OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Epidemiology is 8. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Meta-analysis of Proportions Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models	140
CMAverse: A Suite of Functions for Reproducible Causal Mediation Analyses	83
Theoretical Framework for Retrospective Studies of the Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines	82
Is Cohort Representativeness Passé? Poststratified Associations of Lifestyle Risk Factors with Mortality in the UK Biobank	75
Air Conditioning and Heat-related Mortality	74
Rapid Review of Social Contact Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	63
Estimating the Cumulative Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Infection Fatality Ratio in Light of Waning Antibodies	58
Estimating the Unknown	54
A Test-Negative Design with Additional Population Controls Can Be Used to Rapidly Study Causes of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic	51
Effects of Hot Nights on Mortality in Southern Europe	45
Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects	41
Trends in the Risk of Cognitive Impairment in the United States, 1996–2014	41
Toward Causally Interpretable Meta-analysis	40
Meaningful Causal Decompositions in Health Equity Research	32
Benchmarking Observational Methods by Comparing Randomized Trials and Their Emulations	31
Association Between Outdoor Light-at-night Exposure and Colorectal Cancer in Spain	31
The Case Time Series Design	31
Machine Learning for Causal Inference: On the Use of Cross-fit Estimators	30
Trends in Hip Fracture Incidence, Recurrence, and Survival by Education and Comorbidity: A Swedish Register-based Study	28
Validation of Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy: ICD-10 Codes in a High-burden Southeastern United States Hospital	27
To Adjust or Not to Adjust? When a “Confounder” Is Only Measured After Exposure	27
Differential Mortality Risks Associated With PM2.5 Components	27
Detecting Heterogeneity of Intervention Effects Using Analysis and Meta-analysis of Differences in Variance Between Trial Arms	26
Antiretrovirals and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis and Hospitalization in HIV-Positive Persons	25
Traffic-related Noise Exposure and Late-life Dementia and Cognitive Impairment in Mexican–Americans	23

Robust Metrics and Sensitivity Analyses for Meta-analyses of Heterogeneous Effects	23
Estimating the Impact of Sustained Social Participation on Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults	22
Insights into the Cross-world Independence Assumption of Causal Mediation Analysis	22
Prenatal Opioid Analgesics and the Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes	22
The Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapies	22
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Health	22
The Importance of Making Assumptions in Bias Analysis	21
Changes in Behavior with Increasing Pregnancy Attempt Time	21
The Relative Economy and Drug Overdose Deaths	21
Clinical Trial Emulation by Matching Time-dependent Propensity Scores	21
Maternal Thyroid Disorders and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Progeny	21
A Graphical Catalog of Threats to Validity	21
Tropical Cyclone Exposures and Risks of Emergency Medicare Hospital Admission for Cardiorespiratory Diseases in 175 Urban United States Counties, 1999–2010	20
Term Birth Weight and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes	20
Estimating the Size of a COVID-19 Epidemic from Surveillance Systems	19
The Effect of Prenatal Treatments on Offspring Events in the Presence of Competing Events	19
Identification and Validation of Anaphylaxis Using Electronic Health Data in a Population-based Setting	19
Nationwide Study of Short-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Hospitalizations Among Medicaid Enrollees	19
Intergenerational Change in Birthweight	18
Integrating Surveillance Data to Estimate Race/Ethnicity-specific Hysterectomy Inequalities Among Reproductive-aged Women	18
Weight Change and the Onset of Cardiovascular Diseases: Emulating Trials Using Electronic Health Records	18
Long-term Exposure to PM2.5 and Mortality for the Older Population: Effect Modification by Residential Greenness	18
An Aggregated Comorbidity Measure Based on History of Filled Drug Prescriptions: Development and Evaluation in Two Separate Cohorts	18
