International Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Epidemiology is 6. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum to: Diagnostic radiological examinations and risk of intracranial tumours in adults—findings from the interphone study229
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform151
Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020141
Malaria eradication revisited116
SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate after the first epidemic wave in Mexico111
Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)108
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia99
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities90
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies85
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort84
Social and demographic correlates of cardiovascular mortality in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Ghana: a verbal post-mortem analysis81
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization75
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination75
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan73
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series62
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study61
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study60
Causes of Outcome Learning: a causal inference-inspired machine learning approach to disentangling common combinations of potential causes of a health outcome57
Corrigendum to: Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities56
Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer: could alternative categorization of BMI change improve inference about cumulative risks?51
IJE’s Education Corner turns 10! Looking back and looking forward51
Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank51
Body mass index trajectories and mortality risk in Japan using a population-based prospective cohort study: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study50
Effects of sequential vs single pneumococcal vaccination on cardiovascular diseases among older adults: a population-based cohort study50
Long-term effect of pharmacological treatment on academic achievement of Norwegian children diagnosed with ADHD: a target trial emulation49
Cohort Profile: The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study (NSHDS)49
Fighting a pandemic: sociodemographic disparities and coronavirus disease-2019 vaccination gaps—a population study49
A new method of estimating prevalence of childhood cancer survivors (POCCS): example of the 20-year prevalence in The Netherlands48
What’s next: using infectious disease mathematical modelling to address health disparities46
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 doses46
Comparison of intergenerational instrumental variable analyses of body mass index and mortality in UK Biobank45
Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study45
Decline in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits over the life course in the general population: trajectories across five population birth cohorts spanning ages 3 to 45 years44
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS)42
Cohort Profile: ChinaHEART (Health Evaluation And risk Reduction through nationwide Teamwork) Cohort42
Long-term impacts of coal mine fire-emitted PM2.5 on hospitalisation: a longitudinal analysis of the Hazelwood Health Study42
Reflection on modern methods: constructing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with domain experts for health services research42
Low-intensity cigarette smoking and mortality risks40
Backseat Driver: The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates, N F Hubele, Norma Faris40
Diabetes mortality: trends and multi-country analysis of the Americas from 2000 to 201939
Validation of self-reported sun exposure against electronic ultraviolet radiation dosimeters39
Interacting trends of colorectal cancer incidence: the combined effects of screening and birth cohort39
Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020−202138
The influence of early-life animal exposure on the risk of childhood atopic dermatitis, asthma and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: findings from the Danish National Birth Cohort38
Strong tuberculin response after BCG vaccination is associated with low multiple sclerosis risk: a population-based cohort study37
Cohort Profile: The Danish Occupational Medicine Cohort—a nationwide cohort of patients with work-related disease37
Data Resource Profile: Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Data Connect35
Assessment of causal effects of visceral adipose tissue on risk of cancers: a Mendelian randomization study33
Cohort Profile: South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN)33
Retirement and cardiovascular disease: a longitudinal study in 35 countries33
Variations in the association of height with mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer in low-, middle- and high-income countries33
Cohort Profile: Our Future Health33
Mortality among twin individuals exposed to loss of a co-twin33
Omran’s ‘Epidemiologic Transition’ 50 years on31
