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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	244
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	164
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	125
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	103
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	89
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	86
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	79
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality	70
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	62
Effect of vitamin D supplementation on cardiovascular outcomes: randomized trials revisited	61
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	58
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	56
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	54
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	51
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	50
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	47
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	46
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	45
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults	45
Food colouring additives and cancer incidence in the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort	44
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	43
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	42
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs	42
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	42
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	41

Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	41
Birth weight of term born offspring in relation to long-term maternal cardiovascular morbidity and mortality	40
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	39
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	39
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	39
Guangdong Biobank Cohort (GDBC) study	38
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	37
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	37
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	37
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	36
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	34
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	34
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	33
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study	32
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting	31
Low-level exposure to arsenic in drinking water and risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Trait impulsivity and risk of cardiovascular disease over 8 years: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort	28
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study	27
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	27
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology	26
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol	25
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study	25
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial	25
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review	24
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada	24
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility	23
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study	23
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research	23
Evaluating synergistic effects among multiple factors in disease causation: a new approach using a generalized synergy index	23
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	23
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)	23
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods	23
Does tattoo exposure increase the risk of cutaneous melanoma? A population-based case-control study	22
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts	22
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	22
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden	22
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	21
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study	21
Re: Liu et al., “On the reported methodology in published TriNetX-based studies: an analysis of impossible index event designs”	21
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures	21
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults	21
Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses)	20
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)	20
Moving beyond risk ratios in sibling analysis: estimating clinically useful measures from family-based analysis	19
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability	19
Quality of cancer-related data from the Danish National patient registry (1994–2025) and the Danish cancer registry (2004–2025): a systematic review	19
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization	18
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update	17
Cohort profile and representativeness of participants in the Danish monozygotic twin study on migraine	17

Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection	17
Different risks, same causes: educational attainment influences when, not from what, we die	17
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK	17
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations	17
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls	17
Social determinants disadvantage score and liver health in the All of Us Research Program	17
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register	16
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse	15
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France	15
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France	15
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years	15
The rapid growth in Mendelian randomization studies	15
Re: “Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents - results ofthe EDKAR study”	15
An instrumental variable analysis of body mass index and risk of long-term sick leave: the HUNT Study, Norway	15
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?	15
Design and characteristics of the national Danish injury cohort (NDIC)	14
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA	14
Forecast of dementia prevalence in Germany and subnational regions until 2060 using microsimulation	14
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden	14
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia	14
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study	14
Cocoa flavanol supplementation and prevention of cardiovascular disease: a novel analysis of the COSMOS randomized trial using “win ratio”	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
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-19	14
Turning a nation into a cohort: combining national registers and a digital mailbox for population-based health research	14
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	13
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19	13
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study	13
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations	13
Associations of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with mortality and hospitalizations: methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology	13
Slow data public health	13
Triangulation in biomedical research: navigating an ocean of uncertainty	13
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk	13
Generalized additive mixed models to discern data-driven theoretically informed strategies for public brain, cognitive and mental health	13
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States	12
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study	12
Evaluation of clinical utility in emulated clinical trials	12
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study	12
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	12
A note of thanks	12
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study	12
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: 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
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment	12
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society	11
Prenatal and childhood infections and risk of epilepsy	11
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study	11
Genetic risk score to enhance glaucoma case detection: a prospective double-blind screening study (EyeLife) in the population-based Lifelines cohort	11
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study	11
Survival trends and cure rates of hematological neoplasms in the Spanish pediatric population	11
Dynamics of infection, vaccination and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic among older individuals—a nationwide analysis	11
Circulating inflammation-related proteome improves cardiovascular risk prediction. Results from two large European cohort studies	11
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	11
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes	11
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses	11
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank	11
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
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial	10
The Danish Chronic Disease Cohort: using digital footprints to identify chronic disease patterns	10
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer	10
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer	10
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States	10
Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism	10
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial	10
The interaction of sleep characteristics and work-related stress in relation to the risk of dementia: findings from a Swedish cohort study	10
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses	10
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review	10
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	10
Space–time clustering of childhood high hyperdiploid B-cell precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a nationwide Swedish study	10
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis	10
Intergenerational income mobility and psychotropic drug dispensation in a 1953 Stockholm cohort: a diagonal reference model approach	10