OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Population Health Metrics is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide	64
MHQ: constructing an aggregate metric of population mental wellbeing	49
Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities	37
Correction to: How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	23
NPR is an independent risk factor for predicting all-cause mortality in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: evidence from NHANES 2007–2020	22
Marital status, educational attainment, and suicide risk: a Norwegian register-based population study	20
Socio-economic contextual determinants and behavioral changes during pregnancy: evidence from the "MAMI-MED" cohort	16
Building a maternal and child cohort amidst Lebanon’s socioeconomic collapse: preliminary results and navigating research challenges	15
The joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health	13
Harmonizing measurements: establishing a common metric via shared items across instruments	13
Quantifying the magnitude of the general contextual effect in a multilevel study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ontario, Canada: application of the median rate ratio in population health research	12
Automatic electronic reporting improved the completeness of AMI and stroke incident surveillance in Tianjin, China: a modeling study	11
Equity assessment of maternal and child healthcare benefits utilization and distribution in public healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a benefit incidence analysis	10
On the measurement of healthy lifespan inequality	10
The rural mortality penalty in U.S. hospital patients with COVID-19	10
Google trend analysis of the Indian population reveals a panel of seasonally sensitive comorbid symptoms with implications for monitoring the seasonally sensitive human population	10
Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method	9
Population health and population health metrics	9
Flexible parametric methods for calculating life expectancy in small populations	7
Applying an ICD-10 to ICD-11 mapping tool to identify causes of death codes in an Alberta dataset	6
Quality of routine health data at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Nepal, and South Africa	6
A cost study for mobile phone health surveys using interactive voice response for assessing risk factors of noncommunicable diseases	6
Using routine programmatic data to measure HIV incidence among pregnant women in Botswana	5
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	5
Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)	5

Disability weight measurement for the severity of different diseases in Wuhan, China	5
How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	5
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	5
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China	5
Comparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of interventions in Australia and New Zealand: an online interactive league table	4
The quality of routine data for measuring facility-based maternal mortality in public and private health facilities in Kampala City, Uganda	4
Enabling the examination of long-term mortality trends by educational level for England and Wales in a time-consistent and internationally comparable manner	4
The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model	4
The fraction of life years lost after diagnosis (FLYLAD): a person-centred measure of cancer burden	4
Correction to: A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023	4
Trends and patterns of disparities in diabetes and chronic kidney disease mortality among US counties, 1980–2014	4
Evaluation of four gamma-based methods for calculating confidence intervals for age-adjusted mortality rates when data are sparse	4
Estimating district HIV prevalence in Zambia using small-area estimation methods (SAE)	4