Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of Epidemiology is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Meta-analysis of Proportions Using Generalized Linear Mixed Models128
Positive Epidemiology?86
CMAverse: A Suite of Functions for Reproducible Causal Mediation Analyses80
Theoretical Framework for Retrospective Studies of the Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines80
Is Cohort Representativeness Passé? Poststratified Associations of Lifestyle Risk Factors with Mortality in the UK Biobank72
Air Conditioning and Heat-related Mortality71
Rapid Review of Social Contact Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic63
Estimating the Cumulative Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Infection Fatality Ratio in Light of Waning Antibodies56
Estimating the Unknown54
Within-city Spatial Variations in Ambient Ultrafine Particle Concentrations and Incident Brain Tumors in Adults50
A Test-Negative Design with Additional Population Controls Can Be Used to Rapidly Study Causes of the SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic49
Effects of Hot Nights on Mortality in Southern Europe45
Trends in the Risk of Cognitive Impairment in the United States, 1996–201440
Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects38
Toward Causally Interpretable Meta-analysis37
Association Between Outdoor Light-at-night Exposure and Colorectal Cancer in Spain31
The Case Time Series Design30
Meaningful Causal Decompositions in Health Equity Research30
Benchmarking Observational Methods by Comparing Randomized Trials and Their Emulations29
Machine Learning for Causal Inference: On the Use of Cross-fit Estimators29
Evaluating the Sensitivity of PM2.5–Mortality Associations to the Spatial and Temporal Scale of Exposure Assessment28
Trends in Hip Fracture Incidence, Recurrence, and Survival by Education and Comorbidity: A Swedish Register-based Study27
Detecting Heterogeneity of Intervention Effects Using Analysis and Meta-analysis of Differences in Variance Between Trial Arms26
Differential Mortality Risks Associated With PM2.5 Components26
Validation of Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy: ICD-10 Codes in a High-burden Southeastern United States Hospital26
To Adjust or Not to Adjust? When a “Confounder” Is Only Measured After Exposure25
Antiretrovirals and Risk of COVID-19 Diagnosis and Hospitalization in HIV-Positive Persons24
Robust Metrics and Sensitivity Analyses for Meta-analyses of Heterogeneous Effects23
The Risk of Cardiovascular Disease in Prostate Cancer Patients Receiving Androgen Deprivation Therapies22
Traffic-related Noise Exposure and Late-life Dementia and Cognitive Impairment in Mexican–Americans22
Prenatal Opioid Analgesics and the Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes22
Insights into the Cross-world Independence Assumption of Causal Mediation Analysis22
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Health22
Clinical Trial Emulation by Matching Time-dependent Propensity Scores21
A Graphical Catalog of Threats to Validity21
Estimating the Impact of Sustained Social Participation on Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults20
Changes in Behavior with Increasing Pregnancy Attempt Time20
Tropical Cyclone Exposures and Risks of Emergency Medicare Hospital Admission for Cardiorespiratory Diseases in 175 Urban United States Counties, 1999–201020
Maternal Thyroid Disorders and Risk of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Progeny20
The Increasing Exposure of the Global Population to Ionizing Radiation20
Identification and Validation of Anaphylaxis Using Electronic Health Data in a Population-based Setting19
Nationwide Study of Short-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Cardiovascular Hospitalizations Among Medicaid Enrollees19
The Relative Economy and Drug Overdose Deaths19
The Effect of Prenatal Treatments on Offspring Events in the Presence of Competing Events19
Estimating the Size of a COVID-19 Epidemic from Surveillance Systems19
The Importance of Making Assumptions in Bias Analysis19
Intergenerational Change in Birthweight18
Term Birth Weight and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes18
Long-term Exposure to Neighborhood Deprivation and Intimate Partner Violence Among Women: A UK Birth Cohort Study18
