International Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Epidemiology is 5. 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.)
ArticleCitations
818Prediction of health effects of Asian dust using the MASINGAR in Japan242
191Two approaches to teaching epidemiology online for capacity building in developing countries173
Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities145
1441Indirect effects of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020140
1100National prevalence of oral HPV infection in vaccinated and unvaccinated young adults in Brazil123
197Assessment of Depression, Anxiety and Fatigue in relation to diet quality in Multiple Sclerosis110
955Risk of drowning: the Japan Collaborative Cohort (JACC) Study103
990Seaweed intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Japan Public Health Center–based Prospective (JPHC) Study93
1531Monitoring of substances use among a sample of Tunisian high school pupils87
774The appropriateness of the Effort-Reward Imbalance ratio for investigating musculoskeletal symptoms84
512Challenges and opportunities to appropriate antibiotic prescribing: a survey of clinicians’ perceptions in Australia84
1091Evaluation of symptom screening methods for tuberculosis: secondary analysis of Mongolian nationwide tuberculosis prevalence survey80
352Postpartum diet quality: A cross-sectional analysis from the Australian longitudinal study on women’s health80
1491Impact of COVID19 on years of life lost with and without disability across 18 European-countries74
1384Factors related to neck and shoulder pain during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan70
1448Intensive care utilisation in New Zealand 2010 to 202069
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia69
151Infant and young child feeding practices and ARI and diarrhoea in Ethiopia: A PSM approach65
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study64
Corrigendum to: Diagnostic radiological examinations and risk of intracranial tumours in adults—findings from the interphone study60
1514Racial discrimination and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults: a five-wave longitudinal analyses58
1047Epidemiology of different Cancers in Rural Jodhpur (India)56
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort53
1485Trends and attributable burden of raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in South Africa53
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 study51
Social and demographic correlates of cardiovascular mortality in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Ghana: a verbal post-mortem analysis48
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities47
765The impact of childhood hearing loss on language and psychosocial outcomes: The LOCHI study46
SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate after the first epidemic wave in Mexico45
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform45
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series44
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies44
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan43
Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 202043
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination42
Causal diagrams for immortal time bias41
Malaria eradication revisited41
651The voice of Indian women on family planning: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis41
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study40
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization39
Causes of Outcome Learning: a causal inference-inspired machine learning approach to disentangling common combinations of potential causes of a health outcome38
1150Changes in job security and mental health over 14 waves of a working population survey38
1210Understanding the effect of Helicobacter pylori infection on gastroesophageal reflux disease and Barrett’s oesophagus38
875Association between dietary inflammatory index and sleep duration36
649Personal history of keratinocyte carcinoma is a marker of inherited cancer risk: Mendelian randomization analyses36
1345Uptake of Intermittent Preventive Treatment for malaria during pregnancy with Sulphadoxine-Pyrimethamine in Malawi35
200Pneumonia hospitalization and the subsequent risk of incident ischemic cardiovascular disease in Chinese adults35
117A digital resource for enhancing parental health literacy during the transition to parenthood35
288What proportion of patients with chronic noncancer pain are prescribed an opioid medicine?35
1315Influence of comorbidity on mortality in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis 1980-2015: A longitudinal population-based study34
1238Estimating the non-specific effects of seasonal influenza vaccine on RSV-hospitalisations in children34
1536Antimicrobial resistance in the emerging COVID-19 pandemic33
382Association between nutrient supplementation and depressive symptom in Pregnancy: a multicenter prospective cohort study33
