International Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Epidemiology is 13. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
ArticleCitations
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform238
Malaria eradication revisited155
Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020143
Data Resource Profile: The Ningbo MATernity–CHild LinkEd databaSe Study (MATCHLESS)119
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia114
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities113
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies102
Social and demographic correlates of cardiovascular mortality in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Ghana: a verbal post-mortem analysis90
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination89
Birth cohort divergence in English and European multimorbidity trajectories86
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan82
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study79
Causes of Outcome Learning: a causal inference-inspired machine learning approach to disentangling common combinations of potential causes of a health outcome79
SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate after the first epidemic wave in Mexico74
Data Resource Profile: The Enfants du Québec dataset63
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study61
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort61
Proton pump inhibitors and myocardial infarction: an application of active comparators in a self-controlled case series60
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization57
Corrigendum to: Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities55
IJE’s Education Corner turns 10! Looking back and looking forward54
Associations of life course obesity with endometrial cancer: could alternative categorization of BMI change improve inference about cumulative risks?53
Response to: Adherence to the World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations and incidence of prostate cancer in the UK Biobank53
Reflection on modern methods: constructing directed acyclic graphs (DAGs) with domain experts for health services research52
Fighting a pandemic: sociodemographic disparities and coronavirus disease-2019 vaccination gaps—a population study52
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 doses50
Cancer risk in the siblings of individuals with major birth defects: a large Nordic population-based case-control study50
A new method of estimating prevalence of childhood cancer survivors (POCCS): example of the 20-year prevalence in The Netherlands48
Cohort Profile: The Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study (NSHDS)48
What’s next: using infectious disease mathematical modelling to address health disparities47
Effects of sequential vs single pneumococcal vaccination on cardiovascular diseases among older adults: a population-based cohort study47
Long-term impacts of coal mine fire-emitted PM2.5 on hospitalisation: a longitudinal analysis of the Hazelwood Health Study46
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Health Study (OHS)46
Body mass index trajectories and mortality risk in Japan using a population-based prospective cohort study: the Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study44
Long-term effect of pharmacological treatment on academic achievement of Norwegian children diagnosed with ADHD: a target trial emulation43
Cohort Profile: ChinaHEART (Health Evaluation And risk Reduction through nationwide Teamwork) Cohort43
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 years42
Comparison of intergenerational instrumental variable analyses of body mass index and mortality in UK Biobank41
Low-intensity cigarette smoking and mortality risks41
Interacting trends of colorectal cancer incidence: the combined effects of screening and birth cohort40
Backseat Driver: The Role of Data in Great Car Safety Debates, N F Hubele, Norma Faris40
Cohort Profile: The Danish Occupational Medicine Cohort—a nationwide cohort of patients with work-related disease39
Strong tuberculin response after BCG vaccination is associated with low multiple sclerosis risk: a population-based cohort study39
Validation of self-reported sun exposure against electronic ultraviolet radiation dosimeters38
Mortality among twin individuals exposed to loss of a co-twin37
Variations in the association of height with mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer in low-, middle- and high-income countries35
The influence of early-life animal exposure on the risk of childhood atopic dermatitis, asthma and allergic rhinoconjunctivitis: findings from the Danish National Birth Cohort34
Vitamin D deficiency and C-reactive protein: a bidirectional Mendelian randomization study34
Cohort Profile: Our Future Health34
Data Resource Profile: China Chronic Disease and Risk Factor Surveillance (CCDRFS)33
Diabetes mortality: trends and multi-country analysis of the Americas from 2000 to 201933
Nitrites and nitrates from food additives and natural sources and cancer risk: results from the NutriNet-Santé cohort33
Retirement and cardiovascular disease: a longitudinal study in 35 countries33
Estimates of excess mortality for the five Nordic countries during the COVID-19 pandemic 2020−202133
Assessment of causal effects of visceral adipose tissue on risk of cancers: a Mendelian randomization study33
Data Resource Profile: Victorian Comprehensive Cancer Centre Data Connect32
Cohort Profile: South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN)31
Additive interactions of smoking with obesity on ischemic heart disease mortality: a national prospective cohort study in the United States31
Omran’s ‘Epidemiologic Transition’ 50 years on30
Cohort Profile Update: The Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP)30
The estimated effect of season and vitamin D in the first trimester on pubertal timing in girls and boys: a cohort study and an instrumental variable analysis29
