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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Who drives weight stigma? A multinational exploration of clustering characteristics behind weight bias against preconception, pregnant, and postpartum women	105
Retraction Note: Obesity-associated gut microbiota is enriched in Lactobacillus reuteri and depleted in Bifidobacterium animalis and Methanobrevibacter smithii	95
Sex-specific effect of body mass index and fasting glucose on gastric cancer risk and all causes mortality; a cohort study of 5.17 million	85
The effect of bariatric surgery type on cardiac reverse remodelling	72
Associations among enacted weight stigma, weight self-stigma, and multiple physical health outcomes, healthcare utilization, and selected health behaviors	70
Internalised weight stigma as a mediator of the relationship between experienced/perceived weight stigma and biopsychosocial outcomes: a systematic review	66
The emergence of obesity in type 1 diabetes	65
Longitudinal patterns of abdominal visceral and subcutaneous adipose tissue, total body composition, and anthropometric measures in postmenopausal women: Results from the Women’s Health Initiative	58
Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and mean diffusivity of the hippocampus and amygdala in infants	54
Risk associated with planned mode of delivery in women with obesity: a large population-based retrospective cohort study	52
Examining the roles of body composition, energy expenditure and substrate metabolism in the control of daily energy intake in adolescents with obesity	49
Homeostasis and food craving in obesity: a functional MRI study	48
Combined training increases thermogenic fat activity in patients with overweight and type 2 diabetes	46
Challenges of considering both extremities of the weight status spectrum to better understand obesity: insights from the NUTRILEAN project in constitutionally thin individuals	46
GLP-1 receptor agonists causing euglycemic ketoacidosis in patients without diabetes: a brief review	45
Factors that determine patients considering medication for the disease of obesity: an IMI2 SOPHIA study	44
Neuroimaging and modulation in obesity and diabetes research: 10th anniversary meeting	44
Lean in one way, in obesity another: effects of moderate exercise in brown adipose tissue of early overfed male Wistar rats	44
Upregulated miR-200c is associated with downregulation of the functional receptor for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ACE2 in individuals with obesity	43
Interpregnancy weight gain and childhood obesity: analysis of a UK population-based cohort	41
Associations between a protective lifestyle behaviour score and biomarkers of chronic low-grade inflammation: a cross-sectional analysis in middle-to-older aged adults	40
Prenatal exposure to ambient air pollution and traffic and indicators of adiposity in early childhood: the Healthy Start study	40
Combination of TRP channel dietary agonists induces energy expending and glucose utilizing phenotype in HFD-fed mice	38
One-anastomosis gastric bypass modulates the serum levels of pro- and anti-inflammatory oxylipins, which may contribute to the resolution of inflammation	37
Genetic variations in adiponectin levels and dietary patterns on metabolic health among children with normal weight versus obesity: the BCAMS study	37

Geography and equity: expanding access to obesity medicine diplomate care	37
E4orf1-induced reduction in endogenous insulin level is independent of pancreas endocrine function	36
Nationwide trends in prevalence of underweight, overweight, and obesity among people with disabilities in South Korea from 2008 to 2017	36
Weighted burden analysis in 200,000 exome-sequenced subjects characterises rare variant effects on BMI	36
Correction: Circulating levels of soluble Dipeptidylpeptidase-4 are reduced in human subjects hospitalized for severe COVID-19 infections	35
C/EBPZ modulates the differentiation and proliferation of preadipocytes	34
Obesity during childhood is associated with higher cancer mortality rate during adulthood: the i3C Consortium	33
Associations between body composition, fat distribution and metabolic consequences of excess adiposity with severe COVID-19 outcomes: observational study and Mendelian randomisation analysis	32