OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Appetite is 42. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Food approach and avoidance craving: A partial test of the Ambivalence Model of Craving	614
Editorial Board	189
Front-of-pack health imagery on both ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ foods leads people to misremember seeing health claims: Two memory experiments	169
Towards developing a “baby translator” - An exploration of how infant appetite cues are understood	168
Effects of an open-label placebo on visual attention directed to food high in sugar, appetite, and desire for sweet taste	168
Legume consumption and sustainability – The minority goes green	155
Understanding fruit and vegetable consumption among Uruguayan adults	150
“I'll eat meat because that's what we do”: The role of national norms and national social identification on meat eating	145
Sociodemographic and behavioural determinants of vegetarian main dish selection in a French university cafeteria: A three-month observational study with repeated measures	116
We are a family! Exploring flexitarian households’ meat reduction practices	112
Sex differences in diet-mediated salivary protein upregulation	109
The physiological mechanisms underlying consumer preferences towards organic food	103
The effect of a 14-day Gymnema sylvestre intervention to reduce sugar intake in people self-identifying with a sweet tooth	101
Eating contexts encourage sustainable food choices: The mediating role of the symbolic meanings of foods	94
Using a counterfactual-based intervention to change eating intentions: Results from Hispanic and non-Hispanic undergraduate and community samples	87
Consumer adoption of plant-based meat substitutes: A network of social practices	84
The association between food neophobia, bi-dimensional aspects of orthorexia, and anxiety among vegetarians and omnivores	76
Comparing the impact of simple and educational point-of-decision messages on nutritional choice outcomes.	76
The role of the community café in addressing food security: Perceptions of managers and directors	74
Which factors influence emotional overeating among workers and students? Is online food delivery consumption involved? Results from the DELIvery Choice In OUr Society (DELICIOUS) cross-sectional study	73
The CURTAIN feasibility study: Exploring a food-themed reminiscence theatre intervention to improve the nutrition of older adults living in residential care homes	71
Food insecurity, obesity and the cost-of-living crisis: An Introduction to the Special Issue in Appetite	63
Seeing is believing: How front-of-pack food imagery shapes parents’ perceptions of child-oriented snack foods	61
Food sources and acquisition by consumers of low income in urban neighborhoods: A conceptual framework and food decision tree	59
Comparison of front-of-package nutrition labelling schemes in Costa Rica: A multi-arm parallel-group randomised controlled trial assessing objective understanding and purchase intention	59

Development and preliminary validation of the Adolescent Food Parenting Questionnaire: Parent and adolescent version	58
Effects of the Sleep SAAF responsive parenting intervention on rapid infant weight gain: A randomized clinical trial of African American families	57
Relationships between executive functions and food rejection dispositions in young children	55
Editorial Board	54
Editorial Board	54
VeggieSense: A non-taste multisensory exposure technique for increasing vegetable acceptance in young children.	53
Parent’s decisions about starting and ending a meal for their child during infancy, weaning and preschool: A cross-cultural qualitative study	50
The influence of COVID-19 lockdown in the UK on the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and water.	48
When is it too sweet? Measuring sweetness preferences in foods amongst Dutch consumers.	48
Editorial Board	48
45th Annual Meeting of the British Feeding and Drinking Group	47
SensEat: The effect of a brief mindfulness intervention on perception of bodily signals of satiation and hunger.	47
Sweet thoughts – attitudes towards sugar, sweeteners and sweet-tasting foods in the UK.	46
Craving reduction in the laboratory and real contexts: Targeting the elaboration of intrusive thoughts using a mindfulness strategy.	45
Evaluation of various strategies to enhance children’s fruit and vegetable consumption: day care professionals’ view.	45
Behavioral impacts of chronic food uncertainty in an animal model of food insecurity.	44
The impact of COVID-19 on the eating habits of families engaged in a healthy eating pilot trial: a thematic analysis.	43
Responsiveness of virtual beverage portion size tasks and prediction of postoperative weight loss in bariatric surgery patients.	42