Publications

Selected Publications

A curated selection emphasizing solo- and first-authored work and pieces with documented policy or public impact. Across thirty-six peer-reviewed papers, my work has been cited more than 30,000 times (h-index 25) and referenced in 189 policy documents. The complete list, including large collaborative studies, lives on Google Scholar.

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Citations
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Peer-Reviewed Papers
189
Policy Documents
First & Solo-Authored

Leading Work

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A Multi-Modal Pipeline for COVID-Associated Acute Kidney Injury Drug Repurposing
Columbus et al., N3C Consortium · under review at Nature Biotechnology
first author
2026
The End is Insight: How to Know When Data Analysis is Done
Columbus, Caffo, Hicks, Peng · accepted, in press at ASA Discoveries as a discussion paper
first author
2026
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From Traditional to Agentic AI: Securing Autonomously Acting Language Models Against Emergent Threats
EurIPS 2025 Foundations of Language Model Security Workshop
solo author
2022
Significance (Royal Statistical Society & ASA)
solo author · one of five features of the issue
2021
Matin, Lucia, Lal, Columbus et al. · Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Book Chapters

Application & Information Security

2024
97 Things Every Application Security Professional Should Know, O’Reilly Media
2024
97 Things Every Application Security Professional Should Know, O’Reilly Media
2021
97 Things Every Information Security Professional Should Know, O’Reilly Media
Briefs, Books & Guides

Translating Research for Wider Use

2026
Key findings brief, Scholars Strategy Network
solo author
2026
Columbus, Middleton · case study series on leadership in open science, LMU Open Science Center & FORRT
2026
Open-access book, forkflow open-source project
solo author
2026
Community guide and software deposit, Zenodo · contributing author
2024
Invited policy memo, Federation of American Scientists
solo author
Policy-Cited & Featured

Studies Taken Up by Press and Policy

As a senior biostatistician with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, I contribute to the Global Burden of Disease Study. Each article links to the paper; the badges beneath it link to the news coverage and policy documents that cite it.

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Sage Policy Profiles records 221 citations across 189 policy documents that cite this body of work, from the World Health Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, the World Bank, the the Council of the European Union, and national governments across more than twenty countries.