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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Re. A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort	161
Newborn Dried Blood Spot Folate in Relation to Maternal Self-reported Folic Acid Intake, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and Developmental Delay	87
Causal Identification Conditions for the Effect of Treatment in the Treated: Illustration Using the Northwest Germany Stroke Registry	81
Understanding Etiologic Pathways Through Multiple Sequential Mediators: An Application in Perinatal Epidemiology	66
Re. Prediagnostic Exposures and Cancer Survival: Can a Meaningful Causal Estimand be Specified?	66
The Authors Respond	51
A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age–Period–Cohort Models	46
Erratum: Generalizing and Transporting Causal Inferences from Randomized Trials in the Presence of Trial Engagement Effects	45
Reporting and Description of Research Methodology in Studies Estimating Effects of Firearm Policies	45
Estimating the Effect of Bariatric Surgery on Cardiovascular Events Using Observational Data?	40
Negative Control Exposures: Causal Effect Identifiability and Use in Probabilistic-bias and Bayesian Analyses With Unmeasured Confounders	37
Preventable Fraction in the Context of Disease Progression	36
When Does Differential Outcome Misclassification Matter for Estimating Prevalence?	31
Advances in Difference-in-differences Methods for Policy Evaluation Research	30
Prediction Under Interventions: Evaluation of Counterfactual Performance Using Longitudinal Observational Data	29
Risk of Adverse Perinatal Outcomes Among African-born Black Women in California, 2011–2020	28
Mobile Source Benzene Regulations and Risk of Childhood and Young Adult Hematologic Cancers in Alaska: A Quasi-experimental Study	28
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth	28
Use of Routinely Collected Data to Classify Planned Mode of Delivery Among Pregnancies With a Previous Cesarean Delivery: A Validation Study	26
Comparing PCSK9 Monoclonal Antibody Treatment Strategies Following Myocardial Infarction Using Negative Control Outcomes: A Target Trial Emulation Study	24
Erratum: Marginal Sufficient Component Cause Model: An Emerging Causal Model With Merits?	24
Doubly Marginalized: The Interplay of Racism and Disability in Outcomes for Minoritized People With Down Syndrome	23
Does Adjusting for Causal Intermediate Confounders Resolve the Perinatal Crossover Paradox?	23
Evaluating Binary Outcome Classifiers Estimated from Survey Data	23
Are Detailed Behavioral, Psychosocial, and Environmental Variables Necessary to Control for Confounding in Pregnancy Weight Gain Research?	22

The Author Responds	22
Kara E. Rudolph, Winner of 2023 Rothman Epidemiology Prize	21
Adjusting Incidence Estimates with Laboratory Test Performances: A Pragmatic Maximum Likelihood Estimation-Based Approach	21
Helicobacter pylori Eradication Treatments and Risk of Alzheimer Disease: A Case–Control Study Nested in the Finnish Population	20
Quantifying the Health Burden of COVID-19 Using Individual Estimates of Years of Life Lost Based on Population-wide Administrative Level Data	20
Using Measurement Error Parameters From Validation Data	18
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–2018	18
Identification of Vaccine Effects When Exposure Status Is Unknown	18
Comparative Risks of Opioid Overdose in Patients on Oxycodone Initiating Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors	18
Erratum: Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects	18
Re: Comparison of the Test-negative Design and Cohort Design With Explicit Target Trial Emulation for Evaluating COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness	18
Associations of Prenatal First Trimester Essential and Nonessential Metal Mixtures with Body Size and Adiposity in Childhood.	17
A Counterfactual Analysis of Impact of Cesarean Birth in a First Birth on Severe Maternal Morbidity in the Subsequent Birth	16
Impact of Washout Duration to Account for Left Truncation in Register-based Epidemiologic Studies: Estimating the Risk of Mental Disorders	16
Plant-Capture Methods for Estimating Homeless Population Size From Uncertain Plant Captures	16
Low-level PM2.5 Exposure, Cardiovascular and Nonaccidental Mortality, and Related Health Disparities in 12 US States	16
