European Journal of Epidemiology
Springer Science+Business Media · IT · ISSN 03932990
SJR Q1
What the numbers say
Publication patterns and topics have shifted noticeably recently.
Annual output went from 124 to 141 papers. If you need faster visibility, a slightly busier outlet may suit you. The share of top-10% cited papers moved from 57.3% to 41.1%. Expect individual papers to be less often among the very top cited works in the field. Tattoo and Body Piercing Complications rose from 0.0% to 4.7% of what the journal runs. Consider this journal for clinically oriented work on body modification harms. Recent titles increasingly carry edkar-study · cohort · danish · tattoos · nationwide. Submitters with large registry or nationwide cohort studies will find their methods well represented here.
Citation metrics
SJR quartile
Q1
SJR score
2.52
Citations / doc (2y)
5.48
h-index
176
Based on the Scopus and OpenAlex citation graphs. We do not provide Clarivate’s JCR Impact Factor.
Output and citation impact
Whether citation performance keeps up as output grows.
PapersField-weighted impact
2018
124
6.08
2019
121
7.49
2020
109
8.25
2021
116
6.38
2022
114
4.19
2023
124
5.52
2024
119
3.96
2025
141
7.12
Topic shift
Share in the last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) versus the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
Rising
- Tattoo and Body Piercing Complications0.0%→4.7%+4.7%pPrevNow
- Multiple Sclerosis Research Studies0.0%→4.7%+4.7%pPrevNow
- Advanced Causal Inference Techniques7.9%→12.3%+4.3%pPrevNow
- Cancer, Lipids, and Metabolism0.0%→3.8%+3.8%pPrevNow
- Coffee research and impacts0.0%→3.8%+3.8%pPrevNow
Falling
- Genetic Associations and Epidemiology13.5%→7.5%−5.9%pPrevNow
- Global Health Care Issues4.8%→0.0%−4.8%pPrevNow
- Vitamin D Research Studies4.8%→0.0%−4.8%pPrevNow
- COVID-19 and healthcare impacts6.3%→2.8%−3.5%pPrevNow
- Parkinson's Disease Mechanisms and Treatments3.2%→0.0%−3.2%pPrevNow
Terms appearing more often
Wording in recent paper titles that stands out against the journal's own baseline.
edkar-studycohortdanishtattoosnationwidemendelianregister
Author countries
Last 24 months (2024-09 – 2026-08) against the previous 24 (2022-09 – 2024-08).
- US27.8%→26.4%−1.5%pPrevNow
- GB17.3%→12.9%−4.4%pPrevNow
- DK8.8%→12.9%+4.1%pPrevNow
- SE9.4%→11.5%+2.2%pPrevNow
- DE13.4%→11.3%−2.1%pPrevNow
- NL8.8%→9.1%+0.3%pPrevNow
Top 5 institutions
Top 5 institutions publishing in this journal, 2018 – 2026.
Recently published
20The 20 most recent papers — not the full list.
1
Article2026
Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and risk of pancreatic cancer: an analysis of 2.3 million participants in the Pooling Project of Prospective Studies of Diet and Cancer (DCPP)Qinting Shen, Claire Mobley, Molin Wang, Pietro Ferrari, H O Adami, Nina Afshar, Ana Babić, Piet A. van den Brandt, En Cheng, A Heather Eliassen, TT Fung, Edward L. Giovannucci, Mayo Hirabayashi, Tao Hou, Brian Z. Huang, Wen-Yi Huang, Corinne E. Joshu, Rieko Kanehara, Verena Katzke, James V. Lacey, Matthew J. Landry, Susanna C. Larsson, L. Liao, Maria Elena Martinez, Marjorie L. McCullough, A B MILLER, Roger L. Milne, Steven C. Moore, Mucci La, Sabine Naudin, Anna Prizment, Song-Yi Park, Thomas E. Rohan, Elio Riboli, Kim Robien, Sven Sandin, Norie Sawada, Marissa M. Shams-White, Rashmi Sinha, Karl Smith-Byrne, M I Stampfer, Rachael Z. Stolzenberg‐Solomon, Um Cm, Kala Visvanathan, Sophia S. Wang, Elisabete Weiderpass, Emily White, Walter C. Willett, Alicja Wolk, Brian M. Wolpin, Chen Yuan, Stephanie A. Smith-Warner, Jeanine M. Genkinger*
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
2
Article2026
Wqsreg: a Stata command for weighted quantile sum regressionMarta Ponzano, Stefano Renzetti, Chris Gennings, Andrea Bellavia*
