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Data

The sources behind the site: the datasets our papers use, what has changed, what we read, and what you can take away.

Datasets behind our papers

The datasets the papers we publish use most: what each is, who runs it, and how to get it.

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Listed once at least 3 of the papers we have published name it in their abstract as a source they analysed, or when we follow it as a key dataset.

UK Biobank

A long-running study of 500,000 UK adults recruited at ages 40 to 69 in 2006–2010. It holds questionnaires, physical measures, blood biomarkers, imaging and genetic data for every participant, linked to their later health records, and is run by the charity UK Biobank. Approved researchers worldwide can use it by application. www.ukbiobank.ac.uk

Our papers using it (10)

100,000 Genomes Project

Whole genomes of about 85,000 NHS patients with rare diseases or cancer, and of their families, sequenced between 2013 and 2018 by Genomics England. Each genome is linked to the person's NHS records, and the data are analysed only inside Genomics England's secure research environment. Access is by application, through membership of its research network. www.genomicsengland.co.uk

Our papers using it (1)

TriNetX

A commercial network of de-identified electronic health records from more than 170 healthcare organisations, mostly in the US, covering diagnoses, procedures, medications and laboratory results for upwards of 100 million patients. The data stay inside each hospital and are queried through TriNetX's own platform. Access is through a licence or a member institution. trinetx.com

Our papers using it (8)

Korea's National Health Insurance Service database

Claims, health-screening, long-term care and death records for the whole South Korean population, held by the single national insurer. Sample cohorts are offered for remote analysis and fuller extracts at secure sites. Access is by application with ethics approval, and fees apply. nhiss.nhis.or.kr

Our papers using it (6)

National Inpatient Sample (US)

The largest all-payer database of US hospital stays: an annual sample of about one in five discharges from community hospitals. It is run by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality as part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, and is bought by file. hcup-us.ahrq.gov/nisoverview.jsp

Our papers using it (4)

Medicare claims (US)

Billing records of US Medicare for people aged 65 and over and some younger disabled people, covering hospital, physician and drug claims. They are held by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and released to researchers by application and fee through ResDAC. resdac.org

Our papers using it (6)

NHANES (US)

The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, run by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics. It is a nationally representative US sample interviewed, examined and given laboratory tests in two-year cycles since 1999, with mortality follow-up through the National Death Index. Public-use files are free to download. www.cdc.gov/nchs/nhanes

Our papers using it (4)

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Revisions

Official series that changed their own past, and what each change moves.

No revisions yet. When a source changes figures it has already published, the change is recorded here with both values.

Sources

Every source the site reads, what it covers, and when it last updated.

Research literature

SourceHow it is read
Europe PMCSearched every morning with the 77 standing queries
medRxiv / bioRxivSearched every morning with the 77 standing queries

Journals read in full

JournalHow it is read
Journal of Epidemiology and Community HealthEvery new article, through Europe PMC (ISSN 0143-005X, 1470-2738)
Journal of Epidemiology (Japan Epidemiological Association)Every new article, through Europe PMC (ISSN 0917-5040, 1349-9092)
Tobacco ControlEvery new article, through Europe PMC (ISSN 0964-4563, 1468-3318)
Population StudiesEvery new article, through Europe PMC (ISSN 0032-4728, 1477-4747)
BMJEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
The Lancet Public HealthEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
The Lancet Healthy LongevityEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Nature AgingEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Population and Development ReviewEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
European Journal of PopulationEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
The Lancet Regional Health – EuropeEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
The Lancet Infectious DiseasesEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
The Lancet Global HealthEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
JAMA Internal MedicineEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Nature MedicineEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Nature Human BehaviourEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
PLOS MedicineEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
European Journal of EpidemiologyEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Scandinavian Journal of Public HealthEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Emerging Infectious DiseasesEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Social Science & MedicineEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
SSM – Population HealthEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Health AffairsEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
The Milbank QuarterlyEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Demographic ResearchEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Population Health MetricsEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Journal of Official StatisticsEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
The Lancet Digital HealthEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
npj Digital MedicineEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
NEJM AIEvery new article, from the publisher's feed
Age and AgeingEvery new article, through Crossref
American Journal of EpidemiologyEvery new article, through Crossref
The Journals of Gerontology, Series BEvery new article, through Crossref
EpidemiologyEvery new article, through Crossref
EurosurveillanceEvery new article, through Crossref
International Journal of Population Data ScienceEvery new article, through Crossref
DemographyEvery new article, through Crossref
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series AEvery new article, through Crossref
Vienna Yearbook of Population ResearchEvery new article, through Crossref
MPIDR Working Papers (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)Every new article, through Crossref

