European Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The median citation count of European Journal of Epidemiology is 4. 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
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects221
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes141
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood111
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research96
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study82
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study71
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation66
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality65
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review63
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 donors57
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula54
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 2015–202253
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence51
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 study50
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention47
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?44
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics43
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults43
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs43
Food colouring additives and cancer incidence in the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort43
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study42
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register41
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China40
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease40
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort40
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?40
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis39
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention39
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study39
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study38
Low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis37
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer37
Trait impulsivity and risk of cardiovascular disease over 8 years: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort36
An in-depth study of the correlation between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Sjogren’s syndrome: multiple evidences from large cohorts, Mendelian randomization, and transcriptomic analysis36
Guangdong Biobank Cohort (GDBC) study34
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations33
Birth weight of term born offspring in relation to long-term maternal cardiovascular morbidity and mortality33
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study32
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis32
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting31
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis31
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 201630
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study29
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–201928
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study27
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial27
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction27
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden25
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology25
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults25
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization25
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)24
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada23
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research23
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review23
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol23
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility22
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis22
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods22
Does tattoo exposure increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma? A population-based case-control study21
Re: Liu et al., “On the reported methodology in published TriNetX-based studies: an analysis of impossible index event designs”21
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study21
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study21
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts21
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study21
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures20
Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Danish monozygotic twin study on migraine20
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls20
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations20
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)20
Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses)20
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability19
Quality of cancer-related data from the Danish National patient registry (1994–2025) and the Danish cancer registry (2004–2025): a systematic review19
Moving beyond risk ratios in sibling analysis: estimating clinically useful measures from family-based analysis19
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization18
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies18
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update18
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK18
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection18
Social determinants disadvantage score and liver health in the All of Us Research Program18
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse17
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register17
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France17
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis17
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France16
An instrumental variable analysis of body mass index and risk of long-term sick leave: the HUNT Study, Norway16
Cocoa flavanol supplementation and prevention of cardiovascular disease: a novel analysis of the COSMOS randomized trial using “win ratio”16
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study16
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis15
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden15
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia15
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years15
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-1914
Triangulation in biomedical research: navigating an ocean of uncertainty14
Re: “Chronic high cousumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents - results ofthe EDKAR study”14
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA14
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis14
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?14
Drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with lower rate of all-cause mortality in individuals with higher rather than lower educational level: findings from the MORGAM project14
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study14
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States13
Slow data public health13
