OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Epidemiology is 11. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood	157
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review	146
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects	95
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study	94
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation	88
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research	77
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes	73
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study	66
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors	63
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence	63
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula	60
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?	55
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register	48
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)	48
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention	47
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
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	45
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study	39
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis	39
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics	39
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting	38
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?	37
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	37
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease	36

Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort	36
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study	35
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention	35
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 2016	35
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations	34
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China	34
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis	33
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis	32
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research	32
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer	32
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)	31
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts	31
The Authors Reply	30
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	30
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study	28
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study	28
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada	28
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden	26
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial	25
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol	25
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods	25
Development in life expectancy with good and poor cognitive function in the elderly European Population from 2004-05 to 2015	25
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review	25
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction	25
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults	23
Handling unobserved confounding in the relation between prenatal risk factors and child outcomes: a latent variable strategy	23
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study	23
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility	23
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study	22
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study	22
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study	22
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization	22
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology	22
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)	21
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection	21
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures	21
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability	21
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update	20
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls	20
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization	20
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations	19
Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses)	19
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK	19
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France	18
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study	18
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse	18
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register	18
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France	18

Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia	17
Circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in the UK Biobank study	17
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?	17
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA	17
Drinking alcohol in moderation is associated with lower rate of all-cause mortality in individuals with higher rather than lower educational level: findings from the MORGAM project	17
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-19	17
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden	16
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States	16
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations	16
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years	16
Triangulation in biomedical research: navigating an ocean of uncertainty	16
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy	16
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study	16
Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on thyroid cancer risk among cleanup workers in Ukraine exposed due to the Chornobyl accident	16
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study	15
Esophageal abnormalities and the risk for gastroesophageal cancers—a histopathology-register-based study in Sweden	15
Association of allergic diseases and epilepsy with risk of glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma: results from the INTERPHONE international case–control study	15
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-19	15
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States	15
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Slow data public health	14
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Associations of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with mortality and hospitalizations: methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology	14
A note of thanks	14
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk	14
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study	14
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study	13
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses	13
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study	13
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study	13
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-2021	13
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society	13
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults	13
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank	13
Strength in causality: discerning causal mechanisms in the sufficient cause model	13
Circulating inflammation-related proteome improves cardiovascular risk prediction. Results from two large European cohort studies	13
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment	13
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes	13
Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism	12
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis	12
Prenatal and childhood infections and risk of epilepsy	12
The Dutch Early-Stage Melanoma (D-ESMEL) study: a discovery set and validation cohort to predict the absolute risk of distant metastases in stage I/II cutaneous melanoma	12
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer	12
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses	11
Completeness and generalizability of the Swedish MS register	11
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial	11
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review	11