Tyler J. VanderWeele

69.3k total citations · 27 hit papers
487 papers, 38.4k citations indexed

About

Tyler J. VanderWeele is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Health and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Tyler J. VanderWeele has authored 487 papers receiving a total of 38.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 150 papers in Statistics and Probability, 149 papers in Health and 118 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Tyler J. VanderWeele's work include Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (141 papers), Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (93 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (81 papers). Tyler J. VanderWeele is often cited by papers focused on Advanced Causal Inference Techniques (141 papers), Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction (93 papers) and Health disparities and outcomes (81 papers). Tyler J. VanderWeele collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Tyler J. VanderWeele's co-authors include Peng Ding, Stijn Vansteelandt, Mirjam J. Knol, Linda Valeri, Maya B. Mathur, James M. Robins, Eric J. Tchetgen Tchetgen, Ying Chen, Brandon L. Pierce and Habibul Ahsan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and JAMA.

In The Last Decade

Tyler J. VanderWeele

440 papers receiving 37.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Sensitivity Analysis in Observational Research: Introducing the E-Value

2017 3.5k citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology Using Mendelian Randomization

2021 1.9k citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Mediation analysis allowing for exposure–mediator interactions and causal interpretation: Theoretical assumptions and implementation with SAS and SPSS macros.

2013 1.5k citations Linda Valeri, Tyler J. VanderWeele profile →
Mediation Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide

2015 1.2k citations Tyler J. VanderWeele profile →
Explanation in Causal Inference: Methods for Mediation and Interaction

2015 1.1k citations Tyler J. VanderWeele profile →
Power and instrument strength requirements for Mendelian randomization studies using multiple genetic variants

2010 1.1k citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Recommendations for presenting analyses of effect modification and interaction

2012 905 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Principles of confounder selection

2019 904 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele profile →
Strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology using mendelian randomisation (STROBE-MR): explanation and elaboration

2021 861 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. BMJ profile →
A Tutorial on Interaction

2014 717 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
On the promotion of human flourishing

2017 663 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele profile →
Using the E-Value to Assess the Potential Effect of Unmeasured Confounding in Observational Studies

2019 653 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Mediation Analysis with Multiple Mediators

2014 575 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Odds Ratios for Mediation Analysis for a Dichotomous Outcome

2010 564 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Estimating measures of interaction on an additive scale for preventive exposures

2011 531 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Web Site and R Package for Computing E-values

2018 493 citations Maya B. Mathur, Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Conceptual issues concerning mediation, interventions and composition

2009 490 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
A unification of mediation and interaction: a 4-way decomposition.

2014 434 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele profile →
Effect of a Housing and Case Management Program on Emergency Department Visits and Hospitalizations Among Chronically Ill Homeless Adults

2009 383 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
On the Causal Interpretation of Race in Regressions Adjusting for Confounding and Mediating Variables

2014 370 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Sensitivity Analysis Without Assumptions

2016 367 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Methodological Challenges in Mendelian Randomization

2014 347 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward

2022 272 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. Perspectives on Psychological Science profile →
Explanation in causal inference: developments in mediation and interaction

2016 246 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele profile →
Spirituality in Serious Illness and Health

2022 192 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele, Katelyn Long et al. profile →
Handbook of Religion and Health

2023 135 citations Tyler J. VanderWeele et al. profile →
Survey sampling design in wave 1 of the Global Flourishing Study

