European Journal of Epidemiology

Papers
(The TQCC of European Journal of Epidemiology is 10. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
ArticleCitations
Influence of consuming coffee and other beverages in adolescence on risk of type 2 diabetes in adulthood166
Associations of coagulation parameters and thrombin generation potential with the incidence of type 2 diabetes: mediating role of glycoprotein acetylation149
Chronic high consumption of energy drinks and cardiovascular risk in adolescents—results of the EDKAR-study101
Complex methods for complex data: key considerations for interpretable and actionable results in exposome research90
Occupational solar exposure and basal cell carcinoma. A review of the epidemiologic literature with meta-analysis focusing on particular methodological aspects80
Age-specific effects of weight-based body size on fracture risk in later life: a lifecourse Mendelian randomisation study76
The impact of a healthy lifestyle on the risk of esophageal and gastric cancer subtypes71
The methodologies to assess the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical interventions during COVID-19: a systematic review68
The association of myocardial infarction with cancer incidence65
TransplantLines, a biobank and cohort study of solid organ transplant recipients and donors62
The relationship between air pollution and multimorbidity: Can two birds be killed with the same stone?57
Emulation of a target trial with sustained treatment strategies: an application to prostate cancer using both inverse probability weighting and the g-formula52
Prevalence and incidence of mastocytosis in adults: a Danish nationwide register study52
Elucidating some common biases in randomized controlled trials using directed acyclic graphs48
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 prevention46
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 study46
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 2015–202241
A population-based cohort of drug exposures and adverse pregnancy outcomes in China (DEEP): rationale, design, and baseline characteristics40
Increasing transparency of decision making in research practice: adding value or just more red tape?39
The Swedish medical birth register during five decades: documentation of the content and quality of the register39
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and its control measures on cardiovascular and antidiabetic drugs use in France in 2020: a nationwide repeated cohort study38
Causes of death in individuals exposed to spousal, parental, and child suicide: a nationwide population-based cohort comparison study38
Re: Interpreting epidemiologic studies of colonoscopy screening for colorectal cancer prevention37
Breast cancer risk in Ukrainian women exposed to Chornobyl fallout while pregnant or lactating: standardized incidence ratio analysis, 1998 to 201636
Incidence and prevalence of Alzheimer’s disease in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis36
Towards more reliable non-linear mendelian randomization investigations36
Fetal programming of early-onset type 2 diabetes: a Swedish nationwide cohort and sibling analysis35
The impact of modifiable risk factor reduction on future dementia burden: a microsimulation modeling study35
The diverse life-course cohort (DLCC): protocol of a large-scale prospective study in China34
Association between serum pyrethroid insecticide levels and incident type 2 diabetes risk: a nested case–control study in Dongfeng–Tongji cohort34
Aspirin use and risk of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease34
Partial substitution of red meat or processed meat with plant-based foods and the risk of colorectal cancer33
The baseline examinations of the German National Cohort (NAKO): recruitment protocol, response, and weighting32
Repurposing antidiabetic drugs for rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-sample Mendelian randomization study32
Cognitive ability, education, height and body mass index in relation to risk of schizophrenia and mortality following its diagnosis32
The need for evolutionary theory in cancer research31
SARS-CoV-2 infections in professional orchestra and choir musicians—a prospective cohort study30
The Authors Reply30
Short inter-pregnancy interval and birthweight: a reappraisal based on a follow-up study of all women in Norway with two singleton deliveries during 1970–201930
Metabolic profiling of smoking, associations with type 2 diabetes and interaction with genetic susceptibility29
Cohort profile update: Tehran cardiometabolic genetic study29
Identification of plasma metabolites associated with modifiable risk factors and endophenotypes reflecting Alzheimer’s disease pathology28
Cohort profile: the provincial opioid agonist treatment cohort in Ontario, Canada28
When, why and how are estimated effects transported between populations? A scoping review of studies applying transportability methods26
A structural characterization of shortcut features for prediction26
Cancer risk after in utero exposure to diethylstilbestrol26