Health, Toxicology and MutagenesisEnvironmental Science
3
Article2026
Cohort profile: transformative research on equity and social determinants to uplift resilience and empower LGBTQ+ health in China (TREASURE)Peipei Zhao, Jingli Yang, Jialing Mu, Lei Liu, Peipei Du, Yumeng Wang, Yueyao Xu, Qingyue Deng, Xiaodong Wang, Dan Wu*, Huan Song*
Social PsychologyPsychology
4
Article2026
Design and characteristics of the national Danish injury cohort (NDIC)Mette Rasmussen*, Sofie Kruckow, Isabelle Pascale Mairey, Anne Illemann Christensen
OAPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
5
Article2026
Dynamics of infection, vaccination and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic among older individuals—a nationwide analysisEva A. S. Koster*, Marije H. Sluiskes, Hein Putter, F R Rosendaal, Astrid van Hylckama Vlieg, Mark G. J. de Boer, Liesbeth C. de Wreede
OAOncologyMedicine
6
Article2026
Increasing incidence of type 1 diabetes in children and adolescents from 2012 to 2021 in Germany: trends before and during the COVID-19 pandemicCarolin T. Lehner*, Ivona Anastasova, Gunther Schauberger, Marian Eberl, Florian Schederecker, Martin Tauscher, Roman Gerlach, Stefanie J. Klug
OAGeneticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
7
Article2026
APOE genotype, cardiovascular risk, and incident dementia in the Norwegian HUNT studyNora Grøtting, Brooke N. Wolford, Kirsti Kvaløy, Torbjørn Omland, Geir Selbæk, Linda Ernstsen*
OAPsychiatry and Mental healthMedicine
8
Article2026
The Aarhus bereavement study (TABstudy)Madeline Marie Marello Havn*, Sören Möller, Christy Denckla, Marie Lundorff, Lea Tangelev Greve, Maja O’Connor
OAClinical PsychologyPsychology
9
Article2026
Evaluating synergistic effects among multiple factors in disease causation: a new approach using a generalized synergy indexGiuseppe La Torre*, Pierpaolo D’Urso
OAStatistics and ProbabilityMathematics
10
Article2026
Adiposity and the risk of aortic aneurysm: results from the UK Biobank, Japan-Specific Health Check-ups Study and a systematic review and meta-analysis of cohort studiesDagfinn Aune*, Yoichiro Otaki, Yahya Mahamat-Saleh, Makoto Hibino, Alicia K. Heath, Antonio Berlanga-Taylor, Tsuneo Konta, Kunihiro Yamagata, Shouichi Fujimoto, Kazuhiko Tsuruya, Ichiei Narita, Masato Kasahara, Yugo Shibagaki, Kunitoshi Iseki, Toshiki Moriyama, Masahide Kondo, Koichi Asahi, Tsuyoshi Watanabe, T Watanabe, Masafumi Watanabe, Imre Janszky
OAPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMedicine
11
Article2026
Multivariate mendelian randomization for joint inferences of correlated outcomesYuankai Zhang*, Mengyao Wang, Roby Joehanes, Tianxiao Huan, Lukas M. Weber, Qiong Yang, Kathryn L. Lunetta, Daniel Levy, Chunyu Liu
GeneticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
12
Article2026
Statistical methods for retrospective harmonization of longitudinal epidemiological data: a scoping reviewJiumeng Zhang, Jordan Behrendt, Tanja Schultz, Krasimira Aleksandrova, Khalid Iqbal, Iris Pigeot, Claudia Börnhorst*
OAStatistics, Probability and UncertaintyDecision Sciences
13
Article2026
Multi-city Elderly Health Examination Cohort Study (MEHECS) in ChinaL S Yang, Zifang Zhou, Lin Lin, Fanshu Yan, L H Yu, Xuehua Hu, Jian Xu, Wenqing Ni, Tianyong Wu, Zhi Lei, Jiayan Cao, Tao Long, Yicheng Zhang, Jing Wu, Yaqiong Yan, Juan Dai, Lijun Wang, M G Zhou, Peng Yin*
DemographySocial Sciences
14
Article2026
The analysis of cancer screening trials in which the outcome is the incidence of late-stage diseaseNoel S. Weiss*, Larry Kessler, Ruth Etzioni
OncologyMedicine
15
Article2026
