OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Population Health Metrics is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities	59
Analytical reference framework to analyze non-COVID-19 events	46
Population health and population health metrics	32
Feasibility of caregiver-administered anthropometric measurements of children under age 5: evidence from Zambia	28
Design, develop, and implement the strategic information system on health, dependence, and healthy aging: an analysis of the Mexican experience	21
An evaluation of truncated birth histories for the rapid measurement of fertility and child survival	20
Constructing synthetic populations in the age of big data	18
MHQ: constructing an aggregate metric of population mental wellbeing	17
Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide	15
Decomposing the gaps in healthy and unhealthy life expectancies between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians: a burden of disease and injury study	13
An innovative visual approach to the simultaneous study of two dimensions of progress in longevity: an application to French and German regions	11
Flexible parametric methods for calculating life expectancy in small populations	11
A method for small-area estimation of population mortality in settings affected by crises	10
The confidante method to measure abortion: implementing a standardized comparative analysis approach across seven contexts	10
Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods	10
Assessment of the quality of the vital registration system for under-5 mortality in Yucatan, Mexico	10
Impact of 2017 ACC/AHA guideline on prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and determinants of hypertension: a population-based cross-sectional study in southwest of Iran	10
Prevalence of menthol cigarette use among adults who smoke from the United States by census division and demographic subgroup, 2002–2020: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) project	9
Deriving disability weights for the Netherlands: findings from the Dutch disability weights measurement study	9
Applying an ICD-10 to ICD-11 mapping tool to identify causes of death codes in an Alberta dataset	9
Correction to: Impact of 2017 ACC/AHA guideline on prevalence, awareness, treatment, control, and determinants of hypertension: a population-based cross-sectional study in southwest of Iran	9
Inequality of weight status in urban Cuba: 2001–2010	8
Pandemic preparedness improves national-level SARS-CoV-2 infection and mortality data completeness: a cross-country ecologic analysis	7
A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023	7
The contributions of public health policies and healthcare quality to gender gap and country differences in life expectancy in the UK	7

Beyond the underlying cause of death: an algorithm to study multi-morbidity at death	6
Correction: Empirical prediction intervals applied to short term mortality forecasts and excess deaths	5
Effect of census-based correction of population figures on mortality rates in Germany	5
Marital status, educational attainment, and suicide risk: a Norwegian register-based population study	5
Number needed to isolate - a new population health metric to quantify transmission reductions from isolation interventions for infectious diseases	5
Public health implications of vaping in the USA: the smoking and vaping simulation model	4
Changes in liver-related mortality by etiology and sequelae: underlying versus multiple causes of death	4
Correction to: How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	4
State-level metabolic comorbidity prevalence and control among adults age 50-plus with diabetes: estimates from electronic health records and survey data in five states	4
Quality of routine health data at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Nepal, and South Africa	4
Disaggregating proportional multistate lifetables by population heterogeneity to estimate intervention impacts on inequalities	4
A Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of mortality rates in Spain: application to the COVID-19 2020 outbreak	4
Mortality trends in chronic liver disease and cirrhosis from 1981 to 2015 in Taiwan	3
Cardiovascular risk and the COVID-19 pandemic: a population-based and case‒control studies	3
A cost study for mobile phone health surveys using interactive voice response for assessing risk factors of noncommunicable diseases	3
Wealth-based disparities in the prevalence of short birth interval in India: insights from NFHS-5	3
How much missing data is too much to impute for longitudinal health indicators? A preliminary guideline for the choice of the extent of missing proportion to impute with multiple imputation by chained	3
Correction: The confidante method to measure abortion: implementing a standardized comparative analysis approach across seven contexts	3
War and Population Health: there is no metric for the horror	3
Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)	3
Quality-adjusted life expectancy norms for the Iranian population	2
Sex-selective abortions over the past four decades in China	2
Method for reconstructing mortality by educational groups	2
Examining select sociodemographic characteristics of sub-county geographies for public health surveillance	2
Building a maternal and child cohort amidst Lebanon’s socioeconomic collapse: preliminary results and navigating research challenges	2
How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	2
Standardised reporting of burden of disease studies: the STROBOD statement	2
The impact of different imputation methods on estimates and model performance: an example using a risk prediction model for premature mortality	2
Improving birth weight measurement and recording practices in Kenya and Tanzania: a prospective intervention study with historical controls	2
US county-level estimation for maternal and infant health-related behavior indicators using pregnancy risk assessment monitoring system data, 2016–2018	1
The joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health	1
Google trend analysis of the Indian population reveals a panel of seasonally sensitive comorbid symptoms with implications for monitoring the seasonally sensitive human population	1
The quality of routine data for measuring facility-based maternal mortality in public and private health facilities in Kampala City, Uganda	1
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China	1
The global burden of disease study and Population Health Metrics	1
Country-specific determinants for COVID-19 case fatality rate and response strategies from a global perspective: an interpretable machine learning framework	1
Addressing missing values in routine health information system data: an evaluation of imputation methods using data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Characteristics of hemoglobin distributions in preschool children and non-pregnant women of reproductive age and their implications for establishing quality control criteria for hemoglobin data in fie	1
Automatic electronic reporting improved the completeness of AMI and stroke incident surveillance in Tianjin, China: a modeling study	1