OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Epidemiology is 39. 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
818Prediction of health effects of Asian dust using the MASINGAR in Japan	242
191Two approaches to teaching epidemiology online for capacity building in developing countries	173
Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities	145
1441Indirect effects of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020	140
1100National prevalence of oral HPV infection in vaccinated and unvaccinated young adults in Brazil	123
197Assessment of Depression, Anxiety and Fatigue in relation to diet quality in Multiple Sclerosis	110
955Risk of drowning: the Japan Collaborative Cohort (JACC) Study	103
990Seaweed intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Japan Public Health Center–based Prospective (JPHC) Study	93
1531Monitoring of substances use among a sample of Tunisian high school pupils	87
774The appropriateness of the Effort-Reward Imbalance ratio for investigating musculoskeletal symptoms	84
512Challenges and opportunities to appropriate antibiotic prescribing: a survey of clinicians’ perceptions in Australia	84
352Postpartum diet quality: A cross-sectional analysis from the Australian longitudinal study on women’s health	80
1091Evaluation of symptom screening methods for tuberculosis: secondary analysis of Mongolian nationwide tuberculosis prevalence survey	80
1491Impact of COVID19 on years of life lost with and without disability across 18 European-countries	74
1384Factors related to neck and shoulder pain during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	70
1448Intensive care utilisation in New Zealand 2010 to 2020	69
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia	69
151Infant and young child feeding practices and ARI and diarrhoea in Ethiopia: A PSM approach	65
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study	64
Corrigendum to: Diagnostic radiological examinations and risk of intracranial tumours in adults—findings from the interphone study	60
1514Racial discrimination and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults: a five-wave longitudinal analyses	58
1047Epidemiology of different Cancers in Rural Jodhpur (India)	56
1485Trends and attributable burden of raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in South Africa	53
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort	53
Corrigendum to: Antibody status and cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among adults in three regions of France following the first lockdown and associated risk factors: a multicohort study	51

Social and demographic correlates of cardiovascular mortality in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Ghana: a verbal post-mortem analysis	48
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities	47
765The impact of childhood hearing loss on language and psychosocial outcomes: The LOCHI study	46
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform	45
SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate after the first epidemic wave in Mexico	45
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series	44
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies	44
Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020	43
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan	43
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination	42
Malaria eradication revisited	41
651The voice of Indian women on family planning: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis	41
Causal diagrams for immortal time bias	41
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study	40
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization	39