International Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Epidemiology is 13. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform293
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities115
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies108
Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)105
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study100
From risk to structure: reframing health inequities as population phenomena87
Birth cohort divergence in English and European multimorbidity trajectories81
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan78
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series76
Kidney cancer and occupational agricultural exposures in the AGRIculture and CANcer cohort75
Causes of Outcome Learning: a causal inference-inspired machine learning approach to disentangling common combinations of potential causes of a health outcome74
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study73
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization72
Data Resource Profile: The Enfants du Québec dataset65
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort64
Reproducibility and associated regression dilution bias of accelerometer-derived physical activity and sleep in UK Biobank60
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination58
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia58
IJE’s Education Corner turns 10! Looking back and looking forward56
Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer: could alternative categorization of BMI change improve inference about cumulative risks?48
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS)46
Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank46
Effects of sequential vs single pneumococcal vaccination on cardiovascular diseases among older adults: a population-based cohort study46
A new method of estimating prevalence of childhood cancer survivors (POCCS): example of the 20-year prevalence in The Netherlands44
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 doses44
Susceptible windows of long-term childhood exposure to air pollution on adult self-reported bronchitic symptoms42
Comparison of intergenerational instrumental variable analyses of body mass index and mortality in UK Biobank40
Reflection on modern methods: constructing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with domain experts for health services research39
Cohort Profile: The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study (NSHDS)39
Cohort Profile: ChinaHEART (Health Evaluation And risk Reduction through nationwide Teamwork) Cohort39
Body mass index trajectories and mortality risk in Japan using a population-based prospective cohort study: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study37
Long-term effect of pharmacological treatment on academic achievement of Norwegian children diagnosed with ADHD: a target trial emulation37
Backseat Driver: The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates, N F Hubele, Norma Faris36
What’s next: using infectious disease mathematical modelling to address health disparities36
Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study36
The influence of early-life animal exposure on the risk of childhood atopic dermatitis, asthma and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: findings from the Danish National Birth Cohort35
Vitamin D deficiency and C-reactive protein: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study34
Mortality among twin individuals exposed to loss of a co-twin34
Data Resource Profile: Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Data Connect32
Validation of self-reported sun exposure against electronic ultraviolet radiation dosimeters32
Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020−202131
Cohort Profile: The Danish Occupational Medicine Cohort—a nationwide cohort of patients with work-related disease31
Cohort Profile: Our Future Health30
Diabetes mortality: trends and multi-country analysis of the Americas from 2000 to 201930
Interacting trends of colorectal cancer incidence: the combined effects of screening and birth cohort30
Uses and misuses of sibling designs28
Retirement and cardiovascular disease: a longitudinal study in 35 countries28
The SHAPES of Epidemics and Global Disease review28
Cohort Profile: Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study28
Additive interactions of smoking with obesity on ischemic heart disease mortality: a national prospective cohort study in the United States28
Mediators of Black–White inequities in cardiovascular mortality among survivors of 18 cancers in the USA27
Making DAGs even more useful: using augmented causal diagrams to depict counterfactual, study design, measurement, analytical, and interventional features27
Data Resource Profile: The Global School-based Student Health Survey—behavioural risk and protective factors among adolescents27
Warm season ambient ozone and children’s health in the USA27
On ‘the joint impact of greenspace and air pollution on mortality’: methodological proposals27
Inconsistent consistency: evaluating the well-defined intervention assumption in applied epidemiological research27
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 analysis27
Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer in Korean women27
Local progress towards achieving the End TB targets in Ethiopia: a geospatial analysis26
Cohort Profile: The Danish SEQUEL cohort26
Exploring the impact of selection bias in observational studies of COVID-19: a simulation study26
Night shift work and risk of aggressive prostate cancer in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers (NOPW) cohort25
Data Resource Profile: the Children and Young People with Long COVID (CLoCk) Study24
Association of iron homeostasis biomarkers in type 2 diabetes and glycaemic traits: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study24
Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types24
Effectiveness of fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine against the Omicron variant compared with no vaccination23
Post-acute non-specific symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination: a Danish population-based study23
Association of summer temperatures and acute kidney injury in South Korea: a case-crossover 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
Climate-related disasters and biological aging based on DNA methylation: a twin and family study in Australian women22
Hyperglycaemia is a causal risk factor for upper limb pathologies22
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Mental Health and Intersectionality Data Surveillance (Ontario-MINDS) Cohort22
Multimorbidity trends in Catalonia, 2010–21: a population-based cohort study21
Cohort Profile Update: Project Viva mothers21
Characteristics and outcomes of an international cohort of 600 000 hospitalized patients with COVID-1921
Health impacts of a short-lived, small-scale wildfire in South Korea21
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
Tracking the perinatal health benefits of cleaner transportation21
Helicobacter pylori multiplex serology and risk of non-cardia and cardia gastric cancer: a case-cohort study and meta-analysis21
Associations of maternal motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy with offspring’s neonatal birth outcomes21