Nitrites and nitrates from food additives and natural sources and cancer risk: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort31
Data Resource Profile: China Chronic Disease and Risk Factor Surveillance (CCDRFS)31
Vitamin D deficiency and C-reactive protein: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study31
The SHAPES of Epidemics and Global Disease review30
Cohort Profile Update: The Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP)30
Cohort Profile: The Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study (SuperMIX)30
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 analysis29
Data Resource Profile: The Global School-based Student Health Survey—behavioural risk and protective factors among adolescents29
Cohort Profile: The Danish SEQUEL cohort28
Association of iron homeostasis biomarkers in type 2 diabetes and glycaemic traits: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study27
Exploring the impact of selection bias in observational studies of COVID-19: a simulation study27
Local progress towards achieving the End TB targets in Ethiopia: a geospatial analysis27
Inconsistent consistency: evaluating the well-defined intervention assumption in applied epidemiological research26
Uses and misuses of sibling designs26
Cohort Profile: Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study26
Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types26
Mediators of Black–White inequities in cardiovascular mortality among survivors of 18 cancers in the USA25
Association of summer temperatures and acute kidney injury in South Korea: a case-crossover study25
Warm season ambient ozone and children’s health in the USA24
Night shift work and risk of aggressive prostate cancer in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers (NOPW) cohort24
What can siblingsand cousinstell us about the role of early life family income in the aetiologies of violent crime, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity?24
Data Resource Profile: the Children and Young People with Long COVID (CLoCk) Study24
Partitioning genetic effects on birthweight at classical human leukocyte antigen loci into maternal and fetal components, using structural equation modelling24
Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer in Korean women24
Effectiveness of fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine against the Omicron variant compared with no vaccination24
Post-acute non-specific symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination: a Danish population-based study23
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 data23
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Mental Health and Intersectionality Data Surveillance (Ontario-MINDS) Cohort23
Commentary: Deep learning approaches applied to routinely collected health data: future directions23
Associations of maternal motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy with offspring’s neonatal birth outcomes22
Helicobacter pylori multiplex serology and risk of non-cardia and cardia gastric cancer: a case-cohort study and meta-analysis22
Socioeconomic inequalities in COVID-19 incidence during the first six waves in Barcelona22
Cohort Profile Update: The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)22
Cohort Profile: The Jiangsu Birth Cohort22
Identifiability of causal effects in test-negative design studies22
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 21
Correction to: Sex differences in childhood cancer risk among children with major birth defects: a Nordic population-based nested case-control study21
Cohort Profile Update: Project Viva mothers21
Characteristics and outcomes of an international cohort of 600 000 hospitalized patients with COVID-1921
Excess risk of subsequent infection in hospitalized children from a community cohort study in Cambodia and Madagascar21
Data Resource Profile: World Health Organization Health Inequality Data Repository21
Hyperglycaemia is a causal risk factor for upper limb pathologies21
Data Resource Profile: The Information System for Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP)21
Comparison of two COVID-19 mortality measures used during the pandemic response in England20
Data Resource Profile: National Child Oral Health Improvement Programmes for Chile20
The case for counting multiple causes of death in the COVID-19 era19
Assumptions and analysis planning in studies with missing data in multiple variables: moving beyond the MCAR/MAR/MNAR classification19
Evaluating the effectiveness of population-based breast cancer service screening: an analysis of parsimonious patient survival information with the time-varying Cox model19
The importance of translating genetic partitioning into causal language19
Cohort Profile: The Fasa Adults Cohort Study (FACS): a prospective study of non-communicable diseases risks19
Short-term effect of temperature on cause-specific, sex-specific, and age-specific ambulance dispatches in Czechia: a nationwide time-series analysis19
Cohort Profile: The United Kingdom Research study into Ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers (UK-REACH)19
Association between body mass index and oesophageal cancer mortality: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies with >800 000 individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium18