Stress-related disorders and subsequent cancer risk and mortality: a population-based and sibling-controlled cohort study in Sweden26
The perpetual need of randomized clinical trials: challenges and uncertainties in emulating the REDUCE-AMI trial25
Development in life expectancy with good and poor cognitive function in the elderly European Population from 2004-05 to 201525
Identifying potential causal effects of age at menopause: a Mendelian randomization phenome-wide association study24
Comparative effectiveness of contact tracing interventions in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review23
Decrease of cancer diagnosis during COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic review and meta-analysis23
Stress and anxiety during pregnancy and length of gestation: a federated study using data from five Canadian and European birth cohorts23
Adiposity, diabetes, lifestyle factors and risk of gastroesophageal reflux disease: a Mendelian randomization study23
Cohort profile: the China surgery and anesthesia cohort (CSAC)22
Handling unobserved confounding in the relation between prenatal risk factors and child outcomes: a latent variable strategy22
Exploring and mitigating potential bias when genetic instrumental variables are associated with multiple non-exposure traits in Mendelian randomization22
Conventional and genetic associations of adiposity with 1463 proteins in relatively lean Chinese adults21
The associations of long-term physical activity in adulthood with later biological ageing and all-cause mortality – a prospective twin study21
Design, cohort profile and comparison of the KTD-Innov study: a prospective multidimensional biomarker validation study in kidney allograft rejection20
Infectious disease hospitalization after receipt of human papillomavirus vaccine: a nationwide register-based cohort study among Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish girls20
Uncertainty in the estimated effects of statin initiation on risk of dementia: using a multiverse analysis to assess sources of variability20
In Memoriam: Olli S. Miettinen (1936-2021)20
Use of the instrumental inequalities in simulated mendelian randomization analyses with coarsened exposures20
Gender issues in myopia: a changing paradigm in generations19
Occupational exposure to diesel exhausts and liver and pancreatic cancers: a systematic review and meta-analysis19
Leveraging family history data to disentangle time-varying effects on disease risk using lifecourse mendelian randomization19
Effect of religious service attendance on mortality and hospitalisations among Danish men and women: longitudinal findings from REGLINK-SHAREDK19
Suicide and other causes of death among Chernobyl cleanup workers from Estonia, 1986 − 2020: an update19
Cohort profile: the CORDELIA study (Collaborative cOhorts Reassembled Data to study mEchanisms and Longterm Incidence of chronic diseAses)18
A multidisciplinary and structured investigation of three suspected clusters of transverse upper limb reduction defects in France18
Diagnostic accuracy in the Swedish national patient register: a review including diagnoses in the outpatient register18
Nuts and legumes consumption and risk of colorectal cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis18
Randomized controlled trials insufficiently focus on reducing medical overuse18
Population-based analysis of the number of thrombectomies performed after cerebral ischemic stroke and prognostic factors of mortality in France17
What is the role of puberty in the development of islet autoimmunity and progression to type 1 diabetes?17
An instrumental variable analysis of body mass index and risk of long-term sick leave: the HUNT Study, Norway17
Circulating insulin-like growth factor-I and risk of 25 common conditions: outcome-wide analyses in the UK Biobank study17
Menopausal hormone therapy and risk of sarcoidosis: a population-based nested case–control study in Sweden17
The estimated disease burden of acute COVID-19 in the Netherlands in 2020, in disability-adjusted life-years17
A population-based cohort study of sex and risk of severe outcomes in covid-1917
Associations of potentially inappropriate medications in older adults with mortality and hospitalizations: methodological challenges in pharmacoepidemiology16
Neonatal outcomes after in utero exposure to antipsychotics: a systematic review and meta-analysis16
Residential proximity to petrol stations and risk of childhood leukemia16
Dyslipidemia progression and increased lung cancer risk: a prospective cohort study16
A longitudinal evaluation of alcohol intake throughout adulthood and colorectal cancer risk16
On the study of fetal growth restriction: time to abandon SGA16
Associations of polygenic inheritance of physical activity with aerobic fitness, cardiometabolic risk factors and diseases: the HUNT study16
Slow data public health16
Placental abruption and perinatal mortality in twins: novel insight into management at preterm versus term gestations16
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 project16
