Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of Epidemiology is 1. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort164
Causal Identification Conditions for the Effect of Treatment in the Treated: Illustration Using the Northwest Germany Stroke Registry88
Re. Prediagnostic Exposures and Cancer Survival: Can a Meaningful Causal Estimand be Specified?86
The Authors Respond71
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models69
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects52
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies48
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders45
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?45
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression41
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology39
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay39
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data31
Comparative Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness During Omicron Using Conventional and Causal Inference Approaches in a Longitudinal Cohort30
A prospective study on the association between potential prescribing omissions and hospitalizations in community-dwelling older adults29
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research28
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?28
Oral manifestations of HIV as indicators of disease progression and antiretroviral therapy adherence: A scoping review28
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–202026
Metabolic syndrome and memory decline: evidence from a longitudinal aging cohort in rural South Africa24
Associations of reproductive factors with expression of stromal markers in women with benign breast biopsies24
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study24
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?23
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?23
Use of Routinely Collected Data to Classify Planned Mode of Delivery Among Pregnancies With a Previous Cesarean Delivery: A Validation Study23
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?22
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study21
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome21
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data20
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth19
Are we the same, or are we different? Untangling education policy effects from state and birth-year differences19
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize18
Re: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects18
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach18
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population18
The Author Responds18
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown17
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data17
Comparative Risks of Opioid Overdose in Patients on Oxycodone Initiating Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors16
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness16
Using Measurement Error Parameters From Validation Data16
A Framework for Thinking About the Potential Public Health Impact of Epidemiologic Research16
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects16
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.16
Generalizing Findings in Nested Cohorts15
Impact of Washout Duration to Account for Left Truncation in Register-based Epidemiologic Studies: Estimating the Risk of Mental Disorders15
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures14
Meconium Concentrations of Pesticides and Risk of Hypospadias: A Case–Control Study in Brittany, France14
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth14
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States14
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care14
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters13
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome13
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates13
Obesity from Childhood to Mid-adulthood in the United States: A Synthetic Cohort Approach to Measuring Health Trajectories13
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?13
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods12
Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II12
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study12
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk12
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias12
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden12
The long arm of childhood policy: Historical schooling laws and COVID-19 pandemic-era mortality11
Improving Inference in Air Pollution Epidemiology: The Case for Rethinking Multipollutant Adjustment11
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study11
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research11
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women11
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study11
Could Smoking Initiation Among Youth by E-cigarettes Warrant a Shorter Definition for Epidemiology?11
Molecular characterization of norovirus circulating in district Lahore11
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 202011
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models11
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records10
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide10
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina10
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study10
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive10
Considerations for Estimating Causal Effects of Informatively Timed Treatments10
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties10
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure10
Thanks to Our Reviewers10
Identifying demographic predictors of increased non-fatal opioid overdose risk among New York State Medicaid enrollees following the COVID-19 pandemic: an analysis of heterogeneous treatment effects10
The Association Between Outdoor Temperature During the Past Weeks and Current Fluid Homeostasis9
Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices: Erratum9
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity9
An Expedited Chart Review Process for Large Database Studies Using Natural Language Processing and Multiwave Adaptive Sampling9
First Episodes of Norovirus and Sapovirus Gastroenteritis Protect Against Subsequent Episodes in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort9
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring9
Against Resignation on Prespecification: Reproducibility and Target Trial Emulation9
Spatial Heterogeneity in Synergistic Effects of Extreme Heat and NO2 Exposures on Cardiorespiratory Hospitalizations in California9
The Authors Respond9
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables9
Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences8
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies8
Thanks to Our Reviewers 20258
