OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Epidemiology is 35. 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.)

Article	Citations
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	221
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	141
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	111
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	96
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	82
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	71
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	66
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality	65
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	63
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	59
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	57
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	54
Continued decline in the incidence of myocardial infarction beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study of the Swedish population aged 60 and older during 2015–2022	53
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	51
Trends in kidney cancer: exploring the impact of sex and age on stage of disease, and prognosis during the past three decades in Denmark—a DaRenCa study	50
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	47
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	44
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults	43
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs	43
Food colouring additives and cancer incidence in the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort	43
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	43
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	42
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	41
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	40
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	40

Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	40
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China	40
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	39
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	39
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	39
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study	38
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	37
Low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	37
Trait impulsivity and risk of cardiovascular disease over 8 years: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort	36
An in-depth study of the correlation between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Sjogren’s syndrome: multiple evidences from large cohorts, Mendelian randomization, and transcriptomic analysis	36