OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Epidemiology is 10. 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
Guangdong Biobank Cohort (GDBC) study	34
Birth weight of term born offspring in relation to long-term maternal cardiovascular morbidity and mortality	33
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	33
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	32
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	32
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting	31
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	30
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study	29
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–2019	28
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial	27
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction	27
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	27
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults	25
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization	25
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden	25
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology	25
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)	24
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research	23
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review	23
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol	23
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada	23
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods	22
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility	22
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study	21
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts	21
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study	21
Does tattoo exposure increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma? A population-based case-control study	21
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 study	21
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations	20
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
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures	20
Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Danish monozygotic twin study on migraine	20
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls	20
Quality of cancer-related data from the Danish National patient registry (1994–2025) and the Danish cancer registry (2004–2025): a systematic review	19
Moving beyond risk ratios in sibling analysis: estimating clinically useful measures from family-based analysis	19
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability	19

Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update	18
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK	18
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection	18
Social determinants disadvantage score and liver health in the All of Us Research Program	18
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization	18
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies	18
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register	17
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France	17
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse	17
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 study	16
An instrumental variable analysis of body mass index and risk of long-term sick leave: the HUNT Study, Norway	16
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France	16
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden	15
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia	15
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years	15
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-19	14
Triangulation in biomedical research: navigating an ocean of uncertainty	14
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 SGA	14
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
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 project	14
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study	14
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States	13
Slow data public health	13
Associations of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with mortality and hospitalizations: methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology	13
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19	13
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations	13
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study	13
Generalized additive mixed models to discern data-driven theoretically informed strategies for public brain, cognitive and mental health	12
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults	12
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	12
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank	12
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment	12
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk	12
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society	12
A note of thanks	12
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes	11
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study	11
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study	11
Circulating inflammation-related proteome improves cardiovascular risk prediction. Results from two large European cohort studies	11
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses	11
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study	11
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States	10
Space–time clustering of childhood high hyperdiploid B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a nationwide Swedish study	10
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses	10
Prenatal and childhood infections and risk of epilepsy	10
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis	10
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study	10
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial	10
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review	10
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial	10
Completeness and generalizability of the Swedish MS register	10
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer	10
Survival trends and cure rates of hematological neoplasms in the Spanish pediatric population	10
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	10
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 melanoma	10
Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism	10
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	10
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study	10
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer	10
The Danish Chronic Disease Cohort: using digital footprints to identify chronic disease patterns	10