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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
The Authors Respond104
Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Two Cohorts of Pregnant Women With HIV in Zambia85
Erratum: Far from MCAR: Obtaining Population-level Estimates of HIV Viral Suppression62
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Comparison of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Genetic Predictors: Erratum54
Mendelian Randomization With Repeated Measures of a Time-varying Exposure41
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort38
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?38
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders36
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies34
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data32
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay32
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?31
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression31
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology31
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research30
The Authors Respond30
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models29
Visual Acuity and the Risk of Cycling Injuries29
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome29
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?28
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study28
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–202025
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?23
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data23
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?23
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth21
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize20
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States20
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects20
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness19
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown19
The Author Responds19
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach19
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.19
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data18
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates18
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding18
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–201818
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population18
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters17
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women17
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome17
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care16
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias16
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden16
Meconium Concentrations of Pesticides and Risk of Hypospadias: A Case–Control Study in Brittany, France16
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research16
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study15
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk15
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth15
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures15
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?15
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 202015
Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II15
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods14
The Joint Effects of Depression and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders on Suicide Deaths14
Could Smoking Initiation Among Youth by E-cigarettes Warrant a Shorter Definition for Epidemiology?14
The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development14
Thanks to Our Reviewers14
The Importance of Making Assumptions in Bias Analysis14
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive13
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina13
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide13
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure13
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study13
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study12
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records12
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties12
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study12
Neighborhood Walkability and Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of Women11
Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences11
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure11
Inflammation and Conception in a Prospective Time-to-Pregnancy Cohort11
Rejoinder to “The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment Is Not Increasing in the United States: A Critique of Hale et al. (2020)”11
State-Level Masking Mandates and COVID-19 Outcomes in the United States11
Critical Time Windows for Air Pollution Exposure and Birth Weight in a Multicity Canadian Pregnancy Cohort11
Antigen-based Rapid Diagnostic Testing or Alternatives for Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-1911
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies11
First Episodes of Norovirus and Sapovirus Gastroenteritis Protect Against Subsequent Episodes in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort11
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator10
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure10
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables10
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive10
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets10
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring10
The Authors Respond9
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk9
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs9
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
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke9
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity9
Marginal Versus Conditional Odds Ratios When Updating Risk Prediction Models9
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria9
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio9
Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Israel8
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis8
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox8
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy8
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada8
Beyond Vaccination Rates: A Synthetic Random Proxy Metric of Total SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Seroprevalence in the Community8
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction8
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies8