Associations of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with mortality and hospitalizations: methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology13
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-1913
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations13
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study13
Generalized additive mixed models to discern data-driven theoretically informed strategies for public brain, cognitive and mental health12
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis12
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults12
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy12
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank12
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment12
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk12
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society12
A note of thanks12
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes11
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study11
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study11
Circulating inflammation-related proteome improves cardiovascular risk prediction. Results from two large European cohort studies11
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses11
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study11
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States10
Space–time clustering of childhood high hyperdiploid B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a nationwide Swedish study10
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses10
Prenatal and childhood infections and risk of epilepsy10
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis10
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study10
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial10
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review10
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial10
Completeness and generalizability of the Swedish MS register10
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer10
Survival trends and cure rates of hematological neoplasms in the Spanish pediatric population10
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-202110
The Dutch Early-Stage Melanoma (D-ESMEL) study: a discovery set and validation cohort to predict the absolute risk of distant metastases in stage I/II cutaneous melanoma10
Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism10
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study10
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study10
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer10
The Danish Chronic Disease Cohort: using digital footprints to identify chronic disease patterns10
Re: Zhao et al. Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis9
A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes9
The 1001 nights-cohort – paving the way for future research on working hours, night work, circadian disruption, sleep, and health9
Impact of interventions scenarios targeting three main vascular risk factors on the future burden of dementia in France9
Diabetes mellitus, prediabetes and the risk of Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 cohort studies with 29.9 million participants and 86,345 cases9
Individualizing social determinants of health: is educational attainment a community resource?9
Regression discontinuity design to evaluate the effect of statins on myocardial infarction in electronic health records9
Associations between early-life mental health and abnormal sleep duration in midlife: findings from a prospective cohort study in Great Britain9
Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of the 2024–2025 measles outbreak in Sarajevo Canton9
Has the “obesity paradox” been resolved by semaglutide trials?9
Caveats of assessing incidence trends using publicly available registry data9
Quantifying the contribution of social disconnection to the mortality gap associated with mental disorders: a decomposition analysis9
Age-specific contribution of contacts to transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in Germany9
Dietary polyunsaturated fatty acid and risk of gout: a cohort study integrating genetic predisposition and metabolomics9
The Swedish military conscription register: opportunities for its use in medical research8
Cohort profile: Guangzhou breast cancer study (GBCS)8
Cohort profile: the Guangzhou older longitudinal dynamic health (GOLD-Health) cohort8
Use of systemic hormonal contraception and risk of depression: a registry-based study from Finland8
Self-reported insomnia symptoms, sleep duration, chronotype and the risk of acute myocardial infarction (AMI): a prospective study in the UK Biobank and the HUNT Study8
Body fatness across the adult life course and ovarian cancer risk8
Integration of latent factor analysis into multivariable Mendelian randomization8
Health as a means to flourishing8
Sex hormone-binding globulin may explain sex differences for glucose homeostasis and incidence of type 2 diabetes: the KORA study8
How should we speak about years of life lost (YLL) values?8
Familial coaggregation and shared genetic influence between major depressive disorder and gynecological diseases8
Estimating overall survival by combining administrative and hospital death data: a methodological challenge8
Student and the Lanarkshire milk experiment8
Statin use and risk of contralateral breast cancer: an updated cohort study with landmark analysis7
Evaluating agreement between evidence from randomised controlled trials and cohort studies in nutrition: a meta-research replication study7
Risk tools for predicting long-term sequelae based on symptom profiles after known and undetected SARS-CoV-2 infections in the population7
The association between body fatness and mortality among breast cancer survivors: results from a prospective cohort study7
Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank7
Vitamin D status during pregnancy: a role in intergenerational reproductive health?7
Re: The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy7
The German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON): rationale, study design and baseline characteristics7
Estimating and displaying population attributable fractions using the R package: graphPAF7
Life satisfaction as compared with traditional risk factors in relation to incident cardiovascular diseases7
Similarity in maternal and paternal cannabis associations reflect shared social and environmental influences on offspring outcomes7
Risk of postpartum depression among women with endometriosis: the Norwegian mother, father and child cohort study (MoBa)7
The association of a combined healthy lifestyle with the risk of postmenopausal breast cancer subtypes in the Netherlands Cohort Study7
The autism ‘epidemic’: misinterpretation, misinformation and conspiracy7
Moderate alcohol consumption, types of beverages and drinking pattern with cardiometabolic biomarkers in three cohorts of US men and women7
Residential exposure to mold, dampness, and indoor air pollution and risk of respiratory tract infections: a study among children ages 11 and 12 in the Danish National Birth Cohort7
Life expectancy of people with hemophilia in France in 20227
