OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European Journal of Epidemiology is 34. 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.)

Article	Citations
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	182
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	154
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	113
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	98
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	85
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality	82
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	82
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	73
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	67
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs	67
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	57
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	54
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	53
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults	52
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	46
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	45
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	45
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	44
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	42
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	42
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	40
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	40
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	37
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	37
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	37

An in-depth study of the correlation between Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and Sjogren’s syndrome: multiple evidences from large cohorts, Mendelian randomization, and transcriptomic analysis	36
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	36
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
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	36
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	36
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study	35
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting	34
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	34