A Framework for Thinking About the Potential Public Health Impact of Epidemiologic Research	16
Scarring In Utero: An Attempt to Validate With Data Unconfounded by Migration and Medical Care	16
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
Short-term Air Pollution Levels and Blood Pressure in Older Women	15
Geospatial Data Aggregation Methods for Novel Geographies: Validating Congressional District Life Expectancy Estimates	14
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?	14
Obesity from Childhood to Mid-adulthood in the United States: A Synthetic Cohort Approach to Measuring Health Trajectories	14
Massachusetts Prevalence of Opioid Use Disorder Estimation Revisited: Comparing a Bayesian Approach to Standard Capture–Recapture Methods	14
Opioid-related Mortality in United States Death Certificate Data: A Quantitative Bias Analysis With Expert Elicitation of Bias Parameters	14
Improving inference in air pollution epidemiology: the case for rethinking multi-pollutant adjustment	13
Characterization of Additive Gene–environment Interactions For Colorectal Cancer Risk	13
Smoking Inequality Trends by Disability and Income in Australia, 2001 to 2020	13
Evaluating Potential Impacts of a Preferential Vaccine Recommendation for Adults 65 Years of Age and Older on US Influenza Burden	13
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome	12
Right Censoring and Mortality in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study and Women’s Interagency HIV Study	12
Could Smoking Initiation Among Youth by E-cigarettes Warrant a Shorter Definition for Epidemiology?	12
Bayesian Kernel Machine Regression for Social Epidemiologic Research	12
Ambient Air Quality and Fatal Asthma Exacerbations among Children in North Carolina	12
Erratum: A Generalization of the Mechanism-based Approach for Age-Period-Cohort Models	12
A Potential Outcomes Approach to Selection Bias	12
Alcohol Policy in Adolescence and Subsequent Alcohol-attributable Hospitalizations and Mortality at Ages 21−54 Years: A Register-based Cohort Study	12
Ethylene Oxide Hemoglobin Adducts in Cord Blood and Offspring’s Size at Birth: The NewGeneris European Cohort Study	12
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 effects	11
The association between outdoor temperature during the past weeks and current fluid homeostasis	11
Considerations for Estimating Causal Effects of Informatively Timed Treatments	11
Thanks to Our Reviewers	11
Simulating the Simultaneous Impact of Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Naloxone on Opioid Overdose Death in Eight New York Counties	11
Rejoinder: Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide	11
An expedited chart review process for large database studies using natural language processing and multi-wave adaptive sampling	11
Response to Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	11
US Racial–Ethnic Mortality Gap Adjusted for Population Structure	11
A Quantitative Bias Analysis Approach to Informative Presence Bias in Electronic Health Records	11
Mindel C. Sheps: Counted, Dead or Alive	10

Novel Psychometric Indicator Assessments: The Relative Excess Correlation and Associated Matrices: Erratum	10
Incidental Infections and the Probability of Necessity	10
First Episodes of Norovirus and Sapovirus Gastroenteritis Protect Against Subsequent Episodes in a Nicaraguan Birth Cohort	10
Twenty-four-Year Trends in Incidence and Mortality of Nephrotic Syndrome: A Population-Based Cohort Study	10
The Authors Respond	10
Exact Mediation Analysis for Ordinal Outcome and Binary Mediator	10
Spatial heterogeneity in synergistic effects of extreme heat and NO2 exposures on cardiorespiratory hospitalizations in California	10
Interpreting Violations of Falsification Tests in the Context of Multiple Proposed Instrumental Variables	10
Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Risk of Appendicitis in the Offspring	10
Causal Selection of Covariates in Regression Calibration for Mismeasured Continuous Exposure	9
Community-Level Risk Factors for Firearm Assault and Homicide: The Role of Local Firearm Dealers and Alcohol Outlets	9
Profile Matching for the Generalization and Personalization of Causal Inferences	9
Placebo Adherence as a Negative Control Exposure	9
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination	9
