Gastroenteritis Protect Against Subsequent Episodes in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort10
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring10
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator10
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure10
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity10
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies10
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets10
Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences10
Inflammation and Conception in a Prospective Time-to-Pregnancy Cohort9
State-Level Masking Mandates and COVID-19 Outcomes in the United States9
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk9
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction9
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs9
Opioid Agonist Therapy Adherence Trajectories Among Commercially and Publicly Insured People Living With Hepatitis C in the United States9
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke9
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada9
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase9
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission9
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination9
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria9
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study9
Marginal Versus Conditional Odds Ratios When Updating Risk Prediction Models8
Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Attributable Risk of Kidney Diseases8
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies8
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio8
Unbiased estimates using temporally aggregated outcome data in time series analysis: generalization to different outcomes, exposures and types of aggregation8
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology8
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index8
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy8
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain7
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health7
Erratum: Effect Modification in Settings with “Truncation by Death”7
Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be7
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data7
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis7
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox7
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction7
Beyond Vaccination Rates: A Synthetic Random Proxy Metric of Total SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Seroprevalence in the Community7
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital6
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age6
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records6
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study6
Accounting for the Potential of Overdispersion in Estimation of the Time-varying Reproduction Number6
Distinguishing Immunologic and Behavioral Effects of Vaccination6
Marco Piccininni, Winner of the 2024 Rothman Prize6
Estimands and Estimation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Under the Test-Negative Design6
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference6
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study6
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores6
Advancing Reproducible Research Through Version Control Technology6
On the Conventional Definition of Path-specific Effects: Fully Mediated Interaction With Multiple Ordered Mediators6
Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of the Effects of Being Overweight on All-cause Mortality6
Effects of Recall and Selection Biases on Modeling Cancer Risk From Mobile Phone Use: Results From a Case–Control Simulation Study6
Long-term Exposure to Oxidant Gases and Mortality: Effect Modification by PM2.5 Transition Metals and Oxidative Potential6
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects6
Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation6
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–20206
Erratum: Methodological challenges in Mendelian randomization6
Pregnancy Exposure to Phenols and Anthropometric Measures in Gestation and at Birth6
Incorporating Efficacy Data from Initial Trials Into Subsequent Evaluations: Application to Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus6
Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects6
Sexual Mixing by HIV Status and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Addressing Information Bias5
Doubly Robust Control Outcome Calibration Approach Estimation of Conditional Effects with Uncontrolled Confounding5
Improving Biomarker-based HIV Incidence Estimation in the Treatment Era5
Development and Validation of Algorithms to Estimate Live Birth Gestational Age in Medicaid Analytic eXtract Data5
Identifying Sensitive Windows of Exposure to NO2 and Fetal Growth Trajectories in a Spanish Birth Cohort5
The Prevalent New-user Design for Studies With no Active Comparator: The Example of Statins and Cancer5
The Impact of Job Loss on Self-injury Mortality in a Cohort of Autoworkers5
