OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of American Journal of Epidemiology is 33. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Measuring Structural Racism: A Guide for Epidemiologists and Other Health Researchers	200
What Structural Racism Is (or Is Not) and How to Measure It: Clarity for Public Health and Medical Researchers	93
Characteristics of the MACS/WIHS Combined Cohort Study: Opportunities for Research on Aging With HIV in the Longest US Observational Study of HIV	73
A Prospective Cohort Study of COVID-19 Vaccination, SARS-CoV-2 Infection, and Fertility	72
Reproducibility and Validity of a Semiquantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire in Men Assessed by Multiple Methods	72
Can Cross-Sectional Studies Contribute to Causal Inference? It Depends	71
Racial/Ethnic and Geographic Trends in Combined Stimulant/Opioid Overdoses, 2007–2019	70
Association Between Ultra-Processed Food Intake and All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	66
Disparities in Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality by Country of Birth in Stockholm, Sweden: A Total-Population–Based Cohort Study	64
Determinants and Trends of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy and Vaccine Uptake in a National Cohort of US Adults: A Longitudinal Study	61
Associations of Body Composition and Physical Activity Level With Multiple Measures of Epigenetic Age Acceleration	60
Identifying and Alleviating Bias Due to Differential Depletion of Susceptible People in Postmarketing Evaluations of COVID-19 Vaccines	59
The Environmental Influences on Child Health Outcomes (ECHO)-Wide Cohort	56
On the Need to Revitalize Descriptive Epidemiology	55
A Framework for Descriptive Epidemiology	54
Recommendations for Using Causal Diagrams to Study Racial Health Disparities	53
Wastewater Surveillance for Infectious Disease: A Systematic Review	52
Misconceptions About the Direction of Bias From Nondifferential Misclassification	50
Severe Maternal Morbidity: A Comparison of Definitions and Data Sources	49
Expiring Eviction Moratoriums and COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality	48
Testing Black-White Disparities in Biological Aging Among Older Adults in the United States: Analysis of DNA-Methylation and Blood-Chemistry Methods	47
A Geography of Risk: Structural Racism and Coronavirus Disease 2019 Mortality in the United States	47
Propensity Score Weighting and Trimming Strategies for Reducing Variance and Bias of Treatment Effect Estimates: A Simulation Study	43
Combinations of Physical Activity, Sedentary Behavior, and Sleep Duration and Their Associations With Physical, Psychological, and Educational Outcomes in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	43
The Impact of Changes in Diagnostic Testing Practices on Estimates of COVID-19 Transmission in the United States	42

Mid- to Late-Life Body Mass Index and Dementia Risk: 38 Years of Follow-up of the Framingham Study	40
Study Designs for Extending Causal Inferences From a Randomized Trial to a Target Population	39
Trends in “Deaths of Despair” Among Working-Aged White and Black Americans, 1990–2017	38
Conceptualization, Operationalization, and Utilization of Race and Ethnicity in Major Epidemiology Journals, 1995–2018: A Systematic Review	38
Diagnostic Accuracy Estimates for COVID-19 Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction and Lateral Flow Immunoassay Tests With Bayesian Latent-Class Models	37
Depression, Anxiety, and Self-Directed Violence in Women With Endometriosis: A Retrospective Matched-Cohort Study	37
Pressure on the Health-Care System and Intensive Care Utilization During the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Lombardy Region of Italy: A Retrospective Observational Study in 43,538 Hospitalized Patients	34
A System for Phenotype Harmonization in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) Program	34
Are Recent Cohorts Getting Worse? Trends in US Adult Physiological Status, Mental Health, and Health Behaviors Across a Century of Birth Cohorts	33