OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Maturitas is 31. 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
Editorial Board	89
Predicting metabolically unhealthy status using explainable machine learning based on menopausal symptoms	85
Is menopause affecting my Quality of Life? A public awareness project"	77
‘There is absolutely no facet of my life that it hasn't affected’ - experiences of symptoms during perimenopause	72
Violence against women and menopause-related disorders	71
Sexual health and wellbeing in menopause	66
Editorial Board	64
Unveiling the association between dietary metals and prostate health: Identifying benign prostatic hyperplasia using a SHAP-based interpretable machine learning model in US adults	62
Dietary patterns are associated with health-related quality of life during menopause	55
The effect of menopause on lipoprotein (a) concentrations: a systematic review and meta-analysis	52
Distressing, debilitating and embarrassing: surprising symptoms and the need for holistic approach to menopause care	49
Teaching menopause to health care professionals	49
Vegeterian diets and longevity	48
Effects of malnutrition on mortality in oldest-old inpatients with COVID-19 in the GERIA-COVID cohort: Additional findings from the AgeBru cohort	47
Oncological screening policies for transpeople	46
Editorial Board	45
Editorial Board	44
Effectiveness of hormone therapy in recent menopause: impact on quality of life and sexual function	40
Management of the genitourinary syndrome of menopause to improve the quality of life	40
Epidemiological analysis of women undergoing hormone therapy in the general population of Spain at present	39
Prevalence of low mood, thoughts of self-harm and suicidal ideation in peri- and postmenopausal women	39
Biocultural understandings of menopause: Insights from Japan	39
Improvement strategies of a health-literacy-friendly patient decision aid for the osteoporosis treatment by a multi-criteria network structure model	38
Comment on Wang et al., ‘impacts of fetal/infant and adolescent exposure to famine on age at menopause in Chinese women’: Methodological gaps in famine–menopause analyses (exposure and risks)	37
Ubiquitous monitoring of the environment and menopause	36

Association between leg-to-trunk lean mass ratio measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and later falls in older Japanese men: the Fujiwara-kyo Osteoporosis Risk in Men (FORMEN) cohort study	36
Association between social determinants of health and intrinsic capacity trajectories: A population-based longitudinal study	35
Pathogenic TP73 variants may lead to premature ovarian insufficiency by hyperactivating primordial follicles via the PI3K/AKT/FOXO3A pathway	34
Does physical activity mediate the reduction of depressive symptoms in older adults treated with behavioural activation? A secondary analysis of a cluster randomised trial	34
Exercise counters the negative impact of bed rest on executive functions in middle-aged and older adults: A proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial	34
Associations of mortality with leisure-time physical activity and sitting time in postmenopausal women: Insights from NHANES	33
Trajectories of metabolic parameters after bilateral oophorectomy in premenopausal women	31