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index8
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology8
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase8
Mechanistic Correlates of Protection for SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines8
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health8
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–20208
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain8
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study8
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction8
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age7
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study7
Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation7
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records7
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference7
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data7
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects7
Identifying Sensitive Windows of Exposure to NO2 and Fetal Growth Trajectories in a Spanish Birth Cohort7
Constructed Measures and Causal Inference7
The Case Time Series Design7
Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Attributable Risk of Kidney Diseases7
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores7
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital7
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study7
Distinguishing Immunologic and Behavioral Effects of Vaccination6
Selection of Comparator Group in Observational Drug Safety Studies: Alternatives to the Active Comparator New User Design6
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-196
Estimands and Estimation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Under the Test-Negative Design6
Effects of Recall and Selection Biases on Modeling Cancer Risk From Mobile Phone Use: Results From a Case–Control Simulation Study6
Erratum: Methodological challenges in Mendelian randomization6
Advancing Reproducible Research Through Version Control Technology6
Long-term Exposure to Oxidant Gases and Mortality: Effect Modification by PM2.5 Transition Metals and Oxidative Potential6
Heat-attributable Mortality in the Summer of 2022 in Spain6
Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects6
Incorporating Efficacy Data from Initial Trials Into Subsequent Evaluations: Application to Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus6
PROVIDENT: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Neighborhood-level Overdose Risk in Rhode Island6
Pregnancy Exposure to Phenols and Anthropometric Measures in Gestation and at Birth6
A New Criterion for Determining a Cutoff Value Based on the Biases of Incidence Proportions in the Presence of Non-differential Outcome Misclassifications6
Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of the Effects of Being Overweight on All-cause Mortality6
Accounting for the Potential of Overdispersion in Estimation of the Time-varying Reproduction Number6
On the Conventional Definition of Path-specific Effects: Fully Mediated Interaction With Multiple Ordered Mediators6
Development and Validation of Algorithms to Estimate Live Birth Gestational Age in Medicaid Analytic eXtract Data6
Marco Piccininni, Winner of the 2024 Rothman Prize6
Causal Mediation Analysis with Multiple Time-varying Mediators5
The Impact of Job Loss on Self-injury Mortality in a Cohort of Autoworkers5
Sexual Mixing by HIV Status and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Addressing Information Bias5
The Prevalent New-user Design for Studies With no Active Comparator: The Example of Statins and Cancer5
Cold-related Mortality in US State and Private Prisons: A Case–Crossover Analysis5
A Quantitative Intersectionality Analysis of HIV/STI Prevention and Healthcare Access Among Transgender and Nonbinary People5
“Spatial Variability and Clustering of Life Expectancy in the US: 1990-2019”5
The Association Between Ambient Particulate Matter Exposure and Anemia in HIV/AIDS Patients5
Adjusting Adjustments: Using External Data to Estimate the Impact of Different Confounder Sets on Published Associations5
Improving Biomarker-based HIV Incidence Estimation in the Treatment Era5
Identifiability and Estimation Under the Test-negative Design With Population Controls With the Goal of Identifying Risk and Preventive Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection5
Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in the Third Generation5
Have Paved Trails and Protected Bike Lanes Led to More Bicycling in Atlanta?: A Generalized Synthetic-Control Analysis5
Investigating the Potential Short-term Adverse Effects of the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: A Novel Regression Discontinuity Analysis5
Incretin-Based Drugs and the Incidence of Prostate Cancer Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes5
The Impact of Power Outages on Cardiovascular Hospitalizations Among Medicare Fee-for-service Enrollees in New York State, 2017–20185
Advanced Approaches to Generating High-validity Real-world Evidence in Asthma5
Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Central North Carolina: Accounting for Outcome Misclassification in Complex Sample Designs5
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Mortality and Hospitalization Among People With Opioid Use-related Infections5
Validation of Self-reported Opioid Agonist Treatment Among People Who Inject Drugs Using Prescription Dispensation Records5
The Authors Respond5
Association Between Medical Diagnoses and Suicide in a Medicaid Beneficiary Population, North Carolina 2014–20175
The Authors Respond4
Back to Basics: What Descriptive Epidemiology Can Teach Us About the Recent Rise in Firearm Homicide4
Incorporating Data from Multiple Endpoints in the Analysis of Clinical Trials: Example from RSV Vaccines4
When Effects Cannot be Estimated: Redefining Estimands to Understand the Effects of Naloxone Access Laws4
Long-term Economic Distress and Growing Educational Inequity in Life Expectancy4
Re: Don’t Let Your Analysis Go to Seed: On the Impact of Random Seed on Machine Learning-based Causal Inference4
Using Balancing Weights to Target the Treatment Effect on the Treated when Overlap is Poor4
Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area: A Time-Series Analysis from 2010 to 20174
The Case–Crossover Design Under Changing Baseline Outcome Risk: A Simulation of Ambient Temperature and Preterm Birth4
Association of Early-life Trauma With Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy4
Impact of Activity Participation on the Risk of Mortality and Hospitalizations in Danish Men and Women: Insights from REGLINK-SHAREDK4
Causal Effect of Chronic Pain on Mortality Through Opioid Prescriptions: Application of the Front-Door Formula4
