OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of European 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	244
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	164
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	125
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	103
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	89
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	86
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	79
Are all ultra-processed foods created equal? Relevance of food processing and nutritional quality	70
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	62
Effect of vitamin D supplementation on cardiovascular outcomes: randomized trials revisited	61
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	58
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	56
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	54
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	51
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	50
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	47
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	46
The association between a pro-inflammatory diet and brain age in middle-aged and older adults	45
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	45
Food colouring additives and cancer incidence in the NutriNet-Santé prospective cohort	44
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	43
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs	42
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	42
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	42
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	41

Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	41
Birth weight of term born offspring in relation to long-term maternal cardiovascular morbidity and mortality	40
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	39
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	39
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	39
Guangdong Biobank Cohort (GDBC) study	38
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	37
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	37
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	37
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	36