Widowhood and mortality risk in Taiwan: a population-based matched cohort study18
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors associated with increased mortality risk in breast cancer patients in Northern Israel18
Quantifying income inequality in years of life lost to COVID-19: a prediction model approach using Dutch administrative data18
Pre-trauma predictors of severe psychiatric comorbidity 5 years following traumatic experiences18
Limitations introduced by a low participation rate of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence data18
Cohort Profile: The Korean Radiation Workers Study (KRWS)18
Prevalence, risk factors and short-term consequences of adverse birth outcomes in Zimbabwean pregnant women: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomized trial18
Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: epidemiological and public health challenges18
Thanks to IJE reviewers for 202117
Cohort Profile: South China Cohort17
Peter Oswald Derrick Pharoah, 1934–202117
Correction to: Data Resource Profile: The Hong Kong Diabetes Surveillance Database (HKDSD)17
Data Resource Profile: The Education and Child Health Insights from Linked Data (ECHILD) Database17
Correction to: Low-intensity cigarette smoking and mortality risks: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies in Japan17
Data Resource Profile: The HUNT Biobank17
Learning from the pandemic: mortality trends and seasonality of deaths in Australia in 202017
Understanding the impact of non-shared unmeasured confounding on the sibling comparison analysis16
A Bayesian functional approach to test models of life course epidemiology over continuous time16
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)16
The impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on breastfeeding rates at maternity units in France16
Cohort Profile: CITIC-Xiangya Assisted Reproductive Technology Cohort (CXART Cohort)16
Education and cardiovascular disease: a within-family Mendelian randomization analysis16
Childhood physical activity and pubertal timing: findings from the LEGACY girls study16
Familial factors rather than paternal age contribute to the aetiology of epilepsy16
Risk factors for Ebola virus disease among household care providers, Sierra Leone, 201516
The prevalence, risk of premature births, mortality and causes of death of cleft lip with or without palate in South Korea: a nationwide population-based cohort study15
Maternal respiratory health and intrauterine exposure-driven birthweight: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study15
Mapping schistosomiasis risk in Southeast Asia: a systematic review and geospatial analysis15
Short-term exposure to air pollution and hospital admission after COVID-19 in Catalonia: the COVAIR-CAT study15
Epicosm—a framework for linking online social media in epidemiological cohorts15
Investigating a possible causal relationship between maternal serum urate concentrations and offspring birthweight: a Mendelian randomization study15
Sample size calculators for planning stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials: a review and comparison15
Active case-finding of tuberculosis compared with symptom-driven standard of care: a modelling analysis15
Use of an emulated trial to investigate the association between use of nitrogen-based bisphosphonates and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer15
Effect of a vegetation fire event ban on hospital visits for respiratory diseases in Upper Northern Thailand15
A longitudinal study evaluating adverse childhood experiences and obesity in adulthood using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)15
Cohort Profile: The Mothers and Newborns (MN) Cohort of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health15
Cohort Profile: Indian Study of Healthy Ageing (ISHA-Barshi)15
Excess mortality in US Veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic: an individual-level cohort study15
Pre-pubertal accelerometer-assessed physical activity and timing of puberty in British boys and girls: the Millennium Cohort Study15
Cohort Profile: COVIDMENT: COVID-19 cohorts on mental health across six nations14
Systemic iron status and maternal pregnancy complications: a Mendelian randomization study14
Correction to: Handle with care: challenges associated with ultra-processed foods research14
Cohort Profile Update: Mental Health Online Survey in the Estonian Biobank (EstBB MHoS)14
What can we conclude about the effect of parental income on offspring mental health?14
Cohort Profile Update: The Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN) 2400 cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Smoking and severe illness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Japan14
Changes in traffic-related air pollution exposures and associations with adverse birth outcomes over 20 years in Texas14
Risk of adverse neonatal outcomes among pregnant women with disabilities14
Objective measures of smoking and caffeine intake and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes14
Borrowing strength from clinical trials in analysing longitudinal data from a treated cohort: investigating the effectiveness of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in the management of dementia14
