Daniel O. Scharfstein

12.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
131 papers, 8.6k citations indexed

About

Daniel O. Scharfstein is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Epidemiology and Economics and Econometrics. According to data from OpenAlex, Daniel O. Scharfstein has authored 131 papers receiving a total of 8.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Statistics and Probability, 33 papers in Epidemiology and 24 papers in Economics and Econometrics. Recurrent topics in Daniel O. Scharfstein's work include Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (39 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (33 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (27 papers). Daniel O. Scharfstein is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (39 papers), Statistical Methods and Inference (33 papers) and Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference (27 papers). Daniel O. Scharfstein collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Argentina. Daniel O. Scharfstein's co-authors include Andrea Rotnitzky, James M. Robins, Katherine P. Frey, Brian L. Egleston, Avery B. Nathens, Gregory J. Jurkovich, David S. Salkever, Frederick P. Rivara, Ellen J. MacKenzie and Lisa Reider and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Statistical Association and Annals of Internal Medicine.

In The Last Decade

Daniel O. Scharfstein

127 papers receiving 8.2k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A National Evaluation of the Effect of Trauma-Center Care on Mortality

2006 1.9k citations Katherine P. Frey, Daniel O. Scharfstein et al. profile →
The Prevention and Treatment of Missing Data in Clinical Trials

2012 1.2k citations Andrea Rotnitzky, Daniel O. Scharfstein et al. profile →
Adjusting for Nonignorable Drop-Out Using Semiparametric Nonresponse Models

1999 693 citations Daniel O. Scharfstein, Andrea Rotnitzky et al. Journal of the American Statistical Association profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Daniel O. Scharfstein United States	41	2.4k	2.4k	1.6k	1.4k	1.1k	131	8.6k
Nicola J. Cooper United Kingdom	44	1.8k 0.7×	666 0.3×	1.9k 1.2×	1.6k 1.1×	780 0.7×	143	10.5k
Monica Taljaard Canada	53	913 0.4×	998 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	1.7k 1.2×	2.6k 2.3×	450	10.4k
Lisa A. Weissfeld United States	61	2.0k 0.8×	1.0k 0.4×	1.5k 0.9×	5.1k 3.7×	952 0.9×	170	15.4k
Rolf H. H. Groenwold Netherlands	48	487 0.2×	1.1k 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	1.6k 1.2×	679 0.6×	312	8.1k
Joseph W. Hogan United States	46	508 0.2×	1.7k 0.7×	450 0.3×	1.3k 1.0×	1.1k 1.0×	197	8.2k
Roger Lewis United States	48	3.2k 1.3×	633 0.3×	1.7k 1.1×	1.2k 0.9×	741 0.7×	234	8.6k
Heejung Bang United States	49	366 0.2×	1.3k 0.5×	1.7k 1.0×	2.2k 1.6×	857 0.8×	213	10.9k
Ronald B. Geskus Netherlands	48	386 0.2×	874 0.4×	1.6k 1.0×	2.8k 2.0×	793 0.7×	192	9.1k
M. Alan Brookhart United States	46	307 0.1×	2.1k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	997 0.7×	676 0.6×	152	9.2k
Emmanuel Lesaffre Belgium	51	351 0.1×	1.3k 0.5×	1.6k 1.0×	2.5k 1.8×	803 0.7×	236	10.5k

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Derington, Catherine G., Daniel O. Scharfstein, Ryan M. Andrews, et al.. (2025). Effect of Initiation and Continuous Adherence to ARBs Versus ACEIs on Risk of Adjudicated Mild Cognitive Impairment or Dementia. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 80(7). 2 indexed citations

Bruno, Ann M., Amanda A. Allshouse, Antonio F. Saad, et al.. (2025). Postpartum Pharmacologic Thromboprophylaxis and Venous Thromboembolism in a U.S. Cohort. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 145(3). 265–272. 2 indexed citations

Scharfstein, Daniel O., Thomas Byrne, Ann Elizabeth Montgomery, et al.. (2024). The effect of a Veterans Affairs rapid rehousing and homelessness prevention program on long‐term housing instability. Health Services Research. 60(S3). e14428–e14428.