The Danish Infection Cohort: a resource for population based infectious disease epidemiologyNoelle M. Cocoros*, Eyal Oren, Bianka Darvalics, Kasper Mortensen, Heidi Amalie Rosendahl Jensen, Marie Eliasen, Lars Pedersen, Henrik Toft Sørensen
OAApplied Microbiology and BiotechnologyImmunology and Microbiology
16
Article2026
The decade of double-trouble: live birth and stillbirth sex ratio variation in Finland during the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s attack on UkraineSamuli Helle*, Antti O. Tanskanen, Mirkka Danielsbacka
OAGender StudiesSocial Sciences
17
Article2026
Risk prediction for individual patients and the pitfalls of selecting an optimal prediction model: do not judge a model by its c-statisticJan Willem van Dalen*
OAArtificial IntelligenceComputer Science
18
Article2026
Adiposity measures, body composition, and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in the Korean national health screening cohort: beyond body mass indexJin Eui Kim, Dong Hoon Lee, Edward Giovannucci, Hannah Oh*
PhysiologyMedicine
19
Article2026
Combining external placebo-arm data in a prevention trial: effects of cocoa extract supplementation on cardiovascular diseaseRikuta Hamaya*, SIDONG LI, Pamela M. Rist, Aladdin H. Shadyab, JoAnn E. Manson, Howard D. Sesso
BiochemistryMedicine
20
Article2026
Validation of self-reported family history of myocardial infarction using nationwide health care dataAgnes Wahrenberg*, Karin Leander, Henrike Häbel, Patrik K. E. Magnusson, Ralf Kuja-Halkola, Göran Bergström, L Lind, Emil Hagström, Gunnar Engström, Tomas Jernberg, S Soderberg, Carl Johan Östgren, Per Svensson
OAGeneticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Most cited
20Top 20 most cited, 2018 – 2026.
1
letterCitations 1,7762020
Vaccine hesitancy: the next challenge in the fight against COVID-19Amiel A. Dror*, Netanel Eisenbach, Shahar Taiber, Nicole G. Morozov, Matti Mizrachi, Asaf Zigron, Samer Srouji, Eyal Sela
OAHealthSocial Sciences
2
ArticleCitations 1,4692019
Principles of confounder selectionTyler J. VanderWeele*
OAStatistics and ProbabilityMathematics
3
ReviewCitations 1,3852018
Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysisRichard Patterson*, Eoin McNamara, Marko Tainio, Thiago Hérick de Sá, Andrea Smith, Stephen J. Sharp, Phil Edwards, James Woodcock, Søren Brage, Katrien Wijndaele
OAPhysiologyMedicine
4
ArticleCitations 1,2142021
Mendelian randomisation for mediation analysis: current methods and challenges for implementationAlice R Carter*, Eleanor Sanderson, Gemma Hammerton, Rebecca C. Richmond, George Davey Smith, Jon Heron, Amy E. Taylor, Neil M Davies, Laura D Howe
OAGeneticsBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
5
ReviewCitations 1,0372019
The longitudinal integrated database for health insurance and labour market studies (LISA) and its use in medical researchJonas F. Ludvigsson*, Pia Svedberg, Ola Olén, Gustaf Bruze, Martin Neovius
OAEconomics and EconometricsEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
6
ReviewCitations 9022020
Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implicationsAndrew Levin, William P. Hanage, Nana Owusu‐Boaitey, Kensington Cochran, Seamus P. Walsh, Gideon Meyerowitz‐Katz*
OAModeling and SimulationMathematics
7
ArticleCitations 7212018
The Danish Medical Birth RegisterMette Bliddal*, Anne Broe, Anton Pottegård, Jørn Olsen, Jens Langhoff‐Roos
OAPediatrics, Perinatology and Child HealthMedicine
8
ReviewCitations 6162019
A 24-step guide on how to design, conduct, and successfully publish a systematic review and meta-analysis in medical researchTaulant Muka*, Marija Glišić, Jelena Milić, Sanne Verhoog, Julia Bohlius, Wichor M. Bramer, Rajiv Chowdhury, Oscar H. Franco
Statistics, Probability and UncertaintyDecision Sciences
9
ArticleCitations 5652021
COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and mothers of young children: results of a survey in 16 countriesMalia Skjefte, Michelle Ngirbabul, Oluwasefunmi Akeju, Daniel J. Escudero, Sonia Hernández–Dı́az, Diego F. Wyszynski, Julia Wu*
OAObstetrics and GynecologyMedicine
10
ArticleCitations 5122021
Systemic inflammation markers and cancer incidence in the UK BiobankTherese Haugdahl Nøst*, Karine Alcala, Ilona Urbárová, Karl Smith-Byrne, Florence Guida, Torkjel M. Sandanger, Mattias Johansson
OAOncologyMedicine
11
ArticleCitations 5042020
Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in ItalyLorenzo Palamenghi, Serena Barello, Stefania Boccia, Guendalina Graffigna*
OAHealthSocial Sciences
12
ArticleCitations 4952020
Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19Emily A. Harrison*, Julia Wu
OAHealthSocial Sciences
13
ArticleCitations 4742020
Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam StudyM. Arfan Ikram*, Guy Brusselle, Mohsen Ghanbari, André Goedegebure, Muhammad Ikram, Maryam Kavousi, Brenda C.T. Kieboom, Caroline C. W. Klaver, Robert J. de Knegt, Annemarie I. Luik, Tamar Nijsten, Robin P. Peeters, Frank J.A. van Rooij, Bruno H. Stricker, André G. Uitterlinden, Meike W. Vernooij, Trudy Voortman
OAPulmonary and Respiratory MedicineMedicine
14
ArticleCitations 4632019
Identifying dementia outcomes in UK Biobank: a validation study of primary care, hospital admissions and mortality dataon behalf of Dementias Platform UK and UK Biobank, Tim Wilkinson*, Christian Schnier, Kathryn Bush, Kristiina Rannikmäe, David Henshall, Chris Lerpiniere, Naomi E. Allen, Robin Flaig, Tom C. Russ, Deborah Bathgate, Suvankar Pal, John T. O’Brien, Cathie Sudlow
OAPsychiatry and Mental healthMedicine
15
ArticleCitations 4472020
‘Vaccine hesitancy’ among university students in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemicSerena Barello*, Tiziana Nania, Federica Dellafiore, Guendalina Graffigna, Rosario Caruso
OAHealthSocial Sciences
16
ReviewCitations 4142018
Stacked generalization: an introduction to super learningAshley I. Naimi*, Laura B. Balzer
OAStatistics and ProbabilityMathematics
17
ReviewCitations 4072021
Consumption of red meat and processed meat and cancer incidence: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studiesMaryam S. Farvid*, Elkhansa Sidahmed, Nicholas D. Spence, Kingsly Mante Angua, Bernard Rosner, Junaidah B. Barnett
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational HealthMedicine
18
ReviewCitations 3812020
Anemia and iron metabolism in COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysisPetek Eylül Taneri, Sergio Alejandro Gómez‐Ochoa, Erand Llanaj, Peter Francis Raguindin, Lyda Z. Rojas, Zayne Milena Roa‐Díaz, Dante Salvador, Dion Groothof, Beatrice Minder, Doris Kopp‐Heim, Wolf E. Hautz, Michele F. Eisenga, Oscar H. Franco, Marija Glišić, Taulant Muka
OAHematologyMedicine
19
ReviewCitations 3352020
Sugar and artificially sweetened beverages and risk of obesity, type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, and all-cause mortality: a dose–response meta-analysis of prospective cohort studiesPei Qin, Quanman Li, Yang Zhao, Qing Chen, Xizhuo Sun, Yu Liu, Honghui Li, Tieqiang Wang, Xiaoliang Chen, Qionggui Zhou, Chunmei Guo, Dongdong Zhang, Gang Tian, Dechen Liu, Ranran Qie, Minghui Han, Shengbing Huang, Xiaoyan Wu, Li Yang, Yifei Feng, Xingjin Yang, Fulan Hu, Dongsheng Hu, Ming Zhang
Endocrinology, Diabetes and MetabolismMedicine
20
ArticleCitations 3312020
Mendel’s laws, Mendelian randomization and causal inference in observational data: substantive and nomenclatural issuesGeorge Davey Smith*, Michael V. Holmes, Neil M Davies, Shah Ebrahim
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