International Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of International Journal of Epidemiology is 5. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
1067Annual changes in job strain and risk of coronary heart disease in Denmark239
69Effect of smoking on treatment outcomes among newly diagnosed Tuberculosis patients in Shimla city India216
1399Associations of family wellbeing with face-to-face and instant messaging family communication amidst the COVID-19 pandemic166
535The epidemiology of all-cause and cause-specific mortality following release from prison in 11 countries141
1360Health impacts of a 4 month community-wide lockdown: a prospective longitudinal study in Victoria, Australia133
817Official small area health statistics using the stratified reweighting method120
100Identification of a latitude gradient in the prevalence of Primary Biliary Cholangitis in Australia103
467Hypertension, Dyslipidaemia and Pregnancy Complications in Filipino Women100
972The epidemiology and cancer-related hospital use of sarcoma in Western Australia: a linked data analysis89
1492Ordering the chaos: The global clustering of COVID-19 incidence and mortality85
242Exploring health in the UK Biobank: cross-sectional analyses of sociodemographic, psychosocial, lifestyle and environmental factors84
402Measles vaccine coverage: The rise of vaccine hesitancy in upper-middle income countries83
1005Dietary pattern assessment methods and implications for dietary guideline development79
857Data harmonisation of Australian and New Zealand ambulance service datasets76
33Visual acuity and knowledge of road safety measures among commercial motorcyclist in Nigeria’s metropolitan city70
1421Effects of the Colombian armed conflict on reproductive, maternal and child health69
1437Rates of low value care in NSW public hospitals: variation between public and private inpatients68
536Patterns of change in lifestyle behaviours following childbirth68
1072Mental health difficulties among adolescents in Ghana, coping mechanisms and the support systems: a mixed-methods study65
934Prevalence by proxy: Estimating youth smoking prevalence using nationally representative household surveys63
1324Clinical Registry for Acute Respiratory Infections in Children in Western Australia61
Thanks to IJE reviewers for 202155
523Use of beta blockers and death from breast cancer in New Zealand breast cancer patients55
917Stakeholder analysis to develop a national outbreak response plan for Q fever in Australia52
1409Legal abortion in the context of the COVID-19: a literature review focusing on Latin America49
955Risk of drowning: the Japan Collaborative Cohort (JACC) Study46
1261Epidemiology of Kawasaki disease in Japan, 2017–2018: results from the nationwide survey46
313Long-acting bronchodilators and risk of acute coronary syndrome46
726Examining mediation effect of comprehensive knowledge on people’s attitudes towards HIV-infected people in India45
1212Examining the relationship between childhood adversity and mental health in older adults45
1531Monitoring of substances use among a sample of Tunisian high school pupils44
409The Word Gap: At What Age Does it Emerge? Results from a Prospective Cohort Study44
515Association between hysterectomy and risk of thyroid cancer44
990Seaweed intake and risk of cardiovascular disease: the Japan Public Health Center–based Prospective (JPHC) Study43
909Testing ‘hardening hypotheses’ in 30 Global Adult Tobacco Survey countries: an ecological study41
465Simplifying the Differences between Causal and Prediction Analyses41
1448Intensive care utilisation in New Zealand 2010 to 202041
1281Prevalence and associated factors of cigarette smoking among youth population in Brazil: a cross-sectional study39
818Prediction of health effects of Asian dust using the MASINGAR in Japan39
178Depression but not physical activity mediates the fatigue-mental quality of life relationship in multiple sclerosis39
237Spatial distribution and correlates of HIV prevalence in South Africa38
943Impact of maternal factors, pregnancy complications, and birth outcomes on the neonate metabolome38
839A novel approach to investigating poor growth in a longitudinal study of infants in PNG38
Corrigendum to: Cohort Profile: The National Academy of Sciences-National Research Council Twin Registry (NAS-NRC Twin Registry)36
88The Role of Visceral Adiposity in the Metabolic Phenotype of multi-ethnic South-East Asian population35
1527Effect of a text-messaging intervention on oral self-care practices in antenatal women in Delhi, India34
757Using smartphone technology to characterise associations between respiratory symptoms and pollen34
98Framework for the Treatment And Reporting of Missing data in Observational Studies: The TARMOS framework34
Assessing seasonality and the role of its potential drivers in environmental epidemiology: a tutorial33
590Online + In-person: A Model for the Instruction of Contemporary Epidemiologic Methods in Resource-Limited Settings33
Estimating the burden of disease attributable to high ambient temperature across climate zones: methodological framework with a case study32
Mortality amenable to healthcare in Latin American cities: a cross-sectional study examining between-country variation in amenable mortality and the role of urban metrics32
