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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Pre-diagnostic exposures and cancer survival: Can a meaningful causal estimand be specified?129
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort89
Mendelian Randomization With Repeated Measures of a Time-varying Exposure75
Leveraging Pathogen Sequence and Contact Tracing Data to Enhance Vaccine Trials in Emerging Epidemics73
Comparing Two-way Fixed Effects and New Estimators for Difference-in-Differences: A Simulation Study and Empirical Example59
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio59
Trade-off Between Quarantine Length and Compliance to Optimize COVID-19 Control51
Using Latent Profile Analysis to Identify Associations Between Gestational Chemical Mixtures and Child Neurodevelopment42
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria40
Theoretical Framework for Retrospective Studies of the Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines36
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders33
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research30
Negative-Control Exposures: Adjusting for Unmeasured and Measured Confounders With Bounds for Remaining Bias29
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?29
Re. Using Negative Control Populations to Assess Unmeasured Confounding and Direct Effects.28
Method for Testing Etiologic Heterogeneity Among Noncompeting Diagnoses, Applied to Impact of Perinatal Exposures on Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder28
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study28
Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Two Cohorts of Pregnant Women With HIV in Zambia23
Census Tracts Are Not Neighborhoods: Addressing Spatial Misalignment in Studies Examining the Impact of Historical Redlining on Present-day Health Outcomes23
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression23
HIV Viremia and Risk of Stroke Among People Living with HIV Who Are Using Antiretroviral Therapy23
An Alternative Perspective on the Robust Poisson Method for Estimating Risk or Prevalence Ratios22
When Effects Cannot be Estimated: Redefining Estimands to Understand the Effects of Naloxone Access Laws22
Comparative Effectiveness of Dynamic Treatment Strategies for Medication Use and Dosage: Emulating a Target Trial Using Observational Data21
Filling in the Spaces in Cardiovascular Epidemiology21
Accounting for Misclassification and Selection Bias in Estimating Effectiveness of Self-managed Medication Abortion21
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase20
Association Between Medical Diagnoses and Suicide in a Medicaid Beneficiary Population, North Carolina 2014–201720
Long-term Exposure to PM2.5 and Mortality for the Older Population: Effect Modification by Residential Greenness20
Observed Versus Expected COVID-19 Infections Among National Football League Players During the 2020 Season19
Community Mitigation Strategies, Mobility, and COVID-19 Incidence Across Three Waves in the United States in 202019
Misclassification of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome Surveillance Estimates19
Surveillance-to-Diagnostic Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a Large, Urban Campus in Fall 202019
The Role of Staff in Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Long-term Care Facilities18
Gestational Hypertensive Disorders and Maternal Breast Cancer Risk in a Nationwide Cohort of 40,720 Parous Women18
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?18
Complications in Using Real-World Data to Study the Health of People Who Use Drugs17
Re. E-values for Mendelian Randomization16
Incorporating Data from Multiple Endpoints in the Analysis of Clinical Trials: Example from RSV Vaccines16
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology16
Misclassification Bias in the Assessment of Gene-by-Environment Interactions16
We Don’t Talk About Consistency: The Unspoken Challenge of Identifying Mediated Effects in Perinatal Epidemiology15
Flexible Machine Learning Estimation of Conditional Average Treatment Effects: A Blessing and a Curse15
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay15
Empirical Challenges in Defining Treatments and Time in the Evaluation of Gun Laws15
Residential Greenness and Long-term Mortality Among Patients Who Underwent Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery15
Causal Effect of Chronic Pain on Mortality Through Opioid Prescriptions: Application of the Front-Door Formula14
Homogeneity in the Instrument-exposure Association and Point Estimation Using Binary Instrumental Variables14
The Authors Respond14
Marginal Versus Conditional Odds Ratios When Updating Risk Prediction Models14
Re. Assessing Uncontrolled Confounding in Associations of Being Overweight With All-Cause Mortality14
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs13
Early-life Farm Exposure and Ovarian Reserve in a US Cohort of Women13
HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemic Potential of Networks of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Two Cities13
Union Burying Ground13
The Author Responds13
Re. A Cautionary Note on Extended Kaplan–Meier Curves for Time-varying Covariates12
Leveraging External Validation Data: The Challenges of Transporting Measurement Error Parameters12
The Author Responds12
Approaches to Estimating Clearance Rates for Human Papillomavirus Groupings: A Systematic Review and Real Data Examples12
Visualizing External Validity: Graphical Displays to Inform the Extension of Treatment Effects from Trials to Clinical Practice12
The Authors Respond11
