European Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of European Journal of Epidemiology is 13. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation262
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood139
Economic uncertainty and suicide in the United States130
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review90
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects88
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes87
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study71
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?69
Losing the Public, for Better or for Worse: A Lesson from John Everett Gordon (1890–1983) and John Rodman Paul (1893–1971)66
Authors’ reply to Grundtvig Gram et al.65
Authors’ Reply: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colorectal cancer prevention61
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 study60
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study59
Over- and under-estimation of COVID-19 deaths57
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 2015–202253
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics45
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula45
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence45
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register44
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?43
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting42
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study41
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention41
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations38
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China37
Improving the reporting of non-inferiority trials by incorporating non-efficacy benefits: not all non-inferiority trials are created equal35
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 201635
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis34
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study34
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis34
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer33
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort33
The Authors Reply32
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)32
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–201932
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research32
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts32
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study31
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology31
Development in life expectancy with good and poor cognitive function in the elderly European Population from 2004-05 to 201531
Handling unobserved confounding in the relation between prenatal risk factors and child outcomes: a latent variable strategy30
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study30
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada30
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study30
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden29
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults29
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization28
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study28
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility28
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study27
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial26
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review26
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol25
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study25
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods25
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis25
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)23
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction23
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures23
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection22
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls22
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update22
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register22
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis21
Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses)21
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability21
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK20
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization20
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations20
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden19
The impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on COVID-19 epidemic growth in the 37 OECD member states19
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia19
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse19
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?19
Immune age and biological age as determinants of vaccine responsiveness among elderly populations: the Human Immunomics Initiative research program19
Circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in the UK Biobank study19
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France19
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 project18
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis18
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-1918
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years18
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study17
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA17
Slow data public health16
Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on thyroid cancer risk among cleanup workers in Ukraine exposed due to the Chornobyl accident16
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations16
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-1916
Esophageal abnormalities and the risk for gastroesophageal cancers—a histopathology-register-based study in Sweden16
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France16
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy16
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis16
Association of allergic diseases and epilepsy with risk of glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma: results from the INTERPHONE international case–control study16
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study16
A note of thanks15
Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States15
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis15
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States15
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society15
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk15
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study15
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study14
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes14
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study14
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study14
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment14
Socioeconomic inequalities in dementia risk among a French population-based cohort: quantifying the role of cardiovascular health and vascular events14
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank14
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses14
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults14
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study14
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer13
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study13
Inflammatory potential of the diet and risk of breast cancer in the European Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC) study13
Ethnic differences in COVID-19 mortality during the first two waves of the Coronavirus Pandemic: a nationwide cohort study of 29 million adults in England13
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 melanoma13
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer13
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial13
Strength in causality: discerning causal mechanisms in the sufficient cause model13
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial13
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study13
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review13
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-202113
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