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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications570
Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementation451
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and mothers of young children: results of a survey in 16 countries402
Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK Biobank228
Consumption of red meat and processed meat and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies185
Risk factors for COVID-19 diagnosis, hospitalization, and subsequent all-cause mortality in Sweden: a nationwide study109
How to detect and reduce potential sources of biases in studies of SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-1997
COVID-19 mortality in the UK Biobank cohort: revisiting and evaluating risk factors94
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States81
Lifestyle and metabolic factors for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Mendelian randomization study81
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register78
Over- and under-estimation of COVID-19 deaths72
Assessing causality in epidemiology: revisiting Bradford Hill to incorporate developments in causal thinking70
Are Mendelian randomization investigations immune from bias due to reverse causation?69
Ethnic differences in COVID-19 mortality during the first two waves of the Coronavirus Pandemic: a nationwide cohort study of 29 million adults in England63
Thyroid function, sex hormones and sexual function: a Mendelian randomization study57
Evidence of early circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in France: findings from the population-based “CONSTANCES” cohort55
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study53
Framework and baseline examination of the German National Cohort (NAKO)53
Excess risk and clusters of symptoms after COVID-19 in a large Norwegian cohort52
Physical activity and the risk of heart failure: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of prospective studies49
The Malmö Offspring Study (MOS): design, methods and first results45
The China birth cohort study (CBCS)44
Cohort profile: Singapore Preconception Study of Long-Term Maternal and Child Outcomes (S-PRESTO)43
The limits of small-for-gestational-age as a high-risk category43
Prediction or causality? A scoping review of their conflation within current observational research41
COVID-19: US federal accountability for entry, spread, and inequities—lessons for the future40
Maternal hypertensive disorders and neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring: a population-based cohort in two Nordic countries40
Protecting against researcher bias in secondary data analysis: challenges and potential solutions39
Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in Denmark: nationwide, population-based seroepidemiological study37
Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 in community-dwelling elderly populations37
Genetic liability to insomnia in relation to cardiovascular diseases: a Mendelian randomisation study36
Vegetable nitrate intake, blood pressure and incident cardiovascular disease: Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study36
Sedentary behavior and cancer–an umbrella review and meta-analysis35
The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic growth in the 37 OECD member states35
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis35
Alcohol consumption in relation to cardiovascular diseases and mortality: a systematic review of Mendelian randomization studies35
Second wave of COVID-19 in Brazil: younger at higher risk34
Physical activity and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: assessing the impact of reverse causation and measurement error in two large prospective cohorts34
Association between body mass index, its change and cognitive impairment among Chinese older adults: a community-based, 9-year prospective cohort study33
Gender specific excess mortality in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic accounting for age31
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 cohorts31
The EU Child Cohort Network’s core data: establishing a set of findable, accessible, interoperable and re-usable (FAIR) variables31
Physical activity and risk of atrial fibrillation in the general population: meta-analysis of 23 cohort studies involving about 2 million participants30
The Swedish military conscription register: opportunities for its use in medical research29
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization29
Estimated lifetime risk of venous thromboembolism in men and women in a Danish nationwide cohort: impact of competing risk of death28
Vitamin D food fortification in European countries: the underused potential to prevent cancer deaths28
Nationwide seroprevalence of antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 in Israel28
Different approaches to quantify years of life lost from COVID-1927
Secondary attack rates of COVID-19 in Norwegian families: a nation-wide register-based study27
Marital status and prostate cancer incidence: a pooled analysis of 12 case–control studies from the PRACTICAL consortium27
Using excess deaths and testing statistics to determine COVID-19 mortalities26
The nationwide Finnish anticoagulation in atrial fibrillation (FinACAF): study rationale, design, and patient characteristics26
Calcium intake, calcium supplementation and cardiovascular disease and mortality in the British population: EPIC-norfolk prospective cohort study and meta-analysis25
Avoiding collider bias in Mendelian randomization when performing stratified analyses25
COVID-19 prevalence and mortality in longer-term care facilities25
Risk factors for COVID-19-related death, hospitalization and intensive care: a population-wide study of all inhabitants in Stockholm25
Vaccine hesitancy due to vaccine country of origin, vaccine technology, and certification25
The German National Pandemic Cohort Network (NAPKON): rationale, study design and baseline characteristics25
Sedentary behaviour in relation to ovarian cancer risk: a systematic review and meta-analysis24
Are depressive disorders caused by psychosocial stressors at work? A systematic review with metaanalysis23
