OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Epidemiology is 37. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform	249
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study	158
SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate after the first epidemic wave in Mexico	121
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia	115
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities	105
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies	91
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination	90
Birth cohort divergence in English and European multimorbidity trajectories	90
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan	88
Causes of Outcome Learning: a causal inference-inspired machine learning approach to disentangling common combinations of potential causes of a health outcome	82
Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020	77
Data Resource Profile: The Enfants du Québec dataset	67
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort	64
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization	62
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series	61
Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)	61
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study	59
Corrigendum to: Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities	58
IJE’s Education Corner turns 10! Looking back and looking forward	56
Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer: could alternative categorization of BMI change improve inference about cumulative risks?	54
Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank	53
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS)	52
Reflection on modern methods: constructing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with domain experts for health services research	51
Fighting a pandemic: sociodemographic disparities and coronavirus disease-2019 vaccination gaps—a population study	49
A new method of estimating prevalence of childhood cancer survivors (POCCS): example of the 20-year prevalence in The Netherlands	49

Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study	49
Cohort Profile: The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study (NSHDS)	48
Effects of sequential vs single pneumococcal vaccination on cardiovascular diseases among older adults: a population-based cohort study	48
Body mass index trajectories and mortality risk in Japan using a population-based prospective cohort study: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study	45
Effectiveness and durability of a second COVID-19 booster against severe outcomes among older people in Norway: a population-based cohort study comparing mono- and bivalent booster doses	43
Decline in attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder traits over the life course in the general population: trajectories across five population birth cohorts spanning ages 3 to 45 years	43
What’s next: using infectious disease mathematical modelling to address health disparities	43
Long-term effect of pharmacological treatment on academic achievement of Norwegian children diagnosed with ADHD: a target trial emulation	43
Cohort Profile: ChinaHEART (Health Evaluation And risk Reduction through nationwide Teamwork) Cohort	42
Comparison of intergenerational instrumental variable analyses of body mass index and mortality in UK Biobank	41
Low-intensity cigarette smoking and mortality risks	38
Backseat Driver: The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates, N F Hubele, Norma Faris	37