Most cited papers in Advanced Causal Inference Techniques
What are the most cited papers in Advanced Causal Inference Techniques?
The most cited paper in Advanced Causal Inference Techniques is "The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects" (Paul R. Rosenbaum, Donald B. Rubin, 1983), with 31,609 citations. Next come "SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models" (17,445) and "A Proportional Hazards Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk" (13,914).
Showing 50 of 95 papers. Every paper with more than 2,235 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The central role of the propensity score in observational studies for causal effects Paul R. Rosenbaum, Donald B. Rubin · Biometrika | 1983 | 31,609 |
| 2 | SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models Kristopher J. Preacher, Andrew F. Hayes · Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers | Nov 2004 | 17,445 |
| 3 | A Proportional Hazards Model for the Subdistribution of a Competing Risk Jason P. Fine, Malcolm H. Ray · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1999 | 13,914 |
| 4 | An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies Peter C. Austin · Multivariate Behavioral Research | 31 May 2011 | 12,403 |
| 5 | Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations. Patrick E. Shrout, Niall P. Bolger · Psychological Methods | 2002 | 11,037 |
| 6 | How Much Should We Trust Differences-In-Differences Estimates? M. Bertrand, Esther Duflo, Sendhil Mullainathan · The Quarterly Journal of Economics | Feb 2004 | 10,904 |
| 7 | Multiple imputation using chained equations: Issues and guidance for practice Ian R. White, Patrick J Royston, ANGELA M. WOOD · Statistics in Medicine | 30 Nov 2010 | 10,013 |
| 8 | A Modified Poisson Regression Approach to Prospective Studies with Binary Data Guangyong Zou · American Journal of Epidemiology | 19 Mar 2004 | 9,806 |
| 9 | Estimating causal effects of treatments in randomized and nonrandomized studies. Donald B. Rubin · Journal of Educational Psychology | Oct 1974 | 9,635 |
| 10 | Difference-in-differences with variation in treatment timing Andrew Goodman-Bacon · Journal of Econometrics | 12 Jun 2021 | 7,977 |
| 11 | Confidence Limits for the Indirect Effect: Distribution of the Product and Resampling Methods David P. MacKinnon, Chondra M. Lockwood, Jason G. Williams · Multivariate Behavioral Research | 2004 | 7,804 |
| 12 | Bayesian Model Selection in Social Research Adrian E. Raftery · Sociological Methodology | 1995 | 6,994 |
| 13 | Balance diagnostics for comparing the distribution of baseline covariates between treatment groups in propensity‐score matched samples Peter C. Austin · Statistics in Medicine | 15 Sep 2009 | 6,815 |
| 14 | Biomarkers and surrogate endpoints: Preferred definitions and conceptual framework Biomarkers Definitions Working Group · Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics | Mar 2001 | 6,746 |
| 15 | SOME PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF PROPENSITY SCORE MATCHING Marco Caliendo, Sabine Kopeinig · Journal of Economic Surveys | 31 Jan 2008 | 6,303 |
| 16 | Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value Tyler J. VanderWeele, Peng Ding · Annals of Internal Medicine | 10 Jul 2017 | 6,298 |
| 17 | Missing Data Analysis: Making It Work in the Real World J. A. Graham · Annual Review of Psychology | 24 Jul 2008 | 6,220 |
| 18 | Entropy Balancing for Causal Effects: A Multivariate Reweighting Method to Produce Balanced Samples in Observational Studies Jens Hainmueller · Political Analysis | 16 Oct 2011 | 5,916 |
| 19 | Proportional hazards tests and diagnostics based on weighted residuals Patricia M. Grambsch, Terry M. Therneau · Biometrika | 1994 | 5,781 |
| 20 | Marginal Structural Models and Causal Inference in Epidemiology James M. Robins, Miguel Ángel Hernán, Babette Brumback · Epidemiology | Sep 2000 | 5,692 |
| 21 | Synthetic Control Methods for Comparative Case Studies: Estimating the Effect of California’s Tobacco Control Program Alberto Abadie, Alexis Diamond, Jens Hainmueller · Journal of the American Statistical Association | 16 Mar 2010 | 5,640 |
| 22 | Empirical evidence of bias. Dimensions of methodological quality associated with estimates of treatment effects in controlled trials Klaus‐Peter Schulz · JAMA | Feb 1995 | 5,589 |
| 23 | Matching Methods for Causal Inference: A Review and a Look Forward Elizabeth A. Stuart · Statistical Science | Feb 2010 | 5,522 |
| 24 | Estimating dynamic treatment effects in event studies with heterogeneous treatment effects Liyang P. Sun, Sarah Abraham · Journal of Econometrics | 16 Dec 2020 | 5,500 |