Spatial Difference-in-Differences with Bayesian Disease Mapping Models5
Heat-attributable Mortality in the Summer of 2022 in Spain5
A New Criterion for Determining a Cutoff Value Based on the Biases of Incidence Proportions in the Presence of Non-differential Outcome Misclassifications5
PROVIDENT: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Neighborhood-level Overdose Risk in Rhode Island5
Adjusting Adjustments: Using External Data to Estimate the Impact of Different Confounder Sets on Published Associations5
Causal Mediation Analysis with Multiple Time-varying Mediators5
Advanced Approaches to Generating High-validity Real-world Evidence in Asthma5
Selection of Comparator Group in Observational Drug Safety Studies: Alternatives to the Active Comparator New User Design5
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-195
The Impact of Power Outages on Cardiovascular Hospitalizations Among Medicare Fee-for-service Enrollees in New York State, 2017–20185
A Quantitative Intersectionality Analysis of HIV/STI Prevention and Healthcare Access Among Transgender and Nonbinary People4
Investigating the Potential Short-term Adverse Effects of the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: A Novel Regression Discontinuity Analysis4
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Visualizing External Validity: Graphical Displays to Inform the Extension of Treatment Effects from Trials to Clinical Practice4
Incretin-Based Drugs and the Incidence of Prostate Cancer Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes4
Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area: A Time-Series Analysis from 2010 to 20174
Incorporating Data from Multiple Endpoints in the Analysis of Clinical Trials: Example from RSV Vaccines4
Using Balancing Weights to Target the Treatment Effect on the Treated when Overlap is Poor4
Causal Approaches to Disease Progression Analyses4
Back to Basics: What Descriptive Epidemiology Can Teach Us About the Recent Rise in Firearm Homicide4
Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Central North Carolina: Accounting for Outcome Misclassification in Complex Sample Designs4
Cold-related Mortality in US State and Private Prisons: A Case–Crossover Analysis4
Accounting for Misclassification and Selection Bias in Estimating Effectiveness of Self-managed Medication Abortion4
Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the Third Generation4
Association of Early-life Trauma With Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy4
Validation of Self-reported Opioid Agonist Treatment Among People Who Inject Drugs Using Prescription Dispensation Records4
Re: Don’t Let Your Analysis Go to Seed: On the Impact of Random Seed on Machine Learning-based Causal Inference4
When Effects Cannot be Estimated: Redefining Estimands to Understand the Effects of Naloxone Access Laws4
Gestational Hypertensive Disorders and Maternal Breast Cancer Risk in a Nationwide Cohort of 40,720 Parous Women4
Association Between Medical Diagnoses and Suicide in a Medicaid Beneficiary Population, North Carolina 2014–20174
Impact of Activity Participation on the Risk of Mortality and Hospitalizations in Danish Men and Women: Insights from REGLINK-SHAREDK4
Re. E-values for Mendelian Randomization4
The Association Between Ambient Particulate Matter Exposure and Anemia in HIV/AIDS Patients4
Have Paved Trails and Protected Bike Lanes Led to More Bicycling in Atlanta?: A Generalized Synthetic-Control Analysis4
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Mortality and Hospitalization Among People With Opioid Use-related Infections4
The Role of Epidemiology in Addressing Ableism4
Spatial Variability and Clustering of Life Expectancy in the United States: 1990–20194
Causal Effect of Chronic Pain on Mortality Through Opioid Prescriptions: Application of the Front-Door Formula4
The Authors Respond4
The Case–Crossover Design Under Changing Baseline Outcome Risk: A Simulation of Ambient Temperature and Preterm Birth4
Long-term Economic Distress and Growing Educational Inequity in Life Expectancy4
Homogeneity in the Instrument-exposure Association and Point Estimation Using Binary Instrumental Variables4
Differential Participation, a Potential Cause of Spurious Associations in Observational Cohorts in Environmental Epidemiology3
Maternal Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis3
Examining the Interactive Associations of Cannabis and Alcohol Outlets With Self-harm Injuries in California: A Spatiotemporal Analysis3
Understanding Variation in Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Estimates in the United States: The Role of Rotavirus Activity and Diagnostic Misclassification3
Erratum: Natural effects with a recanting witness: non-identifiability or meaningless estimand?3
Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality A Longitudinal Cohort Study of 400,459 Adults3
The Authors Respond3
Health Outcomes Associated With Clinician-initiated Delivery for Hypertensive Disorders at 34–38 Weeks’ Gestation3
Commentary: The Seedy Side of Causal Effect Estimation with Machine Learning3
