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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	225
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	146
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	114
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	85
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	76
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality	74
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	65
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	65
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	63
Food colouring additives and cancer incidence in the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort	55
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	55
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	52
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	51
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults	49
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	48
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs	46
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	44
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	43
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	42
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	41
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	41
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	40
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	40
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	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
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	39
Low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	38
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	37
Trait impulsivity and risk of cardiovascular disease over 8 years: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort	36
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	35
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	35
Guangdong Biobank Cohort (GDBC) study	35