OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Nature Reviews Endocrinology is 60. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exposing skin to ultraviolet irradiation increases food intake in male individuals	657
Non-nutritive sweeteners — too sweet to be wholesome?	599
Dexamethasone in patients with diabetes mellitus	562
Exercise-induced plasma factors confer brain benefits	542
CNOT6L regulates hepatokine expression	383
The role of DNA damage in diabetic complications	351
Immune cell population prevents weight regain	343
Memory of obesity stored in adipocytes	336
Identification of genetic factors of type 2 diabetes mellitus risk in South Asian populations	332
Author Correction: Adrenocortical stem cells in health and disease	286
The challenges of assessing adiposity in a clinical setting	236
Limiting the use and misuse of liothyronine in hypothyroidism	231
Thyroid function and iodine intake: global recommendations and relevant dietary trends	195
Effects of diet on atherosclerotic plaque development	177
Timed high-fat diet feeding restores small bowel circadian rhythms	177
Harnessing cellular therapeutics for type 1 diabetes mellitus: progress, challenges, and the road ahead	167
The gut microbiota in obesity and weight management: microbes as friends or foe?	158
Metformin reduces ageing adipose senescence	148
Negative regulator of GDF15 signalling identified	146
Ketosis improves muscle stem cell resilience	141
Obesity phenotypes: explaining the unexplained	140
Metabolite levels during the menstrual cycle	137
A pivotal year for NAFLD and NASH therapeutics	136
Amylin: emergent therapeutic opportunities in overweight, obesity and diabetes mellitus	135
Reply to ‘Ensuring diverse representation and minimizing conflicts of interest in clinical practice guidelines’	130

The evolving functions of the vasculature in regulating adipose tissue biology in health and obesity	127
Research in metabolic ageing — a tale of mice versus humans?	126
Neurons in the diagonal band of Broca moderate food intake	122
Patients’ insights into diabetes insipidus	117
Role for exosomes in insulin sensitivity	117
Handle with care — interpretation, synthesis and dissemination of data on paracetamol in pregnancy	112
mTORC1 is the central regulator in pancreatic β-cells	107
The interactions between energy homeostasis and neurovascular plasticity	106
Ensuring diverse representation and minimizing conflicts of interest in clinical practice guidelines	101
Steroid hormones as modulators of anti-tumoural immunity	101
Primary aldosteronism — a multidimensional syndrome	97
GDF15: emerging biology and therapeutic applications for obesity and cardiometabolic disease	96
One hundred years of insulin therapy	96
A role for phosphocreatine in adipose inflammation	95
Ketogenic modification of the liver proteome	94
Genetic risk scores improve prediction of obesity in survivors of childhood cancer	94
New role for bone marrow adipocytes in obesity	93
Role of extracellular vesicles in β-cell failure	87
Stem-cell derived pancreatic endoderm cells in the treatment of T1DM	87
Progress in islet transplantation is more important than ever	86
The metabolic mythos of ketones	85
Targeting the incretin system in obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus	80
Bone and muscle crosstalk in ageing and disease	79
Urocortin 3 function in glucose metabolism	78
A role for the kidney in metformin action	78
RalA links obesity and mitochondrial dysfunction	76
GLP1–oestrogen agonist protects β-cells from insulin-deficient diabetes mellitus	74
Advances in basic biology and translation in islet research	73
Inflammation-induced adrenal dysfunction	72
Advances in incretin-based therapeutics for obesity	71
Endosomal trafficking in metabolic homeostasis and diseases	70
Luteal phase support in assisted reproductive technology	64
Signals from the dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus promote jejunal fat absorption	61
Triggering puberty in primates: is it NPY?	60
Untangling the pathways of SDHx loss of function	60