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator8
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure8
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets8
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive8
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure8
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination8
Opioid Agonist Therapy Adherence Trajectories Among Commercially and Publicly Insured People Living With Hepatitis C in the United States7
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction7
Test-negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution7
Unbiased Estimates Using Temporally Aggregated Outcome Data in Time Series Analysis: Generalization to Different Outcomes, Exposures, and Types of Aggregation7
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke7
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase7
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission7
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk7
The Ideal Trial: Defining Causal Estimands that Balance Relevance and Feasibility in Target Trial Emulations and Actual Randomized Trials7
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study7
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria7
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain6
Erratum: Effect Modification in Settings with “Truncation by Death”6
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction6
Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be6
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio6
Longitudinal Transitions between Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Associations with Substance Use among US Young Adults, 2016–20236
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology6
Adapting Back-calculation Methods to Estimate the Incidence of Tuberculosis6
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox6
Bounds and E-values for Marginal Causal Effects6
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs6
Julianne Skarha, Winner of the 2026 Rothman Prize6
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy6
Longer-term Survival of UK People with Bleeding Disorders Infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus and/or Hepatitis C Virus Through Contaminated Blood Transfusions6
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–20206
State Minimum Wages and Food Insecurity Among Households Receiving Government Food Assistance6
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada6
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health5
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index5
Comparison of Lactation Information from Electronic Health Records with Survey Data Across Five US Health Systems5
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records5
Distinguishing Immunologic and Behavioral Effects of Vaccination5
Marco Piccininni, Winner of the 2024 Rothman Prize5
Effects of Recall and Selection Biases on Modeling Cancer Risk From Mobile Phone Use: Results From a Case–Control Simulation Study5
PROVIDENT: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Neighborhood-level Overdose Risk in Rhode Island5
Joint effects of prenatal pesticide exposure and maternal psychosocial stressors on brain development in children from a South African birth cohort5
What Makes Something Worth Knowing? Epistemology and Public Health Impact5
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores5
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data5
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies5
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age5
Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects5
Target trial emulation without matching: a more efficient approach for evaluating vaccine effectiveness using observational data5
Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of the Effects of Being Overweight on All-cause Mortality5
Heat-attributable Mortality in the Summer of 2022 in Spain5
Effects of Lagged Deforestation on Malaria Risk in the Peruvian Amazon: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis5
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects5
Incorporating Efficacy Data from Initial Trials Into Subsequent Evaluations: Application to Vaccines Against Respiratory Syncytial Virus5
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital5
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference5
Temporal Variation in the Association Between Short-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality Across Subpopulations in North Carolina and Michigan, U.S.5
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis5
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study5
Validation of Body Mass Index-For-Age Percentile Curves in Older Adults Using Data From the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging5
Erratum: Methodological challenges in Mendelian randomization5
On the Conventional Definition of Path-specific Effects: Fully Mediated Interaction With Multiple Ordered Mediators5
A New Criterion for Determining a Cutoff Value Based on the Biases of Incidence Proportions in the Presence of Non-differential Outcome Misclassifications5
Mapping Food Is Medicine Across Texas: Regional and Demographic Disparities in Program Availability5
Discretizing Continuous Event Time Data5
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study5
Selection of Comparator Group in Observational Drug Safety Studies: Alternatives to the Active Comparator New User Design4
Long-term Exposure to Oxidant Gases and Mortality: Effect Modification by PM2.5 Transition Metals and Oxidative Potential4
Defining and Estimating Outcomes Directly Averted by a Vaccination Program when Rollout Occurs Over Time4
The Prevalent New-user Design for Studies With no Active Comparator: The Example of Statins and Cancer4
Doubly Robust Control Outcome Calibration Approach Estimation of Conditional Effects with Uncontrolled Confounding4
Excess mortality following discharge from substance use disorder treatment in Chile, 2010–20204
Pregnancy Exposure to Phenols and Anthropometric Measures in Gestation and at Birth4
Accounting for the Potential of Overdispersion in Estimation of the Time-varying Reproduction Number4
A Call for Randomization: Bariatric Surgery and Cardiovascular Disease4
The Separate and Joint Associations of Own and Spousal Depression with Mortality in Couples4
Adjusting Adjustments: Using External Data to Estimate the Impact of Different Confounder Sets on Published Associations4
Improving Biomarker-based HIV Incidence Estimation in the Treatment Era4
Advancing Reproducible Research Through Version Control Technology4
Lagged and non-linear effects of temperature extremes on mortality in US federal prisons: a case-crossover study, 2009-20214
Development and Validation of Algorithms to Estimate Live Birth Gestational Age in Medicaid Analytic eXtract Data4
Stratification and accumulation? Explaining changing mortality inequities between business owners and non-owners in the U.S. (1984-2022)4