655Association between Crohn's disease onset and oral hygiene: a Japanese multicenter case-control study31
692Association of drinking habits with TXNIP DNA methylation levels in leukocytes among general Japanese population31
801Apolipoprotein E (APOE) genotype-associated disease risks: a phenome-wide, registry-based, case-control study utilising the UK biobank31
1232Relationship between leucine metabolism and executive function development: the GUSTO cohort31
1091Evaluation of symptom screening methods for tuberculosis: secondary analysis of Mongolian nationwide tuberculosis prevalence survey30
198Prevalence of illicit substances in personal vaporisers on online cryptomarkets30
774The appropriateness of the Effort-Reward Imbalance ratio for investigating musculoskeletal symptoms30
1526Survival of hospitalized COVID-19 patients with multimorbidity in Hidalgo Mexico30
800A census approach to monitoring child development - informing policy and practice beyond survey samples29
735Dynamics and Determinants of Birth Spacing in India29
1014Maternal educational qualification and child’s birth weight: Findings from Office for National Statistics Longitudinal Study29
886Serum folate and risk of disabling dementia: Community-based nested case-control study29
884Data sharing willingness and attitudes29
557Outcomes of Indigenous multifetal and singleton pregnancies: complications, medical care, birth experience and infant health28
1482Comparative epidemiology analysis of major depressive disorder with DSM-5 and DSM-IV criteria in high-income countries28
976Screening for cervical cancer with Human Papillomavirus testing: stand-alone is preferable over co-testing with cytology28
Risk ratio regression—simple concept yet complex computation28
1485Trends and attributable burden of raised low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in South Africa28
883Discharge Prescribing in Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Hospitalised for Diabetes-related Complications28
182Higher preference for spicy foods increases the risk of central obesity: a prospective cohort study28
1466Vitamin D status before, during and after treatment and ovarian cancer survival27
651The voice of Indian women on family planning: A qualitative systematic review and meta-synthesis27
1452A Cohort Study of Comorbidities of Diabetes in Regional Australia27
1441Indirect effects of COVID-19 in Australia during 202027
306Association between polypharmacy and mortality in the community-dwelling older population: a data linkage study27
1377Did patient blood management guidelines reduce the rate of blood transfusion in pregnancy?27
1273Confounding in the association between pregnancy complications and subsequent preterm birth27
985Sex differences in the incidence of renal cell carcinoma: results from the EPIC cohort study26
1271Green tea consumption is associated with annual changes in hippocampal volumes: a longitudinal study26
1514Racial discrimination and anxiety symptoms in adolescents and young adults: a five-wave longitudinal analyses26
1047Epidemiology of different Cancers in Rural Jodhpur (India)26
1116Spatial diffusion of the 2015-2016 Zika, dengue, and chikungunya epidemics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil26
610Official statistics on health outcomes and risk factors for small geographic areas25
456Mode of delivery and urinary incontinence in middle age: longitudinal analysis of the SWAN cohort25
352Postpartum diet quality: A cross-sectional analysis from the Australian longitudinal study on women’s health25
475Machine learning approach: identifying the impact of heatwaves and air quality on children’s health25
1302Potential exposure-response relationships between vitamin D and cognitive performance in middle to older-aged adults25
1177Lest we lose focus: ongoing analyses of adverse childhood experiences in COVID-19 era25
151Infant and young child feeding practices and ARI and diarrhoea in Ethiopia: A PSM approach25
778Risk of 27 cancer types in relation to tobacco smoking: cohort study involving 229,028 Australians25
576Is the method of longitudinal data analysis equally relevant for common versus uncommon endpoints?25
512Challenges and opportunities to appropriate antibiotic prescribing: a survey of clinicians’ perceptions in Australia25
697Change of smoking habits by introducing and spreading heated tobacco products in Japan24
1000Quantifying multiple causes of death: A systematic review and audit of methods and practice24
1491Impact of COVID19 on years of life lost with and without disability across 18 European-countries24
1139Predictors of Unintended Pregnancy among Indian women: An analysis from NFHS-IV Survey23
828Dietary Variety and Incident Disabling Dementia in Elderly Japanese Adults23
919Step-by-step guidance on prospective meta-analyses23
134Trends and projections of Treatment as Prevention strategy in Africa and progress towards UNAIDS targets23
1042Trends in area-level socioeconomic inequalities of lung cancer mortality by age group in Japan: 1995-201422
785Excess mortality in severe mental disorders: a systematic review and meta-regression22
197Assessment of Depression, Anxiety and Fatigue in relation to diet quality in Multiple Sclerosis22
