OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Population Health Metrics is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Estimating causes of out-of-hospital deaths in China: application of SmartVA methods	61
Collider and reporting biases involved in the analyses of cause of death associations in death certificates: an illustration with cancer and suicide	46
MHQ: constructing an aggregate metric of population mental wellbeing	34
Reassessing socioeconomic inequalities in mortality via distributional similarities	22
Marital status, educational attainment, and suicide risk: a Norwegian register-based population study	21
Correction to: How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	19
NPR is an independent risk factor for predicting all-cause mortality in patients with metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease: evidence from NHANES 2007–2020	15
Building a maternal and child cohort amidst Lebanon’s socioeconomic collapse: preliminary results and navigating research challenges	14
The joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health	13
Harmonizing measurements: establishing a common metric via shared items across instruments	12
On the measurement of healthy lifespan inequality	10
Quantifying the magnitude of the general contextual effect in a multilevel study of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Ontario, Canada: application of the median rate ratio in population health research	10
The rural mortality penalty in U.S. hospital patients with COVID-19	10
Google trend analysis of the Indian population reveals a panel of seasonally sensitive comorbid symptoms with implications for monitoring the seasonally sensitive human population	10
Equity assessment of maternal and child healthcare benefits utilization and distribution in public healthcare facilities in Bangladesh: a benefit incidence analysis	10
Automatic electronic reporting improved the completeness of AMI and stroke incident surveillance in Tianjin, China: a modeling study	10
The utility of self-rated health in population surveys: the role of bodyweight	9
Flexible parametric methods for calculating life expectancy in small populations	9
Generating age-specific mortality statistics from incomplete death registration data: two applications of the empirical completeness method	9
Population health and population health metrics	9
A cost study for mobile phone health surveys using interactive voice response for assessing risk factors of noncommunicable diseases	7
Applying an ICD-10 to ICD-11 mapping tool to identify causes of death codes in an Alberta dataset	7
A Bayesian spatio-temporal analysis of mortality rates in Spain: application to the COVID-19 2020 outbreak	6
Quality of routine health data at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ethiopia, Haiti, Laos, Nepal, and South Africa	6
Addressing missing values in routine health information system data: an evaluation of imputation methods using data from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the COVID-19 pandemic	5

Completeness, agreement, and representativeness of ethnicity recording in the United Kingdom’s Clinical Practice Research Datalink (CPRD) and linked Hospital Episode Statistics (HES)	5
How to measure premature mortality? A proposal combining “relative” and “absolute” approaches	5
Characteristics of hemoglobin distributions in preschool children and non-pregnant women of reproductive age and their implications for establishing quality control criteria for hemoglobin data in fie	5
Investigating the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutritional status of infants and toddlers: insights from China	5
Comparing health gains, costs and cost-effectiveness of 100s of interventions in Australia and New Zealand: an online interactive league table	4
The fraction of life years lost after diagnosis (FLYLAD): a person-centred measure of cancer burden	4
Estimating district HIV prevalence in Zambia using small-area estimation methods (SAE)	4
Using routine programmatic data to measure HIV incidence among pregnant women in Botswana	4
Disability weight measurement for the severity of different diseases in Wuhan, China	4
Trends and patterns of disparities in diabetes and chronic kidney disease mortality among US counties, 1980–2014	4
Correction to: A demographic assessment of the impact of the war in the Gaza Strip on the mortality of children and their parents in 2023	4
The future burden of type 2 diabetes in Belgium: a microsimulation model	4
The quality of routine data for measuring facility-based maternal mortality in public and private health facilities in Kampala City, Uganda	4
Evaluation of four gamma-based methods for calculating confidence intervals for age-adjusted mortality rates when data are sparse	4