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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	268
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	149
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	134
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	93
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	91
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	84
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	70
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	67
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	65
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	60
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study	60
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	60
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	53
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	49
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	47
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting	45
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	45
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	45
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	45
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	42
Improving the reporting of non-inferiority trials by incorporating non-efficacy benefits: not all non-inferiority trials are created equal	42
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	37
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China	37
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	37
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	36

Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	36
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	35
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	35
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	34
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	34
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research	33
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts	33
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	33
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)	33
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–2019	33