Journals reached through the standing queries

Not read whole: their articles reach the site when a standing query finds them. ASTIN Bulletin; Addiction; Ageing & Society; Alzheimer's & Dementia; American Journal of Human Genetics; American Journal of Public Health; Annals of Actuarial Science; Annals of Internal Medicine; Asian Population Studies; BMC Medicine; BMC Public Health; BMJ Open; Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention; Circulation; Clinical Infectious Diseases; Diabetes Care; Drug and Alcohol Dependence; European Heart Journal; European Journal of Human Genetics; Genetics in Medicine; Genome Medicine; Genus; Health & Place; Health Economics; Health Policy; Insurance: Mathematics and Economics; JAMA; JAMA Cardiology; JAMA Network Open; JAMA Psychiatry; JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute; Journal of Aging & Social Policy; Journal of Aging and Health; Journal of Health Economics; Journal of Health and Social Behavior; Journal of Infectious Diseases; Journal of Medical Internet Research; Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association; Nature Genetics; Nature Machine Intelligence; New England Journal of Medicine; North American Actuarial Journal; Population Research and Policy Review; Preventive Medicine; Sociology of Health & Illness; Statistics in Medicine; The Gerontologist; The Journals of Gerontology, Series A; The Lancet; The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology; The Lancet Neurology; The Lancet Oncology; The Lancet Psychiatry; Vaccine.

Preprint and working-paper servers

ServerHow it is read
arXiv — cs.LG (health and mortality papers only)Every new paper, from its feed
SocArXiv — mortalityEvery new paper, from its feed
SocArXiv — life expectancyEvery new paper, from its feed
SocArXiv — long-term careEvery new paper, from its feed
SocArXiv — retirementEvery new paper, from its feed
NBER — new working papers (health, ageing and public economics topics)Every new paper, from its feed
IZA Discussion PapersEvery new paper, from its feed
INED — working papers (Archined, the open archive)Every new paper, from its feed
Research SquareReached through the standing queries, via Europe PMC
PsyArXivReached through the standing queries, via Europe PMC

Agencies

AgencyWhat is readCountry
WHO Disease Outbreak Newsnews and publicationsWorld
ECDCnews and press releases; risk assessments; Communicable disease threats report (weekly); epidemiological updatesEuropean Union
US CDCMMWRUnited States
RIVMnewsNetherlands
Statens Serum Institutnews and publicationsDenmark
Japan MHLWnews and publicationsJapan
UKHSAnews and publicationsUnited Kingdom
ONSpopulation and health releasesUnited Kingdom
Commonwealth FundpublicationsUnited States
KFFpublicationsUnited States
EC Joint Research CentrepublicationsEuropean Union
Global Observatory of Long-Term Carenews and publicationsWorld
Alzheimer's Disease InternationalnewsWorld
Africa CDCnews (outbreak briefs appear here since 2024)
PAHOnews
WHO/Europenews
Public Health WalesnewsUnited Kingdom
Public Health ScotlandnewsroomUnited Kingdom
Santé publique FranceBulletin épidémiologique hebdomadaire; reports and syntheses; surveillance summaries (Le point sur); press releasesFrance
Robert Koch Institutepublication server (Epid. Bulletin, JoHM, STIKO, reports)Germany
FOPH Switzerlandnews and BAG-Bulletin (German)Switzerland
FolkhälsomyndighetennewsSweden
FHI Norwegian Institute of Public Healthnews (Norwegian)Norway
ISCIII / CNEBoletín Epidemiológico SemanalSpain
Taiwan CDCpress releases (English)Taiwan
PHACnews releases and statementsCanada
KDCAreports, through Europe PMCSouth Korea
US NCHSreports, through Europe PMCUnited States
OECD Health Working Paperspublications, through CrossrefWorld
Institute for Fiscal Studiespublications, through CrossrefUnited Kingdom

