OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Epidemiology is 32. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform	140
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities	118
Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)	98
Data Resource Profile: The Enfants du Québec dataset	88
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort	84
From risk to structure: reframing health inequities as population phenomena	81
Kidney cancer and occupational agricultural exposures in the AGRIculture and CANcer cohort	80
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan	68
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series	63
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study	62
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies	62
Covariates as Random Effects (CaRE): An approach to modeling high-dimensional confounding and effect heterogeneity.	61
Birth cohort divergence in English and European multimorbidity trajectories	53
Reproducibility and associated regression dilution bias of accelerometer-derived physical activity and sleep in UK Biobank	49
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia	48
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization	47
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination	46
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study	46
IJE’s Education Corner turns 10! Looking back and looking forward	45
Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank	45
Long-term effect of pharmacological treatment on academic achievement of Norwegian children diagnosed with ADHD: a target trial emulation	41
Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study	41
Acute-phase reactants as predictors of chronic kidney disease incidence in Africans: the population-based prospective RODAM cohort study	40
A new method of estimating prevalence of childhood cancer survivors (POCCS): example of the 20-year prevalence in The Netherlands	37
Susceptible windows of long-term childhood exposure to air pollution on adult self-reported bronchitic symptoms	37

Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS)	35
Comparison of intergenerational instrumental variable analyses of body mass index and mortality in UK Biobank	35
What’s next: using infectious disease mathematical modelling to address health disparities	34
Age at menarche and adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes: triangulating evidence from multivariable and Mendelian randomization analyses	34
Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer: could alternative categorization of BMI change improve inference about cumulative risks?	33
Effects of sequential vs single pneumococcal vaccination on cardiovascular diseases among older adults: a population-based cohort study	32
Effectiveness and durability of a second COVID-19 booster against severe outcomes among older people in Norway: a population-based cohort study comparing mono- and bivalent booster doses	32
Body mass index trajectories and mortality risk in Japan using a population-based prospective cohort study: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study	32