OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Obesity is 32. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Association of exposure to famine early in life with indicators of obesity in adulthood: testosterone as a potential mediator?	217
Association between adiposity distribution and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, adipokines, interleukins and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1	125
Study on weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery to determine a metric least influenced by preoperative BMI	83
Correction to: Response to Comment on “Gestational body weight gain and risk of low birth weight or macrosomia in women of Japan: a nationwide cohort study”	81
Are reallocating time to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity associated with preschoolers’ body composition?	80
Effect of physical activity intervention on weight change in rural older Chinese: a cluster randomized controlled trial	76
The Physiology of the WEight-Reduced State (POWERS) study: environmental, psychological, and social determinants of health	76
Emergence of the adolescent obesity epidemic in the United States: five-decade visualization with humanoid avatars	67
Obesity and the cost of living crisis	49
The armadillo-repeat containing X-linked protein 3, ARMCX3, is a negative regulator of the browning of adipose tissue associated with obesity	48
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	48
Obesity and metabolic syndrome in adults with a 22q11.2 microdeletion	47
Sex-specific longitudinal associations between repeatedly measured movement behaviours and adiposity measures in school-aged children: a compositional data analysis approach	47
Gene-environment interplay explaining individual variation in BMI outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using polygenic indices	47
Causality of abdominal obesity on cognition: a trans-ethnic Mendelian randomization study	46
Changes in abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness associate with disease and anthropometric factors	43
A higher proportion of small adipocytes is associated with increased visceral and ectopic lipid accumulation during weight gain in response to overfeeding in men	42
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	41
Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and mean diffusivity of the hippocampus and amygdala in infants	41
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	40
Body mass index and waist circumference trajectories across the life course and birth cohorts, 1996–2015 Malaysia: sex and ethnicity matter	39
Can we measure food intake in humans?	39
Deoxyguanosine kinase mutation F180S is associated with a lean phenotype in mice	38
Correction: Quality of life improvements associated with weight loss using a novel shape-shifting hydrogel capsule: RESET study results	37
Excess BMI in early adolescence adversely impacts maturating functional circuits supporting high-level cognition and their structural correlates	36

Maternal gestational diabetes and childhood adiposity risk from 6 to 8 years of age	35
The impact of obesity on bone health: molecular pathways, metabolic interactions, and associated pathologies	35
What internet- and mobile-based interventions are currently available for adults with overweight or obesity experiencing symptoms of depression? A systematic review	34
Correction to: Growth differentiating factor-15 and adiposity in young adults: The African-PREDICT study	33
Associations of childhood BMI, general and visceral fat mass with metabolite profiles at school-age	33
A sequential deep learning model for predicting people with obesity in adults aged 18–64 using physical fitness variables	32
Association of novel metabolic status with asymptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis: A cross-sectional study	32
Prediabetes: a new indication for GLP-1s?	32