68Maternal exposure to PM2.5 from a severe smoke event and birth outcomes in Victoria, Australia22
107Antecedent cardiovascular disease, medication use, and risk of developing ALS: a population-based nested case-control study22
783Lifetime alcohol intake and stomach cancer risk: a pooled analysis of two prospective cohort studies22
1100National prevalence of oral HPV infection in vaccinated and unvaccinated young adults in Brazil21
918Building the evidence base for australia’s veteran population21
531Investigating systemic autoimmune diseases as a group of causes of death: mortality burden and comorbidities21
996Factors predicting retention among people accessing outpatient methadone maintenance therapy in Tshwane, South Africa20
1463Impact of missing outcome data in meta-analyses of lifestyle interventions during pregnancy to reduce postpartum-weight-retention20
Correction to: Cohort Profile: Resilience, Ethnicity and AdolesCent mental Health (REACH)20
191Two approaches to teaching epidemiology online for capacity building in developing countries20
1216Combining propensity score-weighting and multiple imputation is not a trivial task20
765The impact of childhood hearing loss on language and psychosocial outcomes: The LOCHI study20
281Physical activity and subsequent frailty incidence among the community-dwelling older adults: results from JAGES ATTACH20
540A simulation to evaluate HTLV-1 screening for pregnant women in prevention of adult T-cell leukemia20
1384Factors related to neck and shoulder pain during the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan20
1079The need for information among cancer patients and their caregivers in Colombia20
502Modelling Chlamydia trachomatis and Mycoplasma genitalium transmission in men who have sex with men19
810Geographical disparities in diagnosis of myeloproliferative neoplasms in Australia19
924The landscape of clinical trial activity focusing on Indigenous health in Australia from 2008-201819
1168Are there non-linear alcohol–health relationships?: Review of observational studies employing enhanced causal methods19
1469Inequalities in diabetes management by area deprivation: the mediating role of healthcare resource distribution19
Attributable risks of hospitalizations for urologic diseases due to heat exposure in Queensland, Australia, 1995–201619
601Is in-situ melanoma a precursor of invasive melanoma; a New Zealand study19
586Effects of maternal circulating amino acids on offspring birthweight: a Mendelian randomisation analysis18
315A new strategy for teaching Epidemiology in Public Health Education: Hybrid Team Based Learning-Personalised Education18
Cohort Profile: The 100 Million Brazilian Cohort18
Commentary: Ozone air pollution and child health: new evidence from big studies18
425Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Type 2 Diabetes Risk Prediction and Exploration of Predictive Factors18
291Serum albumin levels reversed the impact of higher resting heart rate on cardiovascular mortality18
Long-term exposure to ambient fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and associations with cardiopulmonary diseases and lung cancer in Taiwan: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study18
633Poorly controlled diabetes is a predictor of colorectal cancer survival18
Correction to: Data Resource Profile: The Hong Kong Diabetes Surveillance Database (HKDSD)18
The International Journal of Epidemiology—the next three years18
Call for emergency action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity and protect health18
Cohort Profile: The Performance Monitoring for Action (PMA) panel surveys17
Correction to: Association between household composition and severe COVID-19 outcomes in older people by ethnicity: an observational cohort study using the OpenSAFELY platform17
Confounding effects of socioeconomic status on the association between long-term PM2.5 exposure and mortality in Korea17
SARS-CoV-2 infection fatality rate after the first epidemic wave in Mexico17
1454Renal disease in Aboriginal children and young adults (ARDAC): evolution to a data linkage study16
Data Resource Profile: Better Outcomes Registry & Network (BORN) Ontario16
Cohort Profile: Dementia Risk Prediction Project (DRPP)16
Understanding the impact of non-shared unmeasured confounding on the sibling comparison analysis16
Causal diagrams for immortal time bias16
Data Resource Profile: Harmonized health survey data for 240 cities across 11 countries in Latin America: the SALURBAL project16
Estimating the long-term effects of mass screening for latent and active tuberculosis in the Marshall Islands16
Pre-pregnancy and pregnancy disorders, pre-term birth and the risk of cerebral palsy: a population-based study15
The dose–response relationship of pre-menopausal alcohol consumption with age at menopause: a population study of 280 497 women in Norway15
Consideration of overadjustment bias in guidelines and tools for systematic reviews and meta-analyses of observational studies is long overdue15
Excess mortality in residents of aged care facilities during COVID-19 in Australia, 2019–2215
Childhood physical activity and pubertal timing: findings from the LEGACY girls study15
Effect modification by statin use status on the association between fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and cardiovascular mortality15