Identifiability of causal effects in test-negative design studies20
The effect of SARS-CoV-2 testing on healthcare-seeking behaviour at primary care level20
Socioeconomic inequalities in COVID-19 incidence during the first six waves in Barcelona20
Cohort Profile: The Jiangsu Birth Cohort20
Cohort Profile Update: The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)20
Data Resource Profile: World Health Organization Health Inequality Data Repository19
Partitioning genetic effects on birthweight at classical human leukocyte antigen loci into maternal and fetal components, using structural equation modelling19
Short-term effect of temperature on cause-specific, sex-specific, and age-specific ambulance dispatches in Czechia: a nationwide time-series analysis19
Correction to: Sex differences in childhood cancer risk among children with major birth defects: a Nordic population-based nested case-control study19
Comparison of two COVID-19 mortality measures used during the pandemic response in England19
Quantifying income inequality in years of life lost to COVID-19: a prediction model approach using Dutch administrative data18
Data Resource Profile: The Japan COVID-19 and Society Internet Survey (JACSIS)18
Evaluating the effectiveness of population-based breast cancer service screening: an analysis of parsimonious patient survival information with the time-varying Cox model18
Cohort Profile Update: HUNT4 70+18
The case for counting multiple causes of death in the COVID-19 era18
Widowhood and mortality risk in Taiwan: a population-based matched cohort study18
The importance of translating genetic partitioning into causal language18
Cohort Profile: South China Cohort18
Cohort Profile: The United Kingdom Research study into Ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers (UK-REACH)18
What makes a study design quasi-experimental? The case of difference-in-differences17
Assumptions and analysis planning in studies with missing data in multiple variables: moving beyond the MCAR/MAR/MNAR classification17
Limitations introduced by a low participation rate of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence data17
Data Resource Profile: National Child Oral Health Improvement Programmes for Chile17
Correction to: Data Resource Profile: The Hong Kong Diabetes Surveillance Database (HKDSD)17
Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: epidemiological and public health challenges17
Cohort Profile: The Fasa Adults Cohort Study (FACS): a prospective study of non-communicable diseases risks17
Cohort Profile: The Korean Radiation Workers Study (KRWS)17
A Bayesian functional approach to test models of life course epidemiology over continuous time17
Spatial inequities in COVID-19 vaccination coverage across Kenya: a geospatial analysis of structural determinants and Development Index patterns17
Data Resource Profile: The HUNT Biobank17
Education and cardiovascular disease: a within-family Mendelian randomization analysis16
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
Cohort Profile: CITIC-Xiangya Assisted Reproductive Technology Cohort (CXART Cohort)16
Childhood physical activity and pubertal timing: findings from the LEGACY girls study16
Investigating a possible causal relationship between maternal serum urate concentrations and offspring birthweight: a Mendelian randomization study16
A longitudinal study evaluating adverse childhood experiences and obesity in adulthood using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)16
Demographic and biosocial determinants of beneficial trends in older adult cognition in the USA and England: the role of cohort succession16
Cohort Profile: The Mothers and Newborns (MN) Cohort of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health16
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?16
The impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on breastfeeding rates at maternity units in France15
Mapping schistosomiasis risk in Southeast Asia: a systematic review and geospatial analysis15
Epicosm—a framework for linking online social media in epidemiological cohorts15
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
Familial factors rather than paternal age contribute to the aetiology of epilepsy15
Short-term exposure to air pollution and hospital admission after COVID-19 in Catalonia: the COVAIR-CAT study15
Sample size calculators for planning stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials: a review and comparison15
COVID-19: lessons from Brazil15
Understanding the impact of non-shared unmeasured confounding on the sibling comparison analysis15
Cohort Profile: Brazilian High-Risk Cohort for Mental Health Conditions (BHRC)14
What can we conclude about the effect of parental income on offspring mental health?14
Active case-finding of tuberculosis compared with symptom-driven standard of care: a modelling analysis14
Cohort Profile: Indian Study of Healthy Ageing (ISHA-Barshi)14
Pre-pubertal accelerometer-assessed physical activity and timing of puberty in British boys and girls: the Millennium Cohort Study14
Data Resource Profile: Global Trachoma Serology Data Repository14
Borrowing strength from clinical trials in analysing longitudinal data from a treated cohort: investigating the effectiveness of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in the management of dementia14
Objective measures of smoking and caffeine intake and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes14
Use of an emulated trial to investigate the association between use of nitrogen-based bisphosphonates and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer14
Reconsidering the graphical representation of propensity scores in causal diagrams14
Excess mortality in US Veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic: an individual-level cohort study14
Clarifying the ‘set to zero’ approach for time-varying prenatal exposures14
Cohort Profile Update: The Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN) 2400 cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Individual and joint effect of indoor air pollution index and ambient particulate matter on fetal growth: a prospective cohort study14
Response to: Incidence of stroke in Switzerland13
Changes in traffic-related air pollution exposures and associations with adverse birth outcomes over 20 years in Texas13
Data Resource Profile: Primary Care Audit, Teaching and Research Open Network (Patron)13
Cohort Profile Update: Mental Health Online Survey in the Estonian Biobank (EstBB MHoS)13
Mortality among individuals with congenital malformations who reach adulthood: long-term follow-up of the Jerusalem Perinatal Study cohort13
Risk of adverse neonatal outcomes among pregnant women with disabilities13
Spatio-temporal trends in pleural mesothelioma mortality in Italy: a 40-year analysis by calendar period and birth cohort13
Reweighting UK Biobank corrects for pervasive selection bias due to volunteering13
Correction to: Handle with care: challenges associated with ultra-processed foods research13
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program use and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults13
Interpretation of Mendelian randomization using a single measure of an exposure that varies over time13
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 Uganda13
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