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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	714
The Conicity Index in Identification of Cardiorenal Metabolic Syndrome Patients at Increased Risk for Complications	491
EMI Not Just BMI: Unveiling Hidden Diabetes Risk Among Apparently Healthy U.S. Young Adults	209
Lifestyle and Affective Emotions in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus, With or Without COVID-19 History	199
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	192
Characterization of Lipoprotein(a) Measurement in a Large US Healthcare Dataset	166
Metabolic improvement after gastric bypass correlates with changes in IGF-regulatory proteins stanniocalcin-2 and IGFBP-4	163
Effects of intraduodenal infusion of lauric acid and L-tryptophan, alone and combined, on glucoregulatory hormones, gastric emptying and glycaemia in healthy men	152
A Phase II, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, dose-finding study of survodutide (BI 456906) in people living with overweight/obesity	138
Healthcare Professionals’ Perceptions of Obesity & Agonists of the Glucagon, GLP-1 & GIP Receptors	137
The risk and benefit of revisional vs. primary metabolic- bariatric surgery and drug therapy - A narrative review	113
The role of active vitamin D in preventing sarcopenia—Authors' reply	111
Increased activity of the metalloproteinase PAPP-A promotes diabetes-induced glomerular hypertrophy	111
Pharmacological inhibition of acyl-coenzyme A:cholesterol acyltransferase alleviates obesity and insulin resistance in diet-induced obese mice by regulating food intake	110
Hearing loss in inherited metabolic disorders: A systematic review	108
Prevalence of Hypercortisolism in Patients with Difficult-to-Control Type 2 Diabetes and High Blood Pressure: Results from CATALYST	108
Serine active site containing protein 1 depletion alters lipid metabolism and protects against high fat diet-induced obesity in mice	106
Brown adipose tissue-derived metabolites and their role in regulating metabolism	104
PRDM16 exerts critical role in myocardial metabolism and energetics in type 2 diabetes induced cardiomyopathy	98
PCSK9 in metabolism and diseases	93
Interplay of skeletal muscle and adipose tissue: sarcopenic obesity	92
Roles of malate and aspartate in gluconeogenesis in various physiological and pathological states	90
Effect of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists and co-agonists on body composition: Systematic review and network meta-analysis	78
Leveraging Automated Machine Learning to provide NAFLD screening diagnosis: Proposed machine learning models	74
Association between hypertension and severity of NAFLD among adults with obesity	73

Editorial Board	72
Blood based biomarkers as non-invasive screening tools for hepatic fibrosis in subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus	70
Editorial Board	68
Hepatocyte TIPE2 is a fasting-induced Raf-1 inactivator that drives hepatic gluconeogenesis to maintain glucose homeostasis	65
Potential impact of Helicobacter pylori and metabolic syndrome-related non-alcoholic fatty liver disease on cardio-cerebrovascular disease	65
Fatty acid metabolism: The crossroads in intestinal homeostasis and tumor	63
Exercise alleviates neovascular age-related macular degeneration by inhibiting AIM2 inflammasome in myeloid cells	62
Exosomes: Advances, development and potential therapeutic strategies in diabetic nephropathy	62
Pharmacologically targeting fatty acid synthase-mediated de novo lipogenesis alleviates osteolytic bone loss by directly inhibiting osteoclastogenesis through suppression of STAT3 palmitoylation and R	62
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	59
The relationship between Vitamin D level and Sarcopenia: Insights from a Korean Population Study	57
Relationship between Obesity Indices Measured with Body Composition Analyzer and Carotid Artery Plaques in Korean Middle-Aged Men	56
Uncovering mechanisms of thiazolidinediones on osteogenesis and adipogenesis using spatial fluxomics	55
Higher Resource Utilization And Mortality Among Patients With Heart Failure Admited With Diabetic Ketoacidosis And Chronic Kidney Disease	55
Sterol carrier protein 2 in lipid metabolism and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease: Pathophysiology, molecular biology, and potential clinical implications	54
Thromboembolism risk among patients with diabetes/stress hyperglycemia and COVID-19	53
Comprehensive assessment of the causal effects and metabolite mediators of glucose-lowering drug targets on cardio-renal-liver-metabolic health	53
Impact of fasting on the AMPK and PGC-1α axis in rodent and human skeletal muscle: A systematic review	52
RETRACTED: Loss of mitochondrial adaptation associates with deterioration of mitochondrial turnover and structure in metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease	52
Protein oxidation in non-exercising healthy adults under varying dietary conditions: Physiological determinants, effects on fuel partitioning, and implications for body weight regulation	51
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	49
Risk of incident diabetes after COVID-19 infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis	49
Editorial Board	49
Neuroprotective effect of small extracellular vesicle-mediated targeting of AMPKα2 in cerebral ischemia	49