OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Cancer is 43. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
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Issue Information	141
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Cervical cancer screening: Sharing best practices and addressing common challenges in cervical cancer screening programs	95
Erratum	92
Latent class analysis‐derived classification improves the cancer‐specific death stratification of lymphomas: A large retrospective cohort study	90
Education level and risk of breast cancer by tumor subtype in the EPIC cohort	86
Issue Information	75
Maternal illnesses during pregnancy and the risk of childhood cancer: A medical‐record based analysis (UKCCS)	74
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The role of neoadjuvant imatinib in gastrointestinal stromal tumor patients: 20 years of experience from a tertial referral center	69
Changes in cancer incidence rates by stage during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the US	66
Longitudinal associations of plasma metabolites with persistent fatigue among colorectal cancer survivors up to 2 years after treatment	62
New players in the landscape of renal cell carcinoma bone metastasis and therapeutic opportunities	62
Assessment of long‐term survival in childhood cancer patients using cancer registry data from eastern China: Period analysis outperforms traditional analysis	61
Issue Information	59
Ramucirumab‐containing chemotherapy for patients with gastrointestinal neuroendocrine carcinoma refractory/intolerant to platinum‐based chemotherapy: A multicenter observational retrospective study (W	59
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Accuracy of different triage strategies for human papillomavirus positivity in an Italian screening population	54
Comments on “Methylation scores for smoking, alcohol consumption and body mass index and risk of seven types of cancer”	54
Delivered relative dose intensity in adolescent and young adult germ cell tumours in England: Assessment of data quality and consistency from clinical trials compared to national cancer registration d	53
Identification of pre‐diagnostic lipid sets associated with liver cancer risk using untargeted lipidomics and chemical set analysis: A nested case‐control study within the ATBC cohort	53

Transcriptional repression and apoptosis influence the effect of APOBEC3A/3B functional polymorphisms on biliary tract cancer risk	53
Ovarian cancer survival in sub‐Saharan Africa by human development index and histological subtypes: A population‐based registry study	51
Mammographic breast density, body mass index and risk of breast cancer in Korean women aged 75 years and older	51
Immune‐related conditions and cancer‐specific mortality among older adults with cancer in the United States	50
Improving the clinical meaning of surrogate endpoints: An empirical assessment of clinical progression in phase III oncology trials	50
Polymorphisms within autophagy‐related genes as susceptibility biomarkers for pancreatic cancer: A meta‐analysis of three large European cohorts and functional characterization	50
Improving colon cancer screening in Poland. In search of the Holy Grail	50
Socioeconomic position and risk of cervical cancer in the Nordic countries: Results from the Nordic Occupational Cancer Study	49
Survival rates and extra‐regional migration patterns of children and adolescents with cancer in Italy: The 30‐year experience of the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (AIEOP) wi	48
Body mass index and body shape before treatment and nasopharyngeal carcinoma prognosis: A population‐based patient cohort study in southern China	47
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Pre‐diagnostic circulating resistin concentrations and mortality among individuals with colorectal cancer: Results from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition study	46
Mediation effect of intestinal microbiota on the relationship between fiber intake and colorectal cancer	45
Gynaecologic and breast cancers in women living with HIV in South Africa: A record linkage study	45
The landscape of genetic aberrations in myxofibrosarcoma	44
Trends in cancer incidence by socioeconomic deprivation in Germany in 2007 to 2018: An ecological registry‐based study	44
Association of aflatoxin with gallbladder cancer in a case‐control study nested within a Chinese cohort	43
Single‐cell RNA‐seq dissecting heterogeneity of tumor cells and comprehensive dynamics in tumor microenvironment during lymph nodes metastasis in gastric cancer	43