Safety of BNT162b2 and CoronaVac during pregnancy on birth outcomes and neonatal mortality: a cohort study from Brazil15
Standards in responsibly sharing cohort data for transparency and reproducibility: response to the Young Lives Study15
Cohort Profile: The Stroke in Sierra Leone (SISLE) Register15
Night shift work characteristics and risk of incident coronary heart disease among health care workers: national cohort study15
Validating an approach to overcome the immeasurable time bias in cohort studies: a real-world example and Monte Carlo simulation study15
Population-level detection of early loss of kidney function: 7-year follow-up of a young adult cohort at risk of Mesoamerican nephropathy14
Cohort Profile: Heart and Brain Investigation in Taicang (HABIT) study14
It’s personal: navigating research questions that stem from our lived experiences14
Familial factors rather than paternal age contribute to the aetiology of epilepsy14
Cohort Profile: The Mothers and Newborns (MN) Cohort of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health14
The impact of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative on breastfeeding rates at maternity units in France14
Cohort Profile: The Public Health Data Asset, 2011 cohort14
Short-term associations of PM10 attributed to biomass burning with respiratory and cardiovascular hospital admissions in Peninsular Malaysia14
A Bayesian functional approach to test models of life course epidemiology over continuous time13
Long-term risk of epilepsy, cerebral palsy and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children affected by a threatened abortion in utero13
Prospective evaluation of the relevance of Epstein–Barr virus antibodies for early detection of nasopharyngeal carcinoma in Chinese adults13
Gestational diabetes and risk of breast cancer before age 55 years13
Risk factors for Ebola virus disease among household care providers, Sierra Leone, 201513
Data Resource Profile: Surveillance System of Risk and Protective Factors for Chronic Diseases by Telephone Survey for adults in Brazil (Vigitel)13
BMI is unlikely to be a plausible intervention target for reducing the incidence of dementia13
Cohort Profile: China Southwest Birth Cohort (CSBC)13
Cohort Profile Update: The TRacking Adolescents’ Individual Lives Survey—The Next Generation (TRAILS NEXT)13
Cohort Profile Update: The Young Lives study13
Cohort Profile: CITIC-Xiangya Assisted Reproductive Technology Cohort (CXART Cohort)13
Data Resource Profile: Self-reported data in the Million Veteran Program: survey development and insights from the first 850 736 participants13
Life expectancy declines in Russia during the COVID-19 pandemic in 202013
Data Resource Profile: The Early Life Course data platform for research on perinatal and early childhood exposures and outcomes in Australia13
Azithromycin distribution and childhood mortality in compliance-related subgroups in Niger: complier average causal effect and spillovers in a cluster-randomized, placebo-controlled trial13
Educational attainment, health outcomes and mortality: a within-sibship Mendelian randomization study13
Analysing different exposures identifies that wearing masks and establishing COVID-19 areas reduce secondary-attack risk in aged-care facilities13
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 study13
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 study13
Prediabetes and risk of active tuberculosis: a cohort study from Northern Taiwan13
Plasma concentrations of persistent organic pollutants and pancreatic cancer risk13
Timing of exposure assessment in studies on Group B streptococcus colonization and preterm birth13
Corrigendum to: Diagnostic radiological examinations and risk of intracranial tumours in adults—findings from the interphone study12
No increased risk of mature B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma after Q fever detected: results from a 16-year ecological analysis of the Dutch population incorporating the 2007–2010 Q fever outbreak12
Body mass index and COVID-19 mortality: prospective study of 120000 Mexican adults12
Data Resource Profile: The Global Health and Population Project on Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases (HPACC)12
Something something something by race, 202112
Cohort Profile Update: The Danish Nurse Cohort12
Simultaneous adjustment of uncontrolled confounding, selection bias and misclassification in multiple-bias modelling12
Body mass index rebound and pubertal timing in girls with and without a family history of breast cancer: the LEGACY girls study12
Sudan12
Causes of Outcome Learning: a causal inference-inspired machine learning approach to disentangling common combinations of potential causes of a health outcome12
Cohort Profile: The ORIGINS pregnancy and birth cohort12
The culture of experimentation in epidemiology—50 years later11
The different epidemiological questions on SARS-CoV-2 reinfections11
Correction to: Low-intensity cigarette smoking and mortality risks: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies in Japan11
Quantifying cause-related mortality in Australia, incorporating multiple causes: observed patterns, trends and practical considerations11
