OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease is 4. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Female rats consuming an iron and omega-3 fatty acid deficient diet preconception require combined iron and omega-3 fatty acid supplementation for the prevention of bone impairments in offspring	23
Maternal prenatal psychological distress and motor/cognitive development in two-year-old offspring: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study	22
Characterising and monitoring preconception health in England: a review of national population-level indicators and core data sources	14
Childhood waist growth curves and adult diabetes	14
Associations of placental lncRNA expression with maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and infant birthweight in two birth cohorts	12
Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: key elements to consider	12
Long-term outcomes of visual motor integration and motor development children with retinopathy of prematurity	11
Treatment with topiramate in rats during childhood causes testicular structural impairment at adulthood	11
Cardiovascular and renal profiles in rat offspring that do not undergo catch-up growth after exposure to maternal protein restriction	11
Investigating the IGF axis as a pathway for intergenerational effects	11
Association between paternal physique and obesity in children at the age of 3 years: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study	11
The effect of season of birth on brain epigenome-wide DNA methylation of older adults	11
Effects of uteroplacental insufficiency on cardiac development in growth-restricted newborn rats	11
Associations of maternal preterm birth with subsequent risk for type 2 diabetes in women from the women’s health initiative	10
Placental insufficiency induces a sexually dimorphic response in the expression of cardiac growth and metabolic signalling molecules upon exposure to a postnatal western diet in guinea pigs	10
In This Issue	8
Developmental origins of health and disease knowledge is associated with diet quality in preconception young adult men and women	8
Maternal childhood maltreatment: associations to offspring brain volume and white matter connectivity	8
Exposure to maternal hyperglycemia and high-fat diet consumption after weaning in rats: repercussions on periovarian adipose tissue	8
Long-term impact of hypothyroidism during gestation and lactation on the mammary gland	8
In This Issue	8
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Tackling inequalities in preconception health and care: barriers, facilitators and recommendations for action from the 2023 UK preconception EMCR network conference	8
PedBE age and age acceleration in umbilical vein endothelial cells: an examination of infant birth outcomes	8
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Potential long consequences from internal and external ecology: loss of gut microbiota antifragility in children from an industrialized population compared with an indigenous rural lifestyle	7
(-)-epicatechin treatment did not modify the thermogenic pathway in the gastrocnemius muscle of male rat offspring obeses by programming	7
Oral pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ) during pregnancy increases cardiomyocyte endowment in spontaneous IUGR guinea pigs	7
Early-childhood BMI trajectories in relation to preclinical cardiovascular measurements in adolescence	6
DNA methylation profile of liver of mice conceived by in vitro fertilization	6
Myocardial perfusion and function dichotomy in growth restricted preterm infants	6
Preeclampsia and risk of maternal pulmonary hypertension at high altitude in Bolivia	6
Protective effect of antioxidants on cardiac function in adult offspring exposed to prenatal overnutrition	6
Maternal protein restriction during the lactation period disrupts the ontogenetic development of behavioral traits in male Wistar rat offspring	6
Effects of maternal exposure to acute stress on birth outcomes: a quasi-experiment study	6
The impact of smoking and nicotine exposure during pregnancy on fetal nephrogenesis: a systematic review	6
Peripubertal soy isoflavone consumption leads to subclinical hypothyroidism in male Wistar rats	6
The effect of low birthweight on physical activity engagement and markers of chronic disease in the Framingham cohort	6
Assessing the causal relationship of birth weight and childhood obesity on osteoarthritis: a Mendelian randomization study	6
Early postnatal exposure of rat pups to methylglyoxal induces oxidative stress, inflammation and dysmetabolism at adulthood	5
Low protein uptake during peripuberty impairs the testis, epididymis, and spermatozoa in pubertal and adult Wistar rats	5
Obese mothers supplemented with melatonin during gestation and lactation ameliorate the male offspring’s pancreatic islet cellular composition and beta-cell function	5
Attenuated glucose-stimulated insulin secretion during an acute IGF-1 LR3 infusion into fetal sheep does not persist in isolated islets	5
In This Issue	5
Circulating microRNAs from early childhood and adolescence are associated with pre-diabetes at 18 years of age in women from the PMNS cohort	5
Financial hardship and caregiver and child mental health during the 3 years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Australia	5
A systematic review exploring evidence for adolescent understanding of concepts related to the developmental origins of health and disease	5
Puberty as a DOHaD programming window: high-fat diet induces long-term hepatic dysfunction in male rats	5
Lifetime caffeine and adolescent nicotine exposure in mice: effects on anxiety-like behavior and reward	5
The role of maternal diet on offspring hyperinsulinaemia and adiposity after birth: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials	5
The co-occurrence and cumulative prevalence of hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis, and hypothyroidism in preterm-born women in the Women’s Health Initiative	5
Biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in the neonatal population	5
Juvenile exposure to low-level 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) alters behavior and longitudinal morphometrics in zebrafish and F₁ offspring	4
In This Issue	4
Protein restriction during peripubertal period impairs endothelial aortic function in adult male Wistar rats	4
Adverse pregnancy outcomes are associated with shorter telomere length in the 17-year-old child	4
Maternal high-fat diet consumption during pregnancy and lactation predisposes offspring to renal and metabolic injury later in life: comparative study of diets with different lipid contents	4
Supplementation of diet with Astaxanthin and DHA prevents gestational and lactational undernourishment-induced metabolic derangements in dams: a metabolomic approach	4
Gestational weight gain is associated with childhood height, weight and BMI in the Peri/Postnatal Epigenetic Twins Study	4
Childhood eating practices are relevant to ultra-processed food consumption in adulthood: results from the Nutritionists’ Health Study	4
Relation of maternal birthweight with early pregnancy obesity, gestational diabetes, and offspring macrosomia	4
COVID-19 age-dependent immunology and clinical outcomes: implications for vaccines	4
Early neurodevelopment in the offspring of women enrolled in a randomized controlled trial assessing the effectiveness of a nutrition + exercise intervention on the cognitive development of 12-month-o	4
Maternal prenatal and postnatal psychological distress trajectories and impact on cognitive development in 4-year-old children: the Japan Environment and Children’s Study	4