One in five patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy dies from other causes than cardiac or respiratory failure23
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review22
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes22
The underwhelming German life expectancy22
Zinc supplement use and risk of aggressive prostate cancer: a 30-year follow-up study22
Economic uncertainty and suicide in the United States22
Characterising patterns of COVID-19 and long COVID symptoms: evidence from nine UK longitudinal studies21
Time-to-pregnancy and risk of cardiovascular disease among men and women21
A comprehensive analysis of all-cause and cause-specific excess deaths in 30 countries during 202021
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review20
Blood pressure, hypertension and the risk of atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studies20
Mortality among individuals exposed to atomic bomb radiation in utero: 1950–201220
The influence of growth and sex hormones on risk of alzheimer’s disease: a mendelian randomization study20
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 and19
Maternal exposure to airborne polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and risk of adverse birth outcomes18
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 cases18
Physical activity and cardiometabolic risk factors in individuals with spinal cord injury: a systematic review and meta-analysis18
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort18
Suicide in prison and after release: a 17-year national cohort study17
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study17
Modern Epidemiology, 4th edition. TL Lash, TJ VanderWeele, S Haneuse, KJ Rothman. Wolters Kluwer, 202117
Ageing-related markers and risks of cancer and cardiovascular disease: a prospective study in the EPIC-Heidelberg cohort17
Exploring domains, clinical implications and environmental associations of a deep learning marker of biological ageing17
Sex differences in the mortality rate for coronavirus disease 2019 compared to other causes of death: an analysis of population-wide data from 63 countries16
10 K: a large‐scale prospective longitudinal study in Israel16
The iBerry study: a longitudinal cohort study of adolescents at high risk of psychopathology16
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review16
Alcohol intake in early adulthood and risk of colorectal cancer: three large prospective cohort studies of men and women in the United States16
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States16
Methodical considerations on adjusting for Charlson Comorbidity Index in epidemiological studies15
The Danish National Register of assisted reproductive technology: content and research potentials15
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses15
Dietary fat intake and risk of Parkinson disease: results from the Swedish National March Cohort15
Alcohol consumption, blood DNA methylation and breast cancer: a Mendelian randomisation study15
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis14
Comparative effectiveness and safety of direct acting oral anticoagulants in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation for stroke prevention: a systematic review and meta-analysis14
Hypothetical blood-pressure-lowering interventions and risk of stroke and dementia14
Age- and sex-specific modifiable risk factor profiles of dementia: evidence from the UK Biobank14
Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Diet, Cancer and Health—Next Generations cohort study14
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China14
Pre-pandemic cognitive function and COVID-19 mortality: prospective cohort study14
Circulating lipoprotein (a) and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: a systematic review and dose-response meta-analysis14
Lifestyle risk factors and all-cause and cause-specific mortality: assessing the influence of reverse causation in a prospective cohort of 457,021 US adults14
Years of life lost methods must remain fully equitable and accountable14
Pre-diagnostic circulating concentrations of insulin-like growth factor-1 and risk of COVID-19 mortality: results from UK Biobank14
Estimating the asymptomatic proportion of SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population: Analysis of nationwide serosurvey data in the Netherlands13
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-1913
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk13
Healthy lifestyle in older adults and life expectancy with and without heart failure13
COVID-19 and mental health: a longitudinal population study from Norway13
Statistical Analysis in the German National Cohort (NAKO) – Specific Aspects and General Recommendations12
Association between vitamin K1 intake and mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health cohort12
Genetically predicted body composition in relation to cardiometabolic traits: a Mendelian randomization study12
Incidence of Parkinson’s disease in French women from the E3N cohort study over 27 years of follow-up12
Plasma metabolomic profiles for colorectal cancer precursors in women12
Immune age and biological age as determinants of vaccine responsiveness among elderly populations: the Human Immunomics Initiative research program12
Revival of ecological studies during the COVID-19 pandemic12
Bone mineral density and risk of cardiovascular disease in men and women: the HUNT study12
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study12
Oral contraceptive use by formulation and endometrial cancer risk among women born in 1947–1964: The Nurses’ Health Study II, a prospective cohort study12
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years12
Is the association of overweight and obesity with colorectal cancer underestimated? An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses12
Vitamin D and human health: evidence from Mendelian randomization studies12
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study12
The association between meat and fish consumption and bladder cancer risk: a pooled analysis of 11 cohort studies12
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