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke	9
The Ideal Trial: Defining Causal Estimands that Balance Relevance and Feasibility in Target Trial Emulations and Actual Randomized Trials	9
Identifying Optimal Methods for Addressing Confounding Bias When Estimating the Effects of State-level Policies	9
Informative Presence in Electronic Health Record Data: A Challenge in Implementing Study Exclusion Criteria	8
It May Not All Be Overdiagnosis: The Potential Role of Environmental Exposures in the Thyroid Cancer Incidence Increase	8
Transient Effects in Studies on Preterm Birth Risk	8
Revisiting the Population Attributable Fraction	8
Bias-interpretability Trade-offs in Vaccine Effectiveness Studies Using Test-negative or Cohort Designs	8
Unbiased Estimates Using Temporally Aggregated Outcome Data in Time Series Analysis: Generalization to Different Outcomes, Exposures, and Types of Aggregation	8
Thanks to Our Reviewers 2025	8
A Cluster-based Method to Quantify Individual Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis Transmission	8
Test-negative Designs with Various Reasons for Testing: Statistical Bias and Solution	8
Ambient Air Pollution Exposures and Child Executive Function: A US Multicohort Study	8
Opioid Agonist Therapy Adherence Trajectories Among Commercially and Publicly Insured People Living With Hepatitis C in the United States	8
A Dynamic Spatial Factor Model to Describe the Opioid Syndemic in Ohio	7
Assessing Direct and Spillover Effects of Intervention Packages in Network-randomized Studies	7
Balancing Empirical Trade-offs When Evaluating US Gun Policy	7
Temporal variation in the association between short-term exposure to fine particulate matter and mortality across subpopulations in North Carolina and Michigan, U.S.	7
State Minimum Wages and Food Insecurity Among Households Receiving Government Food Assistance	7
Erratum: Effect Modification in Settings with “Truncation by Death”	7
Bounds and E-values for Marginal Causal Effects	7
Health Predictors of Neighborhood Selection: A Prospective Cohort Study of Residential Mobility in Ontario, Canada	7
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data	7
Application of a Web-based Tool for Quantitative Bias Analysis: The Example of Misclassification Due to Self-reported Body Mass Index	7
Algorithm Selection for Estimating Causal Effects: Nulliparous Pregnancy Outcomes Study: Monitoring Mothers to Be	7
Longer-term Survival of UK People with Bleeding Disorders Infected by Human Immunodeficiency Virus and/or Hepatitis C Virus Through Contaminated Blood Transfusions	6
Comparison of Lactation Information from Electronic Health Records with Survey Data Across Five US Health Systems	6
Outdoor Artificial Light at Night and Reproductive Endocrine and Glucose Homeostasis and Polycystic Ovary Syndrome in Women of Reproductive Age	6
Validation of Body Mass Index-for-age percentile curves in older adults using data from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	6
Discretizing Continuous Event Time Data	6
Neighborhood Deprivation and Neural Tube Defects	6
Neighborhood-level Socioeconomic Position During Early Pregnancy and Risk of Gastroschisis	6
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health	6
Universal Difference-in-Differences for Causal Inference in Epidemiology	6
Errors in the Calculation of the Population Attributable Fraction	6
Start with the Target Trial Protocol, Then Follow the Roadmap for Causal Inference	6
Improving Inverse Probability Weighting by Post-calibrating Its Propensity Scores	6
Interactive Effects of Long-term Exposure to Air Pollutants on SARS-CoV-2 Infection and Severity: A Northern Italian Population-based Cohort Study	6
Adapting Back-calculation Methods to Estimate the Incidence of Tuberculosis	6
Propensity Scores in Health Disparities Research: The Example of Cognitive Aging and the Hispanic Paradox	6
High Summer Temperatures and Heat Stroke Mortality in Spain	6
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Severe Maternal Morbidity at Delivery in a Public Hospital	6
What Makes Something Worth Knowing? Epistemology and Public Health Impact	6
Socioeconomic Status, Smoking, and Lung Cancer: Mediation and Bias Analysis in the SYNERGY Study	6
Changes in Opioid and Benzodiazepine Poisoning Deaths After Cannabis Legalization in the US: A County-level Analysis, 2002–2020	6