OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Epidemiology is 7. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
CMAverse: A Suite of Functions for Reproducible Causal Mediation Analyses	116
Is Cohort Representativeness Passé? Poststratified Associations of Lifestyle Risk Factors with Mortality in the UK Biobank	106
Theoretical Framework for Retrospective Studies of the Effectiveness of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccines	89
Rapid Review of Social Contact Patterns During the COVID-19 Pandemic	73
Estimating the Unknown	60
Estimating the Cumulative Incidence of SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Infection Fatality Ratio in Light of Waning Antibodies	59
Toward a Clearer Definition of Selection Bias When Estimating Causal Effects	56
Effects of Hot Nights on Mortality in Southern Europe	55
Meaningful Causal Decompositions in Health Equity Research	44
Differential Mortality Risks Associated With PM2.5 Components	43
Machine Learning for Causal Inference: On the Use of Cross-fit Estimators	40
Trends in Hip Fracture Incidence, Recurrence, and Survival by Education and Comorbidity: A Swedish Register-based Study	40
The Case Time Series Design	37
To Adjust or Not to Adjust? When a “Confounder” Is Only Measured After Exposure	36
Validation of Hypertensive Disorders During Pregnancy: ICD-10 Codes in a High-burden Southeastern United States Hospital	34
Estimating the Impact of Sustained Social Participation on Depressive Symptoms in Older Adults	33
Describing Intersectional Health Outcomes	29
Identification and Validation of Anaphylaxis Using Electronic Health Data in a Population-based Setting	28
Detecting Heterogeneity of Intervention Effects Using Analysis and Meta-analysis of Differences in Variance Between Trial Arms	28
The Importance of Making Assumptions in Bias Analysis	27
Regression Discontinuity Designs in Health	27
Insights into the Cross-world Independence Assumption of Causal Mediation Analysis	26
Prenatal Opioid Analgesics and the Risk of Adverse Birth Outcomes	25
Short-term Exposure to Air Pollution and Attributable Risk of Kidney Diseases	24
Clinical Trial Emulation by Matching Time-dependent Propensity Scores	23

On the Nature of Informative Presence Bias in Analyses of Electronic Health Records	23
Term Birth Weight and Neurodevelopmental Outcomes	23
Combining Urinary Biomarker Data From Studies With Different Measures of Urinary Dilution	22
Constructed Measures and Causal Inference	22
Critical Time Windows for Air Pollution Exposure and Birth Weight in a Multicity Canadian Pregnancy Cohort	21
Long-term Exposure to PM2.5 and Mortality for the Older Population: Effect Modification by Residential Greenness	21
Tropical Cyclone Exposures and Risks of Emergency Medicare Hospital Admission for Cardiorespiratory Diseases in 175 Urban United States Counties, 1999–2010	21
An Aggregated Comorbidity Measure Based on History of Filled Drug Prescriptions: Development and Evaluation in Two Separate Cohorts	21
The Case for Case–Cohort	20
Weight Change and the Onset of Cardiovascular Diseases: Emulating Trials Using Electronic Health Records	20
The Serpent of Their Agonies	20
Log-transformation of Independent Variables: Must We?	20
Multiple-bias Sensitivity Analysis Using Bounds	19
Validation of ICD-10 Codes for Gestational and Pregestational Diabetes During Pregnancy in a Large, Public Hospital	19
A Multipollutant Approach to Estimating Causal Effects of Air Pollution Mixtures on Overall Mortality in a Large, Prospective Cohort	19
Revisiting Overadjustment Bias	19
Emulating a Target Trial of Interventions Initiated During Pregnancy with Healthcare Databases: The Example of COVID-19 Vaccination	19
Deep Learning-based Propensity Scores for Confounding Control in Comparative Effectiveness Research	18
A Flexible Statistical Framework for Estimating Excess Mortality	18
Representativeness Is Not Representative	18
An Alternative Perspective on the Robust Poisson Method for Estimating Risk or Prevalence Ratios	18
A Trial Emulation Approach for Policy Evaluations with Group-level Longitudinal Data	17
Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Childhood Body Mass Index Trajectories From Birth to 7 Years of Age	16
The Use of Time to Pregnancy for Estimating and Monitoring Human Fecundity From Demographic and Health Surveys	16
Helped into Harm	16
Mendelian Randomization With Repeated Measures of a Time-varying Exposure	15