| 25 | Propensity score methods for bias reduction in the comparison of a treatment to a non-randomized control group Ralph B. D’Agostino · Statistics in Medicine | 15 Oct 1998 | 5,398 |
| 26 | Statistics and Causal Inference Paul W. Holland · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Dec 1986 | 5,156 |
| 27 | Recent Developments in the Econometrics of Program Evaluation Guido W. Imbens, Jeffrey M. Wooldridge · Journal of Economic Literature | Mar 2009 | 5,014 |
| 28 | Two-Way Fixed Effects Estimators with Heterogeneous Treatment Effects Clément de Chaisemartin, Xavier D’Haultfœuille · American Economic Review | Sep 2020 | 5,009 |
| 29 | Propensity Score-Matching Methods for Nonexperimental Causal Studies Rajeev Dehejia, Sadek Wahba · The Review of Economics and Statistics | Feb 2002 | 4,981 |
| 30 | Constructing a Control Group Using Multivariate Matched Sampling Methods That Incorporate the Propensity Score Paul R. Rosenbaum, Donald B. Rubin · The American Statistician | Feb 1985 | 4,849 |
| 31 | Measurement Invariance, Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance William H. Meredith · Psychometrika | Dec 1993 | 4,598 |
| 32 | Moving towards best practice when using inverse probability of treatment weighting (IPTW) using the propensity score to estimate causal treatment effects in observational studies Peter C. Austin, Elizabeth A. Stuart · Statistics in Medicine | 3 Aug 2015 | 4,542 |
| 33 | MatchIt : Nonparametric Preprocessing for Parametric Causal Inference Daniel E. Ho, Kosuke Imai, Gary King et al. · Journal of Statistical Software | 2011 | 4,491 |
| 34 | Matching as Nonparametric Preprocessing for Reducing Model Dependence in Parametric Causal Inference Daniel E. Ho, Kosuke Imai, Gary King et al. · Political Analysis | 2007 | 4,388 |
| 35 | Relaxing the Rule of Ten Events per Variable in Logistic and Cox Regression Eric Vittinghoff, Charles E. McCulloch · American Journal of Epidemiology | 20 Dec 2006 | 4,355 |
| 36 | Identification of Causal Effects Using Instrumental Variables Joshua D. Angrist, Guido W. Imbens, Donald B. Rubin · Journal of the American Statistical Association | Jun 1996 | 4,281 |
| 37 | Alternatives for logistic regression in cross-sectional studies: an empirical comparison of models that directly estimate the prevalence ratio Aluísio J. D. Barros, Vânia Naomi Hirakata · BMC Medical Research Methodology | 20 Oct 2003 | 4,217 |
| 38 | Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology Using Mendelian Randomization Veronika Whitesell Skrivankova, Rebecca Claire Richmond, Benjamin A. R. Woolf et al. · JAMA | 26 Oct 2021 | 4,188 |
| 39 | Identification and Estimation of Local Average Treatment Effects Guido W. Imbens, Joshua D. Angrist · Econometrica | Mar 1994 | 4,184 |
| 40 | Equivalence of the Mediation, Confounding and Suppression Effect David P. MacKinnon, Jennifer L. Krull, Chondra M. Lockwood · Prevention Science | Dec 2000 | 4,183 |
| 41 | A general approach to causal mediation analysis. Kosuke Imai, Luke J Keele, Dustin H. Tingley · Psychological Methods | 2010 | 4,126 |
| 42 | mediation : R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis Dustin H. Tingley, Teppei Yamamoto, Kentaro Hirose et al. · Journal of Statistical Software | 2014 | 4,116 |
| 43 | Purposeful selection of variables in logistic regression Zoran Bursac, C. Heath Gauss, David Keith Williams et al. · Source Code for Biology and Medicine | Dec 2008 | 4,075 |
| 44 | Optimal caliper widths for propensity‐score matching when estimating differences in means and differences in proportions in observational studies Peter C. Austin · Pharmaceutical Statistics | 28 Apr 2010 | 4,057 |
| 45 | An Index and Test of Linear Moderated Mediation Andrew F. Hayes · Multivariate Behavioral Research | 2 Jan 2015 | 3,932 |
| 46 | Matching As An Econometric Evaluation Estimator James J. Heckman, Hidehiko Ichimura, Petra Todd · The Review of Economic Studies | Apr 1998 | 3,872 |
| 47 | Regression discontinuity designs: A guide to practice Guido W. Imbens, Thomas Lemieux · Journal of Econometrics | 25 May 2007 | 3,838 |
| 48 | Robust inference in summary data Mendelian randomization via the zero modal pleiotropy assumption Fernando Pires Hartwig, George Davey Smith, Jack Bowden · International Journal of Epidemiology | 22 May 2017 | 3,834 |
| 49 | Causal Diagrams for Epidemiologic Research Sander Greenland, Judea Pearl, James M. Robins · Epidemiology | 1999 | 3,779 |
| 50 | Case Selection Techniques in Case Study Research Jason Seawright, John Gerring · Political Research Quarterly | 9 Feb 2008 | 3,752 |
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