Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal of Epidemiology is 8. 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.)
ArticleCitations
Prevalence, Incidence, and Recovery of Metabolic Dysfunction-associated Steatotic Liver Disease and Associations With Weight Loss and Lipid Reduction in a Chinese Community-based Cohort76
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D<sub>3</sub> Levels and Diabetes in a Japanese Population: The DOSANCO Health Study69
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Cancer Death Locations in Japan: An Analysis of Excess Mortality Through February 202363
Association Between Maternal Physical Activity From Pre-pregnancy to Child-rearing and Their Children’s Physical Activity in Early Childhood Among Japanese52
Moderate-to-vigorous Physical Activity and Total and Site-specific Cancer: The Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study47
Reduced Road Injuries While Commuting Due to Heavy Snowfall and Ensuing Modal Shifts Among Junior High School Students in Japan47
White Rice Consumption and Risk of Colorectal Cancer Among Japanese Americans: The Multiethnic Cohort Study44
Validity of a Self-administered Food Frequency Questionnaire for Genomic and Omics Research Among Pregnant Women: The Tohoku Medical Megabank Project Birth and Three-Generation Cohort Study38
Do the Impacts of Mentally Active and Passive Sedentary Behavior on Dementia Incidence Differ by Physical Activity Level? A 5-year Longitudinal Study37
The Wako Cohort Study: Design and Profile of Participants at Baseline34
Careful Consideration of Study Limitations When Interpreting the Association Between Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer Risk33
Seropositivity for SARS-CoV-2 in a General Population: How Specific Is the Diagnostic?30
Big Data Analyses Using Health Care Records Can Reveal Epidemiologic Features of Kawasaki Disease in Japan: A Study Based on the National Database of Health Insurance Claims28
Public assistance and suicide-related cardiac arrest in emergency departments: a nationwide registry-based study in Japan27
Assessing the Relationship Between High-sensitivity C-reactive Protein and Kidney Function Employing Mendelian Randomization in the Japanese Community-based J-MICC Study27
Progress Report of the Tohoku Medical Megabank Community-based Cohort Study: Study Profile of the Repeated Center-based Survey During Second Period in Miyagi Prefecture27
The Association Between COVID-19-related Discrimination and Probable Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Among Patients With COVID-19 in Sapporo, Japan27
Electronic Cigarette Use in 12 European Countries: Results From the TackSHS Survey26
Association between influenza vaccination and ischemic stroke risk in a population-based nested case-control study: The Vaccine Effectiveness, Networking, and Universal Safety (VENUS) Study25
The Out-of-pocket Expenses of People With Tinnitus in Europe25
Can Cessation of Caregiving for Parents Relieve Family Caregivers’ Psychological Distress? A Longitudinal Study Using 17-wave Nationwide Survey Data in Japan24
Cohort Profile: Shanghai University of Sport (SUS) Longitudinal Cohort Study of Alumni Health Tracking21
Midlife Intakes of the Isoflavone Genistein and Soy and the Risk of Late-life Cognitive Impairment: The JPHC Saku Mental Health Study21
Methodological Tutorial Series for Epidemiological Studies: When and How to Split the Follow-up Time in the Analysis of Epidemiological or Clinical Studies With Follow-ups20
Exposure to PM<sub>2.5</sub> Metal Constituents and Liver Cancer Risk in REVEAL-HBV19
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Changes in Tobacco Use Behavior: A Longitudinal Cohort Study in Japan19
What Drives Respondents to Seroepidemiological Surveys? Insights From COVID-19 and Implications for Future Pandemics18
Estimating the Prevalence of and Clarifying Factors Associated With Multiple Tobacco Product Use in Japan: A Cross-sectional Study in 202218
Causal Mediation Analyses for the Natural Course of Hepatitis C: A Prospective Cohort Study18
Breastfeeding in Infancy in Relation to Subsequent Physical Size: A 20-year Follow-up of the Ibaraki Children’s Cohort Study (IBACHIL)18
Intensive Care Unit Occupancy in Japan, 2015–2018: A Nationwide Inpatient Database Study16
Rare Event Approximation Between Subdistribution Hazard Ratio and Cause-specific Hazard Ratio in Survival Analysis With Competing Risks16
Estimation of the Number of Patients With Mitochondrial Diseases: A Descriptive Study Using a Nationwide Database in Japan16
Urgent Support Is Needed for More Tinnitus Research16
Income Dynamics and Risk of Colorectal Cancer in Individuals With Type 2 Diabetes: A Nationwide Population-based Cohort Study15