The SHAPES of Epidemics and Global Disease review29
Lifestyle, genetic risk and incidence of cancer: a prospective cohort study of 13 cancer types28
Polygenic risk scores for prediction of breast cancer in Korean women28
Data Resource Profile: the Children and Young People with Long COVID (CLoCk) Study27
Inconsistent consistency: evaluating the well-defined intervention assumption in applied epidemiological research27
Exploring the impact of selection bias in observational studies of COVID-19: a simulation study27
Local progress towards achieving the End TB targets in Ethiopia: a geospatial analysis27
Association of summer temperatures and acute kidney injury in South Korea: a case-crossover study26
Warm season ambient ozone and children’s health in the USA26
Association of iron homeostasis biomarkers in type 2 diabetes and glycaemic traits: a bidirectional two-sample Mendelian randomization study26
Data Resource Profile: The Global School-based Student Health Survey—behavioural risk and protective factors among adolescents25
Uses and misuses of sibling designs25
Cohort Profile: The Danish SEQUEL cohort25
Mediators of Black–White inequities in cardiovascular mortality among survivors of 18 cancers in the USA25
Cohort Profile: Burden of Obstructive Lung Disease (BOLD) study24
Effectiveness of fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine against the Omicron variant compared with no vaccination24
Partitioning genetic effects on birthweight at classical human leukocyte antigen loci into maternal and fetal components, using structural equation modelling24
What can siblingsand cousinstell us about the role of early life family income in the aetiologies of violent crime, substance misuse and psychiatric morbidity?24
Night shift work and risk of aggressive prostate cancer in the Norwegian Offshore Petroleum Workers (NOPW) cohort24
Cohort Profile: The Melbourne Injecting Drug User Cohort Study (SuperMIX)24
Malaria amidst the COVID-19 pandemic in Gabon: an application of autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) models within an interrupted time series (ITS) framework to hospital-based data23
Cohort Profile: The Jiangsu Birth Cohort23
Commentary: Deep learning approaches applied to routinely collected health data: future directions23
Post-acute non-specific symptoms following COVID-19 vaccination: a Danish population-based study23
Prevalence, aetiology, vaccination coverage and spatio-temporal pattern among patients admitted with acute bacterial meningitis to the sentinel hospital surveillance network in Yemen, 2014–20, before 22
Socioeconomic inequalities in COVID-19 incidence during the first six waves in Barcelona22
Cohort Profile: The Ontario Mental Health and Intersectionality Data Surveillance (Ontario-MINDS) Cohort22
Identifiability of causal effects in test-negative design studies22
Associations of maternal motor vehicle crashes during pregnancy with offspring’s neonatal birth outcomes22
Climate-related disasters and biological aging based on DNA methylation: a twin and family study in Australian women22
Characteristics and outcomes of an international cohort of 600 000 hospitalized patients with COVID-1921
Cohort Profile Update: The 1970 British Cohort Study (BCS70)21
Helicobacter pylori multiplex serology and risk of non-cardia and cardia gastric cancer: a case-cohort study and meta-analysis21
Data Resource Profile: World Health Organization Health Inequality Data Repository21
Hyperglycaemia is a causal risk factor for upper limb pathologies21
Correction to: Sex differences in childhood cancer risk among children with major birth defects: a Nordic population-based nested case-control study20
Cohort Profile Update: Project Viva mothers20
Data Resource Profile: The Information System for Research in Primary Care (SIDIAP)20
Data Resource Profile: The HUNT Biobank19
Data Resource Profile: National Child Oral Health Improvement Programmes for Chile19
Excess risk of subsequent infection in hospitalized children from a community cohort study in Cambodia and Madagascar19
Cohort Profile: The Fasa Adults Cohort Study (FACS): a prospective study of non-communicable diseases risks19
Comparison of two COVID-19 mortality measures used during the pandemic response in England19
Prevalence, risk factors and short-term consequences of adverse birth outcomes in Zimbabwean pregnant women: a secondary analysis of a cluster-randomized trial19
Cohort Profile: South China Cohort19
Pre-trauma predictors of severe psychiatric comorbidity 5 years following traumatic experiences18
Widowhood and mortality risk in Taiwan: a population-based matched cohort study18
The case for counting multiple causes of death in the COVID-19 era18
Short-term effect of temperature on cause-specific, sex-specific, and age-specific ambulance dispatches in Czechia: a nationwide time-series analysis18
The importance of translating genetic partitioning into causal language18
Association between body mass index and oesophageal cancer mortality: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies with >800 000 individuals in the Asia Cohort Consortium18
Quantifying income inequality in years of life lost to COVID-19: a prediction model approach using Dutch administrative data18
Cohort Profile: The Korean Radiation Workers Study (KRWS)17
Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors associated with increased mortality risk in breast cancer patients in Northern Israel17
Correction to: Data Resource Profile: The Hong Kong Diabetes Surveillance Database (HKDSD)17
Learning from the pandemic: mortality trends and seasonality of deaths in Australia in 202017
Evaluating the effectiveness of population-based breast cancer service screening: an analysis of parsimonious patient survival information with the time-varying Cox model17
