Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Papers
(The H4-Index of Journal of Clinical Epidemiology is 45. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
A review identified challenges distinguishing primary reports of randomized trials for meta-research: A proposal for improved reporting232
A general explanation of the counterfactual definition of confounding196
Recording harms in randomized controlled trials of behavior change interventions: a scoping review and map of the evidence173
Corrigendum to ‘Identifying type 1 and 2 diabetes in research datasets where classification biomarkers are unavailable: assessing the accuracy of published approaches’ [Journal of Clinical Epidemiolog168
Types and associated methodologies of overviews of reviews in health care: a methodological study with published examples167
Many thanks to our reviewers157
The construct of certainty of evidence has not been disseminated to systematic reviews and clinical practice guidelines; response to ‘The GRADE Working Group’ et al154
Editorial Board153
Editorial Board108
Predicting COVID-19 prognosis in the ICU remained challenging: external validation in a multinational regional cohort105
Meta-analysis of individual participant data and informed consent: a small step, but important and neglected100
Multimorbidity, activity limitation and self-reported health all predict mortality risk, but better measures were required96
Randomized COVID-19 vaccination rollout can offer direct real-world evidence95
External validation of six COVID-19 prognostic models for predicting mortality risk in older populations in a hospital, primary care, and nursing home setting94
Harms in Systematic Reviews Paper 2: Methods used to assess harms are neglected in systematic reviews of gabapentin94
Screening colonoscopy similarly prevented distal and proximal colorectal cancer: a prospective study among 55–69-year-olds90
Interrater reliability of ROB2 – an alternative measure and way of categorization89
RETRACTED: Part II: a step-by-step guide to latent class analysis87
External validation, impact assessment and clinical utilization of clinical prediction models: a prospective cohort study86
The walking man approach to interpreting the receiver operating characteristic curve and area under the receiver operating characteristic curve78
Empirical evaluation of the methods used in systematic reviews including observational studies and randomized trials77
A Bayesian-adaptive decision-theoretic approach can reduce the sample sizes for multiarm exercise oncology trials75
Reporting of funding and conflicts of interest improved from preprints to peer-reviewed publications of biomedical research74
The inclusion of outcomes in search strategies for Cochrane Reviews: authors’ reply70
Strong and high-quality evidence synthesis needs Cochrane: a statement of support by the GRADE Guidance Group66
More than two-dozen prescription drug-based risk scores are available for risk adjustment: A systematic review66
GRADE concept paper 2: Concepts for judging certainty on the calibration of prognostic models in a body of validation studies66
Allocation of scarce resources in a pandemic: rapid systematic review update of strategies for policymakers64
Harms were detected but not reported in six clinical trials of gabapentin64
Advances in methodologies of negative controls: a scoping review62
A systematic survey identified methodological issues in studies estimating anchor-based minimal important differences in patient-reported outcomes61
Measuring the environmental impact of health interventions in randomized controlled trials – A scoping review61
Statistical robustness of randomized controlled trials in high-impact journals has improved but was low across medical specialties61
Integrating personomics into precision medicine59
Pharmacovigilance studies without a priori hypothesis: systematic review highlights inappropriate multiple testing correction procedures58
Potential interactions between digoxin and direct oral anticoagulants: application of cohort & novel case-crossover designs57
Results reporting for clinical trials led by medical universities and university hospitals in the nordic countries was often missing or delayed56
Visualizing the value of diagnostic tests and prediction models, part III. Numerical example with discrete risk groups and miscalibration56
Two-decade health-related quality of life and performance on physical function tests in midaged women: findings from a prospective cohort study56
GRADE guidance 39: using GRADE-ADOLOPMENT to adopt, adapt or create contextualized recommendations from source guidelines and evidence syntheses54
Librarian involvement in systematic reviews was associated with higher quality of reported search methods: a cross-sectional survey53
Searching two or more databases decreased the risk of missing relevant studies: a metaresearch study51
Handling missing data in clinical research46
JBI series paper 2: tailored evidence synthesis approaches are required to answer diverse questions: a pragmatic evidence synthesis toolkit from JBI46
Methodological quality assessment tools for diagnosis and prognosis research: overview and guidance45
Editorial Board45
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