Revisiting Overadjustment Bias11
Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects11
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies11
The EMICS Tool to Design Mixed-methods Studies in Epidemiology11
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk11
The Case–Crossover Design Under Changing Baseline Outcome Risk: A Simulation of Ambient Temperature and Preterm Birth11
Precision and Weighting of Effects Estimated by the Generalized Synthetic Control and Related Methods: The Case of Medicaid Expansion11
Effect Measure Modification by Covariates in Mediation: Extending Regression-based Causal Mediation Analysis11
Prenatal Exposure to Mixtures of Persistent Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals and Birth Size in a Population-based Cohort of British Girls10
Wildfire Exposure and Health Care Use Among People Who Use Durable Medical Equipment in Southern California10
Effects of Hot Nights on Mortality in Southern Europe10
Describing Intersectional Health Outcomes10
Rapid Review of Social Contact Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic10
A Direct Estimate of the Impact of PM2.5, NO2, and O3 Exposure on Life Expectancy Using Propensity Scores10
Accounting for Repeat Pregnancies in Risk Prediction Models10
Using Balancing Weights to Target the Treatment Effect on the Treated when Overlap is Poor10
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Comparison of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Genetic Predictors: Erratum9
Potential of a Second Screening Test for Alloimmunization in Pregnancies of Rhesus-positive Women: A Swedish Population-based Cohort Study9
Body Shapes of Multiple Anthropometric Traits and All-cause and Cause-specific Mortality in the UK Biobank9
Association of Early-life Trauma With Gestational Diabetes and Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy9
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission9
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data9
The Authors Respond9
Erratum: Far from MCAR: Obtaining Population-level Estimates of HIV Viral Suppression9
Erratum: A Graphical Description of Partial Exchangeability9
Erratum: Average Causal Effect Estimation via Instrumental Variables: The No Simultaneous Heterogeneity Assumption9
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models9
Back to Basics: What Descriptive Epidemiology Can Teach Us About the Recent Rise in Firearm Homicide9
Natural effects with a recanting witness: non-identifiability or meaningless estimand?9
In utero Exposure to Maternal Diabetes and the Risk of Cerebral Palsy: A Population-based Cohort Study8
Log-transformation of Independent Variables: Must We?8
Geolocation to Identify Online Study-Eligible Gay, Bisexual, and Men who have Sex with Men in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania8
Re. Weight Change and the Onset of Cardiovascular Diseases: Emulating Trials Using Electronic Health Records8
Performance of Multiple Imputation Using Modern Machine Learning Methods in Electronic Health Records Data8
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis8
Beyond Vaccination Rates: A Synthetic Random Proxy Metric of Total SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Seroprevalence in the Community8
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox8
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–20208
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data7
Erratum: “Posttraumatic stress disorder and gastrointestinal disorders in the Danish population”7
Interaction of Surface Type, Temperature, and Week of Season on Concussion Risk in the National Football League: A Bayesian Analysis7
Quantifying the Individual Variation in Susceptibility to Endemic Coronavirus and SARS-CoV-2 with Human Challenge Trials7
The Causal Effects of Causal Inference Pedagogy7
Vitamin D Supplement Use and Risk of Breast Cancer by Race-Ethnicity7
Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Attributable Risk of Kidney Diseases7
Mechanistic Correlates of Protection for SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines7
Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness7
Risk of Serious Infection With Low-dose Glucocorticoids in Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis7
Statin Initiation and Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis7
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data7
Average Causal Effect Estimation Via Instrumental Variables: the No Simultaneous Heterogeneity Assumption7
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain7
Risk Factors and Inequities in Transportation Injury and Mortality in the Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohorts (CanCHECs)7
Rapidly Rising Diabetes and Increasing Body Weight: A Counterfactual Analysis in Repeated Cross-sectional Nationally Representative Data from Bangladesh7
What Can Genetic Relatedness Tell Us About Risk Factors for Tuberculosis Transmission?7
The Promise of Intersectional Critique for Epidemiology6
Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Israel6
Combining Effect Estimates Across Cohorts and Sufficient Adjustment Sets for Collaborative Research6
The Contribution of Health Behaviors to Depression Risk Across Birth Cohorts6
The Impact of Keeping Indoor Dining Closed on COVID-19 Rates Among Large US Cities6
Issa J. Dahabreh, Winner of the 2021 Rothman Epidemiology Prize6
Heterogeneity in Disparities in Life Expectancy Across US Metropolitan Areas6
Effectiveness of Remdesivir Treatment Protocols Among Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19: A Target Trial Emulation6