Data Resource Profile: Primary Care Audit, Teaching and Research Open Network (Patron)14
Interpretation of Mendelian randomization using a single measure of an exposure that varies over time14
Cohort Profile Update: The 45 and Up Study14
Individual and joint effect of indoor air pollution index and ambient particulate matter on fetal growth: a prospective cohort study14
Cohort Profile: The Porton Down Veterans cohort study13
Commentary: Measuring excess mortality due to the COVID-19 pandemic: progress and persistent challenges13
Quantitative bias analysis of prevalence under misclassification: evaluation indicators, calculation method and case analysis13
Reweighting UK Biobank corrects for pervasive selection bias due to volunteering13
Progress in chronic kidney disease of unknown origin research from Nicaragua suggests that exposure during work initiates disease13
Dietary fibre intake is associated with reduced risk of lung cancer: a Japan public health centre-based prospective study (JPHC)13
Revisiting the IJE’s Cohort Profile series—how have the cohorts fared?13
Reassessing the causal role of obesity in breast cancer susceptibility: a comprehensive multivariable Mendelian randomization investigating the distribution and timing of exposure13
Cohort Profile Update: The Québec Birth Cohort on Immunity and Health (CO·MMUNITY)13
Premature mortality 16 years after emergency department presentation among homeless and at risk of homelessness adults: a retrospective longitudinal cohort study13
Cohort Profile: The New Zealand Best Start study (Kia Tīmata Pai)12
Correction to: Prenatal exposure to nitrofurantoin and risk of childhood leukaemia: a registry-based cohort study in four Nordic countries12
Three phases of increasing complexity in estimating vaccine protection12
When data generate populations12
Life expectancy among patients with pulmonary tuberculosis is less than one-third of life expectancy in the background population in Guinea-Bissau—an observational study12
Commentary: Estimation of vaccine effectiveness using the screening method12
Correction to: Educational attainment as a modifier for the effect of polygenic scores for cardiovascular risk factors: cross-sectional and prospective analysis of UK Biobank12
Longitudinal characterization of determinants associated with obesogenic growth patterns in early childhood12
Changes in mortality rate of the general population during the COVID-19 pandemic: an interrupted time series study in Korea12
Meeting clean air targets could reduce the burden of hypertension among women of reproductive age in India12
Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution and risk of microvascular complications among patients with type 2 diabetes: a prospective study12
The impact of maternal pertussis vaccination recommendation on infant pertussis incidence and mortality in the USA: an interrupted time series analysis12
Correction to: Authors’ response: Solid cancer mortality among US radiation workers12
Model-based geostatistics enables more precise estimates of neglected tropical-disease prevalence in elimination settings: mapping trachoma prevalence in Ethiopia12
Cohort Profile: the Work Environment and Health in Denmark study12
County-level socio-economic disparities in COVID-19 mortality in the USA12
Cohort Profile: High School and Beyond12
Cohort Profile Update: The HUNT Study, Norway12
Mediating impact of sleep quality and duration on the relationship between socio-economic conditions and pain11
The COVID-19 pandemic and the menstrual cycle: research gaps and opportunities11
Correction to: The health impact of long COVID during the 2021–2022 Omicron wave in Australia: a quantitative burden of disease study11
Correction to: Long-term risk of epilepsy, cerebral palsy and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children affected by a threatened abortion in utero11
Time-fixed vs time-varying causal diagrams for immortal time bias11
Mortality and cancer incidence in UK military veterans involved in human experiments at Porton Down: 48-year follow-up11
Glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) in mid-pregnancy and perinatal outcomes11
Cohort Profile Update: Born in Bradford11
Causal relationship between gastro-esophageal reflux disease and risk of lung cancer: insights from multivariable Mendelian randomization and mediation analysis11
Lifetime risk of maternal near miss morbidity: a novel indicator of maternal health11
A secondary data analysis of a cluster randomized controlled trial: improved cookstoves associated with reduction in incidence of low birthweight in rural Malawi11
Educational attainment as a modifier for the effect of polygenic scores for cardiovascular risk factors: cross-sectional and prospective analysis of UK Biobank11
Occupation as a firefighter and cancer mortality in a population-based cohort in the United States11
Waterpipe tobacco smoking and risk of all-cause mortality: a prospective cohort study11
Systematic exclusion at study commencement masks earlier menopause for Black women in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)11
