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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort	101
The Authors Respond	94
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models	88
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects	61
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?	52
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression	50
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay	47
Re. Prediagnostic Exposures and Cancer Survival: Can a Meaningful Causal Estimand be Specified?	46
Causal Identification Conditions for the Effect of Treatment in the Treated: Illustration Using the Northwest Germany Stroke Registry	45
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies	43
Oral manifestations of HIV as indicators of disease progression and antiretroviral therapy adherence: A scoping review	33
A prospective study on the association between potential prescribing omissions and hospitalizations in community-dwelling older adults	32
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research	31
Comparative Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness During Omicron Using Conventional and Causal Inference Approaches in a Longitudinal Cohort	31
Application of the E-value under non-proportional hazards	30
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data	27
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–2020	26
Long-term Effect of the Medicaid Expansion Program on Cancer Mortality by U.S. Region, Gender and Race/Ethnicity	26
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?	26
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study	25
Use of Routinely Collected Data to Classify Planned Mode of Delivery Among Pregnancies With a Previous Cesarean Delivery: A Validation Study	24
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data	24
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study	24
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?	24
Re: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects	23

Associations of reproductive factors with expression of stromal markers in women with benign breast biopsies	22
Metabolic syndrome and memory decline: evidence from a longitudinal aging cohort in rural South Africa	22
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?	22
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?	22
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome	21
Are We the Same, or Are We Different?: Untangling Education Policy Effects from State and Birth-year Differences	19
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth	19
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach	18
The Author Responds	18
Transporting Results from a Trial to an External Target Population When Trial Participation Impacts Adherence: Erratum	18
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize	17
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness	17
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population	17
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects	17
Comparative Risks of Opioid Overdose in Patients on Oxycodone Initiating Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors	16
A Framework for Thinking About the Potential Public Health Impact of Epidemiologic Research	16
Using Measurement Error Parameters From Validation Data	16
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.	15
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States	15
Generalizing Findings in Nested Cohorts	14
Impact of Washout Duration to Account for Left Truncation in Register-based Epidemiologic Studies: Estimating the Risk of Mental Disorders	14
Reproductive Health in an Era of Cascading Inequity: The “Double Jeopardy” of Environmental Stressors and Gaps in the Social Safety Net	14
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown	14
Gut Health, Systemic Inflammation, and Linear Growth Among Indonesian Infants: Findings From the Action Against Stunting Hub Observation Cohort: Erratum	14
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data	14
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures	13
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters	13
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth	13
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care	13
Meconium Concentrations of Pesticides and Risk of Hypospadias: A Case–Control Study in Brittany, France	13
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates	13
Obesity from Childhood to Mid-adulthood in the United States: A Synthetic Cohort Approach to Measuring Health Trajectories	13
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study	12
Improving Inference in Air Pollution Epidemiology: The Case for Rethinking Multipollutant Adjustment	12
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women	12
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden	12
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk	11
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods	11
Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II	11
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?	11
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome	11
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research	11
Molecular characterization of norovirus circulating in district Lahore	11
Impact of Abortion-Limiting Legislation on Preterm and Early Term Birth in Atlanta, Georgia, 2020-2023	11
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 2020	11
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias	11
The Association Between Outdoor Temperature During the Past Weeks and Current Fluid Homeostasis	10
The Long Arm of Childhood Policy: Historical Schooling Laws and COVID-19 Pandemic-era Mortality	10
Spatial Heterogeneity in Synergistic Effects of Extreme Heat and NO2 Exposures on Cardiorespiratory Hospitalizations in California	10
Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices: Erratum	10

Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina	10
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties	10
Thanks to Our Reviewers	10
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study	10
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models	10
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study	9
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study	9
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	9
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure	9
Considerations for Estimating Causal Effects of Informatively Timed Treatments	9
An Expedited Chart Review Process for Large Database Studies Using Natural Language Processing and Multiwave Adaptive Sampling	9
Everything All at Once: On Choosing an Estimand for Multi-component Environmental Exposures	9
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records	9
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide	9
Identifying Demographic Predictors of Increased Nonfatal Opioid Overdose Risk Among New York State Medicaid Enrollees After the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Analysis of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects	8
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity	8
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets	8
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables	8
Against Resignation on Prespecification: Reproducibility and Target Trial Emulation	8
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring	8
The Authors Respond	8
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure	8
Opioid Agonist Therapy Adherence Trajectories Among Commercially and Publicly Insured People Living With Hepatitis C in the United States	7
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke	7
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk	7
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs	7
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies	7
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	7
The Ideal Trial: Defining Causal Estimands that Balance Relevance and Feasibility in Target Trial Emulations and Actual Randomized Trials	7
Julianne Skarha, Winner of the 2026 Rothman Prize	7
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study	7
Test-negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution	7
Thanks to Our Reviewers 2025	7
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure	7
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination	7
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria	7
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio	7
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission	7
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator	7
Temporal Variation in the Association Between Short-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality Across Subpopulations in North Carolina and Michigan, U.S.	6
Adapting Back-calculation Methods to Estimate the Incidence of Tuberculosis	6
Longitudinal Transitions Between Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Associations with Substance Use among US Young Adults, 2016–2023	6
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada	6
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology	6
Nesting a Target Study within a Target Trial: A Framework for Evaluating Intervention Effects on Disparities	6
Bounds and E-values for Marginal Causal Effects	6
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis	6
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health	6
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy	6
Unbiased Estimates Using Temporally Aggregated Outcome Data in Time Series Analysis: Generalization to Different Outcomes, Exposures, and Types of Aggregation	6
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain	6
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox	6
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–2020	6
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data	6
Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be	6
Longer-term Survival of UK People with Bleeding Disorders Infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus and/or Hepatitis C Virus Through Contaminated Blood Transfusions	6
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction	6
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction	6
Erratum: Effect Modification in Settings with “Truncation by Death”	6
State Minimum Wages and Food Insecurity Among Households Receiving Government Food Assistance	6
Comparison of Lactation Information from Electronic Health Records with Survey Data Across Five US Health Systems	6
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies	6
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index	6