Validation of Long-term Recall of Pregnancy-related Weight in the Life-course Experiences And Pregnancy Study3
Five Facts About Influence Functions3
Re. Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy With Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination3
Mixture Models for Social Epidemiology: Opportunities and Cautions3
Risk Factors and Inequities in Transportation Injury and Mortality in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs)3
The Impact of Keeping Indoor Dining Closed on COVID-19 Rates Among Large US Cities3
Beta Approach for Risk Summarization: An Empirical Bayes Method for Summarizing Pregnancy History to Predict Later Health Outcomes3
The Promise of Intersectional Critique for Epidemiology3
Associations of Local Cannabis Control Policies With Harmful Cannabis Exposures Reported to the California Poison Control System3
Combining Urinary Biomarker Data From Studies With Different Measures of Urinary Dilution3
Outcome of Pregnancy Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and Preterm Birth3
Investigating Symptom Duration Using Current Status Data: A Case Study of Postacute COVID-19 Syndrome3
Long-term Traffic-related Air Pollutant Exposure and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Diagnosis in Denmark: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis3
Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness3
Increased Residential Clustering of COVID-19 Cases Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern B.1.1.73
Transportability Without Positivity: A Synthesis of Statistical and Simulation Modeling3
Decomposing the Black–White Racial Disparity in Severe Maternal Morbidity Risk: The Role of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy3
Accounting for Twins and Other Multiple Births in Perinatal Studies of Live Births Conducted Using Healthcare Administration Data3
What Can Genetic Relatedness Tell Us About Risk Factors for Tuberculosis Transmission?3
Migration and Health: Chasing Causality in a Complex World3
The Era of Progress on Gun Mortality: State Gun Regulations and Gun Deaths from 1991 to 20163
Self-reported Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Vaccine Effectiveness Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Quantitative Bias Analysis3
Interpretations of Studies on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Post-acute COVID-19 Sequelae3
The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat3
The Population-level Effect of Adjuvant Therapies on Breast Cancer Recurrence: Application of the Trend-in-Trend Design3
The Recent Rise in Homicide: An Analysis of Weekly Mortality Data, United States, 2018–20223
A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality3
A New Tool for Reporting Mediation Analyses3
Monitoring Drug Safety in Pregnancy with Scan Statistics: A Comparison of Two Study Designs3
Crosswalks to Convert US Census Bureau Industry and Occupation Codes, 1980–20183
In utero Exposure to Maternal Diabetes and the Risk of Cerebral Palsy: A Population-based Cohort Study3
Filling in the Spaces in Cardiovascular Epidemiology2
Early Detection of Dengue Outbreaks: Transmission Model Analysis of a Dengue Outbreak in a Remote Setting in Ecuador2
Complications in Using Real-World Data to Study the Health of People Who Use Drugs2
Is Leaving the House a Protective Factor Against Early Death?: Informing Interventions Demands More Specific Exposures2
Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide2
The Authors Respond2
Erratum: “The Effect of Mobile Stroke Unit Care on Functional Outcomes: An Application of the Front-door Formula”2
Residential Greenness and Long-term Mortality Among Patients Who Underwent Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery2
Method for Testing Etiologic Heterogeneity Among Noncompeting Diagnoses, Applied to Impact of Perinatal Exposures on Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder2
Transporting Results from a Trial to an External Target Population When Trial Participation Impacts Adherence2
The Role of Staff in Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Long-term Care Facilities2
Mortality Associated With Heatwave Severity in the Three Largest Australian Cities2
Multilevel Resilience and Appointment Attendance Among African American/Black Adults with HIV: A Prospective Multisite Cohort Study2
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission2
Misclassification Bias in the Assessment of Gene-by-Environment Interactions2
Body Shapes of Multiple Anthropometric Traits and All-cause and Cause-specific Mortality in the UK Biobank2
Wildfire Exposure and Health Care Use Among People Who Use Durable Medical Equipment in Southern California2
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Computing True Parameter Values in Simulation Studies Using Monte Carlo Integration2
Urinary Biomarkers of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Timing of Pubertal Development: The California PAH Study2
Estimating Associations Between Annual Concentrations of Particulate Matter and Mortality in the United States, Using Data Linkage and Bayesian Maximum Entropy2
The Authors Respond2
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