OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Metabolism-Clinical and Experimental is 49. 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 2021-07-01 to 2025-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	649
The Conicity Index in Identification of Cardiorenal Metabolic Syndrome Patients at Increased Risk for Complications	431
EMI Not Just BMI: Unveiling Hidden Diabetes Risk Among Apparently Healthy U.S. Young Adults	190
Lifestyle and Affective Emotions in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, With or Without COVID-19 History	187
Comparative efficacy of Gan & Lee insulin aspart (GL-ASP) and EU-marketed insulin aspart (NN-ASP), when combined with metformin, in patients with diabetes mellitus: Post-hoc analyses from a multic	174
Characterization of Lipoprotein(a) Measurement in a Large US Healthcare Dataset	159
Metabolic improvement after gastric bypass correlates with changes in IGF-regulatory proteins stanniocalcin-2 and IGFBP-4	158
Effects of intraduodenal infusion of lauric acid and L-tryptophan, alone and combined, on glucoregulatory hormones, gastric emptying and glycaemia in healthy men	141
A Phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-finding study of survodutide (BI 456906) in people living with overweight/obesity	118
Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions of Obesity & Agonists of the Glucagon, GLP-1 & GIP Receptors	108
The risk and benefit of revisional vs. primary metabolic- bariatric surgery and drug therapy - A narrative review	105
Increased activity of the metalloproteinase PAPP-A promotes diabetes-induced glomerular hypertrophy	104
Pharmacological inhibition of acyl-coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase alleviates obesity and insulin resistance in diet-induced obese mice by regulating food intake	101
The role of active vitamin D in preventing sarcopenia—Authors' reply	101
MASLD may influence female-specific cancer risk indirectly through shared metabolic pathways rather than direct causation	100
Prevalence of Hypercortisolism in Patients with Difficult-to-Control Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure: Results from CATALYST	98
Brown adipose tissue-derived metabolites and their role in regulating metabolism	96
Hearing loss in inherited metabolic disorders: A systematic review	92
Serine active site containing protein 1 depletion alters lipid metabolism and protects against high fat diet-induced obesity in mice	90
Roles of malate and aspartate in gluconeogenesis in various physiological and pathological states	82
Effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and co-agonists on body composition: Systematic review and network meta-analysis	81
PRDM16 exerts critical role in myocardial metabolism and energetics in type 2 diabetes induced cardiomyopathy	81
PCSK9 in metabolism and diseases	80
Leveraging Automated Machine Learning to provide NAFLD screening diagnosis: Proposed machine learning models	75
Interplay of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue: sarcopenic obesity	75

Association between hypertension and severity of NAFLD among adults with obesity	71
Editorial Board	71
Blood based biomarkers as non-invasive screening tools for hepatic fibrosis in subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus	70
Editorial Board	69
Pharmacologically targeting fatty acid synthase-mediated de novo lipogenesis alleviates osteolytic bone loss by directly inhibiting osteoclastogenesis through suppression of STAT3 palmitoylation and R	64
Potential impact of Helicobacter pylori and metabolic syndrome-related non-alcoholic fatty liver disease on cardio-cerebrovascular disease	63
Corrigendum to “FUNDC1 insufficiency sensitizes high fat diet intake-induced cardiac remodeling and contractile anomaly through ACSL4-mediated ferroptosis” [Metabolism 122 (September 2021) 154840]	61
Risk of Obesity, Diabetes, Insulin resistance, and Dyslipidemia among Irritable Bowel Syndrome patients	60
Relationship between Obesity Indices Measured with Body Composition Analyzer and Carotid Artery Plaques in Korean Middle-Aged Men	58
The relationship between Vitamin D level and Sarcopenia: Insights from a Korean Population Study	58
Higher Resource Utilization And Mortality Among Patients With Heart Failure Admited With Diabetic Ketoacidosis And Chronic Kidney Disease	58
Uncovering mechanisms of thiazolidinediones on osteogenesis and adipogenesis using spatial fluxomics	56
Thromboembolism risk among patients with diabetes/stress hyperglycemia and COVID-19	56
Risk of incident diabetes after COVID-19 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis	56
RETRACTED: Loss of mitochondrial adaptation associates with deterioration of mitochondrial turnover and structure in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease	55
Hepatocyte TIPE2 is a fasting-induced Raf-1 inactivator that drives hepatic gluconeogenesis to maintain glucose homeostasis	53
Impact of fasting on the AMPK and PGC-1α axis in rodent and human skeletal muscle: A systematic review	53
Sterol carrier protein 2 in lipid metabolism and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Pathophysiology, molecular biology, and potential clinical implications	52
Exercise alleviates neovascular age-related macular degeneration by inhibiting AIM2 inflammasome in myeloid cells	52
Exosomes: Advances, development and potential therapeutic strategies in diabetic nephropathy	50
Role of mitochondria in pathogenesis and therapy of renal fibrosis	50
Early metabolomic, lipid and lipoprotein changes in response to medical and surgical therapeutic approaches to obesity	50
Role of Coronary Artery Calcium in the Association Between Hormone Replacement Therapy Status and Incident Death and Cardiovascular Disease: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis	49
Response to letter by Muralidhar and Madhivanan: Clarity and quality assessment of epidemiology of sarcopenia: Prevalence, risk factors, and consequences	49