OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Epidemiology is 6. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
The Authors Respond	122
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?	66
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology	57
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders	44
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay	41
Re. Pre-diagnostic exposures and cancer survival: Can a meaningful causal estimand be specified?	41
Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Two Cohorts of Pregnant Women With HIV in Zambia	39
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies	38
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort	37
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Comparison of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Genetic Predictors: Erratum	37
Mendelian Randomization With Repeated Measures of a Time-varying Exposure	36
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data	35
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?	34
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects	33
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research	32
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models	32
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–2020	32
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression	32
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study	29
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?	27
Use of routinely collected data to classify planned mode of delivery among pregnancies with a previous cesarean delivery: a validation study	25
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?	25
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study	25
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?	24
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data	23

Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome	23
Visual Acuity and the Risk of Cycling Injuries	23
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth	23
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize	22
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects	22
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–2018	22
The Author Responds	22
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data	21
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness	21
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding	21
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach	21
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population	20
Comparative risks of opioid overdose in patients on oxycodone initiating selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors	20
Using measurement error parameters from validation data	20
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States	18
Impact of Washout Duration to Account for Left Truncation in Register-based Epidemiologic Studies: Estimating the Risk of Mental Disorders	18
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.	18
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates	17
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown	17
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures	16
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth	16
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk	16
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study	16
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care	16
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods	15
Meconium Concentrations of Pesticides and Risk of Hypospadias: A Case–Control Study in Brittany, France	15
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women	15
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias	15
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 2020	14
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden	14
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?	14
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome	14
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records	14
Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II	14
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters	14
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research	14
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties	13
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide	13
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study	13
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study	13
Could Smoking Initiation Among Youth by E-cigarettes Warrant a Shorter Definition for Epidemiology?	12
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models	12
Thanks to Our Reviewers	12
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study	12
The Joint Effects of Depression and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders on Suicide Deaths	12
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure	12
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	12
Critical Time Windows for Air Pollution Exposure and Birth Weight in a Multicity Canadian Pregnancy Cohort	11
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	11
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina	11

Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke	11
Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences	10
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets	10
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator	10
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring	10
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity	10
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure	10
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure	10
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies	10
The Authors Respond	10
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables	10
Opioid Agonist Therapy Adherence Trajectories Among Commercially and Publicly Insured People Living With Hepatitis C in the United States	9
Inflammation and Conception in a Prospective Time-to-Pregnancy Cohort	9
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria	9
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs	9
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission	9
First Episodes of Norovirus and Sapovirus Gastroenteritis Protect Against Subsequent Episodes in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort	9
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination	9
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study	9
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada	9
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase	9
State-Level Masking Mandates and COVID-19 Outcomes in the United States	9
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction	9
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk	9
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy	8
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies	8
Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be	8
Marginal Versus Conditional Odds Ratios When Updating Risk Prediction Models	8
Beyond Vaccination Rates: A Synthetic Random Proxy Metric of Total SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Seroprevalence in the Community	8
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain	8
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis	8
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio	8
Erratum: Effect Modification in Settings with “Truncation by Death”	8
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology	8
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study	7
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–2020	7
Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Attributable Risk of Kidney Diseases	7
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data	7
Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation	7
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index	7
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox	7
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects	7
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction	7
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health	7
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital	6
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores	6
Estimands and Estimation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Under the Test-Negative Design	6
Development and Validation of Algorithms to Estimate Live Birth Gestational Age in Medicaid Analytic eXtract Data	6
Effects of Recall and Selection Biases on Modeling Cancer Risk From Mobile Phone Use: Results From a Case–Control Simulation Study	6
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19	6
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference	6
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records	6
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study	6
Erratum: Methodological challenges in Mendelian randomization	6
Incorporating Efficacy Data from Initial Trials Into Subsequent Evaluations: Application to Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus	6
PROVIDENT: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Neighborhood-level Overdose Risk in Rhode Island	6
Distinguishing Immunologic and Behavioral Effects of Vaccination	6
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age	6
Advancing Reproducible Research Through Version Control Technology	6
Constructed Measures and Causal Inference	6
Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of the Effects of Being Overweight on All-cause Mortality	6
Marco Piccininni, Winner of the 2024 Rothman Prize	6
A New Criterion for Determining a Cutoff Value Based on the Biases of Incidence Proportions in the Presence of Non-differential Outcome Misclassifications	6