Integrating Surveillance Data to Estimate Race/Ethnicity-specific Hysterectomy Inequalities Among Reproductive-aged Women18
Weight Change and the Onset of Cardiovascular Diseases: Emulating Trials Using Electronic Health Records18
The Serpent of Their Agonies17
Comment on Williamson et al. (OpenSAFELY): The Table 2 Fallacy in a Study of COVID-19 Mortality Risk Factors17
Time Since Infection and Risks of Future Disease for Individuals with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection in the United States16
Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Attributable Risk of Kidney Diseases16
Long-term Exposure to PM2.5 and Mortality for the Older Population: Effect Modification by Residential Greenness16
Representativeness Is Not Representative16
E Values and Incidence Density Sampling16
The Role of Ambient Particle Radioactivity in Inflammation and Endothelial Function in an Elderly Cohort16
Effect Decomposition in the Presence of Treatment-induced Confounding16
Aim for Clinical Utility, Not Just Predictive Accuracy16
Describing Intersectional Health Outcomes16
Predicting the Future Course of Opioid Overdose Mortality: An Example From Two US States15
Socioeconomic Disparities in Colon Cancer Survival15
An Aggregated Comorbidity Measure Based on History of Filled Drug Prescriptions: Development and Evaluation in Two Separate Cohorts15
On the Nature of Informative Presence Bias in Analyses of Electronic Health Records15
Prospective Association Between Manganese in Early Pregnancy and the Risk of Preeclampsia15
A Trial Emulation Approach for Policy Evaluations with Group-level Longitudinal Data15
Spatiotemporal Trends in Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race for Counties in Ohio14
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination14
Modeling Desert Dust Exposures in Epidemiologic Short-term Health Effects Studies14
Trends in Cancer Incidence Among American Indians and Alaska Natives and Non-Hispanic Whites in the United States, 1999–201514
Multiple-bias Sensitivity Analysis Using Bounds14
Critical Time Windows for Air Pollution Exposure and Birth Weight in a Multicity Canadian Pregnancy Cohort14
A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality14
Revisiting Overadjustment Bias14
The Quest for Timely Insights into COVID-19 Should not Come at the Cost of Scientific Rigor14
Deep Learning-based Propensity Scores for Confounding Control in Comparative Effectiveness Research14
Constructed Measures and Causal Inference14
Validity of Antineoplastic Procedure Codes in the Danish National Patient Registry14
Community-wide Mortality Rates in Beijing, China, During the July 2012 Flood Compared with Unexposed Periods13
A Graphical Description of Partial Exchangeability13
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Gestational and Pregestational Diabetes During Pregnancy in a Large, Public Hospital13
Combining Urinary Biomarker Data From Studies With Different Measures of Urinary Dilution13
Methods to Account for Uncertainty in Latent Class Assignments When Using Latent Classes as Predictors in Regression Models, with Application to Acculturation Strategy Measures13
Toward Credible Patient-centered Meta-analysis13
Estimands and Estimation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Under the Test-Negative Design13
Firearm Homicide Incidence, Within-state Firearm Laws, and Interstate Firearm Laws in US Counties13
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Childhood Body Mass Index Trajectories From Birth to 7 Years of Age13
Surveillance-to-Diagnostic Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a Large, Urban Campus in Fall 202013
Estrogen Plus Progestin Hormone Therapy and Ovarian Cancer12
Fetal Growth Trajectories Among Small for Gestational Age Babies and Child Neurodevelopment12
Helped into Harm12
Prenatal Exposure to Mixtures of Persistent Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals and Birth Size in a Population-based Cohort of British Girls12
Urinary Cadmium and Incident Heart Failure12
Comparison of Antihypertensive Drug Classes for Dementia Prevention12
Effectiveness of Containment Measures Against COVID-19 in Singapore12
Trends from 2008 to 2018 in Electricity-dependent Durable Medical Equipment Rentals and Sociodemographic Disparities12
Log-transformation of Independent Variables: Must We?12
The Use of Time to Pregnancy for Estimating and Monitoring Human Fecundity From Demographic and Health Surveys11