Read for new data and releases

SourceCountryWhat is read
Data in Brief—New datasets, releases and revisions
Eurostat — news releases, population and social conditionsEuropean UnionNew datasets, releases and revisions
IHME Global Health Data Exchange — new records (GBD; WHO Mortality Database versions)WorldNew datasets, releases and revisions
NISRA — statistics (gov.uk)United KingdomNew datasets, releases and revisions
OHID — statistics, incl. Fingertips updates (gov.uk)United KingdomNew datasets, releases and revisions
NHS England — statistics (gov.uk)United KingdomNew datasets, releases and revisions
CBS Netherlands — Population (English)NetherlandsNew datasets, releases and revisions
CBS Netherlands — Health and welfare (English)NetherlandsNew datasets, releases and revisions
Statistics Denmark — StatBank tables updated, subject PeopleDenmarkNew datasets, releases and revisions
Statistics Sweden (SCB) — statistical newsSwedenNew datasets, releases and revisions
Statistics Norway (SSB) — Population (English)NorwayNew datasets, releases and revisions
Destatis — press releases (German)GermanyNew datasets, releases and revisions
ISTAT — releases (English)ItalyNew datasets, releases and revisions
INE Spain — new releases (novedades)SpainNew datasets, releases and revisions
Statistics Bureau of Japan — what's newJapanNew datasets, releases and revisions
Statistics Canada — The Daily, Population and demographyCanadaNew datasets, releases and revisions
Statistics Canada — The Daily, HealthCanadaNew datasets, releases and revisions
US Census Bureau — press releasesUnited StatesNew datasets, releases and revisions
Scientific Data—New datasets, releases and revisions

Official statistics behind the trackers

TrackerCountrySeriesLicenceLatest release held
Weekly deathsUnited KingdomOffice for National Statistics, Deaths registered weekly in England and Wales, provisional — United Kingdom tableOpen Government Licence v3.021 Oct 2026
Weekly deathsGermanyStatistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Statistischer Bericht Sterbefälle — Fallzahlen nach Tagen, Wochen, MonatenData licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0)—
Weekly deathsNetherlandsCBS (Statistics Netherlands), StatLine table 70895ENG, Deaths registered weekly, by sex and ageCC BY 4.016 Oct 2026
Weekly deathsDenmarkEurostat, Deaths by week and sex (demo_r_mwk_ts), figures supplied by Statistics DenmarkCC BY 4.016 Sep 2026
Weekly deathsUnited StatesCDC National Center for Health Statistics, Provisional COVID-19 Death Counts by Week Ending Date and State — total deaths, United StatesPublic domain (US Government work)22 Oct 2026
Respiratory seasonEnglandUK Health Security Agency, UKHSA data dashboard, influenza and RSV testing positivity by week, EnglandOpen Government Licence v3.0—
Respiratory seasonGermanyECDC and WHO Europe, European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary (ERVISS), primary-care sentinel test positivityCC BY 4.023 Oct 2026
Respiratory seasonNetherlandsECDC and WHO Europe, European Respiratory Virus Surveillance Summary (ERVISS), primary-care sentinel test positivityCC BY 4.023 Oct 2026
Respiratory seasonUnited StatesCDC — influenza percent positive from clinical laboratories (WHO/NREVSS, FluView); RSV percent positive, NREVSS national (data.cdc.gov rgnm-fkqb)Public domain (US Government work)—
Life expectancy at 65United KingdomOffice for National Statistics, National life tables — life expectancy in the UKOpen Government Licence v3.010 Dec 2025
Life expectancy at 65GermanyStatistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), Statistischer Bericht Sterbetafeln (single calendar years, table 12613-b19)Data licence Germany – attribution – version 2.0 (dl-de/by-2-0)7 Jul 2026
Life expectancy at 65NetherlandsCBS (Statistics Netherlands), StatLine table 37360ned, Levensverwachting; geslacht, leeftijdCC BY 4.022 Jun 2026
Life expectancy at 65DenmarkStatistics Denmark, StatBank table HISB8, Life expectancy by sex and ageFree reuse with the source named (Statistics Denmark states this corresponds to CC BY 4.0)12 Feb 2026
Life expectancy at 65JapanMinistry of Health, Labour and Welfare, abridged life tables (簡易生命表), reference table 2Public Data License (Japan) version 1.024 Jul 2026
Life expectancy at 65United StatesCDC National Center for Health Statistics, United States Life Tables (National Vital Statistics Reports), tables 2 and 3Public domain (US Government work)6 Apr 2026
GLP-1 prescribingEnglandNHS Business Services Authority, English Prescribing Dataset (EPD) with SNOMED codeOpen Government Licence v3.020 Oct 2026
GLP-1 prescribingDenmarkDanish Health Data Authority (Sundhedsdatastyrelsen), Vaegttabs- og diabetesmedicin, table 1Free reuse with attribution, under the authority's terms for its statistics15 Oct 2026
Hospital waiting timesWaiting listNHS England, Referral to Treatment (RTT) Waiting Times, RTT Overview Timeseries including estimates for missing trustsOpen Government Licence v3.08 Oct 2026
Hospital waiting timesMedian waitNHS England, Referral to Treatment (RTT) Waiting Times, RTT Overview Timeseries including estimates for missing trustsOpen Government Licence v3.08 Oct 2026
Hospital waiting timesWaiting under 18 weeksNHS England, Referral to Treatment (RTT) Waiting Times, RTT Overview Timeseries including estimates for missing trustsOpen Government Licence v3.08 Oct 2026
Hospital waiting timesWaiting over 52 weeksNHS England, Referral to Treatment (RTT) Waiting Times, RTT Overview Timeseries including estimates for missing trustsOpen Government Licence v3.08 Oct 2026

