OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Epidemiology is 38. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
818Prediction of health effects of Asian dust using the MASINGAR in Japan	248
191Two approaches to teaching epidemiology online for capacity building in developing countries	185
Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities	143
1441Indirect effects of COVID-19 in Australia during 2020	126
1100National prevalence of oral HPV infection in vaccinated and unvaccinated young adults in Brazil	115
197Assessment of Depression, Anxiety and Fatigue in relation to diet quality in Multiple Sclerosis	103
955Risk of drowning: the Japan Collaborative Cohort (JACC) Study	93
990Seaweed intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Japan Public Health Center–based Prospective (JPHC) Study	93
1531Monitoring of substances use among a sample of Tunisian high school pupils	91
512Challenges and opportunities to appropriate antibiotic prescribing: a survey of clinicians’ perceptions in Australia	88
774The appropriateness of the Effort-Reward Imbalance ratio for investigating musculoskeletal symptoms	84
1091Evaluation of symptom screening methods for tuberculosis: secondary analysis of Mongolian nationwide tuberculosis prevalence survey	74
352Postpartum diet quality: A cross-sectional analysis from the Australian longitudinal study on women’s health	73
1491Impact of COVID19 on years of life lost with and without disability across 18 European-countries	72
1384Factors related to neck and shoulder pain during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan	71
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia	68
1448Intensive care utilisation in New Zealand 2010 to 2020	67
151Infant and young child feeding practices and ARI and diarrhoea in Ethiopia: A PSM approach	62
Corrigendum to: Diagnostic radiological examinations and risk of intracranial tumours in adults—findings from the interphone study	61
1514Racial discrimination and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults: a five-wave longitudinal analyses	60
1047Epidemiology of different Cancers in Rural Jodhpur (India)	57
1485Trends and attributable burden of raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in South Africa	53
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort	50
Corrigendum to: Antibody status and cumulative incidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection among adults in three regions of France following the first lockdown and associated risk factors: a multicohort study	49
Social and demographic correlates of cardiovascular mortality in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Ghana: a verbal post-mortem analysis	48

765The impact of childhood hearing loss on language and psychosocial outcomes: The LOCHI study	46
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities	46
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies	45
Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020	45
SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate after the first epidemic wave in Mexico	45
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan	45
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform	45
Malaria eradication revisited	43
651The voice of Indian women on family planning: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis	43
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study	42
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study	42
Causal diagrams for immortal time bias	40
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization	39
1210Understanding the effect of Helicobacter pylori infection on gastroesophageal reflux disease and Barrett’s oesophagus	38
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination	38
Causes of Outcome Learning: a causal inference-inspired machine learning approach to disentangling common combinations of potential causes of a health outcome	38
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series	38