International Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Epidemiology is 4. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform127
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities112
Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)111
Data Resource Profile: The Enfants du Québec dataset93
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort85
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination81
From risk to structure: reframing health inequities as population phenomena80
Kidney cancer and occupational agricultural exposures in the AGRIculture and CANcer cohort77
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan74
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series70
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study64
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies61
Covariates as Random Effects (CaRE): An approach to modeling high-dimensional confounding and effect heterogeneity.60
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study60
Reproducibility and associated regression dilution bias of accelerometer-derived physical activity and sleep in UK Biobank57
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia53
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization49
Birth cohort divergence in English and European multimorbidity trajectories48
Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer: could alternative categorization of BMI change improve inference about cumulative risks?44
IJE’s Education Corner turns 10! Looking back and looking forward44
Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank43
Long-term effect of pharmacological treatment on academic achievement of Norwegian children diagnosed with ADHD: a target trial emulation43
Body mass index trajectories and mortality risk in Japan using a population-based prospective cohort study: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study41
Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study41
A new method of estimating prevalence of childhood cancer survivors (POCCS): example of the 20-year prevalence in The Netherlands39
Acute-phase reactants as predictors of chronic kidney disease incidence in Africans: the population-based prospective RODAM cohort study39
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 doses38
Effects of sequential vs single pneumococcal vaccination on cardiovascular diseases among older adults: a population-based cohort study37
Susceptible windows of long-term childhood exposure to air pollution on adult self-reported bronchitic symptoms36
Cohort Profile: The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study (NSHDS)35
Comparison of intergenerational instrumental variable analyses of body mass index and mortality in UK Biobank35
What’s next: using infectious disease mathematical modelling to address health disparities34
Age at menarche and adverse pregnancy and perinatal outcomes: triangulating evidence from multivariable and Mendelian randomization analyses33
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS)33
Cohort Profile: ChinaHEART (Health Evaluation And risk Reduction through nationwide Teamwork) Cohort32
Backseat Driver: The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates, N F Hubele, Norma Faris31
Cohort Profile: The Danish Occupational Medicine Cohort—a nationwide cohort of patients with work-related disease30
Validation of self-reported sun exposure against electronic ultraviolet radiation dosimeters29
Mortality among twin individuals exposed to loss of a co-twin29
Data Resource Profile: Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Data Connect29
Additive interactions of smoking with obesity on ischemic heart disease mortality: a national prospective cohort study in the United States28
Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020−202128
Retirement and cardiovascular disease: a longitudinal study in 35 countries28
The influence of early-life animal exposure on the risk of childhood atopic dermatitis, asthma and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: findings from the Danish National Birth Cohort28
Interacting trends of colorectal cancer incidence: the combined effects of screening and birth cohort28
Diabetes mortality: trends and multi-country analysis of the Americas from 2000 to 201927
Estimating and discovering heterogeneous treatment effects using machine learning in epidemiological studies: a practical guide27
Warm season ambient ozone and children’s health in the USA27
Cohort Profile: Our Future Health27
The SHAPES of Epidemics and Global Disease review27
Data Resource Profile: The Global School-based Student Health Survey—behavioural risk and protective factors among adolescents26
On ‘the joint impact of greenspace and air pollution on mortality’: methodological proposals26
Mediators of Black–White inequities in cardiovascular mortality among survivors of 18 cancers in the USA26
Exploring the impact of selection bias in observational studies of COVID-19: a simulation study25
Data Resource Profile: the Children and Young People with Long COVID (CLoCk) Study25
The estimated effect of season and vitamin D in the first trimester on pubertal timing in girls and boys: a cohort study and an instrumental variable analysis25
