OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Epidemiology is 34. 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.)

Article	Citations
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	174
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	151
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	107
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	93
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	80
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	80
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	78
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	71
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs	65
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	65
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	55
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	53
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	52
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	49
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	46
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	46
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults	44
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	42
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	42
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	42
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	41
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	41
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	39
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	38
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	37

Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	36
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	36
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study	35
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	35
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	35
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	35
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	34
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study	34
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	34