Describing Intersectional Health Outcomes	18
The Serpent of Their Agonies	17
Effect Decomposition in the Presence of Treatment-induced Confounding	17
Comment on Williamson et al. (OpenSAFELY): The Table 2 Fallacy in a Study of COVID-19 Mortality Risk Factors	17
Time Since Infection and Risks of Future Disease for Individuals with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in the United States	16
On the Nature of Informative Presence Bias in Analyses of Electronic Health Records	16
Aim for Clinical Utility, Not Just Predictive Accuracy	16
Multiple-bias Sensitivity Analysis Using Bounds	16
Socioeconomic Disparities in Colon Cancer Survival	16
E Values and Incidence Density Sampling	16
Prospective Association Between Manganese in Early Pregnancy and the Risk of Preeclampsia	16
Representativeness Is Not Representative	16
Critical Time Windows for Air Pollution Exposure and Birth Weight in a Multicity Canadian Pregnancy Cohort	16
Constructed Measures and Causal Inference	16
Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Attributable Risk of Kidney Diseases	16
A Trial Emulation Approach for Policy Evaluations with Group-level Longitudinal Data	15
Predicting the Future Course of Opioid Overdose Mortality: An Example From Two US States	15
Firearm Homicide Incidence, Within-state Firearm Laws, and Interstate Firearm Laws in US Counties	15
Validity of Antineoplastic Procedure Codes in the Danish National Patient Registry	15
Spatiotemporal Trends in Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race for Counties in Ohio	15
Combining Urinary Biomarker Data From Studies With Different Measures of Urinary Dilution	15
Revisiting Overadjustment Bias	15
Deep Learning-based Propensity Scores for Confounding Control in Comparative Effectiveness Research	15
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Gestational and Pregestational Diabetes During Pregnancy in a Large, Public Hospital	14
Community-wide Mortality Rates in Beijing, China, During the July 2012 Flood Compared with Unexposed Periods	14
The Quest for Timely Insights into COVID-19 Should not Come at the Cost of Scientific Rigor	14
A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality	14

Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination	14
Modeling Desert Dust Exposures in Epidemiologic Short-term Health Effects Studies	14
Estimands and Estimation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Under the Test-Negative Design	13
Toward Credible Patient-centered Meta-analysis	13
Estrogen Plus Progestin Hormone Therapy and Ovarian Cancer	13
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Childhood Body Mass Index Trajectories From Birth to 7 Years of Age	13
Surveillance-to-Diagnostic Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a Large, Urban Campus in Fall 2020	13
A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort	13
A Graphical Description of Partial Exchangeability	13
Effectiveness of Containment Measures Against COVID-19 in Singapore	13
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding	12
Log-transformation of Independent Variables: Must We?	12
The Use of Time to Pregnancy for Estimating and Monitoring Human Fecundity From Demographic and Health Surveys	12
Trends from 2008 to 2018 in Electricity-dependent Durable Medical Equipment Rentals and Sociodemographic Disparities	12
Prenatal Exposure to Mixtures of Persistent Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals and Birth Size in a Population-based Cohort of British Girls	12
Fetal Growth Trajectories Among Small for Gestational Age Babies and Child Neurodevelopment	12
Helped into Harm	12
Comparison of Antihypertensive Drug Classes for Dementia Prevention	12
State-Level Masking Mandates and COVID-19 Outcomes in the United States	12
Urinary Cadmium and Incident Heart Failure	12
Sex- and Type-specific Genital Human Papillomavirus Transmission Rates Between Heterosexual Partners: A Bayesian Reanalysis of the HITCH Cohort	11
Bans on Cellphone Use While Driving and Traffic Fatalities in the United States	11
Antigen-based Rapid Diagnostic Testing or Alternatives for Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-19	11
Social Distancing and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Potential Early in the Epidemic in Finland	11