Cohort Profile: The Danish SEQUEL cohort24
Making DAGs even more useful: using augmented causal diagrams to depict counterfactual, study design, measurement, analytical, and interventional features24
Local progress towards achieving the End TB targets in Ethiopia: a geospatial analysis24
Uses and misuses of sibling designs24
Inconsistent consistency: evaluating the well-defined intervention assumption in applied epidemiological research24
Association of summer temperatures and acute kidney injury in South Korea: a case-crossover study23
Association of iron homeostasis biomarkers in type 2 diabetes and glycaemic traits: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study23
Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer in Korean women23
Night shift work and risk of aggressive prostate cancer in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers (NOPW) cohort23
Cohort Profile: Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study22
Malaria amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Gabon: an application of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models within an interrupted time series (ITS) framework to hospital-based data22
Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types22
Effectiveness of fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine against the Omicron variant compared with no vaccination22
Post-acute non-specific symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination: a Danish population-based study21
Climate-related disasters and biological aging based on DNA methylation: a twin and family study in Australian women21
Partitioning genetic effects on birthweight at classical human leukocyte antigen loci into maternal and fetal components, using structural equation modelling21
The effect of SARS-CoV-2 testing on healthcare-seeking behaviour at primary care level21
Identifiability of causal effects in test-negative design studies21
Associations of maternal motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy with offspring’s neonatal birth outcomes21
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Mental Health and Intersectionality Data Surveillance (Ontario-MINDS) Cohort21
Prevalence, aetiology, vaccination coverage and spatio-temporal pattern among patients admitted with acute bacterial meningitis to the sentinel hospital surveillance network in Yemen, 2014–20, before 20
Socioeconomic inequalities in COVID-19 incidence during the first six waves in Barcelona20
Cohort Profile Update: The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)20
Health impacts of a short-lived, small-scale wildfire in South Korea20
Estimates of vaccine effectiveness against measles and mumps: 14 years follow-up of a large cohort in Wales, UK20
Hyperglycaemia is a causal risk factor for upper limb pathologies20
Tracking the perinatal health benefits of cleaner transportation20
Cohort Profile: The Jiangsu Birth Cohort20
Characteristics and outcomes of an international cohort of 600 000 hospitalized patients with COVID-1920
Cohort Profile Update: Project Viva mothers19
Multimorbidity trends in Catalonia, 2010–21: a population-based cohort study19
Helicobacter pylori multiplex serology and risk of non-cardia and cardia gastric cancer: a case-cohort study and meta-analysis19
Comparison of two COVID-19 mortality measures used during the pandemic response in England18
Cohort Profile: The United Kingdom Research study into Ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers (UK-REACH)18
Limitations introduced by a low participation rate of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence data18
Cohort Profile: South China Cohort18
Correction to: Sex differences in childhood cancer risk among children with major birth defects: a Nordic population-based nested case-control study18
Data Resource Profile: World Health Organization Health Inequality Data Repository18
Reductions in malaria cases after deployment of dual-active ingredient insecticide-treated nets in Ghana—a Bayesian interrupted time series analysis17
The importance of translating genetic partitioning into causal language17
Comorbidity of asthma and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in childhood: causal, shared early-life risk factors, or shared genetic liability?17
Cohort Profile: The Korean Radiation Workers Study (KRWS)17
Short-term effect of temperature on cause-specific, sex-specific, and age-specific ambulance dispatches in Czechia: a nationwide time-series analysis17
Quantifying income inequality in years of life lost to COVID-19: a prediction model approach using Dutch administrative data17
What makes a study design quasi-experimental? The case of difference-in-differences17
Data Resource Profile: The HUNT Biobank16
Spatial inequities in COVID-19 vaccination coverage across Kenya: a geospatial analysis of structural determinants and Development Index patterns16
Data Resource Profile: National Child Oral Health Improvement Programmes for Chile16
Cohort Profile: The Fasa Adults Cohort Study (FACS): a prospective study of non-communicable diseases risks16
Assumptions and analysis planning in studies with missing data in multiple variables: moving beyond the MCAR/MAR/MNAR classification16
Cohort Profile Update: HUNT4 70+16