787Multistate modelling to investigate the impact of recurrent malaria episodes on hospital admissions and mortality33
1227Colorectal cancer risk prediction models incorporating lifestyle and biomarker data: Results from the EPIC cohort33
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 years32
Reduction in total and major cause-specific mortality from tobacco smoking cessation: a pooled analysis of 16 population-based cohort studies in Asia32
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 doses32
477Long-term exposure to low PM2.5 and NO2 and all-cause mortality in Australia: a difference-in-differences analyses32
Cohort Profile: The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study (NSHDS)32
Effects of sequential vs single pneumococcal vaccination on cardiovascular diseases among older adults: a population-based cohort study31
Long-term effect of pharmacological treatment on academic achievement of Norwegian children diagnosed with ADHD: a target trial emulation31
Birth outcomes following unexpected job loss: a matched-sibling design31
Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer: could alternative categorization of BMI change improve inference about cumulative risks?30
Physical activity and sedentary behaviour over adulthood in relation to all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review of analytic strategies and study findings30
IJE’s Education Corner turns 10! Looking back and looking forward29
What’s next: using infectious disease mathematical modelling to address health disparities29
Fighting a pandemic: sociodemographic disparities and coronavirus disease-2019 vaccination gaps—a population study29
1291Adapting a randomized trial design to develop epidemiology studies for pesticide exposure29
Corrigendum to: Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities29
Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study29
226Health-related quality of life and all-cause mortality among older people: a prospective cohort study29
Quantifying impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic through life-expectancy losses: a population-level study of 29 countries28
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS)28
Comparison of intergenerational instrumental variable analyses of body mass index and mortality in UK Biobank28
Reflection on modern methods: constructing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with domain experts for health services research28
Effects of prenatal and postnatal maternal multiple micronutrient supplementation on child growth and morbidity in Tanzania: a double-blind, randomized–controlled trial28
A new method of estimating prevalence of childhood cancer survivors (POCCS): example of the 20-year prevalence in The Netherlands28
Long-term impacts of coal mine fire-emitted PM2.5 on hospitalisation: a longitudinal analysis of the Hazelwood Health Study28
Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank28
Body mass index trajectories and mortality risk in Japan using a population-based prospective cohort study: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study27
403Mental Health Needs in International Students of African Descent: Findings from the Healthy Minds Network27
Cohort Profile: 46 years of follow-up of the Northern Finland Birth Cohort 1966 (NFBC1966)27
571Effect of a computer network-based feedback program on antibiotic prescription rates of primary care physicians27
Cohort Profile: ChinaHEART (Health Evaluation And risk Reduction through nationwide Teamwork) Cohort27
1026Female-Headed Households: Gender and Health Inequalities27
64Traditional Japanese Diet Score and cancer incidence and mortality - a 23-year longitudinal global study26
1378The effect of vitamin D supplementation on acute respiratory infection -analysis of the D-Health Trial26
245Comparison of methods for classifying heterogeneity in gestational diabetes (GDM) and association with outcomes26
1323Trends in the incidence rates of keratinocyte carcinomas from 1978 to 2018 in Tasmania, Australia26
Cohort Profile Update: The Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP)25
286Collider-stratification bias when estimating variable importance using Random Forests25
432Recurrent stillbirth: a population-based study from South Australia25
Low-intensity cigarette smoking and mortality risks25
The influence of early-life animal exposure on the risk of childhood atopic dermatitis, asthma and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: findings from the Danish National Birth Cohort24
Cohort Profile: The Care Trajectories—Enriched Data (TorSaDE) cohort24
Data Resource Profile: Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Data Connect24
Omran’s ‘Epidemiologic Transition’ 50 years on24
The growing rural–urban divide in US life expectancy: contribution of cardiovascular disease and other major causes of death23
Variations in the association of height with mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer in low-, middle- and high-income countries23