Urinary Cadmium and Incident Heart Failure	15
Spatiotemporal Trends in Opioid Overdose Deaths by Race for Counties in Ohio	15
Positive Predictive Value of Sarcoidosis Identified in an Administrative Healthcare Registry: A Validation Study	15
Fetal Growth Trajectories Among Small for Gestational Age Babies and Child Neurodevelopment	15
Trends from 2008 to 2018 in Electricity-dependent Durable Medical Equipment Rentals and Sociodemographic Disparities	14
Prenatal Exposure to Mixtures of Persistent Endocrine-disrupting Chemicals and Birth Size in a Population-based Cohort of British Girls	14
State-Level Masking Mandates and COVID-19 Outcomes in the United States	14
Estimands and Estimation of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Under the Test-Negative Design	14
A New Approach for Classifying Fetal Growth Restriction	14
The Role of Cooling Centers in Protecting Vulnerable Individuals from Extreme Heat	14
Explaining the Variance in Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors	13
e-Cigarette Use and Combustible Cigarette Smoking Initiation Among Youth: Accounting for Time-Varying Exposure and Time-Dependent Confounding	13
Surveillance-to-Diagnostic Testing Program for Asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 Infections on a Large, Urban Campus in Fall 2020	13
Prenatal Exposure to Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances and Childhood Autism-related Outcomes	13
Bans on Cellphone Use While Driving and Traffic Fatalities in the United States	13
The Target Trial: A Powerful Device Beyond Well-defined Interventions	13
Performance of Multiple Imputation Using Modern Machine Learning Methods in Electronic Health Records Data	13
Antigen-based Rapid Diagnostic Testing or Alternatives for Diagnosis of Symptomatic COVID-19	12
Gestational Weight Gain and Long-term Maternal Obesity Risk: A Multiple-Bias Analysis	12
Male Preconception Marijuana Use and Spontaneous Abortion	12
Social Distancing and SARS-CoV-2 Transmission Potential Early in the Epidemic in Finland	12
Immigrant-Related Policies and the Health Outcomes of Latinx Adults in the United States: A Systematic Review	12
When Effects Cannot be Estimated: Redefining Estimands to Understand the Effects of Naloxone Access Laws	12
Carceral Amplification of COVID-19: Impacts for Community, Corrections Officer, and Incarcerated Population Risks	11

Statistical Deconvolution for Inference of Infection Time Series	11
Use of Recently Vaccinated Individuals to Detect Bias in Test-Negative Case–Control Studies of COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness	11
Estimation of Relative Vaccine Effectiveness in Influenza: A Systematic Review of Methodology	11
Generalizability of Subgroup Effects	11
Poverty, Deprivation, and Mortality Risk Among Women With HIV in the United States	11
The Impact of Keeping Indoor Dining Closed on COVID-19 Rates Among Large US Cities	11
The Evolving Usefulness of the Test-negative Design in Studying Risk Factors for COVID-19	11
The Role of Childhood Asthma in Obesity Development	11
Sex- and Type-specific Genital Human Papillomavirus Transmission Rates Between Heterosexual Partners: A Bayesian Reanalysis of the HITCH Cohort	11
Generalized Difference-in-Differences	11
A Congener-specific and Mixture Analysis of Plasma Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels and Incident Breast Cancer	10
Are Target Trial Emulations the Gold Standard for Observational Studies?	10
Complexity in Epidemiology and Public Health. Addressing Complex Health Problems Through a Mix of Epidemiologic Methods and Data	10
Causal Effect of Chronic Pain on Mortality Through Opioid Prescriptions: Application of the Front-Door Formula	10
A Prospective Ultrasound Study of Plasma Polychlorinated Biphenyl Concentrations and Incidence of Uterine Leiomyomata	10
Neighborhood Walkability and Mortality in a Prospective Cohort of Women	10
Causal Organic Indirect and Direct Effects: Closer to the Original Approach to Mediation Analysis, with a Product Method for Binary Mediators	10
Bounding the Accuracy of Diagnostic Tests, With Application to COVID-19 Antibody Tests	10
A Direct Estimate of the Impact of PM2.5, NO2, and O3 Exposure on Life Expectancy Using Propensity Scores	10
Revisiting the g-null Paradox	10
Incremental Propensity Score Effects for Time-fixed Exposures	10