Limitations introduced by a low participation rate of SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence data17
Thanks to IJE reviewers for 202117
Assumptions and analysis planning in studies with missing data in multiple variables: moving beyond the MCAR/MAR/MNAR classification17
Cohort Profile: The United Kingdom Research study into Ethnicity and COVID-19 outcomes in Healthcare workers (UK-REACH)17
Electronic cigarettes and health outcomes: epidemiological and public health challenges17
Correction to: Low-intensity cigarette smoking and mortality risks: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies in Japan17
Cohort Profile Update: The Intergenerational Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (I-CALM) study, an extension of the Mater-University of Queensland Study of Pregnancy (MUSP)16
Childhood physical activity and pubertal timing: findings from the LEGACY girls study16
A longitudinal study evaluating adverse childhood experiences and obesity in adulthood using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)16
Cohort Profile: CITIC-Xiangya Assisted Reproductive Technology Cohort (CXART Cohort)16
Education and cardiovascular disease: a within-family Mendelian randomization analysis16
A Bayesian functional approach to test models of life course epidemiology over continuous time16
The prevalence, risk of premature births, mortality and causes of death of cleft lip with or without palate in South Korea: a nationwide population-based cohort study16
Understanding the impact of non-shared unmeasured confounding on the sibling comparison analysis16
Peter Oswald Derrick Pharoah, 1934–202116
Maternal respiratory health and intrauterine exposure-driven birthweight: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study16
Risk factors for Ebola virus disease among household care providers, Sierra Leone, 201516
Familial factors rather than paternal age contribute to the aetiology of epilepsy16
Cohort Profile: Indian Study of Healthy Ageing (ISHA-Barshi)15
What can we conclude about the effect of parental income on offspring mental health?15
Cohort Profile: The Mothers and Newborns (MN) Cohort of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health15
Active case-finding of tuberculosis compared with symptom-driven standard of care: a modelling analysis15
Use of an emulated trial to investigate the association between use of nitrogen-based bisphosphonates and risk of epithelial ovarian cancer15
Short-term exposure to air pollution and hospital admission after COVID-19 in Catalonia: the COVAIR-CAT study15
Target-trial specification as a feasibility check: can we emulate a target trial to evaluate the effect of age at first-time pregnancy on mortality?15
The impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on breastfeeding rates at maternity units in France15
Mapping schistosomiasis risk in Southeast Asia: a systematic review and geospatial analysis15
Systemic iron status and maternal pregnancy complications: a Mendelian randomization study15
Sample size calculators for planning stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials: a review and comparison15
Investigating a possible causal relationship between maternal serum urate concentrations and offspring birthweight: a Mendelian randomization study15
Effect of a vegetation fire event ban on hospital visits for respiratory diseases in Upper Northern Thailand14
Objective measures of smoking and caffeine intake and the risk of adverse pregnancy outcomes14
Individual and joint effect of indoor air pollution index and ambient particulate matter on fetal growth: a prospective cohort study14
Data Resource Profile: Global Trachoma Serology Data Repository14
Pre-pubertal accelerometer-assessed physical activity and timing of puberty in British boys and girls: the Millennium Cohort Study14
Cohort Profile Update: The Neuroscience in Psychiatry Network (NSPN) 2400 cohort during the COVID-19 pandemic14
Borrowing strength from clinical trials in analysing longitudinal data from a treated cohort: investigating the effectiveness of acetylcholinesterase inhibitors in the management of dementia14
Excess mortality in US Veterans during the COVID-19 pandemic: an individual-level cohort study14
Cohort Profile: Brazilian High-Risk Cohort for Mental Health Conditions (BHRC)14
Epicosm—a framework for linking online social media in epidemiological cohorts14
Smoking and severe illness in hospitalized COVID-19 patients in Japan14
Changes in traffic-related air pollution exposures and associations with adverse birth outcomes over 20 years in Texas13
Cohort Profile Update: Mental Health Online Survey in the Estonian Biobank (EstBB MHoS)13
Cohort Profile: The Porton Down Veterans cohort study13
Quantitative bias analysis of prevalence under misclassification: evaluation indicators, calculation method and case analysis13
Meeting clean air targets could reduce the burden of hypertension among women of reproductive age in India13
Mortality among individuals with congenital malformations who reach adulthood: long-term follow-up of the Jerusalem Perinatal Study cohort13
Risk of adverse neonatal outcomes among pregnant women with disabilities13
Interpretation of Mendelian randomization using a single measure of an exposure that varies over time13
Progress in chronic kidney disease of unknown origin research from Nicaragua suggests that exposure during work initiates disease13
Cohort Profile: the Work Environment and Health in Denmark study13
Cohort Profile Update: The 45 and Up Study13
Correction to: Handle with care: challenges associated with ultra-processed foods research13
Data Resource Profile: Primary Care Audit, Teaching and Research Open Network (Patron)13
Reweighting UK Biobank corrects for pervasive selection bias due to volunteering13
Revisiting the IJE’s Cohort Profile series—how have the cohorts fared?13
When data generate populations13
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