Time-varying Effects of Screen Media Exposure in the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Background and Childhood Obesity	11
Positive Predictive Value of Sarcoidosis Identified in an Administrative Healthcare Registry: A Validation Study	11
Single-arm Trials with Historical Controls	11
The Evolving Usefulness of the Test-negative Design in Studying Risk Factors for COVID-19	10
A Congener-specific and Mixture Analysis of Plasma Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels and Incident Breast Cancer	10
Poverty, Deprivation, and Mortality Risk Among Women With HIV in the United States	10
Mendelian Randomization With Repeated Measures of a Time-varying Exposure	10
Hexamaps for Age–Period–Cohort Data Visualization and Implementation in R	10
A New Approach for Classifying Fetal Growth Restriction	10
Reducing Bias Due to Outcome Misclassification for Epidemiologic Studies Using EHR-derived Probabilistic Phenotypes	10
Should Fetal Growth Charts Be References or Standards?	10
The Target Trial: A Powerful Device Beyond Well-defined Interventions	10
Neighborhood Deprivation and Mental Health Among Immigrants to Sweden	10
Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Israel	9
Number of Healthcare Workers Who Have Died of COVID-19	9
Bounding the Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests, With Application to COVID-19 Antibody Tests	9
Generalizability of Subgroup Effects	9
Cardiometabolic Profiles and Change in Neighborhood Food and Built Environment Among Older Adults	9
A Pharmacoepidemiologic Approach to Evaluate Real-world Effectiveness of Hormonal Contraceptives in the Presence of Drug–drug Interactions	9
Recent Changes in the Patterns of Breast Cancer as a Proportion of All Deaths According to Race and Ethnicity	9
A Direct Estimate of the Impact of PM2.5, NO2, and O3 Exposure on Life Expectancy Using Propensity Scores	9
HIV Viremia and Risk of Stroke Among People Living with HIV Who Are Using Antiretroviral Therapy	9
Immunologic and Epidemiologic Drivers of Norovirus Transmission in Daycare and School Outbreaks	9
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors	9
The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat	9
Cosmetic Tattooing and Early Onset Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Population-based Case–Control Study from New Hampshire	9
When Effects Cannot be Estimated: Redefining Estimands to Understand the Effects of Naloxone Access Laws	9
An Alternative Perspective on the Robust Poisson Method for Estimating Risk or Prevalence Ratios	9
Estimation of Relative Vaccine Effectiveness in Influenza: A Systematic Review of Methodology	9
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?	9
Statistical Deconvolution for Inference of Infection Time Series	8
Estimating a Set of Mortality Risk Functions with Multiple Contributing Causes of Death	8
Causal Organic Indirect and Direct Effects: Closer to the Original Approach to Mediation Analysis, with a Product Method for Binary Mediators	8
A Prospective Cohort Study of Seasonal Variation in Spontaneous Abortion	8
Reweighting Oranges to Apples: Transported RE-LY Trial Versus Nonexperimental Effect Estimates of Anticoagulation in Atrial Fibrillation	8
Performance of Multiple Imputation Using Modern Machine Learning Methods in Electronic Health Records Data	8
Carceral Amplification of COVID-19: Impacts for Community, Corrections Officer, and Incarcerated Population Risks	8
Male Preconception Marijuana Use and Spontaneous Abortion	8
Estimating Vaccine Efficacy Against Transmission via Effect on Viral Load	8
Gestational Weight Gain and Long-term Maternal Obesity Risk: A Multiple-Bias Analysis	8
A Cautionary Note on Extended Kaplan–Meier Curves for Time-varying Covariates	8
Use of Recently Vaccinated Individuals to Detect Bias in Test-Negative Case–Control Studies of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness	8
Far from MCAR	8
Revisiting the g-null Paradox	8
Getting Over TOP	8
Immigrant-Related Policies and the Health Outcomes of Latinx Adults in the United States: A Systematic Review	8
The Case for Case–Cohort	8
Gone But Not Lost: Implications for Estimating HIV Care Outcomes When Loss to Clinic Is Not Loss to Care	8
The Impact of Keeping Indoor Dining Closed on COVID-19 Rates Among Large US Cities	8
Adaptive Validation Design	8