European Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of European Journal of Epidemiology is 12. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Vaccine hesitancy: the next challenge in the fight against COVID-191209
Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications525
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and mothers of young children: results of a survey in 16 countries367
Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19310
Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy308
Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study298
‘Vaccine hesitancy’ among university students in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic297
Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation246
Anemia and iron metabolism in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis235
Dynamic interventions to control COVID-19 pandemic: a multivariate prediction modelling study comparing 16 worldwide countries193
Covid-19 epidemic in Italy: evolution, projections and impact of government measures149
Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank149
Sugar and artificially sweetened beverages and risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and all-cause mortality: a dose–response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies141
Consumption of red meat and processed meat and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies131
Global, regional and time-trend prevalence of central obesity: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 13.2 million subjects106
Identifying typical trajectories in longitudinal data: modelling strategies and interpretations103
Risk factors for COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalization, and subsequent all-cause mortality in Sweden: a nationwide study96
Long-term strategies to control COVID-19 in low and middle-income countries: an options overview of community-based, non-pharmacological interventions89
How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-1986
COVID-19 mortality in the UK Biobank cohort: revisiting and evaluating risk factors80
The LifeCycle Project-EU Child Cohort Network: a federated analysis infrastructure and harmonized data of more than 250,000 children and parents79
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States71
Over- and under-estimation of COVID-19 deaths60
Birth prevalence of congenital heart disease in China, 1980–2019: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 617 studies59
Are Mendelian randomization investigations immune from bias due to reverse causation?57
A case study in model failure? COVID-19 daily deaths and ICU bed utilisation predictions in New York state55
Ethnic differences in COVID-19 mortality during the first two waves of the Coronavirus Pandemic: a nationwide cohort study of 29 million adults in England53
Evidence of early circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in France: findings from the population-based “CONSTANCES” cohort53
Lifestyle and metabolic factors for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Mendelian randomization study52
Data extraction for epidemiological research (DExtER): a novel tool for automated clinical epidemiology studies50
Prediction meets causal inference: the role of treatment in clinical prediction models49
Assessing causality in epidemiology: revisiting Bradford Hill to incorporate developments in causal thinking49
Excess risk and clusters of symptoms after COVID-19 in a large Norwegian cohort48
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register48
Influence of periodontal disease on risk of dementia: a systematic literature review and a meta-analysis47
Applying the exposome concept in birth cohort research: a review of statistical approaches46
The Malmö Offspring Study (MOS): design, methods and first results41
Thyroid function, sex hormones and sexual function: a Mendelian randomization study40
The Dementias Platform UK (DPUK) Data Portal39
COVID-19: US federal accountability for entry, spread, and inequities—lessons for the future36
Physical activity and the risk of heart failure: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of prospective studies35
Adherence to a plant-based, high-fibre dietary pattern is related to regression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease in an elderly population34
Second wave of COVID-19 in Brazil: younger at higher risk34
Cohort profile: Singapore Preconception Study of Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes (S-PRESTO)34
Prediction or causality? A scoping review of their conflation within current observational research33
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Denmark: nationwide, population-based seroepidemiological study32
An epidemiological modelling approach for COVID-19 via data assimilation32
The China birth cohort study (CBCS)31
Burden and prevalence of prognostic factors for severe COVID-19 in Sweden31
The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic growth in the 37 OECD member states31
Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in community-dwelling elderly populations30
Maternal hypertensive disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring: a population-based cohort in two Nordic countries30
The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category30
The profile of Rafsanjan Cohort Study30
Protecting against researcher bias in secondary data analysis: challenges and potential solutions29
Genetic liability to insomnia in relation to cardiovascular diseases: a Mendelian randomisation study29
Association between body mass index, its change and cognitive impairment among Chinese older adults: a community-based, 9-year prospective cohort study29
Framework and baseline examination of the German National Cohort (NAKO)28
Vegetable nitrate intake, blood pressure and incident cardiovascular disease: Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study28
Female reproductive factors and the risk of Parkinson’s disease: a nationwide cohort study28
Global assessment of C-reactive protein and health-related outcomes: an umbrella review of evidence from observational studies and Mendelian randomization studies28
Physical activity and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: assessing the impact of reverse causation and measurement error in two large prospective cohorts28
Body mass index and risk of infections: a Mendelian randomization study of 101,447 individuals28
Nationwide seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in Israel28
Gender specific excess mortality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic accounting for age28
Serum copper-to-zinc-ratio and risk of incident infection in men: the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study27
