OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Epidemiology is 25. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Meta-analysis of Proportions Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models	128
Positive Epidemiology?	86
CMAverse: A Suite of Functions for Reproducible Causal Mediation Analyses	80
Theoretical Framework for Retrospective Studies of the Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines	80
Is Cohort Representativeness Passé? Poststratified Associations of Lifestyle Risk Factors with Mortality in the UK Biobank	72
Air Conditioning and Heat-related Mortality	71
Rapid Review of Social Contact Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	63
Estimating the Cumulative Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Infection Fatality Ratio in Light of Waning Antibodies	56
Estimating the Unknown	54
Within-city Spatial Variations in Ambient Ultrafine Particle Concentrations and Incident Brain Tumors in Adults	50
A Test-Negative Design with Additional Population Controls Can Be Used to Rapidly Study Causes of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic	49
Effects of Hot Nights on Mortality in Southern Europe	45
Trends in the Risk of Cognitive Impairment in the United States, 1996–2014	40
Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects	38
Toward Causally Interpretable Meta-analysis	37
Association Between Outdoor Light-at-night Exposure and Colorectal Cancer in Spain	31
The Case Time Series Design	30
Meaningful Causal Decompositions in Health Equity Research	30
Benchmarking Observational Methods by Comparing Randomized Trials and Their Emulations	29
Machine Learning for Causal Inference: On the Use of Cross-fit Estimators	29
Evaluating the Sensitivity of PM2.5–Mortality Associations to the Spatial and Temporal Scale of Exposure Assessment	28
Trends in Hip Fracture Incidence, Recurrence, and Survival by Education and Comorbidity: A Swedish Register-based Study	27
Detecting Heterogeneity of Intervention Effects Using Analysis and Meta-analysis of Differences in Variance Between Trial Arms	26
Differential Mortality Risks Associated With PM2.5 Components	26
Validation of Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy: ICD-10 Codes in a High-burden Southeastern United States Hospital	26

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