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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology	137
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort	65
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay	58
Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Two Cohorts of Pregnant Women With HIV in Zambia	52
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Comparison of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Genetic Predictors: Erratum	51
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models	46
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects	46
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies	42
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?	42
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders	41
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?	38
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression	38
Causal Identification Conditions for the Effect of Treatment in the Treated: Illustration Using the Northwest Germany Stroke Registry	36
Re. Prediagnostic Exposures and Cancer Survival: Can a Meaningful Causal Estimand be Specified?	36
The Authors Respond	30
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study	28
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research	28
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data	28
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome	27
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?	26
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data	25
Use of Routinely Collected Data to Classify Planned Mode of Delivery Among Pregnancies With a Previous Cesarean Delivery: A Validation Study	25
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?	25
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?	23
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth	23

Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study	23
The Author Responds	22
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–2020	22
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach	22
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown	21
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects	21
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data	21
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population	21
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize	21
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–2018	20
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness	20
Comparative Risks of Opioid Overdose in Patients on Oxycodone Initiating Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors	18
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding	18
Using Measurement Error Parameters From Validation Data	17
A framework for thinking about the potential public health impact of epidemiologic research	17
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States	17
Impact of Washout Duration to Account for Left Truncation in Register-based Epidemiologic Studies: Estimating the Risk of Mental Disorders	16
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.	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
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures	15
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care	15
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth	15
Obesity from Childhood to Mid-adulthood in the United States: A Synthetic Cohort Approach to Measuring Health Trajectories	14
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women	14
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk	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
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study	14
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden	13
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome	13
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 2020	13
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias	13
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates	13
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide	12
Could Smoking Initiation Among Youth by E-cigarettes Warrant a Shorter Definition for Epidemiology?	12
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?	12
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina	12
Thanks to Our Reviewers	12
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models	12
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties	12
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study	12
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research	12
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study	12
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	11
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure	11
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity	11
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure	11
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	11
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables	11

A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records	11
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study	11
The Authors Respond	11
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke	10
Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences	10
Inflammation and Conception in a Prospective Time-to-Pregnancy Cohort	10
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring	10
First Episodes of Norovirus and Sapovirus Gastroenteritis Protect Against Subsequent Episodes in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort	10
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies	10
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets	10
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure	10
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator	10
Opioid Agonist Therapy Adherence Trajectories Among Commercially and Publicly Insured People Living With Hepatitis C in the United States	10
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination	10
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs	9
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction	9
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk	9
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada	9
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission	8
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study	8
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase	8
Unbiased Estimates Using Temporally Aggregated Outcome Data in Time Series Analysis: Generalization to Different Outcomes, Exposures, and Types of Aggregation	8
Test-negative designs with various reasons for testing: statistical bias and solution	8
Marginal Versus Conditional Odds Ratios When Updating Risk Prediction Models	8
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio	8
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria	8
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox	7
Longer-term survival of UK people with bleeding disorders infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus and/or Hepatitis C Virus through contaminated blood transfusions	7
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health	7
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain	7
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology	7
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–2020	7
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction	7
Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be	7
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data	7
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index	7
Beyond Vaccination Rates: A Synthetic Random Proxy Metric of Total SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Seroprevalence in the Community	7
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy	7
Comparison of Lactation Information from Electronic Health Records with Survey Data Across Five US Health Systems	7
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies	7
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis	7
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects	7
Bounds and E-values for Marginal Causal Effects	7
Erratum: Effect Modification in Settings with “Truncation by Death”	7
Erratum: Methodological challenges in Mendelian randomization	6
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study	6
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference	6
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study	6
Long-term Exposure to Oxidant Gases and Mortality: Effect Modification by PM2.5 Transition Metals and Oxidative Potential	6
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19	6
Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation	6
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records	6
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age	6
Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of the Effects of Being Overweight on All-cause Mortality	6
Incorporating Efficacy Data from Initial Trials Into Subsequent Evaluations: Application to Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus	6
Accounting for the Potential of Overdispersion in Estimation of the Time-varying Reproduction Number	6
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores	6
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital	6
Advancing Reproducible Research Through Version Control Technology	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
On the Conventional Definition of Path-specific Effects: Fully Mediated Interaction With Multiple Ordered Mediators	6