Michael Escobar

9.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
97 papers, 6.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Escobar is a scholar working on Epidemiology, Emergency Medicine and Statistics and Probability. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Escobar has authored 97 papers receiving a total of 6.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Epidemiology, 21 papers in Emergency Medicine and 18 papers in Statistics and Probability. Recurrent topics in Michael Escobar's work include Traumatic Brain Injury Research (19 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (18 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (12 papers). Michael Escobar is often cited by papers focused on Traumatic Brain Injury Research (19 papers), Trauma and Emergency Care Studies (18 papers) and Traumatic Brain Injury and Neurovascular Disturbances (12 papers). Michael Escobar collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Michael Escobar's co-authors include Mike West, Joseph H. Beitchman, Leslie Atkinson, Bennett A. Shaywitz, Sally E. Shaywitz, Jack Μ. Fletcher, Beth Wilson, Arlene Young, Lori Douglas and Robert Makuch and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of the American Statistical Association and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Michael Escobar

91 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Hit Papers

Bayesian Density Estimati... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1995 1992 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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.

  1. Bayesian Density Estimation and Inference Using Mixtures
    1995 1.4k citations Michael Escobar et al. profile →
  2. Evidence That Dyslexia May Represent the Lower Tail of a Normal Distribution of Reading Ability
    1992 535 citations Michael Escobar et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Escobar 1.9k 1.6k 1.6k 941 680 97 6.4k
Susan A. Murphy 1.1k 0.6× 4.0k 2.5× 536 0.3× 1.9k 2.1× 654 1.0× 192 14.0k
David Thissen 385 0.2× 1.4k 0.9× 1.0k 0.6× 2.7k 2.9× 614 0.9× 166 13.2k
Paul H. Garthwaite 756 0.4× 1.4k 0.8× 827 0.5× 243 0.3× 2.3k 3.3× 128 8.3k
Constantine Frangakis 465 0.2× 2.1k 1.3× 159 0.1× 900 1.0× 725 1.1× 154 10.4k
Garrett M. Fitzmaurice 572 0.3× 2.4k 1.5× 327 0.2× 4.9k 5.3× 577 0.8× 345 15.8k
Nicholas J. Horton 477 0.3× 1.5k 0.9× 159 0.1× 2.3k 2.4× 602 0.9× 210 11.8k
Brian Caffo 693 0.4× 1.4k 0.9× 334 0.2× 258 0.3× 3.6k 5.2× 228 10.1k
Kathryn Roeder 968 0.5× 1.4k 0.9× 130 0.1× 1.5k 1.6× 1.5k 2.2× 164 13.5k
Ananda Sen 244 0.1× 871 0.5× 372 0.2× 694 0.7× 419 0.6× 225 10.7k
Peter E. Morris 401 0.2× 133 0.1× 1.3k 0.8× 1.0k 1.1× 2.0k 3.0× 215 12.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Escobar

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Escobar

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Escobar. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Escobar based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Michael Escobar. Michael Escobar is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Chan, Vincy, et al.. (2024). Cohort profile: a population-based birth cohort of traumatic brain injury in Ontario, Canada. European Journal of Epidemiology. 39(10). 1199–1206.
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Dharma, Christoffer, Peter Smith, Michael Escobar, et al.. (2024). Improving prevalence estimates of mental health and well-being indicators among sexual minority men: a propensity-weighting approach. American Journal of Epidemiology. 193(12). 1758–1767. 1 indexed citations
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Meaney, Christopher, Michael Escobar, Thérèse A. Stukel, et al.. (2023). Using ICD-9 diagnostic codes for external validation of topic models derived from primary care electronic medical record clinical text data. Health Informatics Journal. 29(1). 1197601043–1197601043.
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Meaney, Christopher, Thérèse A. Stukel, Peter C. Austin, et al.. (2023). Quality indices for topic model selection and evaluation: a literature review and case study. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making. 23(1). 132–132. 6 indexed citations
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Kalia, Sumeet, Olli Saarela, Tao Chen, et al.. (2022). Marginal Structural Models Using Calibrated Weights With SuperLearner: Application to Type II Diabetes Cohort. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. 26(8). 4197–4206. 3 indexed citations
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Meaney, Christopher, Michael Escobar, Thérèse A. Stukel, Peter C. Austin, & Liisa Jaakkimainen. (2022). Comparison of Methods for Estimating Temporal Topic Models From Primary Care Clinical Text Data: Retrospective Closed Cohort Study. JMIR Medical Informatics. 10(12). e40102–e40102. 13 indexed citations
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Chan, Vincy, et al.. (2020). Data Mining to Understand How Health Status Preceding Traumatic Brain Injury Affects Functional Outcome: A Population-Based Sex-Stratified Study. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. 101(9). 1523–1531. 13 indexed citations
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Chan, Vincy, et al.. (2020). A population-based sex-stratified study to understand how health status preceding traumatic brain injury affects direct medical cost. PLoS ONE. 15(10). e0240208–e0240208. 12 indexed citations
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Mollayeva, Tatyana, et al.. (2020). Pre-injury health status and excess mortality in persons with traumatic brain injury: A decade-long historical cohort study. Preventive Medicine. 139. 106213–106213. 8 indexed citations
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Dupuis, Annie, et al.. (2019). A frequentist mixture modeling of stop signal reaction times. 3(1). 90–108. 4 indexed citations
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Xiong, Chen, Vincy Chan, Zheng Hu, et al.. (2019). Comorbidity in adults with traumatic brain injury and all-cause mortality: a systematic review. BMJ Open. 9(11). e029072–e029072. 33 indexed citations
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Mollayeva, Tatyana, et al.. (2019). Sex‐specific incident dementia in patients with central nervous system trauma. Alzheimer s & Dementia Diagnosis Assessment & Disease Monitoring. 11(1). 355–367. 8 indexed citations
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Bozorgzadeh, Nezam, Michael Escobar, & J. P. Harrison. (2018). Comprehensive statistical analysis of intact rock strength for reliability-based design. International Journal of Rock Mechanics and Mining Sciences. 106. 374–387. 28 indexed citations
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Chan, Vincy, et al.. (2018). Neck Injury Comorbidity in Concussion-Related Emergency Department Visits: A Population-Based Study of Sex Differences Across the Life Span. Journal of Women s Health. 28(4). 473–482. 22 indexed citations
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Colantonio, Angela, Michael Escobar, Mary L. Chipman, et al.. (2008). Predictors of Postacute Mortality Following Traumatic Brain Injury in a Seriously Injured Population. The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care. 64(4). 876–882. 68 indexed citations
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Chiavetta, Jo Anne, Michael Escobar, Alice Newman, et al.. (2003). Incidence and estimated rates of residual risk for HIV, hepatitis C, hepatitis B and human T-cell lymphotropic viruses in blood donors in Canada, 1990-2000.. PubMed Central. 169(8). 767–73. 102 indexed citations
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Escobar, Michael, et al.. (1994). Hierarchical priors and mixture models, with applications in regression and density estimation. 39 indexed citations

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