OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Cancer is 43. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The impact of socioeconomic status on stage at presentation, receipt of diagnostic imaging, receipt of treatment and overall survival in colorectal cancer patients	161
Gynaecologic and breast cancers in women living with HIV in South Africa: A record linkage study	139
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Socioeconomic position and risk of cervical cancer in the Nordic countries: Results from the Nordic Occupational Cancer Study	117
Delivered relative dose intensity in adolescent and young adult germ cell tumours in England: Assessment of data quality and consistency from clinical trials compared to national cancer registration d	112
Comments on “Methylation scores for smoking, alcohol consumption and body mass index and risk of seven types of cancer”	107
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Immune‐related conditions and cancer‐specific mortality among older adults with cancer in the United States	81
Transcriptional repression and apoptosis influence the effect of APOBEC3A/3B functional polymorphisms on biliary tract cancer risk	78
A comprehensive investigation of histotype‐specific microRNA and their variants in Stage I epithelial ovarian cancers	78
Transcription of human papillomaviruses in nonmelanoma skin cancers of the immunosuppressed	71
Ovarian cancer survival in sub‐Saharan Africa by human development index and histological subtypes: A population‐based registry study	71
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Survival rates and extra‐regional migration patterns of children and adolescents with cancer in Italy: The 30‐year experience of the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (AIEOP) wi	60
Cervical cancer screening: Sharing best practices and addressing common challenges in cervical cancer screening programs	59
Improving colon cancer screening in Poland. In search of the Holy Grail	58
Erratum	58
Latent class analysis‐derived classification improves the cancer‐specific death stratification of lymphomas: A large retrospective cohort study	56
Body mass index and body shape before treatment and nasopharyngeal carcinoma prognosis: A population‐based patient cohort study in southern China	55
Trends in cancer incidence by socioeconomic deprivation in Germany in 2007 to 2018: An ecological registry‐based study	53
Maternal illnesses during pregnancy and the risk of childhood cancer: A medical‐record based analysis (UKCCS)	52
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Pre‐diagnostic circulating resistin concentrations and mortality among individuals with colorectal cancer: Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study	49
Association of aflatoxin with gallbladder cancer in a case‐control study nested within a Chinese cohort	48
Identification of pre‐diagnostic lipid sets associated with liver cancer risk using untargeted lipidomics and chemical set analysis: A nested case‐control study within the ATBC cohort	48
Improving the clinical meaning of surrogate endpoints: An empirical assessment of clinical progression in phase III oncology trials	48
Sequential acquisition of human papillomavirus infection between genital and oral anatomic sites in males	48
New players in the landscape of renal cell carcinoma bone metastasis and therapeutic opportunities	47
Characterisation of anal intraepithelial neoplasia and anal cancer in HIV‐positive men by immunohistochemical markers p16, Ki‐67, HPV‐E4 and DNA methylation markers	47
Mammographic breast density, body mass index and risk of breast cancer in Korean women aged 75 years and older	47
Association between fish oil supplementation and cancer risk according to fatty fish consumption: A large prospective population‐based cohort study using UK Biobank	47
Identification of calmodulin‐like protein 5 as tumor‐suppressor gene silenced during early stage of carcinogenesis in squamous cell carcinoma of uterine cervix	45
Household air pollution and risk of incident lung cancer in urban China: A prospective cohort study	45
Polymorphisms within autophagy‐related genes as susceptibility biomarkers for pancreatic cancer: A meta‐analysis of three large European cohorts and functional characterization	45
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DCLK1 in gastrointestinal cancer: A driver of tumor progression and a promising therapeutic target	44
Physical activity and mortality in melanoma patients within the Norwegian Women and Cancer study (NOWAC)	43
Education level and risk of breast cancer by tumor subtype in the EPIC cohort	43