Release calendars

OfficeLicence
Office for National StatisticsOpen Government Licence v3.0
UK Health Security AgencyOpen Government Licence v3.0
EurostatEurostat, re-use with acknowledgement of the source
Statistics Netherlands (CBS)CC BY 4.0
US National Center for Health Statisticspublic domain (US federal government)
Danish Health Data Authority (Sundhedsdatastyrelsen)Free reuse with attribution to Sundhedsdatastyrelsen

Generated from the files that drive the site's daily jobs, so it lists what is actually read. List last changed 24 October 2026.

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Track record

How sources have fared: preprints later published or withdrawn, series revised and by how much.

These tables are drawn from what this site has recorded. They cover the preprints it has reported and what became of them, the revisions official sources have made to their own figures, and where the site's items come from. They say nothing about sources the site does not read, and they are not a rating of anyone's work.

Preprint servers

ServerPreprints reportedLater publishedMedian days to journalFindings changedWithdrawn
medRxiv1080%—0%0%
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences20%—0%0%
Research Square20%—0%0%

Agencies and statistical offices

No revisions recorded yet. Each time a source the site tracks changes its own past figures, the change is recorded on the revisions page and counted here.

Where the items come from, last 90 days

SourceItemsShare
medRxiv10830%
Addiction72%
American Journal of Epidemiology62%
Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism62%
Nature Medicine62%
European Journal of Epidemiology51%
BMJ Open31%
Diabetes Care31%
European Journal of Preventive Cardiology31%
International Journal of Population Data Science31%
JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute31%
Tobacco Control31%
AIDS21%
Aging Cell21%
American journal of public health21%
BJU International21%
BMC Global and Public Health21%
BMJ21%
Cancer Epidemiology21%
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention21%
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions21%
Current Osteoporosis Reports21%
Diabetes Obesity and Cardiometabolic CARE21%
Environmental Research21%
Epidemiology21%
International Journal of Cancer21%
JAMA Network Open21%
Journal of Affective Disorders21%
Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease21%
Journal of Managed Care & Specialty Pharmacy21%
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities21%
Journal of the American Heart Association21%
PLOS One21%
Research Square21%
The American Journal of Cardiology21%
The European Journal of Health Economics21%
The Lancet Global Health21%
Vaccine21%
medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences21%
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica10%
Age and Ageing10%
Alzheimer's & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions10%
American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology10%
American Journal of Gastroenterology10%
American Journal of Kidney Diseases10%
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine10%
American Psychologist10%
Annals of Internal Medicine10%
Annals of Neurology10%
Annals of Pharmacotherapy10%
Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery10%
Archives of Toxicology10%
Atención Primaria10%
BMC Endocrine Disorders10%
Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings10%
Calcified Tissue International10%
Cardiovascular Diabetology – Endocrinology Reports10%
Cardiovascular Research10%
Child and Adolescent Mental Health10%
Circulation: Heart Failure10%
Clinica Chimica Acta10%
Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology10%
Clinics10%
Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews10%
Cureus10%
Current Problems in Cardiology10%
Demographic Research10%
Depression and Anxiety10%
Diabetes Technology & Therapeutics10%
Diabetic Medicine10%
Diabetologia10%
Drug Safety10%
ESMO Real World Data and Digital Oncology10%
Endocrine-Related Cancer10%
Environment International10%
Environmental Epidemiology10%
Epidemiologic Methods10%
European Addiction Research10%
European Geriatric Medicine10%
European Heart Journal10%
European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care10%
