OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Statistics in Medicine is 24. 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
Testing and correcting for weak and pleiotropic instruments in two‐sample multivariable Mendelian randomization	273
Minimum sample size for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a binary outcome	150
Evaluation of various estimators for standardized mean difference in meta‐analysis	103
Pleiotropy robust methods for multivariable Mendelian randomization	97
Minimum sample size for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a continuous outcome	61
Using propensity scores to estimate effects of treatment initiation decisions: State of the science	60
Win odds: An adaptation of the win ratio to include ties	42
A modified self‐controlled case series method for event‐dependent exposures and high event‐related mortality, with application to COVID‐19 vaccine safety	41
Fine‐Gray subdistribution hazard models to simultaneously estimate the absolute risk of different event types: Cumulative total failure probability may exceed 1	41
Minimum sample size calculations for external validation of a clinical prediction model with a time‐to‐event outcome	41
A comparison of different methods to adjust survival curves for confounders	39
Bayesian workflow for disease transmission modeling in Stan	36
Estimating heterogeneous survival treatment effect in observational data using machine learning	35
Extending the Mann‐Whitney‐Wilcoxon rank sum test to survey data for comparing mean ranks	34
Introduction to computational causal inference using reproducible Stata, R, and Python code: A tutorial	33
Twenty years since Joinpoint 1.0: Two major enhancements, their justification, and impact	33
An overview and critique of the use of cumulative sum methods with surgical learning curve data	31
A tutorial on individualized treatment effect prediction from randomized trials with a binary endpoint	31
Monitoring COVID‐19 contagion growth	30
Propensity score weighting for covariate adjustment in randomized clinical trials	28
Penalized regression for left‐truncated and right‐censored survival data	26
TITE‐BOIN12: A Bayesian phase I/II trial design to find the optimal biological dose with late‐onset toxicity and efficacy	26
Propensity‐score‐based meta‐analytic predictive prior for incorporating real‐world and historical data	26
A note on estimating the Cox‐Snell R² from a reported C statistic (AUROC) to inform sample size calculations for developing a prediction model with a bin	26
Nowcasting COVID‐19 incidence indicators during the Italian first outbreak	24