Weight-for-height is associated with an overestimation of thinness burden in comparison to BMI-for-age in under-5 populations with high stunting prevalence11
Cohort Profile: The Center for cArdiometabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia (CARRS)11
Cohort Profile: Healthy Finland Survey11
Response to: Reassessing the causal role of early life adiposity in breast cancer11
Cohort Profile: The Beijing Birth Cohort Study (BBCS)11
Authors’ response: Solid cancer mortality among US radiation workers11
Methods and practical considerations for performing Mendelian randomization11
Cohort Profile: The IRanian Longitudinal Study on Ageing (IRLSA): the first comprehensive study on ageing in Iran11
Geographic analysis and trends in mortality from mesothelioma in Mexico 1998–202210
Estimation of time-varying causal effects with multivariable Mendelian randomization: some cautionary notes10
A comparison of quasi-experimental methods with data before and after an intervention: an introduction for epidemiologists and a simulation study10
Compound impacts of climate change, urbanization and biodiversity loss on allergic disease10
The different epidemiological questions on SARS-CoV-2 reinfections10
Cohort Profile: Longitudinal population-based study of COVID-19 in UK adults (COVIDENCE UK)10
Consideration of overadjustment bias in guidelines and tools for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies is long overdue10
Total calcium, dairy foods and risk of colorectal cancer: a prospective cohort study of younger US women10
Variance of age-specific log incidence decomposition (VALID): a unifying model of measured and unmeasured genetic and non-genetic risks10
Correction to: Population-level detection of early loss of kidney function: 7-year follow-up of a young adult cohort at risk of Mesoamerican nephropathy10
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 Wales10
Fine and coarse particulate air pollution and hospital admissions for a wide range of respiratory diseases: a nationwide case-crossover study10
The dose–response relationship of pre-menopausal alcohol consumption with age at menopause: a population study of 280 497 women in Norway10
Effect modification by statin use status on the association between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cardiovascular mortality10
Safety of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac during pregnancy on birth outcomes and neonatal mortality: a cohort study from Brazil10
The primary importance of the research question: implications for understanding natural versus controlled direct effects10
Risk of cardiovascular events following COVID-19 in people with and without pre-existing chronic respiratory disease10
Newborn body composition and child cardiovascular risk markers: a prospective multi-ethnic Asian cohort study10
Associations between residential proximity to oil and gas extraction and hypertensive conditions during pregnancy: a difference-in-differences analysis in Texas, 1996–200910
Leading causes of deaths in the mortality transition in Papua New Guinea: evidence from the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System10
Body mass index and COVID-19 mortality: prospective study of 120000 Mexican adults10
Cohort Profile: The Tongji Maternal and Child Health Cohort (TMCHC)10
On the measurement of cause of death inequality9
Circulating proteins and risk of pancreatic cancer: a case-subcohort study among Chinese adults9
Effects of smoke haze on respiratory clinic visits in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia according to different haze characteristics9
Correction to: Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)9
Using multivariable Mendelian randomization to estimate the causal effect of bone mineral density on osteoarthritis risk, independently of body mass index9
Simulated distributions from negative experiments highlight the importance of the body mass index distribution in explaining depression–body mass index genetic risk score interactions9
Cohort Profile: PISCIS, a population-based cohort of people living with HIV in Catalonia and Balearic Islands9
Risk of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases in women with vaginal bleeding before 20 gestational weeks: Danish population-based cohort study9
Mendelian randomization study of maternal coffee consumption and its influence on birthweight, stillbirth, miscarriage, gestational age and pre-term birth9
The association between psychostimulant use in pregnancy and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes: results from a distributed analysis in two similar jurisdictions9
Pregnancy complications and new-onset maternal autoimmune disease9
Causal relationships between risk of venous thromboembolism and 18 cancers: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization analysis9
Night shift work characteristics and risk of incident coronary heart disease among health care workers: national cohort study9
Glycated haemoglobin measurements from UK Biobank are different to those in linked primary care records: implications for combining biochemistry data from research studies and routine clinical care9
Reflection on modern methods: risk ratio regression—simple concept yet complex computation9
0.22954392433167