European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology10%
European Urology10%
Eurosurveillance10%
Experimental Gerontology10%
Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine10%
FASEB BioAdvances10%
Family medicine and community health10%
Frontiers in Neurology10%
Frontiers in Oncology10%
Genus10%
Global Health Action10%
Gut Microbes10%
HIV Medicine10%
Heart10%
Heart Rhythm10%
Heart, Lung and Circulation10%
High Blood Pressure & Cardiovascular Prevention10%
Hypertension Research10%
International Journal of Cardiology10%
International Journal of Environmental Health Research10%
International Journal of Social Psychiatry10%
International Journal of Stroke10%
International journal of addiction nursing10%
Irish Journal of Medical Science (1971 -)10%
JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes10%
JAMA Cardiology10%
JAMA Internal Medicine10%
JAMA Neurology10%
JCO Oncology Practice10%
JCO Precision Oncology10%
JMIR Aging10%
JMIR Medical Informatics10%
Journal of Arrhythmia10%
Journal of Clinical Medicine Research10%
Journal of Environmental Management10%
Journal of Epidemiology and Population Health10%
Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology10%
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer10%
Journal of General Internal Medicine10%
Journal of Geriatric Oncology10%
Journal of Global Health10%
Journal of Hospital Infection10%
Journal of Human Genetics10%
Journal of Infection10%
Journal of Korean Medical Science10%
Journal of Medical Internet Research10%
Journal of Medical Screening10%
Journal of Medical Systems10%
Journal of Neurology10%
Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health10%
Journal of Psychopharmacology10%
Journal of Public Health Management & Practice10%
Journal of Surgical Research10%
Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery10%
Journal of Yeungnam Medical Science10%
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society10%
Kidney International10%
Lipids in Health and Disease10%
Mayo Clinic Proceedings10%
Medical Care Research and Review10%
Nature Communications10%
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation10%
Neurology Clinical Practice10%
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews10%
New England Journal of Medicine10%
Obesity10%
Obesity Science & Practice10%
Open Forum Infectious Diseases10%
Osong Public Health and Research Perspectives10%
PLOS Genetics10%
PLOS Global Public Health10%
PLOS Medicine10%
Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal10%
Pediatrics10%
Physiological Measurement10%
Polish Archives of Internal Medicine10%
Population Health Metrics10%
Preventive Medicine Reports10%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences10%
Psycho-Oncology10%
Public Health10%
Respiratory Investigation10%
Salud Pública de México10%
Scandinavian Journal of Public Health10%
Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy10%
Supportive Care in Cancer10%
The Journal of Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease10%
The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery10%
The Lancet10%
The Lancet Digital Health10%
The Lancet Microbe10%
The Lancet Oncology10%
The Lancet Planetary Health10%
The Lancet Public Health10%
The Lancet Regional Health - Africa10%
The Lancet Regional Health - Americas10%
The Lancet Regional Health - Western Pacific10%
The Milbank Quarterly10%
The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences10%
Thorax10%
Thrombosis and Haemostasis10%
Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods10%
Virus Research10%
eClinicalMedicine10%

The track record on its own page

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The items dataset is licensed CC BY 4.0: use it for any purpose, crediting COIOS Horizon with a link to www.coios.me. Each tracker's figures keep the licence of the office that published them, stated on the tracker.

The items dataset

Every post published on the site — 356 findings, 0 data-watch entries and 0 revisions — with its title, one-line summary, dates, domain, drivers, countries, source type, verdict and the details from its card.

Last exported 27 October 2026. Refreshed each night when anything has been published or changed.

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