| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Critical evaluation of the Newcastle-Ottawa scale for the assessment of the quality of nonrandomized studies in meta-analyses | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2010 | 11,655 |
| 2 | The Danish Civil Registration System as a tool in epidemiology | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2014 | 2,376 |
| 3 | Statistical tests, P values, confidence intervals, and power: a guide to misinterpretations | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2016 | 1,761 |
| 4 | The Swedish personal identity number: possibilities and pitfalls in healthcare and medical research | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2009 | 1,722 |
| 5 | Interpreting findings from Mendelian randomization using the MR-Egger method | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2017 | 1,696 |
| 6 | Vaccine hesitancy: the next challenge in the fight against COVID-19 | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2020 | 1,290 |
| 7 | Calculating measures of biological interaction | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2005 | 1,111 |
| 8 | Registers of the Swedish total population and their use in medical research | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2016 | 998 |
| 9 | Determinants of disease and disability in the elderly: The Rotterdam elderly study | European Journal of Epidemiology | 1991 | 975 |
| 10 | Epidemiology and etiology of Parkinson’s disease: a review of the evidence | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2011 | 897 |
| 11 | The Swedish cause of death register | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2017 | 810 |
| 12 | Using published data in Mendelian randomization: a blueprint for efficient identification of causal risk factors | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 799 |
| 13 | Sedentary behaviour and risk of all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality, and incident type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose response meta-analysis | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2018 | 777 |
| 14 | Principles of confounder selection | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2019 | 720 |
| 15 | The Rotterdam Study: objectives and design update | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2007 | 644 |
| 16 | The Generation R Study: design and cohort update 2017 | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2016 | 608 |
| 17 | Assessing the age specificity of infection fatality rates for COVID-19: systematic review, meta-analysis, and public policy implications | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2020 | 603 |
| 18 | Physical activity and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 564 |
| 19 | The longitudinal integrated database for health insurance and labour market studies (LISA) and its use in medical research | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2019 | 559 |
| 20 | Loss to Follow-Up in Cohort Studies: How Much is Too Much? | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2003 | 551 |
| 21 | Cardiovascular disease risk in women with pre-eclampsia: systematic review and meta-analysis | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2013 | 550 |
| 22 | Intake of flavonoids and risk of dementia | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2000 | 537 |
| 23 | Food groups and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2017 | 522 |
| 24 | The Generation R Study: design and cohort update 2010 | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2010 | 516 |
| 25 | Twelve-year trends in the prevalence and risk factors of diabetes and prediabetes in Turkish adults | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2013 | 487 |
| 26 | The Generation R Study: design and cohort update 2012 | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2012 | 486 |
| 27 | Drug data coding and analysis in epidemiologic studies | European Journal of Epidemiology | 1994 | 452 |
| 28 | Estimating measures of interaction on an additive scale for preventive exposures | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2011 | 437 |
| 29 | The Danish Medical Birth Register | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2018 | 432 |
| 30 | Non-response and related factors in a nation-wide health survey | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2001 | 421 |
| 31 | Whole grain and refined grain consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis of cohort studies | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2013 | 404 |
| 32 | COVID-19 vaccine acceptance among pregnant women and mothers of young children: results of a survey in 16 countries | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2021 | 391 |
| 33 | The Rotterdam Study: 2018 update on objectives, design and main results | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2017 | 379 |
| 34 | The Rotterdam Study: 2016 objectives and design update | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 358 |
| 35 | EDITORIAL: The developmental origins of adult disease | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2002 | 354 |
| 36 | When the entire population is the sample: strengths and limitations in register-based epidemiology | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2014 | 353 |
| 37 | Vaccine confidence in the time of COVID-19 | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2020 | 336 |
| 38 | Evaluation of non-response bias in mental health determinants and outcomes in a large sample of pre-adolescents | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2005 | 335 |
| 39 | Mendelian randomization with a binary exposure variable: interpretation and presentation of causal estimates | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2018 | 328 |
| 40 | Mistrust in biomedical research and vaccine hesitancy: the forefront challenge in the battle against COVID-19 in Italy | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2020 | 328 |
| 41 | Second manifestations of ARTerial disease (SMART) study: rationale and design | European Journal of Epidemiology | 1999 | 326 |
| 42 | Increased risk for cardiovascular mortality in psoriasis inpatients but not in outpatients | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2003 | 326 |
| 43 | ‘Vaccine hesitancy’ among university students in Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2020 | 324 |
| 44 | Serum uric acid and risk for development of hypertension and impaired fasting glucose or Type II diabetes in Japanese male office workers | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2002 | 319 |
| 45 | Association between bone mineral density and type 2 diabetes mellitus: a meta-analysis of observational studies | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2012 | 315 |
| 46 | Objectives, design and main findings until 2020 from the Rotterdam Study | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2020 | 314 |
| 47 | Prevalence of refractive error in Europe: the European Eye Epidemiology (E3) Consortium | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2015 | 306 |
| 48 | Food intake patterns and 25-year mortality from coronary heart disease: cross-cultural correlations in the Seven Countries Study. The Seven Countries Study Research Group | European Journal of Epidemiology | 1999 | 302 |
| 49 | The Generation R Study: Design and cohort profile | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2006 | 302 |
| 50 | Universal risk factors for multifactorial diseases | European Journal of Epidemiology | 2008 | 301 |