Increased Residential Clustering of COVID-19 Cases Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Variant of Concern B.1.1.76
Visual Acuity and the Risk of Cycling Injuries6
Re: The Use of Time to Pregnancy for Estimating and Monitoring Human Fecundity From Demographic and Health Surveys6
Synthetic Negative Controls: Using Simulation to Screen Large-scale Propensity Score Analyses6
Douching and Genital Talc Use: Patterns of Use and Reliability of Self-reported Exposure6
Recent Changes in the Patterns of Breast Cancer as a Proportion of All Deaths According to Race and Ethnicity6
Mass Probation: Effects of Sentencing Severity on Mental Health for Black and White Individuals5
Understanding Variation in Rotavirus Vaccine Effectiveness Estimates in the United States: The Role of Rotavirus Activity and Diagnostic Misclassification5
Incident Malignant Melanoma in Sweden: The Importance of Accounting for Skin Complexion in the Population5
Integrating Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Data to Model Presence of Histoplasma in the United States5
Re. The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat5
Sensitivity Analyses for Means or Proportions with Missing Outcome Data5
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–20205
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology5
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy5
Multistate approach for stochastic interventions on a time-to-event mediator in the presence of competing risks: A new R command within the CMAverse R package5
Mediating to Opportunity: The Challenges of Translating Mediation Estimands into Policy Recommendations5
Erratum: Inflammation and Conception in a Prospective Time-to-Pregnancy Cohort5
Semiparametric Allocation of Subjects to Cohort Strata5
Migration and Health: Chasing Causality in a Complex World5
Representativeness of Participants in the ACCORD Trial Compared to Middle-aged and Older Adults Living with Diabetes in the United States5
The Authors Respond5
A New Tool for Reporting Mediation Analyses5
Decomposing the Black–White Racial Disparity in Severe Maternal Morbidity Risk: The Role of Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy5
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction5
Term Birth Weight and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes5
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?5
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study5
Maternal Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States: An Interrupted Time-series Analysis4
Re. Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy With Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination4
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth4
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Childhood Body Mass Index Trajectories From Birth to 7 Years of Age4
Target Trial Emulation Using Cohort Studies: Estimating the Effect of Antihypertensive Medication Initiation on Incident Dementia4
A Mixture of Urinary Phthalate Metabolite Concentrations During Pregnancy and Offspring Social Responsiveness Scale Scores4
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health4
Commentary: The Seedy Side of Causal Effect Estimation with Machine Learning4
Effectiveness of Trachomatous Trichiasis Case-identification Approaches in Ethiopia4
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies4
Differential Participation, a Potential Cause of Spurious Associations in Observational Cohorts in Environmental Epidemiology4
Differential Employment Quality and Educational Inequities in Mental Health: A Causal Mediation Analysis4
ZIP Code and ZIP Code Tabulation Area Linkage: Implications for Bias in Epidemiologic Research4
Generalized Difference-in-Differences4
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?4
Re: Bias in Calculation of Attributable Fractions Using Relative Risks from Nonsmokers Only4
Monitoring Drug Safety in Pregnancy with Scan Statistics: A Comparison of Two Study Designs4
The Era of Progress on Gun Mortality: State Gun Regulations and Gun Deaths from 1991 to 20164
Erratum: Regression Discontinuity Designs in Health: A Systematic Review4
The Role of Epidemiology in Addressing Ableism4
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome4
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index4
Rates of Receiving Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Opioid Overdose Deaths During the Early Synthetic Opioid Crisis: A County-level Analysis3
Story-led Causal Inference3
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores3
Validation of a Claims-based Algorithm to Identify Pregestational Diabetes Among Pregnant Women in the United States3
Constructed Measures and Causal Inference3
Self-reported Human Papillomavirus Vaccination and Vaccine Effectiveness Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: A Quantitative Bias Analysis3
Use of Recently Vaccinated Individuals to Detect Bias in Test-Negative Case–Control Studies of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness3
Mixture Models for Social Epidemiology: Opportunities and Cautions3
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study3
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–20183
Influenza Activity and Preterm Birth in the Atlanta Metropolitan Area: A Time-Series Analysis from 2010 to 20173
The Authors Respond3
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding3
The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat3
SARS-CoV-2: An Empirical Investigation of Rose’s Population-based Logic3
Why and How Epidemiologists Should Use Mixed Methods3