Data Resource Profile: The Japan COVID-19 and Society Internet Survey (JACSIS)16
The case for counting multiple causes of death in the COVID-19 era16
Widowhood and mortality risk in Taiwan: a population-based matched cohort study16
Correction to: Data Resource Profile: The Hong Kong Diabetes Surveillance Database (HKDSD)15
Education and cardiovascular disease: a within-family Mendelian randomization analysis15
Target-trial specification as a feasibility check: can we emulate a target trial to evaluate the effect of age at first-time pregnancy on mortality?15
Cohort Profile: The Mothers and Newborns (MN) Cohort of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health15
A Bayesian functional approach to test models of life course epidemiology over continuous time15
Understanding the impact of non-shared unmeasured confounding on the sibling comparison analysis15
Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: epidemiological and public health challenges15
Attributable fraction and interaction of tobacco smoking and alcohol drinking on the risk of head and neck cancer: a pooled analysis of 11 prospective cohort studies in Japan15
Childhood physical activity and pubertal timing: findings from the LEGACY girls study15
Demographic and biosocial determinants of beneficial trends in older adult cognition in the USA and England: the role of cohort succession15
Cohort Profile Update: The Intergenerational Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (I-CALM) study, an extension of the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP)14
Familial factors rather than paternal age contribute to the aetiology of epilepsy14
Epicosm—a framework for linking online social media in epidemiological cohorts14
COVID-19: lessons from Brazil14
A longitudinal study evaluating adverse childhood experiences and obesity in adulthood using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)14
Investigating a possible causal relationship between maternal serum urate concentrations and offspring birthweight: a Mendelian randomization study14
The impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on breastfeeding rates at maternity units in France14
Cohort Profile: CITIC-Xiangya Assisted Reproductive Technology Cohort (CXART Cohort)14
Cohort Profile: Indian Study of Healthy Ageing (ISHA-Barshi)13
Active case-finding of tuberculosis compared with symptom-driven standard of care: a modelling analysis13
Cohort Profile Update: The Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN) 2400 cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic13
Use of an emulated trial to investigate the association between use of nitrogen-based bisphosphonates and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer13
Borrowing strength from clinical trials in analysing longitudinal data from a treated cohort: investigating the effectiveness of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in the management of dementia13
Mapping schistosomiasis risk in Southeast Asia: a systematic review and geospatial analysis13
Short-term exposure to air pollution and hospital admission after COVID-19 in Catalonia: the COVAIR-CAT study13
Reconsidering the graphical representation of propensity scores in causal diagrams13
What can we conclude about the effect of parental income on offspring mental health?13
Excess mortality in US Veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic: an individual-level cohort study13
Correction to: Handle with care: challenges associated with ultra-processed foods research12
Pre-pubertal accelerometer-assessed physical activity and timing of puberty in British boys and girls: the Millennium Cohort Study12
Data Resource Profile: Global Trachoma Serology Data Repository12
Cohort Profile: Brazilian High-Risk Cohort for Mental Health Conditions (BHRC)12
Cohort Profile Update: Mental Health Online Survey in the Estonian Biobank (EstBB MHoS)12
Changes in traffic-related air pollution exposures and associations with adverse birth outcomes over 20 years in Texas12
Risk of adverse neonatal outcomes among pregnant women with disabilities12
A critique of the cited evidence linking the relationship between vaccines and autism on the United States CDC webpage12
Objective measures of smoking and caffeine intake and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes12
Mortality among individuals with congenital malformations who reach adulthood: long-term follow-up of the Jerusalem Perinatal Study cohort12
Spatio-temporal trends in pleural mesothelioma mortality in Italy: a 40-year analysis by calendar period and birth cohort12
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program use and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults12
Reweighting UK Biobank corrects for pervasive selection bias due to volunteering12
Individual and joint effect of indoor air pollution index and ambient particulate matter on fetal growth: a prospective cohort study12
Clarifying the ‘set to zero’ approach for time-varying prenatal exposures12
Response to: Incidence of stroke in Switzerland12
Data Resource Profile: Primary Care Audit, Teaching and Research Open Network (Patron)12
Impact of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sulfadoxine–pyrimethamine on sexually transmitted and reproductive tract infections: results from a randomized trial in Uganda12