Body size and weight change over adulthood and risk of breast cancer by menopausal and hormone receptor status: a pooled analysis of 20 prospective cohort studies27
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study26
Vaccine hesitancy due to vaccine country of origin, vaccine technology, and certification25
Using excess deaths and testing statistics to determine COVID-19 mortalities25
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization24
Counterfactual prediction is not only for causal inference24
The EU Child Cohort Network’s core data: establishing a set of findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR) variables23
Secondary attack rates of COVID-19 in Norwegian families: a nation-wide register-based study23
Antipsychotic use in dementia: the relationship between neuropsychiatric symptom profiles and adverse outcomes23
Different approaches to quantify years of life lost from COVID-1923
Marital status and prostate cancer incidence: a pooled analysis of 12 case–control studies from the PRACTICAL consortium23
The NYU Children’s Health and Environment Study22
Alcohol consumption in relation to cardiovascular diseases and mortality: a systematic review of Mendelian randomization studies22
Prenatal and postnatal exposure to acetaminophen in relation to autism spectrum and attention-deficit and hyperactivity symptoms in childhood: Meta-analysis in six European population-based cohorts22
Vitamin D food fortification in European countries: the underused potential to prevent cancer deaths21
Avoiding collider bias in Mendelian randomization when performing stratified analyses21
Sedentary behavior and cancer–an umbrella review and meta-analysis21
Calcium intake, calcium supplementation and cardiovascular disease and mortality in the British population: EPIC-norfolk prospective cohort study and meta-analysis21
Physical activity and risk of atrial fibrillation in the general population: meta-analysis of 23 cohort studies involving about 2 million participants20
The nationwide Finnish anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation (FinACAF): study rationale, design, and patient characteristics19
Mortality among individuals exposed to atomic bomb radiation in utero: 1950–201219
The paramount importance of serological surveys of SARS-CoV-2 infection and immunity19
Amyloid, tau and risk of Alzheimer’s disease: a Mendelian randomization study19
Risk factors for COVID-19-related death, hospitalization and intensive care: a population-wide study of all inhabitants in Stockholm19
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis18
Risk prediction models versus simplified selection criteria to determine eligibility for lung cancer screening: an analysis of German federal-wide survey and incidence data18
Estimated lifetime risk of venous thromboembolism in men and women in a Danish nationwide cohort: impact of competing risk of death18
COVID-19 prevalence and mortality in longer-term care facilities18
Sedentary behaviour in relation to ovarian cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis18
Economic uncertainty and suicide in the United States17
A mixtures approach to solvent exposures and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a population-based study in Denmark17
National all-cause mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a Danish registry-based study17
SES inequalities in cause-specific adult mortality: a study of the long-term trends using longitudinal individual data for Sweden (1813–2014)16
Forecasting efforts from prior epidemics and COVID-19 predictions16
Environmental factors, serum biomarkers and risk of atrial fibrillation: an exposure-wide umbrella review of meta-analyses16
Decline of coronary heart disease mortality is strongly effected by changing patterns of underlying causes of death: an analysis of mortality data from 27 countries of the WHO European region 2000 and15
The influence of maternal mental illness on vaccination uptake in children: a UK population-based cohort study15
One in five patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy dies from other causes than cardiac or respiratory failure15
The Swedish military conscription register: opportunities for its use in medical research15
Time-to-pregnancy and risk of cardiovascular disease among men and women15
Citrus intake and risk of skin cancer in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort (EPIC)14
Are depressive disorders caused by psychosocial stressors at work? A systematic review with metaanalysis14
Pre-diagnostic circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-1 and risk of COVID-19 mortality: results from UK Biobank14
Long-term prognosis after kidney donation: a propensity score matched comparison of living donors and non-donors from two population cohorts14
Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 mortality: prospective cohort study14
The iBerry study: a longitudinal cohort study of adolescents at high risk of psychopathology14
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes14
Maternal exposure to airborne polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and risk of adverse birth outcomes13
Alcohol intake in early adulthood and risk of colorectal cancer: three large prospective cohort studies of men and women in the United States13
Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Diet, Cancer and Health—Next Generations cohort study13
Hypothetical blood-pressure-lowering interventions and risk of stroke and dementia13
COVID-19 and mental health: a longitudinal population study from Norway12
Modern Epidemiology, 4th edition. TL Lash, TJ VanderWeele, S Haneuse, KJ Rothman. Wolters Kluwer, 202112
Methodical considerations on adjusting for Charlson Comorbidity Index in epidemiological studies12
The potential impact of previous exposure to SARS or MERS on control of the COVID-19 pandemic12
The double burden of disease of COVID-19 in cardiovascular patients: overlapping conditions could lead to overlapping treatments12
Exploring domains, clinical implications and environmental associations of a deep learning marker of biological ageing12
Comparative effectiveness and safety of direct acting oral anticoagulants in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation for stroke prevention: a systematic review and meta-analysis12
The German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON): rationale, study design and baseline characteristics12
Genetically predicted body composition in relation to cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization study12
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review12
Years of life lost methods must remain fully equitable and accountable12
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