OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Obesity is 33. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Association of exposure to famine early in life with indicators of obesity in adulthood: testosterone as a potential mediator?	241
Are reallocating time to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity associated with preschoolers’ body composition?	134
Can we measure food intake in humans?	94
Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and mean diffusivity of the hippocampus and amygdala in infants	88
Early childhood adversity and body mass index in childhood and adolescence: linking registry data on adversities with school health records of 53,401 children from Copenhagen	88
Work- and mental health-related events and body mass index trajectories during the Covid-19 lockdown. Evidence from the lifelines cohort study in the Netherlands	75
Obesity and the cost of living crisis	75
Gene-environment interplay explaining individual variation in BMI outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using polygenic indices	66
Sex-specific longitudinal associations between repeatedly measured movement behaviours and adiposity measures in school-aged children: a compositional data analysis approach	61
Association between adiposity distribution and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, adipokines, interleukins and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1	56
Study on weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery to determine a metric least influenced by preoperative BMI	53
The Physiology of the WEight-Reduced State (POWERS) study: environmental, psychological, and social determinants of health	52
Obesity and metabolic syndrome in adults with a 22q11.2 microdeletion	52
Effect of physical activity intervention on weight change in rural older Chinese: a cluster randomized controlled trial	49
Changes in abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness associate with disease and anthropometric factors	48
Early-life antibiotic use and children with overweight and obesity: a Dutch twin cohort study	47
Deoxyguanosine kinase mutation F180S is associated with a lean phenotype in mice	46
Major adverse cardiovascular events among patients with type-2 diabetes, a nationwide cohort study comparing primary metabolic and bariatric surgery to GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment	46
Maternal gestational diabetes and childhood adiposity risk from 6 to 8 years of age	44
Correction: Quality of life improvements associated with weight loss using a novel shape-shifting hydrogel capsule: RESET study results	44
What is the evidence regarding the safety of new obesity pharmacotherapies	43
What internet- and mobile-based interventions are currently available for adults with overweight or obesity experiencing symptoms of depression? A systematic review	40
Are associations of adulthood overweight and obesity with all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and obesity-related cancer modified by comparative body weight at age 10 years in the UK Biobank	40
Association of body mass index and weight change with pneumonia mortality in a Japanese population: Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study	40
The impact of calorific screening thresholds and weight status when validating UK supermarket transaction records in dietary evaluation: FIO-STRIDE	39

Association of plasma chemerin with all-cause and disease-specific mortality – results from a population-based study	38
The endoplasmic reticulum stress protein GRP94 modulates cathepsin L activity in M2 macrophages in conditions of obesity-associated inflammation and contributes to their pro-inflammatory profile	38
Obesity affects brain cortex gene expression in an APOE genotype and sex dependent manner	37
Associations of childhood BMI, general and visceral fat mass with metabolite profiles at school-age	36
Prediabetes: a new indication for GLP-1s?	35
Association of novel metabolic status with asymptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis: A cross-sectional study	35
Obesity-induced intervertebral disk degeneration: pathophysiology and clinical implications	35
The impact of obesity on bone health: molecular pathways, metabolic interactions, and associated pathologies	33
Toward an intergenerational model of metabolic and bariatric surgery: reframing the household as the unit of care	33
Four weeks treatment with the GLP-1 receptor analogue liraglutide lowers liver fat and concomitantly circulating glucagon in individuals with overweight	33
Long-term fasting-induced parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic nervous system modulation in a subgroup of the GENESIS study	33
Prevalence and biopsychosocial factors associated with overweight and obesity in adults with type 1 diabetes	33