Interpretation of Mendelian randomization using a single measure of an exposure that varies over time12
Identification of the causal odds ratio in test negative designs11
Cohort Profile Update: The Québec Birth Cohort on Immunity and Health (CO·MMUNITY)11
When data generate populations11
Cohort Profile: the Work Environment and Health in Denmark study11
Premature mortality 16 years after emergency department presentation among homeless and at risk of homelessness adults: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study11
Software Application Profile: McBias: a user-friendly R package and RShiny application for modeling bias in observational studies11
Three phases of increasing complexity in estimating vaccine protection11
Cohort Profile Update: The Young Lives study11
Revisiting the IJE’s Cohort Profile series—how have the cohorts fared?11
Progress in chronic kidney disease of unknown origin research from Nicaragua suggests that exposure during work initiates disease11
Software Application Profile: TriplotGUI, a molecular epidemiology toolbox for investigating associations between exposures, omics, and outcomes11
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and risk of microvascular complications among patients with type 2 diabetes: a prospective study11
Life expectancy among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis is less than one-third of life expectancy in the background population in Guinea-Bissau—an observational study11
Correction to: Educational attainment as a modifier for the effect of polygenic scores for cardiovascular risk factors: cross-sectional and prospective analysis of UK Biobank10
Lifetime risk of maternal near miss morbidity: a novel indicator of maternal health10
Quantitative bias analysis of prevalence under misclassification: evaluation indicators, calculation method and case analysis10
Reassessing the causal role of obesity in breast cancer susceptibility: a comprehensive multivariable Mendelian randomization investigating the distribution and timing of exposure10
Correction to: Authors’ response: Solid cancer mortality among US radiation workers10
Meeting clean air targets could reduce the burden of hypertension among women of reproductive age in India10
The impact of maternal pertussis vaccination recommendation on infant pertussis incidence and mortality in the USA: an interrupted time series analysis10
Higher sun exposure is associated with a reduced risk of primary biliary cholangitis10
Mortality in relation to smoke exposure 9 years after the Hazelwood coal mine fire9
Mediating impact of sleep quality and duration on the relationship between socio-economic conditions and pain9
Data Resource Profile: Ungdata—National Norwegian Youth Surveys9
Response to: Reassessing the causal role of early life adiposity in breast cancer9
Cohort Profile: Healthy Finland Survey9
Causal relationship between gastro-esophageal reflux disease and risk of lung cancer: insights from multivariable Mendelian randomization and mediation analysis9
Longitudinal characterization of determinants associated with obesogenic growth patterns in early childhood9
Systematic exclusion at study commencement masks earlier menopause for Black women in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)9
Cohort Profile: The New Zealand Best Start study (Kia Tīmata Pai)9
Mortality and cancer incidence in UK military veterans involved in human experiments at Porton Down: 48-year follow-up9
Low-dose radiation exposure and risk of self-reported cataract in Fukushima nuclear emergency workers9
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on Brazilian families: a countrywide population-based survey9
Cohort Profile Update: Born in Bradford9
Correction to: The health impact of long COVID during the 2021–2022 Omicron wave in Australia: a quantitative burden of disease study9
Cohort Profile: The Beijing Birth Cohort Study (BBCS)9
Area-level socioeconomic deprivation and suicide by household income: a nationwide cohort study 2015–239
Waterpipe tobacco smoking and risk of all-cause mortality: a prospective cohort study8
Geographic analysis and trends in mortality from mesothelioma in Mexico 1998–20228
Correction to: Population-level detection of early loss of kidney function: 7-year follow-up of a young adult cohort at risk of Mesoamerican nephropathy8
Estimation of time-varying causal effects with multivariable Mendelian randomization: some cautionary notes8
Correction to: Association between cumulative pack-year smoking exposure and sarcopenia: a KoGES cohort stud8
Development and validation of an epidemiological risk score for early detection of pancreatic cancer in high-risk individuals within the IMAGene project8
Newborn body composition and child cardiovascular risk markers: a prospective multi-ethnic Asian cohort study8
Total calcium, dairy foods and risk of colorectal cancer: a prospective cohort study of younger US women8
Socioeconomic inequalities in life expectancy within and between native-born and foreign-born populations: a comparative study of 10 European countries8
Authors’ response: Solid cancer mortality among US radiation workers8
Fine and coarse particulate air pollution and hospital admissions for a wide range of respiratory diseases: a nationwide case-crossover study8
