OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Evolution Medicine and Public Health is 1. 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
Regulating community well-being through traditional mourning rituals: Insights from the Luhya People of Kenya	144
Associations of age at marriage and first pregnancy with maternal nutritional status in Nepal	14
Commentary—fat but fit…and cold? Potential evolutionary and environmental drivers of metabolically healthy obesity	12
Sound reasons for unsound sleep: Comparative support for the sentinel hypothesis in industrial and nonindustrial groups	10
Towards a new therapeutic approach based on selection for function in tumors: response to Dr. Mesut Tez	9
Reverse-engineering the Venus figurines: An eco-life-course hypothesis for the aetiology of obesity in the Palaeolithic	8
How market integration impacts human disease ecology	8
Cesarean section and breastfeeding outcomes in an Indigenous Qom community with high breastfeeding support	8
The Elephant and the Spandrel	8
Evolutionary and empirical perspectives on ‘demand’ breastfeeding	8
Low birthweight is associated with epigenetic age acceleration in the first 3 years of life	7
The role of the behavioural immune system on covid-19 lockdown attitudes: The relationship with authoritarianism and collectivism	7
Optimal non-pharmaceutical intervention policy for Covid-19 epidemic via neuroevolution algorithm	6
Roles for non-human primate-associated phage diversity in improving medicine and public health	6
Migration and descent, adaptations to altitude and tuberculosis in Nepalis and Tibetans	6
Greater chronic morbidity is associated with greater fatigue in six countries	6
Norman A. Johnson’s, Darwin’s Reach: 21st Century Applications of Evolutionary Biology	6
Bet-hedging in innate and adaptive immune systems	6
Iron nutrition and COVID-19 among Nigerian healthcare workers	6
Commemorating the monkey bars, catalyst of debate at the intersection of human evolutionary biology and public health	5
A novel indicator of selectionin utero	5
Spatial simulation of autologous cell defection for cancer treatment	5
Multiple sclerosis and the microbiota	5
Take it to the limit	5
Little evidence that posttraumatic stress is associated with diurnal hormone dysregulation in Turkana pastoralists	5

Host–gut microbiota interactions during pregnancy	4
Immune cell type and DNA methylation vary with reproductive status in women: possible pathways for costs of reproduction	4
The reproductive status determines tolerance and resistance to Mycobacterium marinum in Drosophila melanogaster	4
Serial passage in an insect host indicates genetic stability of the human probioticEscherichia coliNissle 1917	4
Sleep tight! Adolescent sleep quality across three distinct sleep ecologies	4
Hygiene may attenuate selection for antibiotic resistance by changing microbial community structure	4
Advancing evolutionary medicine in Northern Germany	3
Diagnostic testing and the evolution of detection avoidance by pathogens	3
Age-related physiological dysregulation progresses slowly in semi-free-ranging chimpanzees	3
Guillain-Barré syndrome	3
Combination antimicrobial therapy to manage resistance	3
Father absence and pubertal timing in Korean boys and girls	3
Lower testosterone levels are associated with higher risk of death in men	3
Re-examining the adaptive function of nausea and vomiting in pregnancy	3
Life history traits and cancer prevalence in birds	3
Phenome-wide association study of population-differentiating genetic variants around gene ACSL1	3
Waning immunity drives respiratory virus evolution and reinfection	3
A multi-million-year natural experiment	3
Survival of quick problem solver!	3
A new perspective on tumor progression	3
Disgusting odors trigger the oral immune system	3
Paul W. Turke, Review of Bringing Up Baby: An Evolutionary View of Pediatrics	3
Nausea, vomiting and conflict in pregnancy	2
Embedded racism: Inequitable niche construction as a neglected evolutionary process affecting health	2
Humans can detect axillary odor cues of an acute respiratory infection in others	2
Biomarkers or biotargets? Using competition to lure cancer cells into evolutionary traps	2
Food insecurity, diet and mental distress among resource insecure students during COVID-19	2
Selfish evolution of placental hormones	2
Birth and household exposures are associated with changes to skin bacterial communities during infancy	2
Disease from opposing forces in regulatory control	2
An evolutionary perspective on social inequality and health disparities	2
The evolution of antibiotic resistance in an incurable and ultimately fatal infection	2
Childbirth fear in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic: key predictors and associated birth outcomes	2
Maternal mental health and economic autonomy in lowland rural Nepal	2
Implications of leg length for metabolic health and fitness	2
Heritage-specific oral microbiota in Indigenous Australian dental calculus	2
The EvMed Assessment	1
Correction to: Regulating community well-being through traditional mourning rituals: Insights from the Luhya People of Kenya	1
Strength is negatively associated with depression and accounts for some of the sex difference	1
Evolutionary mismatch in emotional support during childbirth: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic	1
Senolytics and cell senescence: historical and evolutionary perspectives	1
Girls start life on an uneven playing field	1
Phylogenetic prioritization of HIV-1 transmission clusters with viral lineage-level diversification rates	1
A novel perspective suggesting high sustained energy expenditure may be net protective against cancer	1
Child dietary patterns in Homo sapiens evolution	1
Early life adversity, reproductive history and breast cancer risk	1
Tradeoffs in milk immunity affect infant infectious disease risk	1
The evolution of the human healthcare system and implications for understanding our responses to COVID-19	1
Low haemoglobin in arduous seasons is associated with reduced chance of ovulation among women living in the Bolivian altiplano	1
Physical activity and heat stress shape water needs in pregnant endurance athletes	1

Kyle Harper, Plagues upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History. John Mokyr, series ed. The Princeton Economic History of the Western World	1
Germline mutation rate predicts cancer mortality across 37 vertebrate species	1
An orally administered drug prevents selection for antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the gut during daptomycin therapy	1
On evolutionary medicine and health disparities	1
How a pregnant woman’s relationships with her siblings relate to her mental health: a prenatal allocare perspective	1