Assessment of causal effects of visceral adipose tissue on risk of cancers: a Mendelian randomization study23
Diabetes mortality: trends and multi-country analysis of the Americas from 2000 to 201923
Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020−202122
Evidence of large systematic differences between countries in assigning ischaemic heart disease deaths to myocardial infarction: the contrasting examples of Russia and Norway22
Data Resource Profile: China Chronic Disease and Risk Factor Surveillance (CCDRFS)22
686Evaluation of the impact of National Health Mission on maternal health outcomes21
1392Decline in current tobacco use and socio-economic inequalities in 22 Sub-Saharan African countries- 2003-201821
1219Translating epidemiological findings to end rheumatic heart disease in Australia: the ERASE project21
311Effective prospective study sampling from an existing large-scale national survey using propensity score methods21
899Stepping up: identifying small-area variation in diabetes-related lower limb amputations21
Vitamin D deficiency and C-reactive protein: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study21
1155Effect of household air pollution on infant and child-mortality in Myanmar21
1Development of persuasive message to encourage help-seeking for depression21
Interacting trends of colorectal cancer incidence: the combined effects of screening and birth cohort20
Cohort Profile: The Danish Occupational Medicine Cohort—a nationwide cohort of patients with work-related disease20
Cohort Profile: A population-based cohort for the study of gastric cancer in northwest area of China (Wuwei Cohort)20
377Smoking, blood pressure, and body mass index to estimate healthy life expectancy: NIPPON DATA9020
How advanced is the epidemiological transition in Papua New Guinea? New evidence from verbal autopsy20
Cohort Profile: South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN)20
1262Burden of disease and injury in Australia20
Mortality among twin individuals exposed to loss of a co-twin20
Education-related inequalities in cause-specific mortality: first estimates for Australia using individual-level linked census and mortality data19
Correction to: Common maternal infections during pregnancy and childhood leukaemia in the offspring: findings from six international birth cohorts19
Validation of self-reported sun exposure against electronic ultraviolet radiation dosimeters19
Strong tuberculin response after BCG vaccination is associated with low multiple sclerosis risk: a population-based cohort study19
Retirement and cardiovascular disease: a longitudinal study in 35 countries19
Backseat Driver: The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates, N F Hubele, Norma Faris19
624Integrating human behaviour models with epidemiology to frame complex health problems18
Nitrites and nitrates from food additives and natural sources and cancer risk: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort18
1359Changes in work and health of Australians during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal cohort study18
896Quantifying cause-related mortality incorporating multiple causes: challenges and opportunities18
998Use of antibiotics in pregnancy and ear infection trajectories in children18
345Occupational heat stress and economic burden: evidence to support development of workplace heat management policies18
The causal effects of serum lipids and apolipoproteins on kidney function: multivariable and bidirectional Mendelian-randomization analyses18
888Discriminating between risk discriminators: OPERA, AUC, and polygenic variance18
400Overactive bladder with/without urinary incontinence and falls in the community-dwelling elderly18
212Dose-response association and interaction between physical activity and sedentary time on premature rupture of membranes17
684Childhood Risk Factors and Adult Cardiovascular Disease Outcomes The International Childhood Cardiovascular Cohort (i3C) Consortium17
278Sources and health risk of exposure to neonicotinoids in Chinese children: A biomonitoring-based stud17
466Prevalence of Dyslipidaemia Among Filipino Adults17
447Decoding the effect of neighbourhood on arterial health (DEpICT): Preliminary results on neighbourhood self-evaluation17
1152Use of Facebook to recruit cohort study participants16
217Using excess heat factor to measure effect of heatwave severity on foodborne disease incidence16
443Factors associated with frailty in a relatively healthy community-dwelling older adults16
1234Smoking, infectious mononucleosis, early-life exposures and risk of progressive-onset Multiple Sclerosis: a case-control study16
53Women with syphilis notification in pregnant women who lose their baby, belém/pa, 2017 and 201816
607Longitudinal weight gain and lifestyle factors in women with and without polycystic ovary syndrome16
1244Associations of endothelial function, arterial elasticity, and arterial stiffness with adiponectin and skeletal muscle mass16