Methods for Extending Inferences From Observational Studies: Considering Causal Structures, Identification Assumptions, and Estimators3
Prenatal Exposure to Nonpersistent Chemicals and Fetal-to-childhood Growth Trajectories3
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.3
Overcoming Data Gaps in Life Course Epidemiology by Matching Across Cohorts3
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records3
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study3
Understanding the Intergenerational Impact of Migration: An Adult Mortality Advantage for the Children of Forced Migrants?3
A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality3
Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation3
Effect of Adjustment for Case Misclassification and Infection Date Uncertainty on Estimates of COVID-19 Effective Reproduction Number3
The Author Responds3
The Health and Economic Benefits of Tests That Predict Future Progression to Tuberculosis Disease3
The Population-level Effect of Adjuvant Therapies on Breast Cancer Recurrence: Application of the Trend-in-Trend Design3
Associations of Local Cannabis Control Policies With Harmful Cannabis Exposures Reported to the California Poison Control System3
Estimated rates of progression to tuberculosis disease for persons infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis in the United States2
HELICOBACTER PYLORI ERADICATION TREATMENTS AND RISK OF ALZHEIMER DISEASE: A CASE–CONTROL STUDY NESTED IN THE FINNISH POPULATION2
A Trial Emulation Approach for Policy Evaluations with Group-level Longitudinal Data2
Validation of Long-term Recall of Pregnancy-related Weight in the Life-course Experiences And Pregnancy Study2
Promoting Reproducibility and Integrity in Observational Research: One Approach of an Epidemiology Research Community2
An Aggregated Comorbidity Measure Based on History of Filled Drug Prescriptions: Development and Evaluation in Two Separate Cohorts2
A Capture–Recapture-based Ascertainment Probability Weighting Method for Effect Estimation With Under-ascertained Outcomes2
Differences in Weight Gain Following Residential Relocation in the Moving to Health (M2H) Study2
Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality A Longitudinal Cohort Study of 400,459 Adults2
Daily Summer Temperatures and Hospitalization for Acute Cardiovascular Events: Impact of Outdoor PM2.5 Oxidative Potential on Observed Associations Across Canada2
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize2
Bans on Cellphone Use While Driving and Traffic Fatalities in the United States2
Gestational Diabetes in Twin Versus Singleton Pregnancies With Normal Weight or Overweight Pre-Pregnancy Body Mass Index2
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital2
Can Ensemble Machine Learning Improve the Accuracy of Severe Maternal Morbidity Screening in a Perinatal Database?2
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States2
Estimating prevalence of opioid misuse in North Carolina counties from 2016-2021: An integrated abundance model approach2
Combining Urinary Biomarker Data From Studies With Different Measures of Urinary Dilution2
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects2
The Effect of Mobile Stroke Unit Care on Functional Outcomes: An Application of the Front-door Formula2
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy With Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination. The Authors Respond2
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach2
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference2
Crosswalks to Convert US Census Bureau Industry and Occupation Codes, 1980–20182
Pandemic and Gender Influences on Submissions to Epidemiology2
Long-term Traffic-related Air Pollutant Exposure and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Diagnosis in Denmark: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis2
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown2
Social Distancing and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Potential Early in the Epidemic in Finland2
Measuring Racial Sentiment Using Social Media Is Harder Than It Seems2
Association Between Home Renovation and Sleeping Problems Among Children Aged 6–18 Years: A Nationwide Survey in China2
Examining the Interactive Associations of Cannabis and Alcohol Outlets With Self-harm Injuries in California: A Spatiotemporal Analysis2
The Case Time Series Design2
Validation of Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy: ICD-10 Codes in a High-burden Southeastern United States Hospital2
Erratum: “Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive“2
Transportability Without Positivity: A Synthesis of Statistical and Simulation Modeling2
Interpretations of Studies on SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination and Post-acute COVID-19 Sequelae2
Without Commitment to an Ontology, There Could Be No Causal Inference2
To Bound or Not to Bound2
Conditional Poisson Regression with Random Effects for the Analysis of Multi-site Time Series Studies2
Comparative Safety of Gout Treatment Strategies on Cardiovascular Outcomes Using Observational Data: Clone-censor-weight Target Trial Emulation Approach2
Partial Identification of the Average Causal Effect in Multiple Study Populations: The Challenge of Combining Mendelian Randomization Studies2
Partial Identification of the Effects of Sustained Treatment Strategies2
Latent Class Models of Early-life Trauma and Incident Breast Cancer2
Health Outcomes Associated With Clinician-initiated Delivery for Hypertensive Disorders at 34–38 Weeks’ Gestation2
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age2
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