OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Epidemiology is 6. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects	113
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models	86
The Authors Respond	65
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research	49
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay	41
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies	40
Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes in Two Cohorts of Pregnant Women With HIV in Zambia	39
Mendelian Randomization With Repeated Measures of a Time-varying Exposure	37
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression	37
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors: A Comparison of Demographic, Socioeconomic, and Genetic Predictors: Erratum	33
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?	32
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data	32
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort	32
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology	32
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?	32
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders	32
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome	30
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?	30
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?	27
Visual Acuity and the Risk of Cycling Injuries	26
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–2020	25
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study	23
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study	23
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data	23
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness	22

Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?	22
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth	22
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States	21
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population	21
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects	20
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data	20
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–2018	19
The Author Responds	19
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown	19
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates	18
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize	18
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures	18
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach	18
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.	18
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk	18
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding	18
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research	17
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study	17
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth	17
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?	17
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care	16
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women	16
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome	16
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 2020	16
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden	15
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods	15
Meconium Concentrations of Pesticides and Risk of Hypospadias: A Case–Control Study in Brittany, France	15
Environmental Exposures and Anti-Müllerian Hormone: A Mixture Analysis in the Nurses’ Health Study II	15
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias	15
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models	14
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	14
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters	14
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study	14
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide	13
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure	13
Critical Time Windows for Air Pollution Exposure and Birth Weight in a Multicity Canadian Pregnancy Cohort	13
The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development	13
Thanks to Our Reviewers	13
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina	13
Neighborhood Walkability and Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of Women	13
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study	13
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study	13
Could Smoking Initiation Among Youth by E-cigarettes Warrant a Shorter Definition for Epidemiology?	12
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records	12
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity	12
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties	12
The Authors Respond	12
The Joint Effects of Depression and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders on Suicide Deaths	12
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets	11
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies	11

Opioid agonist therapy adherence trajectories among commercially and publicly insured people living with Hepatitis C in the United States	11
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke	10
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure	10
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure	10
First Episodes of Norovirus and Sapovirus Gastroenteritis Protect Against Subsequent Episodes in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort	10
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables	10
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination	10
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	10
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada	9
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria	9
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring	9
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator	9
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase	9
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study	9
Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences	9
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction	9
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio	9
Inflammation and Conception in a Prospective Time-to-Pregnancy Cohort	9
State-Level Masking Mandates and COVID-19 Outcomes in the United States	9
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk	8
Erratum	8
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain	8
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–2020	8
Mechanistic Correlates of Protection for SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines	8
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs	8
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health	8
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission	8
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data	8
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis	8
Marginal Versus Conditional Odds Ratios When Updating Risk Prediction Models	8
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy	8
Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Attributable Risk of Kidney Diseases	8
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies	8
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index	7
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study	7
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records	7
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction	7
Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Israel	7
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study	7
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects	7
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology	7
Beyond Vaccination Rates: A Synthetic Random Proxy Metric of Total SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Seroprevalence in the Community	7
Constructed Measures and Causal Inference	7
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital	7
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox	7
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age	6
Erratum: Methodological challenges in Mendelian randomization	6
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference	6
Primary Care Physicians’ Perceptions of the Effects of Being Overweight on All-cause Mortality	6
Estimands and Estimation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Under the Test-Negative Design	6
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores	6
Advancing Reproducible Research Through Version Control Technology	6
PROVIDENT: Development and Validation of a Machine Learning Model to Predict Neighborhood-level Overdose Risk in Rhode Island	6
Distinguishing Immunologic and Behavioral Effects of Vaccination	6
Identifying Sensitive Windows of Exposure to NO2 and Fetal Growth Trajectories in a Spanish Birth Cohort	6
Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects	6
Higher Moments for Optimal Balance Weighting in Causal Estimation	6
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19	6
Pregnancy Exposure to Phenols and Anthropometric Measures in Gestation and at Birth	6
Development and Validation of Algorithms to Estimate Live Birth Gestational Age in Medicaid Analytic eXtract Data	6