OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Current Epidemiology Reports is 3. 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
Determinants and Assessment of Menstrual Blood Flow	92
Defining, Measuring, and Evaluating Prenatal Care in Insurance Claims Data	65
Correction to: Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders	48
Current Approaches to Measuring Local Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in Population Health Studies	36
The Utility of Multistate Models: A Flexible Framework for Time-to-Event Data	31
Interpersonal and Self-Directed Violence Among Sexual and Gender Minority Populations: Moving Research from Prevalence to Prevention	31
Epidemiologic Advances Generated by the Human Health Exposure Analysis Resource Program	29
Estimation of Near-Surface Ozone Concentrations and their Health Risk Assessment: A Review	22
Natural Disaster Epidemiology and Reproductive Health	22
Ambient Air Pollution Exposure Assessments in Fertility Studies: a Systematic Review and Guide for Reproductive Epidemiologists	20
Differences and Disparities in Ageism Affecting Older US Adults: a Review	18
From Cancer Epidemiology to Policy and Practice: the Role of a Comprehensive Cancer Center	16
Endocrine-Disrupting Chemical Exposures in Pregnancy: a Sensitive Window for Later-Life Cardiometabolic Health in Women	16
Intersectional Approaches to Minority Aging Research	15
Methodological Considerations for Studies of Preterm Birth After Vaccination during Pregnancy: A Quantitative Bias Analysis on the COVID-19 Vaccine	13
Coordinating Centers as a Strategy for Accelerating Cancer Epidemiology Consortia: Best Practices	12
Association of Standing with Cardiovascular Disease and Mortality in Adults	12
Do Changes to the Alcohol Retail Environment Reduce Interpersonal Violence?	11
A Review and Synthesis of Multi-level Models for Causal Inference with Individual Level Exposures	11
Examining the Linkage Between Social Support and Gender-Based Violence Among Women and Girls in Humanitarian Settings: a Systematic Review of the Evidence	10
A Review of Causal Inference Methods for Estimating the Effects of Exposure Change when Incident Exposure Is Unobservable	10
Approaches to Measuring Cannabis Use in Injury Research: Beyond Drug Detection	10
The Importance of Addressing Early-Life Environmental Exposures in Cancer Epidemiology	10
The Target Cohort Approach: An Extension of the Target Trial Framework to Nested Case-Control Studies with Incidence Density Sampling	8
Vitamin D and Toxic Metals in Pregnancy - a Biological Perspective	8

Machine Learning Approaches for Measuring Neighborhood Environments in Epidemiologic Studies	8
Advances in the Use of Residual Newborn Dried Blood Spots Within Environmental Epidemiology	7
Outdoor Air Pollution and Pregnancy Loss: a Review of Recent Literature	7
Using Counterfactual Worlds to Triangulate Evidence in the Real World	6
Community Health Fairs and Cancer Prevention in Low-Resource Settings: A Global Perspective	6
Chromium in Biological Samples in Association with Cancer Risk by Site: A Systematic Literature Review	6
An Introduction to Longitudinal Synthetic Cohorts for Studying the Life Course Drivers of Health Outcomes and Inequalities in Older Age	6
Methodological Considerations on the Use of Cohort Designs in Drug-Drug Interaction Studies in Pharmacoepidemiology	5
Sensitivity Analyses for Unmeasured Confounders	5
Maternal, Perinatal, and Infant Health of Disaggregated Asian American Subgroups: A Scoping Review	5
Place-Based Interventions and the Epidemiology of Violence Prevention	5
Causal Inference Challenges and New Directions for Epidemiologic Research on the Health Effects of Social Policies	5
The Intersection of the Microbiome and Adiposity in Cancer Risk and Outcomes: Breast, Endometrial, and Colorectal Cancers	5
External Comparator Groups Derived from Real-world Data Used in Support of Regulatory Decision Making: Use Cases and Challenges	5
A Tutorial on Applying the Difference-in-Differences Method to Health Data	4
A Review of the Causal Decomposition Framework for Modeling Interventions that Reduce Disparities	4
Psychiatric Epidemiology During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Agent-Based Modeling: an Underutilized Tool in Community Violence Research	3
Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Causal Research in Epidemiology	3
We Do Not Know How People Have Babies: an Opportunity for Epidemiologists to Have Meaningful Impact on Population-Level Health and Wellbeing	3
The Impact of Early-Life Exposures on Women’s Reproductive Health in Adulthood	3
Community-Based Participatory Research to Improve Cardiovascular Health Among US Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups	3