The pitfalls of focusing on cardiovascular disease mortality to explain differences in life expectancy16
Esophageal abnormalities and the risk for gastroesophageal cancers—a histopathology-register-based study in Sweden15
Association of allergic diseases and epilepsy with risk of glioma, meningioma and acoustic neuroma: results from the INTERPHONE international case–control study15
State-level economic uncertainty and cardiovascular disease deaths: evidence from the United States15
The carcinogenicity of opium consumption: a systematic review and meta-analysis15
Lower mental health related quality of life precedes dementia diagnosis: findings from the EPIC-Norfolk prospective population-based study15
Generalized additive mixed models to discern data-driven theoretically informed strategies for public brain, cognitive and mental health14
Testosterone and Alzheimer’s disease: a risk assessment14
Impact of uncertainties in exposure assessment on thyroid cancer risk among cleanup workers in Ukraine exposed due to the Chornobyl accident14
Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials of hydroxychloroquine for the prevention of COVID-1914
Triangulation in biomedical research: navigating an ocean of uncertainty14
A note of thanks14
Falsification of the instrumental variable conditions in Mendelian randomization studies in the UK Biobank13
Serum neurofilament light chain, brain infarcts, and the risk of stroke: a prospective population-based cohort study13
Twenty-year trajectories of cardio-metabolic factors among people with type 2 diabetes by dementia status in England: a retrospective cohort study13
Serum neurofilament light chain as a prognostic marker of all-cause mortality in a national sample of US adults13
Evidence-based policy-making - epidemiology as a key science for quality of life in society13
How well do covariates perform when adjusting for sampling bias in online COVID-19 research? Insights from multiverse analyses13
Synergistic effect of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and history of gestational diabetes to increase risk of type 2 diabetes13
Circulating inflammation-related proteome improves cardiovascular risk prediction. Results from two large European cohort studies13
Re: Statistical inference and effect measures in abstracts of randomized trials, 1975-202112
Survival outcomes and healthcare utilization between immigrant patients and Danish-born patients with hematological cancers: a Danish population-based study12
Temporal trends in calls for suicide attempts to poison control centers in France during the COVID-19 pandemic: a nationwide study12
Multi-source data approach for personalized outcome prediction in lung cancer screening: update from the NELSON trial11
Changes in LDL-cholesterol levels following aromatase inhibitor treatment in early postmenopausal breast cancer11
Biases arising from linked administrative data for epidemiological research: a conceptual framework from registration to analyses11
Search for common genetic variants to allow reliable Mendelian randomization investigations into ketone metabolism11
Completeness and generalizability of the Swedish MS register11
Prenatal and childhood infections and risk of epilepsy10
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 melanoma10
Prospective benchmarking of an observational analysis in the SWEDEHEART registry against the REDUCE-AMI randomized trial10
Source-specific nitrate intake and all-cause mortality in the Danish Diet, Cancer, and Health Study10
Diabetes mellitus, prediabetes and the risk of Parkinson’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 15 cohort studies with 29.9 million participants and 86,345 cases10
A phenome-wide association and factorial Mendelian randomization study on the repurposing of uric acid-lowering drugs for cardiovascular outcomes10
Postdiagnosis physical activity and dietary inflammatory and insulinemic potential with overall survival in men with nonmetastatic prostate cancer10
Prevalence of incidental colorectal cancer and polyps in autopsies of different populations: a systematic review with meta-regression analysis10
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States10
Re: Zhao et al. Relationship between chocolate consumption and overall and cause-specific mortality, systematic review and updated meta-analysis10
Has the “obesity paradox” been resolved by semaglutide trials?10
Student and the Lanarkshire milk experiment10
Prognostic models in COVID-19 infection that predict severity: a systematic review10
Survival trends and cure rates of hematological neoplasms in the Spanish pediatric population10
Antihypertensive drug targets and breast cancer risk: a two-sample Mendelian randomization study10
Caveats of assessing incidence trends using publicly available registry data10
The 1001 nights-cohort – paving the way for future research on working hours, night work, circadian disruption, sleep, and health10
Regression discontinuity design to evaluate the effect of statins on myocardial infarction in electronic health records10
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