Advanced Approaches to Generating High-validity Real-world Evidence in Asthma4
Sexual Mixing by HIV Status and Pre-exposure Prophylaxis Use Among Men Who Have Sex With Men: Addressing Information Bias4
The Impact of Power Outages on Cardiovascular Hospitalizations Among Medicare Fee-for-service Enrollees in New York State, 2017–20184
Using Balancing Weights to Target the Treatment Effect on the Treated when Overlap is Poor3
When Effects Cannot be Estimated: Redefining Estimands to Understand the Effects of Naloxone Access Laws3
Impact of Activity Participation on the Risk of Mortality and Hospitalizations in Danish Men and Women: Insights from REGLINK-SHAREDK3
Re: Don’t Let Your Analysis Go to Seed: On the Impact of Random Seed on Machine Learning-based Causal Inference3
Spatial Variability and Clustering of Life Expectancy in the United States: 1990–20193
Mapping the epidemiology of oral Candida and cognitive decline: A scoping review of emerging evidence3
A Quantitative Intersectionality Analysis of HIV/STI Prevention and Healthcare Access Among Transgender and Nonbinary People3
Applying the Target Study Conceptual Model to Measure Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Treatment Intensification3
Back to Basics: What Descriptive Epidemiology Can Teach Us About the Recent Rise in Firearm Homicide3
Estimation of SARS-CoV-2 Seroprevalence in Central North Carolina: Accounting for Outcome Misclassification in Complex Sample Designs3
Re. E-values for Mendelian Randomization3
Visualizing External Validity: Graphical Displays to Inform the Extension of Treatment Effects from Trials to Clinical Practice3
Causal Approaches to Disease Progression Analyses3
Long-term Economic Distress and Growing Educational Inequity in Life Expectancy3
The Association Between Ambient Particulate Matter Exposure and Anemia in HIV/AIDS Patients3
Examining the influence of local inclusionary zoning policies on the relationship between type 2 diabetes and COVID-19 mortality3
The Authors Respond3
Spatial Difference-in-Differences with Bayesian Disease Mapping Models3
Medications for Opioid Use Disorder and Mortality and Hospitalization Among People With Opioid Use-related Infections3
Incorporating Data from Multiple Endpoints in the Analysis of Clinical Trials: Example from RSV Vaccines3
Association of Early-life Trauma With Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy3
Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices3
Understanding Algorithmic Fairness for Clinical Prediction in Terms of Subgroup Net Benefit and Health Equity3
Accounting for Misclassification and Selection Bias in Estimating Effectiveness of Self-managed Medication Abortion3
Gut health, systemic inflammation, and linear growth among Indonesian infants: findings from the Action Against Stunting Hub observation cohort3
Cold-related Mortality in US State and Private Prisons: A Case–Crossover Analysis3
Investigating the Potential Short-term Adverse Effects of the Quadrivalent Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: A Novel Regression Discontinuity Analysis3
Causal Mediation Analysis with Multiple Time-varying Mediators3
Homogeneity in the Instrument-exposure Association and Point Estimation Using Binary Instrumental Variables3
Primary Care Strategies for Managing Multimorbidity Among Adults Aged 65+ in Low-Resource Settings in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Scoping Review3
Antibiotics and Preterm Delivery: The Prevalent New-user Cohort Design to Resolve Immortal Time Bias2
Examining the Interactive Associations of Cannabis and Alcohol Outlets With Self-harm Injuries in California: A Spatiotemporal Analysis2
Associations of alcohol use with expression of stromal markers in benign breast biopsy samples2
Commentary: The Seedy Side of Causal Effect Estimation with Machine Learning2
Riesz Representers for the Rest of Us2
The Population-level Effect of Adjuvant Therapies on Breast Cancer Recurrence: Application of the Trend-in-Trend Design2
Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness2
Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area: A Time-Series Analysis from 2010 to 20172
The Authors Respond2
Validation of Long-term Recall of Pregnancy-related Weight in the Life-course Experiences And Pregnancy Study2
Neighborhood-level Measures of Structural Racism and Severe Maternal Morbidity Among Black Mothers in California2
Use of Health Administrative Data to Identify Migraine in Individuals With a Recognized Pregnancy: A Validation Study in Ontario, Canada: Erratum2
Self-reported Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Vaccine Effectiveness Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Quantitative Bias Analysis2
Long-term Traffic-related Air Pollutant Exposure and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Diagnosis in Denmark: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis2
Racially restrictive covenants in public health2
Considerations for the Analysis of Urinary Environmental Chemical Concentrations During Pregnancy2
Outcome of Pregnancy Oral Glucose Tolerance Test and Preterm Birth2
Monitoring Drug Safety in Pregnancy with Scan Statistics: A Comparison of Two Study Designs2
Accounting for Twins and Other Multiple Births in Perinatal Studies of Live Births Conducted Using Healthcare Administration Data2
Migration and Health: Chasing Causality in a Complex World2
Beta Approach for Risk Summarization: An Empirical Bayes Method for Summarizing Pregnancy History to Predict Later Health Outcomes2
Associations of Local Cannabis Control Policies With Harmful Cannabis Exposures Reported to the California Poison Control System2
Re. Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy With Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination2
Approaches for Assessing Effects of Exposures on Human Fertility2
Transportability Without Positivity: A Synthesis of Statistical and Simulation Modeling2
Jørn Olsen, 20 May 1946–5 January 20262
A Quasi-experimental Study of General Practices’ Referral to Mammography in the Posttrial Treatment Era2
The Association between Abortion legalization and Sexual Risk Behavior Among Adolescents in Uruguay2
Maternal Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis2
Interpretations of Studies on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Post-acute COVID-19 Sequelae2
The Authors Respond2
Five Facts About Influence Functions2
Investigating Symptom Duration Using Current Status Data: A Case Study of Postacute COVID-19 Syndrome2
Risk Factors and Inequities in Transportation Injury and Mortality in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs)2
The Role of Epidemiology in Addressing Ableism2
The Era of Progress on Gun Mortality: State Gun Regulations and Gun Deaths from 1991 to 20162
Mixture Models for Social Epidemiology: Opportunities and Cautions2
Estimation of the Time-Varying Incremental Effect of Low-dose Aspirin on Incidence of Pregnancy2
The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat2
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