OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Epidemiology is 35. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

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	293
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities	115
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies	108
Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)	105
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study	100
From risk to structure: reframing health inequities as population phenomena	87
Birth cohort divergence in English and European multimorbidity trajectories	81
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan	78
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series	76
Kidney cancer and occupational agricultural exposures in the AGRIculture and CANcer cohort	75
Causes of Outcome Learning: a causal inference-inspired machine learning approach to disentangling common combinations of potential causes of a health outcome	74
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study	73
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization	72
Data Resource Profile: The Enfants du Québec dataset	65
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort	64
Reproducibility and associated regression dilution bias of accelerometer-derived physical activity and sleep in UK Biobank	60
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination	58
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia	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?	48
Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank	46
Effects of sequential vs single pneumococcal vaccination on cardiovascular diseases among older adults: a population-based cohort study	46
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS)	46
A new method of estimating prevalence of childhood cancer survivors (POCCS): example of the 20-year prevalence in The Netherlands	44
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	44

Susceptible windows of long-term childhood exposure to air pollution on adult self-reported bronchitic symptoms	42
Comparison of intergenerational instrumental variable analyses of body mass index and mortality in UK Biobank	40
Cohort Profile: The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study (NSHDS)	39
Cohort Profile: ChinaHEART (Health Evaluation And risk Reduction through nationwide Teamwork) Cohort	39
Reflection on modern methods: constructing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with domain experts for health services research	39
Long-term effect of pharmacological treatment on academic achievement of Norwegian children diagnosed with ADHD: a target trial emulation	37
Body mass index trajectories and mortality risk in Japan using a population-based prospective cohort study: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study	37
What’s next: using infectious disease mathematical modelling to address health disparities	36
Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study	36
Backseat Driver: The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates, N F Hubele, Norma Faris	36
The influence of early-life animal exposure on the risk of childhood atopic dermatitis, asthma and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: findings from the Danish National Birth Cohort	35