227The use of cross-sectional series as a source of evidence for policymaker decision in Brazil16
184Are genetic risk factors clinically useful in prognostic models for type 2 diabetes mellitus?16
709Inequalities and the role of sterilization in modern contraception in low- and middle-income countries16
690Growth in childhood and age at menarche: Insights from individual trajectory modelling16
1511CIMmH, an mHealth Comprehensive Intervention Model for esophageal cancer patients: A Multi-center RCT Protocol16
The SHAPES of Epidemics and Global Disease review16
Data Resource Profile: the Children and Young People with Long COVID (CLoCk) Study15
897Environmental contamination of Coxiella burnetii in and around an endemically infected goat farm15
Association of iron homeostasis biomarkers in type 2 diabetes and glycaemic traits: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study15
Inconsistent consistency: evaluating the well-defined intervention assumption in applied epidemiological research15
Pre-eclampsia and risk of early-childhood asthma: a register study with sibling comparison and an exploration of intermediate variables15
305Interaction between physical activity and nutritional intake on HbA1c in Japanese general population15
Cohort Profile: The Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study (SuperMIX)15
Uses and misuses of sibling designs15
Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer in Korean women15
577Inequalities in access to in vitro fertilisation treatment in France15
Cohort Profile: The Danish SEQUEL cohort15
Mendelian randomization study reveals a population-specific putative causal effect of type 2 diabetes in risk of cataract15
Mediators of Black–White inequities in cardiovascular mortality among survivors of 18 cancers in the USA14
Cohort Profile: Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study14
Exploring the impact of selection bias in observational studies of COVID-19: a simulation study14
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 analysis14
Warm season ambient ozone and children’s health in the USA14
Association of summer temperatures and acute kidney injury in South Korea: a case-crossover study14
Night shift work and risk of aggressive prostate cancer in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers (NOPW) cohort14
Potential test-negative design study bias in outbreak settings: application to Ebola vaccination in Democratic Republic of Congo14
Cohort Profile: The TEMPO Cohort Study14
Data Resource Profile: The Global School-based Student Health Survey—behavioural risk and protective factors among adolescents14
Excess deaths reveal the true spatial, temporal and demographic impact of COVID-19 on mortality in Ecuador14
Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types14
868Harnessing new approaches and contemporary methods for better evidence on housing and health13
872Novel approach to estimating sex differences unconfounded by familial factors from studying male-female twin pairs13
1518Preterm birth and trajectories of cardiometabolic health measures from birth to adulthood13
1165Multiple Chronic Conditions: Need for Ongoing Research13
1419Cancer mortality burden and quality of life in Argentina: geographical pattern and measures of association13
23Multiple Chronic Conditions: Need for Ongoing Research13
1241Alcohol and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy: a negative control analysis13
1364Predicting obesity and smoking using medication data: a machine-learning approach13
855Multiple Imputation in the Context of Case-Cohort Studies: Simulation and Case Study13
602Prevalence of cancer history and association with risk factors in a healthy older population13
663“To tell or not to tell...” Practice of (non)disclosure and collusion of cancer in India13
1003Modifiable risk factors and incidence of diabetes mellitus progressing in the prediabetic Population13
1348Childhood adversities and diurnal patterns of salivary cortisol in adulthood: two UK-based prospective cohort studies13
1280Natural history, developmental trajectories, and determinants of eczema from infancy to 26 years of age13
894Molecular epidemiology: building causal evidence within highly dimensioned studies13
1467Interaction effects of multimorbidity and frailty on adverse health outcomes in elderly hospitalised patients12
631Benefits of not smoking during pregnancy for Aboriginal women and their babies12
154Physical inactivity, socioeconomic position and type 2 diabetes in Nepal: a structural equation modelling analysis12
Effectiveness of fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine against the Omicron variant compared with no vaccination12
1450Exeperiential Note on Enhancing Epidemiological Studies through Supervision of Postgraduate Research on Scaffolded Thesis-by-Publication12
1544Baseline predictors of attrition in a randomised controlled trial of treatments for people with recurrent binge eating episodes associated to overweight or obesity12
