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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities	72
Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide	50
Living arrangements and lonely life expectancy: a multistate life table based on Markov chains	26
MHQ: constructing an aggregate metric of population mental wellbeing	26
Socio-economic contextual determinants and behavioral changes during pregnancy: evidence from the "MAMI-MED" cohort	23
Associations of socioeconomic status and healthy lifestyle with incident early-onset and late-onset hypertension: a nationwide prospective cohort study in the UK	20
Correction to: How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	16
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	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	15
Automatic electronic reporting improved the completeness of AMI and stroke incident surveillance in Tianjin, China: a modeling study	14
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	14
On the measurement of healthy lifespan inequality	12
Harmonizing measurements: establishing a common metric via shared items across instruments	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
Navigating the next surge: a perspective on Egypt’s preparedness and prospects for another COVID-19 outbreak	9
Equity assessment of maternal and child healthcare benefits utilization and distribution in public healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a benefit incidence analysis	9
Flexible parametric methods for calculating life expectancy in small populations	8
The rural mortality penalty in U.S. hospital patients with COVID-19	8
Applying an ICD-10 to ICD-11 mapping tool to identify causes of death codes in an Alberta dataset	8
Population health and population health metrics	7
Validation of the consumer health activation index (CHAI) among community-dwelling adults in primary care clinics in Singapore	7
Forecasting life expectancy in São Paulo City, Brazil, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Quality of routine health data at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Nepal, and South Africa	7
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China	6

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	6
How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	6
Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)	6
Using routine programmatic data to measure HIV incidence among pregnant women in Botswana	5
Disability weight measurement for the severity of different diseases in Wuhan, China	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
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
The quality of routine data for measuring facility-based maternal mortality in public and private health facilities in Kampala City, Uganda	4
The fraction of life years lost after diagnosis (FLYLAD): a person-centred measure of cancer burden	4
Socio-economic inequalities in all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 period in north-western Tanzania, 2018–2021	4
Evaluation of four gamma-based methods for calculating confidence intervals for age-adjusted mortality rates when data are sparse	4
Trends and patterns of disparities in diabetes and chronic kidney disease mortality among US counties, 1980–2014	4
Prevalence of mental illness, substance use disorder, and dual diagnosis among adults in custody	4
Comparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of interventions in Australia and New Zealand: an online interactive league table	4
The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model	4