Is Caring for Grandchildren Good for Grandparents’ Health? Evidence From a Fourteen-wave Nationwide Survey in Japan15
What Epidemiologists Can Do in the Era of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence15
Association Between Family Structure and Obesity Among Korean Adolescents15
COVID-19-specific Prefectural Hospital Bed Utilization Rate and In-hospital Mortality Among COVID-19 Patients Throughout the First 3 Years of the Pandemic in Japan15
Effectiveness of Screening Using Fecal Occult Blood Testing and Colonoscopy on the Risk of Colorectal Cancer: The Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study15
The Association Between the Maternal Pre-pregnancy Platelet Count and Fecundability in Mainland China: A Population-based Cohort Study15
Association of the Time to First Cigarette and the Prevalence of Chronic Respiratory Diseases in Chinese Elderly Population15
Smartphone Step Data for Public Health: Insights From Surveillance in Japan and Future Perspectives15
A Principal Component Analysis of Metabolome and Cognitive Decline Among Japanese Older Adults: Cross-sectional Analysis Using Tohoku Medical Megabank Cohort Study Data14
Validation of Self-reported Medical Condition in the Taiwan Biobank14
Impact of the First–Fourth Waves of the COVID-19 Pandemic on New Applications for Long-term Care Insurance in a Metropolitan Area of Japan14
Development of a Brief Assessment Tool to Evaluate Early Low Nutrition Risk in Community Elderly: Creation of the Tool and Examination of Its Reliability and Criterion-related Validity14
Profile of Nagasaki Islands Study (NaIS): A Population-based Prospective Cohort Study on Multi-disease14
Hypnotics use during pregnancy and the risks of preterm birth, low birth weight, and major congenital malformations: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study14
Rethinking Ethics Review Processes for Online Survey Research14
Antiresorptive Drugs and the Risk of Femoral Shaft Fracture in Men and Women With Osteoporosis: A Cohort Study Using the National Database of Health Insurance Claims of Japan13
Patterns of Use of Heated Tobacco Products: A Comprehensive Systematic Review13
Associations Between Lifestyle Factors and Constipation Among Survivors After the Great East Japan Earthquake: A 9-year Follow-up Study13
Study Protocol and Characteristics of the Wearable Device Survey for Tohoku Medical Megabank Brain Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study13
Interaction of Dietary Sodium-to-potassium Ratio and Dinner Energy Ratio on Prevalence of Hypertension in Inner Mongolia, China13
Impact of Resting Heart Rate on Cardiovascular Mortality According to Serum Albumin Levels in a 24-year Follow-up Study on a General Japanese Population: NIPPON DATA8013
Did Dental Insurance Expansion Improve Dental Care Needs Among Korean Adults? Difference in Difference Analysis12
Prevalence and Associated Factors of Psychological Distress Among Single Fathers in Japan12
Epidemiological Alchemy in the AI Era Comes Under Close Scrutiny—But Is It Entirely Without Meaning?12
Association Between Nutrient Patterns and Fatty Liver Index: Baseline Survey of the Japan Multi-Institutional Collaborative Cohort Study in Tokushima, Japan12
Association Between Smoking and Hypertension in Pregnancy Among Japanese Women: A Meta-analysis of Birth Cohort Studies in the Japan Birth Cohort Consortium (JBiCC) and JECS12
Associations Among Dementia, Physical Activity, and Sedentary Behavior: Different Roles of Total and Sub-domains11
Changes in Incidence Associated With an Influenza Alert System Using Antiviral Dispensing Data From Goto City in Remote Islands of Japan: An Analytical Observational Study11
Frequency of Going Outdoors and Risk of Poor Oral Health Among Older Japanese Adults: A Longitudinal Cohort From the Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study11
Domain-specific Physical Activity and the Risk of All-cause Mortality Among Middle-aged and Older Adults in Taiwan: A Prospective Cohort Study11
We Should Pay More Attention to Sex Differences to Predict the Risk of Severe COVID-19: Men Have the Same Risk of Worse Prognosis as Women More Than 10 Years Older11
Economic Recession and the Risk of Cancer: A Cohort Study From Eastern Finland11
Development and Validation of a Novel Method for Converting the Japan Coma Scale to Glasgow Coma Scale11
Dispensing by Family Pharmacists as a Potential Factor in Pharmacist-initiated Prescription Change: A Retrospective Observational Study11
Changes in Alcohol Consumption During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic From 2020 to 2023 in a Prospective Cohort of Italian Adults11
The Association of Tobacco Smoking, Second-hand Smoke, and Novel Tobacco Products With COVID-19 Severity and Mortality in Italy: Results From the COSMO-IT Study11