Sex- and Type-specific Genital Human Papillomavirus Transmission Rates Between Heterosexual Partners: A Bayesian Reanalysis of the HITCH Cohort11
Single-arm Trials with Historical Controls11
State-Level Masking Mandates and COVID-19 Outcomes in the United States11
Social Distancing and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Potential Early in the Epidemic in Finland11
Bans on Cellphone Use While Driving and Traffic Fatalities in the United States11
A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort11
Antigen-based Rapid Diagnostic Testing or Alternatives for Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-1911
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding11
Time-varying Effects of Screen Media Exposure in the Relationship Between Socioeconomic Background and Childhood Obesity11
A Congener-specific and Mixture Analysis of Plasma Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels and Incident Breast Cancer10
Development and Validation of a Google Street View Pedestrian Safety Audit Tool10
A New Approach for Classifying Fetal Growth Restriction10
Neighborhood Deprivation and Mental Health Among Immigrants to Sweden10
Hexamaps for Age–Period–Cohort Data Visualization and Implementation in R10
Positive Predictive Value of Sarcoidosis Identified in an Administrative Healthcare Registry: A Validation Study10
Cosmetic Tattooing and Early Onset Basal Cell Carcinoma: A Population-based Case–Control Study from New Hampshire9
A Direct Estimate of the Impact of PM2.5, NO2, and O3 Exposure on Life Expectancy Using Propensity Scores9
Bounding the Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests, With Application to COVID-19 Antibody Tests9
The Evolving Usefulness of the Test-negative Design in Studying Risk Factors for COVID-199
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors9
Vital Status Ascertainment for a Historic Diverse Cohort of U.S. Women9
The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat9
Number of Healthcare Workers Who Have Died of COVID-199
When Effects Cannot be Estimated: Redefining Estimands to Understand the Effects of Naloxone Access Laws9
HIV Viremia and Risk of Stroke Among People Living with HIV Who Are Using Antiretroviral Therapy9
Immunologic and Epidemiologic Drivers of Norovirus Transmission in Daycare and School Outbreaks9
The Target Trial: A Powerful Device Beyond Well-defined Interventions9
A Pharmacoepidemiologic Approach to Evaluate Real-world Effectiveness of Hormonal Contraceptives in the Presence of Drug–drug Interactions9
Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Israel9
An Alternative Perspective on the Robust Poisson Method for Estimating Risk or Prevalence Ratios9
Mendelian Randomization With Repeated Measures of a Time-varying Exposure9
Estimation of Relative Vaccine Effectiveness in Influenza: A Systematic Review of Methodology9
Should Fetal Growth Charts Be References or Standards?9
Poverty, Deprivation, and Mortality Risk Among Women With HIV in the United States9
Reducing Bias Due to Outcome Misclassification for Epidemiologic Studies Using EHR-derived Probabilistic Phenotypes9
Revisiting the g-null Paradox8
Getting Over TOP8
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?8
The Case for Case–Cohort8
Gone But Not Lost: Implications for Estimating HIV Care Outcomes When Loss to Clinic Is Not Loss to Care8
Recent Changes in the Patterns of Breast Cancer as a Proportion of All Deaths According to Race and Ethnicity8
Generalizability of Subgroup Effects8
Estimating a Set of Mortality Risk Functions with Multiple Contributing Causes of Death8
Gestational Weight Gain and Long-term Maternal Obesity Risk: A Multiple-Bias Analysis8
A Cautionary Note on Extended Kaplan–Meier Curves for Time-varying Covariates8
Use of Recently Vaccinated Individuals to Detect Bias in Test-Negative Case–Control Studies of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness8
Adaptive Validation Design8
Male Preconception Marijuana Use and Spontaneous Abortion8
Estimating Vaccine Efficacy Against Transmission via Effect on Viral Load8
A Simple, Interpretable Conversion from Pearson’s Correlation to Cohen’s for d Continuous Exposures8
A Prospective Cohort Study of Seasonal Variation in Spontaneous Abortion8
Far from MCAR8
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