OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Epidemiology is 33. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	166
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	149
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	101
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	90
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	80
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	76
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	71
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	68
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	65
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	62
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	57
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	52
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	52
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs	48
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	48
Trends in kidney cancer: exploring the impact of sex and age on stage of disease, and prognosis during the past three decades in Denmark—a DaRenCa study	46
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	46
Continued decline in the incidence of myocardial infarction beyond the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study of the Swedish population aged 60 and older during 2015–2022	41
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	40
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	39
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	39
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	38
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study	38
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	37
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	36

Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	36
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	36
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study	35
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	35
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	34
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China	34
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	34
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	33