Smith, Bonnie G., Y. S. Gao, Shu Yang, et al.. (2024). Semi-parametric sensitivity analysis for trials with irregular and informative assessment times. Biometrics. 80(4). 1 indexed citations

Castillo, Renan C., Steven P. Cohen, Robert W. Hurley, et al.. (2024). A Sequenced Strategy for Improving Outcomes in People with Knee Osteoarthritis Pain (SKOAP): Study Protocol for an Effectiveness Trial. Journal of Pain. 25(4). 31–32.

King, Jordan B., Catherine G. Derington, Zachary A. Marcum, et al.. (2023). New Users of Angiotensin II Receptor Blocker–Versus Angiotensin‐Converting Enzyme Inhibitor–Based Antihypertensive Medication Regimens and Cardiovascular Disease Events: A Secondary Analysis of ACCORD‐BP and SPRINT. Journal of the American Heart Association. 12(17). e030311–e030311. 4 indexed citations

Dahabreh, Issa J, Anthony Matthews, Jon A. Steingrimsson, Daniel O. Scharfstein, & Elizabeth A. Stuart. (2023). Using Trial and Observational Data to Assess Effectiveness: Trial Emulation, Transportability, Benchmarking, and Joint Analysis. Epidemiologic Reviews. 46(1). 1–16. 15 indexed citations

Benkeser, David, Iván Díaz, Alex Luedtke, et al.. (2020). Improving precision and power in randomized trials for COVID‐19 treatments using covariate adjustment, for binary, ordinal, and time‐to‐event outcomes. Biometrics. 77(4). 1467–1481. 42 indexed citations

Potter, Benjamin K., Robert Sheu, Daniel J. Stinner, et al.. (2018). Multisite Evaluation of a Custom Energy-Storing Carbon Fiber Orthosis for Patients with Residual Disability After Lower-Limb Trauma. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 100(20). 1781–1789. 23 indexed citations

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Castillo, Renan C., Srinivasa N. Raja, Katherine P. Frey, et al.. (2017). Improving Pain Management and Long-Term Outcomes Following High-Energy Orthopaedic Trauma (Pain Study). Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma. 31(1). S71–S77. 35 indexed citations

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Fried, Linda P., et al.. (2010). Diastolic Blood Pressure Levels and Ischemic Stroke Incidence in Older Adults With White Matter Lesions. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 66A(1). 74–81. 10 indexed citations

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Leff, Bruce, Lisa Reider, Kevin D. Frick, et al.. (2009). Guided care and the cost of complex healthcare: a preliminary report.. PubMed. 15(8). 555–9. 86 indexed citations

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Boult, Chad, Lisa Reider, Katherine P. Frey, et al.. (2008). Multidimensional Geriatric Assessment: Back to the Future Early Effects of "Guided Care" on the Quality of Health Care for Multimorbid Older Persons: A Cluster-Randomized Controlled Trial. The Journals of Gerontology Series A. 63(3). 321–327. 145 indexed citations

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Shardell, Michelle, Daniel O. Scharfstein, David Vlahov, & Noya Galai. (2008). Inference for cumulative incidence functions with informatively coarsened discrete event‐time data. Statistics in Medicine. 27(28). 5861–5879. 4 indexed citations

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Shadmi, Efrat, et al.. (2005). The effect of guided care on quality of care.. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 53(4). 3 indexed citations

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Epstein, Jonathan I., et al.. (2005). Utility of saturation biopsy to predict insignificant cancer at radical prostatectomy. Urology. 66(2). 356–360. 132 indexed citations

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Scharfstein, Daniel O., Charles F. Manski, & James C. Anthony. (2004). On the Construction of Bounds in Prospective Studies with Missing Ordinal Outcomes: Application to the Good Behavior Game Trial. Biometrics. 60(1). 154–164. 20 indexed citations

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Minkovitz, Cynthia S., Donna M. Strobino, Nancy Hughart, et al.. (2003). Developmental Specialists in Pediatric Practices: Perspectives of Clinicians and Staff. Ambulatory Pediatrics. 3(6). 295–303. 7 indexed citations

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Scharfstein, Daniel O., Andrea Rotnitzky, & James M. Robins. (1999). Adjusting for Nonignorable Drop-Out Using Semiparametric Nonresponse Models. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 94(448). 1096–1120. 693 indexed citations breakdown →

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Scharfstein, Daniel O., Anastasios A. Tsiatis, & Peter B. Gilbert. (1998). Semiparametric efficient estimation in the generalized odds-rate class of regression models for right-censored time-to-event data.. Lifetime Data Analysis. 4(4). 355–391. 52 indexed citations

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