Prevalence of functional disorders across Europe: a systematic review and meta-analysis7
Early-onset colorectal cancer is associated with metabolic disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis7
Maternal vitamin D levels and male reproductive health: a population-based follow-up study7
Identifying multiple sclerosis in women of childbearing age in six European countries: a contribution from the ConcePTION project7
The Stockholm early detection of cancer study (STEADY-CAN): rationale, design, data collection, and baseline characteristics for 2.7 million participants7
Correction: Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study7
The underestimated preventive effects of flexible sigmoidoscopy screening: re-analysis and meta-analysis of randomized trials7
The impact of the pandemic on non-COVID-19 causes of death in the United States: a multiple cause of death analysis6
What can be learned when multiple analysts arrive at different estimates6
Plasma metabolites, metabolic risk score and colorectal cancer risk: a prospective cohort study6
Diabetes and the risk of bladder cancer subtypes in men and women: results from the Netherlands Cohort Study6
Plant-based dietary patterns and the risk of digestive system cancers in 3 large prospective cohort studies6
Target parameters and bias in non-causal change-score analyses with measurement errors6
A unidirectional mapping of ICD-8 to ICD-10 codes, for harmonized longitudinal analysis of diseases6
The Jiangsu Biobank for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes (JBPCD) in China6
Possible selection bias in register-based obesity studies6
Sex ratio at birth across 100 years in Sweden and risk of cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality – a national register study6
Meta-regression of genome-wide association studies to estimate age-varying genetic effects6
Overcoming prevalence bias in colorectal cancer screening studies by sensible analyses rather than ignoring it or giving up relevant effect measures6
Is educational attainment protective against developing dementia? A twin study of genetic and environmental contributions6
Lifestyle changes in middle age and risk of cancer: evidence from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition6
Cohort profile: The BiCoVac cohort - a nationwide Danish cohort to assess short and long-term symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination6
Causal link between thyroid function and schizophrenia: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study6
The Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam: design and cohort update 20256
Accuracy of congenital anomaly coding in live birth children recorded in European health care databases, a EUROlinkCAT study6
Organic food consumption and the incidence of cancer in the Danish diet, cancer and health cohort6
Agricultural activities and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: the TRACTOR project, a nationwide retrospective cohort study5
Using the global randomization test as a Mendelian randomization falsification test for the exclusion restriction assumption5
The contribution of education-specific mortality trends to the life expectancy stagnation in England & Wales5
COVID-19 mortality and use of intensive care among ethnic minorities – a national register-based Danish population study5
Profile of the multicenter cohort of the German Cancer Consortium’s Clinical Communication Platform5
How to mitigate selection bias in COVID-19 surveys: evidence from five national cohorts5
Circulating vitamin D and breast cancer risk: an international pooling project of 17 cohorts5
Does having siblings really protect against childhood atopic diseases? A total population and within-family analysis5
Re: A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 2020. Alicandro et al. Eur J Epidemiol 20235
The Dutch cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma and metastasis (D-SQUAME) study: a nationwide discovery cohort and nationwide validation cohort with nested case–control designs for risk prediction modelin5
Risk of congenital malformations and miscarriages following maternal use of oral fluconazole during the first trimester of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis5
The International Agency for Research on Cancer and e-cigarette carcinogenicity: time for an evaluation5
The comparative mortality of an elite group in the long run of history: an observational analysis of politicians from 11 countries5
Evaluating the physical and psychosocial impact of serious physical combat injuries in UK armed forces personnel-the ADVANCE cohort study5
Habitual coffee consumption and risk of dementia in older persons: modulation by CYP1A2 polymorphism5
Cohort profile update: the Johns Hopkins HIV clinical cohort, 1989–20235
Cohort profile: Copenhagen Hospital Biobank-chronic inflammatory disease—inflammatory bowel disease (CHB-CID:IBD) genetic cohort5
The Chinese keratoconus (CKC) cohort study5
Gains in life expectancy from decreasing cardiovascular disease and cancer mortality – an analysis of 28 European countries 1995–20195
Who got tested and who got sick? Sociodemographic inequalities in COVID-19 testing and hospitalization among 1.48 million individuals in Sweden5
Indirect standardization: time to eliminate misleading terminology5
Associations of 2923 Olink proteins with demographic, lifestyle, environmental and health characteristics in middle-aged Chinese adults5
Sedentary behavior and cancer–an umbrella review and meta-analysis5
A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 20205
Looking at randomized trials with the critical eyes of epidemiologists: the case of screening colonoscopy4
Lipids, apolipoproteins, carbohydrates, and risk of hematological malignancies4
The validity of the information on date of diagnosis of intracranial tumors in the Swedish cancer register4
Re: Frisch & Simonson. Non-therapeutic male circumcision in infancy or childhood and risk of human immunodeficiency virus and other sexually transmitted infections: national cohort study in Denmar4
Association between maternal cancer and the incidence of cancer in offspring4
Updated findings on temporal variation in radiation-effects on cancer mortality in an international cohort of nuclear workers (INWORKS)4
Two sample Mendelian Randomisation using an outcome from a multilevel model of disease progression4
Chance, ignorance, and the paradoxes of cancer: Richard Peto on developing preventative strategies under uncertainty4
Blood pressure, hypertension and the risk of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies4
Cohort profile: Beijing Healthy Aging Cohort Study (BHACS)4
Years of life lost during the Covid-19 pandemic in Sweden considering variation in life expectancy by level of geriatric care4
Peto’s paradox revisited: black box vs mechanistic approaches to understanding the roles of mutations and promoting factors in cancer4
Demystifying the black box: from ignorance to observation to mechanism in cancer research4
Circulating lipoprotein (a) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis4
No “prevalence bias” in randomized controlled trials on colorectal cancer screening: the importance of clarifying the research question4
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