Social and demographic correlates of cardiovascular mortality in the Kassena-Nankana districts of Ghana: a verbal post-mortem analysis11
Genetic evidence for causal relationships between age at natural menopause and the risk of ageing-associated adverse health outcomes11
Socio-demographic inequalities and excess non-COVID-19 mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic: a data-driven analysis of 1 069 174 death certificates in Mexico11
Low-intensity cigarette smoking and mortality risks: a pooled analysis of prospective cohort studies in Japan11
Comparative effectiveness of different primary vaccination courses on mRNA-based booster vaccines against SARs-COV-2 infections: a time-varying cohort analysis using trial emulation in the Virus Watch11
Estimating the excess burden of pertussis disease in Australia within the first year of life, that might have been prevented through timely vaccination11
Cohort Profile: The Tongji Maternal and Child Health Cohort (TMCHC)11
Cohort Profile: Longitudinal population-based study of COVID-19 in UK adults (COVIDENCE UK)11
Leading causes of deaths in the mortality transition in Papua New Guinea: evidence from the Comprehensive Health and Epidemiological Surveillance System11
Peter Oswald Derrick Pharoah, 1934–202111
Software Application Profile: ShinyDataSHIELD—an R Shiny application to perform federated non-disclosive data analysis in multicohort studies11
Maternal respiratory health and intrauterine exposure-driven birthweight: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study10
Glycated haemoglobin measurements from UK Biobank are different to those in linked primary care records: implications for combining biochemistry data from research studies and routine clinical care10
Data Resource Profile: The Hong Kong Diabetes Surveillance Database (HKDSD)10
Malaria eradication revisited10
Asthma inflammatory phenotypes on four continents: most asthma is non-eosinophilic10
Investigating a possible causal relationship between maternal serum urate concentrations and offspring birthweight: a Mendelian randomization study10
Life course effects of genetic susceptibility to higher body size on body fat and lean mass: prospective cohort study10
A guide for a student-led doctoral-level qualitative methods short course in epidemiology: faculty and student perspectives10
Authors’ response to: Occupational exposure to respirable crystalline silica and autoimmunity: sex-differences in mouse models10
Worth the paper it’s written on? A cross-sectional study of Medical Certificate of Stillbirth accuracy in the UK10
An empirical investigation into the impact of winner’s curse on estimates from Mendelian randomization10
Protocol for improving equity in quantitative big data cleaning: lessons from longitudinal analysis of electronic health records from underrepresented and marginalized communities10
Longitudinal profiling of metabolic ageing trends in two population cohorts of young adults10
The opportunities of change score analyses10
Maternal education and cognitive development in 15 European very-preterm birth cohorts from the RECAP Preterm platform10
Rounding up the usual suspects: confirmation bias in epidemiological research10
Exposure to source-specific air pollution and risk for type 2 diabetes: a nationwide study covering Denmark10
Associations of heat and cold with hospitalizations and post-discharge deaths due to acute myocardial infarction: what is the role of pre-existing diabetes?9
Quantifying the contribution of modifiable risk factors to socio-economic inequities in cancer morbidity and mortality: a nationally representative population-based cohort study9
163Lunch establishments are associated to metabolic phenotypes in Brazilian adults: CUME project9
1159Inequities in on-time childhood vaccination: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa9
66Adverse birth outcomes associated with ambient air pollution at levels below air quality guidelines9
658Familial aggregation of melanoma by anatomic site of occurrence9
A longitudinal study evaluating adverse childhood experiences and obesity in adulthood using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA)9
Is greener better? Associations between greenness and birth outcomes in both urban and non-urban settings9
355Tuberculosis care cascade in an indigenous population of a Colombian region9
59Outbreak investigation of dengue fever in union council (UC) Bharakahu, Islamabad, Pakistan, 20199
1127Uncontrolled hypertension among patients with comorbidities in sub-Saharan Africa; pooled analysis using individual participant data9
Association of pre-existing maternal cardiovascular diseases with neurodevelopmental disorders in offspring: a cohort study in Sweden and British Columbia, Canada9
Cohort Profile Update: The New South Wales Child Development Study (NSW-CDS) – Wave 3 (child age ∼18 years)9
1382Adjustment for the Siblings of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder during COVID-199
1461Neighbourhood disadvantage and early childhood mental health inequities across a population of children at school-entry9
1536Antimicrobial resistance in the emerging COVID-19 pandemic9
1376Modern concepts in the handling and reporting of missing data9
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