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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Geocoding Error, Spatial Uncertainty, and Implications for Exposure Assessment and Environmental Epidemiology.

Ellen J Kinnee, Sheila Tripathy, Leah Schinasi, Jessie L C Shmool, Perry E Sheffield, Fernando Holguin, Jane E Clougherty

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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22citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

22 citing papers in PubMed, 34 citations in OpenAlex.

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  7. Development of Life Course Exposure Estimates Using Geospatial Data and Residence History.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025
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  10. A review of geospatial exposure models and approaches for health data integration.Journal of exposure science & environmental epidemiology · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Ellen J KinneeUniversity Center for Social and Urban Research, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6719-2591
Sheila TripathyDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Leah SchinasiDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
Jessie L C ShmoolDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health, Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.
Perry E SheffieldEnvironmental Medicine and Public Health and Pediatrics, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9156-1193
Fernando HolguinDepartment of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO 80045, USA.
Jane E CloughertyDepartment of Environmental and Occupational Health, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-9911-1565
Drexel University · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · USIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai · USUniversity of Colorado Denver · US

Funding

Research Supplement to Promote Diversity for R01 Pediatric Health in Extreme Weather - Health Effects and Ambient Temperature (PHEW - HEAT)R01ES030717 · NIEHS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI CLOUGHERTY, JANE ELLEN, SHEFFIELD, PERRY ELIZABETH · 2019 to 2023
$2.8M
Validating GIS-based methods to address spatial uncertainty in clinical trialsR01HL114536 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI CLOUGHERTY, JANE ELLEN, HOLGUIN, FERNANDO · 2012 to 2016
$1.8M
Children's Health and Vulnerability to Heat and Ozone in New York CityR21ES021429 · NIEHS · ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI · PI CLOUGHERTY, JANE ELLEN, SHEFFIELD, PERRY ELIZABETH · 2012 to 2013
$475k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01HL114536NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES030717NIEHS NIH HHS R01ES030717NIEHS NIH HHS R21ES021429
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although environmental epidemiology studies often rely on geocoding procedures in the process of assigning spatial exposure estimates, geocoding methods are not commonly reported, nor are consequent errors in exposure assignment explored. Geocoding methods differ in accuracy, however, and, given the increasing refinement of available exposure models for air pollution and other exposures, geocoding error may account for an increasingly larger proportion of exposure misclassification. We used residential addresses from a reasonably large, dense dataset of asthma emergency department visits from all New York City hospitals (

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Environmental ExposureGeographic Information SystemsGeographic MappingUncertaintyCensusesNew York Cityexposure misclassificationgeocoding errorgeographic information systems (GIS)spatial analysisspatial uncertaintyurban epidemiology

Identifiers

PMID32806682
PMCPMC7459468
OpenAlexW3048959077

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