Number of Siblings and Social Capital Among Parents Rearing Schoolchildren: Results From the A-CHILD Study11
Combined Fat Mass and Fat-free Mass Indices and Lung Function Among Japanese Population: The Tohoku Medical Megabank Community-based Cohort Study10
The Relationship of Alcohol Consumption and Drinking Pattern to the Risk of Glomerular Hyperfiltration in Middle-aged Japanese Men: The Kansai Healthcare Study10
Area Deprivation and Health Outcomes in Preschool Children in Japan: A Nationwide Cohort Study10
BMI and Cardiometabolic Traits in Japanese: A Mendelian Randomization Study10
Adult Height and Risk of Colorectal Cancer: A Pooled Analysis of 10 Population-based Cohort Studies in Japan10
The Unusual Increase in Suicides Among Women in Japan During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Time-series Analysis Until October 202110
Cohort Profile: The Community Empowerment and Care for Well-being and Healthy Longevity Study9
Erratum for “Area Deprivation and Health Outcomes in Preschool Children in Japan: A Nationwide Cohort Study” [J Epidemiol 35(11) (2025) 472–481]9
Association Between Adherence to the Japanese Meal-based Dietary Guideline and All-cause and Cause-specific Mortalities: A Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study9
Association Between Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity and 15-year Mortality in the Asia Cohort Consortium9
New Special Article Series: “Methodological Tutorial Series for Epidemiological Studies”9
Suicide Risk Among Patients With Cancer by Sex in Japan: A Population-based Study9
Serum levels of angiopoietin-like protein 2 and the risk of cause-specific mortality in a general population: the Hisayama Study9
The Longevity Improvement & Fair Evidence (LIFE) Study: Overview of the Study Design and Baseline Participant Profile9
Development and Validation of Prediction Models for the 5-year Risk of Type 2 Diabetes in a Japanese Population: Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective (JPHC) Diabetes Study9
Healthcare Providers’ Advice for Tobacco Cessation and Its Association With Quit Attempts: A Cross-sectional Study in Japan, 20249
Vitamin K Intake and Risk of Lung Cancer: The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study9
Association Between Lifestyle Habits and the Prevalence of Abdominal Obesity After the Great East Japan Earthquake: The Fukushima Health Management Survey9
Association Between Awareness of Limiting Food Intake and All-cause Mortality: A Cohort Study in Japan9
Trends in Socioeconomic Inequalities in Cancer Screening Participation Before and After the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan9
“Screen Time” to “AI Time”: AI Use and Cognitive, Emotional, and Behavioral Outcomes in Children and Adolescents9
Comparison of Influenza Epidemic Trends Based on a Large-scale Claims Database and National Infectious Disease Surveillance in Japan8
Number of sound and filled teeth and medical and long-term care costs in older adults aged ≥75 years: the OHSAKA study8
Changes in Place of Death Among Patients With Dementia During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Japan: A Time-series Analysis8
Epidemiologic Trends and Distributions of Imported Infectious Diseases Among Travelers to Japan Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2016 to 2021: A Descriptive Study8
Epidemiology and Prognostic Factors of Herpes Simplex Virus Encephalitis in Japan: A Nationwide Database Study8
Age Standardization in Health Statistics: History and Future Perspectives8
Change in the Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate Over Time and Risk of First Stroke in Hypertensive Patients8
Association between intra-household isolation and frailty among community-dwelling older adults in Japan: A cross-sectional analysis of the Wako Cohort Study8
Colorectal Cancer Screening Based on Fecal Immunochemical Test and Risk Assessment: A Population-based Study Including Two Million Participants in China8
Association of Social Isolation and Loneliness With Chronic Low Back Pain Among Older Adults: A Cross-sectional Study From Japan Gerontological Evaluation Study (JAGES)8
Risk of Herpes Zoster in Relation to Body Mass Index Among Residents Aged ≥50 Years: The Shozu Herpes Zoster Study8
Effects of External Radiation Exposure Resulting From the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident on the Health of Residents in the Evacuation Zones: the Fukushima Health Management Survey8
Publisher Correction: “Bias in odds ratios from logistic regression methods with sparse data sets” [J Epidemiol 33(6) (2023) 265-275]8
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