2025 24 citations R. Noah Padgett, Richard G. Cowden et al. profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Demographic variation in symptoms of depression and anxiety across 22 Global Flourishing Study countries 2026 ·Communications Medicine ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Blake Victor Kent, (unknown), Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele	0
2	From hardship to resilience: Childhood financial conditions and adult well-being in WEIRD and less WEIRD countries 2025 ·Social Science & Medicine ·Dorota Węziak‐Białowolska, Andrzej Cwynar, Piotr Białowolski, Richard G. Cowden, (unknown), R. Noah Padgett, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele	0
3	Virtue for Academic Flourishing: An Argument for the Importance of Character in Higher Education 2025 ·British Journal of Educational Studies ·(unknown), Tyler J. VanderWeele	1
4	Reconnecting our communities: Social flourishing on the far side of “our epidemic of loneliness and isolation” 2025 ·International Journal of Wellbeing ·(unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Richard G. Cowden, (unknown), Tyler J. VanderWeele	0
5	Flourishing in South Africa: Benchmarks and sociodemographic variation across 69 health, wellbeing, and related factors in the Global Flourishing Study 2025 ·International Journal of Wellbeing ·Richard G. Cowden, Angelina Wilson Fadiji, Kaymarlin Govender, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Ying Chen, Tim Lomas, R. Noah Padgett, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele	0
6	Understanding Well-Being in Poland: Insights from the Global Flourishing Study 2025 ·International Journal of Wellbeing ·Dorota Węziak‐Białowolska, Anna M. Zalewska, Kuba Kryś, (unknown), Tim Lomas, R. Noah Padgett, Byron R. Johnson, Tyler J. VanderWeele	0
7	Love of place: Conceptual framework and template for measuring the contributory and unitive affection towards a place 2025 ·International Journal of Intercultural Relations ·Victor Counted, Matthew T. Lee, Tim Lomas, Richard G. Cowden, Kelly‐Ann Allen, (unknown), (unknown), Clay Routledge, David Seamon, Tyler J. VanderWeele	1
8	Love and human flourishing 2025 ·International Journal of Wellbeing ·Tyler J. VanderWeele, Matthew T. Lee	0
9	Flourishing and the scope of medicine and public health 2024 ·Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health ·Tyler J. VanderWeele	3
10	The silent epidemic of loneliness: identifying the antecedents of loneliness using a lagged exposure-wide approach 2024 ·Psychological Medicine ·(unknown), Julia S. Nakamura, (unknown), William J. Chopik, (unknown), Tyler J. VanderWeele, Eric S. Kim	3
11	Hope in adolescence and subsequent health and well-being in adulthood: An outcome-wide longitudinal study 2024 ·Social Science & Medicine ·Katelyn Long, (unknown), Richard G. Cowden, Ying Chen, Tyler J. VanderWeele	4
12	Gratitude and Mortality Among Older US Female Nurses 2024 ·JAMA Psychiatry ·Ying Chen, Olivia I. Okereke, Eric Kim, Henning Tiemeier, Laura D. Kubzansky, Tyler J. VanderWeele	6
13	Understanding how health interventions or exposures produce their effects using mediation analysis 2023 ·BMJ ·Aidan G Cashin, James H. McAuley, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Hopin Lee	25
14	Complexifying Individualism Versus Collectivism and West Versus East: Exploring Global Diversity in Perspectives on Self and Other in the Gallup World Poll 2022 ·Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology ·Tim Lomas, (unknown), Koichiro Shiba, (unknown), Matthew T. Lee, (unknown), Alden Yuanhong Lai, Tyler J. VanderWeele	39
15	Flourishing in head and neck cancer survivors 2022 ·Cancer Medicine ·(unknown), Jinhong Li, (unknown), Christine Harrison, Daniel E. Hall, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Jonas T. Johnson, Marci L. Nilsen	4
16	The role of Hope in subsequent health and well-being for older adults: An outcome-wide longitudinal approach 2020 ·SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología ·Katelyn Long, Eric S. Kim, Ying Chen, (unknown), Everett L. Worthington, Tyler J. VanderWeele	62
17	Finding Common Ground in Meta-Analysis “Wars” on Violent Video Games 2019 ·Perspectives on Psychological Science ·Maya B. Mathur, Tyler J. VanderWeele	58
18	Religion and Health 2017 ·Oxford University Press eBooks ·Tyler J. VanderWeele	14
19	Associations between Mental Health and Ebola-Related Health Behaviors: A Regionally Representative Cross-sectional Survey in Post-conflict Sierra Leone 2016 ·PLoS Medicine ·Theresa S. Betancourt, Robert T. Brennan, Patrick Vinck, Tyler J. VanderWeele, (unknown), Joshua Jeong, Adeyinka M. Akinsulure‐Smith, Phuong Pham	68
20	The Role of Stage at Diagnosis in Colorectal Cancer Black–White Survival Disparities: A Counterfactual Causal Inference Approach 2015 ·Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention ·Linda Valeri, Jarvis T. Chen, Xabier García‐Albéniz, Nancy Krieger, Tyler J. VanderWeele, Brent A. Coull	30

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