Homogeneity in the Instrument-exposure Association and Point Estimation Using Binary Instrumental Variables4
Visualizing External Validity: Graphical Displays to Inform the Extension of Treatment Effects from Trials to Clinical Practice4
Gestational Hypertensive Disorders and Maternal Breast Cancer Risk in a Nationwide Cohort of 40,720 Parous Women4
Accounting for Misclassification and Selection Bias in Estimating Effectiveness of Self-managed Medication Abortion4
Union Burying Ground4
Re. E-values for Mendelian Randomization4
Monitoring Drug Safety in Pregnancy with Scan Statistics: A Comparison of Two Study Designs3
Increased Residential Clustering of COVID-19 Cases Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern B.1.1.73
The Era of Progress on Gun Mortality: State Gun Regulations and Gun Deaths from 1991 to 20163
The Promise of Intersectional Critique for Epidemiology3
Erratum: Natural effects with a recanting witness: non-identifiability or meaningless estimand?3
Combining Urinary Biomarker Data From Studies With Different Measures of Urinary Dilution3
Self-reported Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Vaccine Effectiveness Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Quantitative Bias Analysis3
Outcome of Pregnancy Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and Preterm Birth3
Interpretations of Studies on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Post-acute COVID-19 Sequelae3
Differential Participation, a Potential Cause of Spurious Associations in Observational Cohorts in Environmental Epidemiology3
Crosswalks to Convert US Census Bureau Industry and Occupation Codes, 1980–20183
Maternal Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis3
Re. Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy With Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination3
Understanding Variation in Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Estimates in the United States: The Role of Rotavirus Activity and Diagnostic Misclassification3
The Role of Epidemiology in Addressing Ableism3
In utero Exposure to Maternal Diabetes and the Risk of Cerebral Palsy: A Population-based Cohort Study3
Accounting for Twins and Other Multiple Births in Perinatal Studies of Live Births Conducted Using Healthcare Administration Data3
The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat3
Transportability Without Positivity: A Synthesis of Statistical and Simulation Modeling3
Validation of Long-term Recall of Pregnancy-related Weight in the Life-course Experiences And Pregnancy Study3
The Population-level Effect of Adjuvant Therapies on Breast Cancer Recurrence: Application of the Trend-in-Trend Design3
Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness3
Health Outcomes Associated With Clinician-initiated Delivery for Hypertensive Disorders at 34–38 Weeks’ Gestation3
BARS: An empirical Bayes method for summarizing pregnancy history to predict later health outcomes3
Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality A Longitudinal Cohort Study of 400,459 Adults3
Commentary: The Seedy Side of Causal Effect Estimation with Machine Learning3
What Can Genetic Relatedness Tell Us About Risk Factors for Tuberculosis Transmission?3
The Impact of Keeping Indoor Dining Closed on COVID-19 Rates Among Large US Cities3
A New Tool for Reporting Mediation Analyses3
Five Facts About Influence Functions3
Examining the Interactive Associations of Cannabis and Alcohol Outlets With Self-harm Injuries in California: A Spatiotemporal Analysis3
A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality3
Long-term Traffic-related Air Pollutant Exposure and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Diagnosis in Denmark: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis3
Mixture Models for Social Epidemiology: Opportunities and Cautions3
Associations of Local Cannabis Control Policies With Harmful Cannabis Exposures Reported to the California Poison Control System3
Migration and Health: Chasing Causality in a Complex World3
SARS-CoV-2: An Empirical Investigation of Rose’s Population-based Logic3
Decomposing the Black–White Racial Disparity in Severe Maternal Morbidity Risk: The Role of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy3
Risk Factors and Inequities in Transportation Injury and Mortality in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs)3
Complications in Using Real-World Data to Study the Health of People Who Use Drugs2
Erratum: Average Causal Effect Estimation via Instrumental Variables: The No Simultaneous Heterogeneity Assumption2
Filling in the Spaces in Cardiovascular Epidemiology2
Approaches to Estimating Clearance Rates for Human Papillomavirus Groupings: A Systematic Review and Real Data Examples2
An Overview of Current Methods for Real-world Applications to Generalize or Transport Clinical Trial Findings to Target Populations of Interest2
Multilevel Resilience and Appointment Attendance Among African American/Black Adults with HIV: A Prospective Multisite Cohort Study2
Improving the Quality of Observational Data: Registries of Validated Outcomes and Other Patient Events2
The Prevalence of Cognitive Impairment Is Not Increasing in the United States: A Critique of Hale et al. (2020)2
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
The Role of Staff in Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Long-term Care Facilities2
Urinary Biomarkers of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Timing of Pubertal Development: The California PAH Study2
Erratum: “The Effect of Mobile Stroke Unit Care on Functional Outcomes: An Application of the Front-door Formula”2
Re: Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?2
Detecting Heterogeneity of Intervention Effects Using Analysis and Meta-analysis of Differences in Variance Between Trial Arms2
The Authors Respond2
Leveraging External Validation Data: The Challenges of Transporting Measurement Error Parameters2
The Authors Respond2
Residential Greenness and Long-term Mortality Among Patients Who Underwent Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery2
Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide2
The Authors Respond2
Joint Models for Estimating Determinants of Cognitive Decline in the Presence of Survival Bias2
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission2
Estimating Associations Between Annual Concentrations of Particulate Matter and Mortality in the United States, Using Data Linkage and Bayesian Maximum Entropy2
Method for Testing Etiologic Heterogeneity Among Noncompeting Diagnoses, Applied to Impact of Perinatal Exposures on Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder2
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