Waning of first- and second-dose ChAdOx1 and BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccinations: a pooled target trial study of 12.9 million individuals in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales8
Occupation as a firefighter and cancer mortality in a population-based cohort in the United States8
Towards an African-led model for strengthening capacity in medical statistics and epidemiology in sub-Saharan Africa: an equitable partnership approach8
Compound impacts of climate change, urbanization and biodiversity loss on allergic disease8
Methods and practical considerations for performing Mendelian randomization8
Data Resource Profile: Cheeloo Lifespan Electronic-health reseArch Data-library (Cheeloo LEAD)8
Variance of age-specific log incidence decomposition (VALID): a unifying model of measured and unmeasured genetic and non-genetic risks8
Risk of cardiovascular events following COVID-19 in people with and without pre-existing chronic respiratory disease8
Effects of smoke haze on respiratory clinic visits in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia according to different haze characteristics7
Incidence of stroke in Switzerland7
Safety of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac during pregnancy on birth outcomes and neonatal mortality: a cohort study from Brazil7
Effect modification by statin use status on the association between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cardiovascular mortality7
A cohort study of forced vital capacity, airway obstruction, and survival in the multinational Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease study7
A comparison of quasi-experimental methods with data before and after an intervention: an introduction for epidemiologists and a simulation study7
The different epidemiological questions on SARS-CoV-2 reinfections7
Glycemic index, glycemic load, and risk of dementia: a prospective analysis within the UK Biobank cohort7
Cohort Profile: The Tongji Maternal and Child Health Cohort (TMCHC)7
Cohort Profile: The Public Health Data Asset, 2011 cohort7
Prospective evaluation of the relevance of Epstein–Barr virus antibodies for early detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Chinese adults7
Night shift work characteristics and risk of incident coronary heart disease among health care workers: national cohort study7
Human genetics suggests differing causal pathways from HMGCR inhibition to coronary artery disease and type 2 diabetes7
Body mass index and tuberculosis risk: an updated systematic literature review and dose–response meta-analysis7
Estimating excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Aotearoa New Zealand: addendum7
Cohort Profile: Longitudinal population-based study of COVID-19 in UK adults (COVIDENCE UK)7
Leading causes of deaths in the mortality transition in Papua New Guinea: evidence from the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System7
The dose–response relationship of pre-menopausal alcohol consumption with age at menopause: a population study of 280 497 women in Norway7
Age-specific mortality patterns across influenza pandemics: evidence from all-cause mortality data across multiple populations7
Life course effects of genetic susceptibility to higher body size on body fat and lean mass: prospective cohort study7
Risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in women with vaginal bleeding before 20 gestational weeks: Danish population-based cohort study6
Reflection on modern methods: risk ratio regression—simple concept yet complex computation6
Cohort Profile: PISCIS, a population-based cohort of people living with HIV in Catalonia and Balearic Islands6
Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer in the Epidemiology of Endometrial Cancer Consortium (E2C2)6
Non-communicable diseases among adolescent and young adult females in sub-Saharan Africa6
Cohort Profile Update: The Young-HUNT Study, Norway6
Correction to: Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)6
Causal relationships between risk of venous thromboembolism and 18 cancers: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis6
Clinical and biochemical associations of urinary metabolites: quantitative epidemiological approach on renal-cardiometabolic biomarkers6
Pregnancy complications and new-onset maternal autoimmune disease6
Effect of preterm birth on growth and blood pressure in adulthood in the Pelotas 1993 cohort6
Consideration of overadjustment bias in guidelines and tools for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies is long overdue6
On the measurement of cause of death inequality6
The association between psychostimulant use in pregnancy and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes: results from a distributed analysis in two similar jurisdictions6
Proxy gene-by-environment Mendelian randomization study of the association between cigarette smoking during pregnancy and offspring mental health6
Reducing the risks of nuclear war: the role of health professionals6
Diverging conclusions from risk difference and difference in restricted mean survival time in quantifying absolute treatment effect heterogeneity6
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