517Challenges in data linkage – experiences from an upper gastrointestinal cancer data linkage study12
484Reduced glomerular filtration rate and risk of stroke12
368Evaluation of myostatin as a possible regulator of the skeletal muscle-cortical bone interaction in adults12
1347Mental health status of health care workers during the COVID-19 outbreak: An International Study12
553Stage at diagnosis for six major cancers in China with comparison to the United States12
694Metabolic conditions have high prevalence in CHamoru men in a hyperuricemia feasibility study in Guam12
Identifying impacts of air pollution on subacute asthma symptoms using digital medication sensors12
743Determinants of childhood mortality sex ratios in low- and middle-income countries12
Data Resource Profile: World Health Organization Health Inequality Data Repository11
The role of epidemiologists in communicating SARS-CoV-2 evidence: a call for adopting standards11
Data Resource Profile: The Information System for Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP)11
Cohort Profile Update: The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)11
Associations of maternal motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy with offspring’s neonatal birth outcomes11
Cohort Profile: The Jiangsu Birth Cohort11
Familial co-aggregation of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and autoimmune diseases: a cohort study based on Swedish population-wide registers11
Characteristics and outcomes of an international cohort of 600 000 hospitalized patients with COVID-1911
1070An online searchable database of example causal diagrams to make them easier to construct11
Identifiability of causal effects in test-negative design studies11
Socioeconomic inequalities in COVID-19 incidence during the first six waves in Barcelona11
What can siblingsand cousinstell us about the role of early life family income in the aetiologies of violent crime, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity?11
Partitioning genetic effects on birthweight at classical human leukocyte antigen loci into maternal and fetal components, using structural equation modelling11
Cohort Profile Update: Project Viva mothers11
1471Metadata on calprotectin, an emerging biomarker of interest in COVID-1911
Public health science in the public square: lobby, litigate, listen11
Helicobacter pylori multiplex serology and risk of non-cardia and cardia gastric cancer: a case-cohort study and meta-analysis11
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 11
Commentary: Deep learning approaches applied to routinely collected health data: future directions11
Hyperglycaemia is a causal risk factor for upper limb pathologies11
1254Comorbidity of atopic diseases and gastroesophageal reflux in adults: a co-twin control study10
1505Cost-effectiveness of guideline-based care for diabetes-related foot ulcers: using discrete event simulation in economic evaluation10
426Awareness and Response to Intimate Partner Violence in WLWHA and HIV negative women in Umuahia10
Cohort Profile Update: The Concord Health and Ageing in Men Project (CHAMP)10
Intergenerational change in anthropometry of children and adolescents in the New Delhi Birth Cohort10
Learning from the pandemic: mortality trends and seasonality of deaths in Australia in 202010
Why do we disagree? Response to Kramer and Soskolne10
1056Maternal dyslipidaemia is associated with shorter gestational length in a UK cohort of 7440 pregnancies10
1284Food insecurity and mental health features and behaviours in adults from Portugal10
1311Postpartum weight retention and pregnancy weight gain in women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM)10
Commentary: Polygenic risk for breast cancer: in search for potential clinical utility10
Data Resource Profile: National Child Oral Health Improvement Programmes for Chile10
Pre-trauma predictors of severe psychiatric comorbidity 5 years following traumatic experiences10
260Smoking, body mass index, and risk of vasomotor symptoms: a pooled analysis of eight studies10
616BMI and SBP impact on survival of dialytic patients: multivariate joint model approach10
45Nigeria Centre for Disease Control Resident Doctors Internship Pilot: Translating Knowledge To Action In Epidemiology10
1343A systematic review and meta-analysis of tobacco smoking behaviour changes during the COVID-19 pandemic10
Excess risk of subsequent infection in hospitalized children from a community cohort study in Cambodia and Madagascar10
Widowhood and mortality risk in Taiwan: a population-based matched cohort study10
806Advances in the use of primary care databases for monitoring health outcomes in Australia10
322Incidence, and mortality associated with primary postpartum haemorrhage following hospital births in northwest Ethiopia10
Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: epidemiological and public health challenges9
Data Resource Profile: The HUNT Biobank9
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