OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Epidemiology Reports is 3. 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
Determinants and Assessment of Menstrual Blood Flow	92
Defining, Measuring, and Evaluating Prenatal Care in Insurance Claims Data	69
Correction to: Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders	49
Current Approaches to Measuring Local Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in Population Health Studies	39
The Utility of Multistate Models: A Flexible Framework for Time-to-Event Data	33
Epidemiologic Advances Generated by the Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource Program	31
Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations: Moving Research from Prevalence to Prevention	31
Natural Disaster Epidemiology and Reproductive Health	25
Estimation of Near-Surface Ozone Concentrations and their Health Risk Assessment: A Review	23
Differences and Disparities in Ageism Affecting Older US Adults: a Review	22
Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Assessments in Fertility Studies: a Systematic Review and Guide for Reproductive Epidemiologists	18
From Cancer Epidemiology to Policy and Practice: the Role of a Comprehensive Cancer Center	17
Intersectional Approaches to Minority Aging Research	16
Methodological Considerations for Studies of Preterm Birth After Vaccination during Pregnancy: A Quantitative Bias Analysis on the COVID-19 Vaccine	15
Coordinating Centers as a Strategy for Accelerating Cancer Epidemiology Consortia: Best Practices	13
Association of Standing with Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Adults	12
A Review and Synthesis of Multi-level Models for Causal Inference with Individual Level Exposures	12
The Importance of Addressing Early-Life Environmental Exposures in Cancer Epidemiology	11
Do Changes to the Alcohol Retail Environment Reduce Interpersonal Violence?	11
A Review of Causal Inference Methods for Estimating the Effects of Exposure Change when Incident Exposure Is Unobservable	11
Approaches to Measuring Cannabis Use in Injury Research: Beyond Drug Detection	10
Examining the Linkage Between Social Support and Gender-Based Violence Among Women and Girls in Humanitarian Settings: a Systematic Review of the Evidence	10
Machine Learning Approaches for Measuring Neighborhood Environments in Epidemiologic Studies	9
The Target Cohort Approach: An Extension of the Target Trial Framework to Nested Case-Control Studies with Incidence Density Sampling	9
Advances in the Use of Residual Newborn Dried Blood Spots Within Environmental Epidemiology	8

Vitamin D and Toxic Metals in Pregnancy - a Biological Perspective	7
Outdoor Air Pollution and Pregnancy Loss: a Review of Recent Literature	7
Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders	6
Using Counterfactual Worlds to Triangulate Evidence in the Real World	6
Chromium in Biological Samples in Association with Cancer Risk by Site: A Systematic Literature Review	6
An Introduction to Longitudinal Synthetic Cohorts for Studying the Life Course Drivers of Health Outcomes and Inequalities in Older Age	6
Community Health Fairs and Cancer Prevention in Low-Resource Settings: A Global Perspective	5
Maternal, Perinatal, and Infant Health of Disaggregated Asian American Subgroups: A Scoping Review	5
The Impact of Early-Life Exposures on Women’s Reproductive Health in Adulthood	5
Methodological Considerations on the Use of Cohort Designs in Drug-Drug Interaction Studies in Pharmacoepidemiology	5
The Intersection of the Microbiome and Adiposity in Cancer Risk and Outcomes: Breast, Endometrial, and Colorectal Cancers	5
External Comparator Groups Derived from Real-world Data Used in Support of Regulatory Decision Making: Use Cases and Challenges	5
Place-Based Interventions and the Epidemiology of Violence Prevention	5
Causal Inference Challenges and New Directions for Epidemiologic Research on the Health Effects of Social Policies	5
Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Causal Research in Epidemiology	4
A Tutorial on Applying the Difference-in-Differences Method to Health Data	4
A Review of the Causal Decomposition Framework for Modeling Interventions that Reduce Disparities	4
Psychiatric Epidemiology During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Challenges and Opportunities of Epidemiological Studies to Reduce the Burden of Cancers in Young Adults	3
Community-Based Participatory Research to Improve Cardiovascular Health Among US Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups	3
Electronic Health Records in Epidemiology: Appropriate Questions, Common Biases, and Potential Sensitivity Analyses	3
Agent-Based Modeling: an Underutilized Tool in Community Violence Research	3
We Do Not Know How People Have Babies: an Opportunity for Epidemiologists to Have Meaningful Impact on Population-Level Health and Wellbeing	3
Prenatal Exposure to Parental Lifestyle Factors, Diseases, and Use of Medications and Male Pubertal Development: a Review of Epidemiological Studies Published 2017–2022	3