Using the Generalized Synthetic Control Method to Estimate the Impact of Extreme Weather Events on Population Health	10
HIV Viremia and Risk of Stroke Among People Living with HIV Who Are Using Antiretroviral Therapy	10
Long-term Traffic-related Air Pollutant Exposure and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Diagnosis in Denmark: A Bayesian Hierarchical Analysis	9
Recent Changes in the Patterns of Breast Cancer as a Proportion of All Deaths According to Race and Ethnicity	9
Vitamin D Supplement Use and Risk of Breast Cancer by Race-Ethnicity	9
Immunologic and Epidemiologic Drivers of Norovirus Transmission in Daycare and School Outbreaks	9
SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak Dynamics in an Isolated US Military Recruit Training Center With Rigorous Prevention Measures	9
Validation of a Claims-based Algorithm to Identify Pregestational Diabetes Among Pregnant Women in the United States	9
Air Pollution and Autism Spectrum Disorder in Israel	9
The Prevalent New-user Design for Studies With no Active Comparator: The Example of Statins and Cancer	9
Development and Validation of Algorithms to Estimate Live Birth Gestational Age in Medicaid Analytic eXtract Data	9
A Pharmacoepidemiologic Approach to Evaluate Real-world Effectiveness of Hormonal Contraceptives in the Presence of Drug–drug Interactions	9
Douching and Genital Talc Use: Patterns of Use and Reliability of Self-reported Exposure	9
Incretin-Based Drugs and the Incidence of Prostate Cancer Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes	9
Estimating Vaccine Efficacy Against Transmission via Effect on Viral Load	9
Joint Associations of Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollutants with Hospital Admission of Ischemic Stroke	8
Heat-attributable Mortality in the Summer of 2022 in Spain	8
Effectiveness of Remdesivir Treatment Protocols Among Patients Hospitalized with COVID-19: A Target Trial Emulation	8
Getting Over TOP	8
Identified Versus Interesting Causal Effects in Fertility Trials and Other Settings With Competing or Truncation Events	8
Statin Initiation and Risk of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis	8
Visualizing the (Causal) Effect of a Continuous Variable on a Time-To-Event Outcome	8
A Prospective Cohort Study of Seasonal Variation in Spontaneous Abortion	8
Handgun Divestment and Risk of Suicide	7
Identifiability and Estimation Under the Test-negative Design With Population Controls With the Goal of Identifying Risk and Preventive Factors for SARS-CoV-2 Infection	7
Long-term Exposure to Oxidant Gases and Mortality: Effect Modification by PM2.5 Transition Metals and Oxidative Potential	7
Anti-Asian Racism and COVID-19	7
Long-term Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter and Mortality A Longitudinal Cohort Study of 400,459 Adults	7
Beyond Vaccination Rates: A Synthetic Random Proxy Metric of Total SARS-CoV-2 Immunity Seroprevalence in the Community	7
A Spatiotemporal Analysis of the Association of California City and County Cannabis Policies with Cannabis Outlet Densities	7
Emulating Target Trials to Avoid Immortal Time Bias – An Application to Antibiotic Initiation and Preterm Delivery	7
Proof of Concept Example for Use of Simulation to Allow Data Pooling Despite Privacy Restrictions	7
Evaluating Metformin Strategies for Cancer Prevention: A Target Trial Emulation Using Electronic Health Records	7
Validation of ICD-10-CM Diagnosis Codes for Gestational Age at Birth	7
HIV and Sexually Transmitted Infection Epidemic Potential of Networks of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Two Cities	7
Instability of Variable-selection Algorithms Used to Identify True Predictors of an Outcome in Intermediate-dimension Epidemiologic Studies	7
The Joint Effects of Depression and Comorbid Psychiatric Disorders on Suicide Deaths	7
Nearest-Neighbors Matching for Case–Control Study Analyses: Better Risk Factor Identification From a Study of Sporadic Campylobacteriosis in the United States	7
Routine Hospital-based SARS-CoV-2 Testing Outperforms State-based Data in Predicting Clinical Burden	7
Thunderstorms, Pollen, and Severe Asthma in a Midwestern, USA, Urban Environment, 2007–2018	7
Integrating Public Health Surveillance and Environmental Data to Model Presence of Histoplasma in the United States	7
Using Latent Profile Analysis to Identify Associations Between Gestational Chemical Mixtures and Child Neurodevelopment	7