OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Childhood Obesity 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Complexity and Stigma of Pediatric Obesity	58
Weight-Related Behaviors of Children with Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic	51
Latent Class Analysis of Lifestyle Risk Factors and Association with Overweight and/or Obesity in Children and Adolescents: Systematic Review	41
COVID-19 and Nutrition: The Need for Initiatives to Promote Healthy Eating and Prevent Obesity in Childhood	40
Efficacy of Clinic-Based Telehealth vs. Face-to-Face Interventions for Obesity Treatment in Children and Adolescents in the United States and Canada: A Systematic Review	31
Internalized Weight Bias, Teasing, and Self-Esteem in Children with Overweight or Obesity	28
Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of a New Taxonomy of Intervention Components to Improve Weight Status in Children 2–5 Years of Age, 2005–2019	22
Impact of a Gardening and Physical Activity Intervention in Title 1 Schools: The TGEG Study	20
Identifying Key Determinants of Childhood Obesity: A Narrative Review of Machine Learning Studies	18
“I Feel Like Less of a Mom”: Experiences of Weight Stigma by Association among Mothers of Children with Overweight and Obesity	18
Gut Bacterial Families Are Associated with Body Composition and Metabolic Risk Markers in School-Aged Children in Rural Mexico	16
Addressing Structural Racism Is Critical for Ameliorating the Childhood Obesity Epidemic in Black Youth	15
The Influence of Adherence to the Mediterranean Diet among Children and Their Parents in Relation to Childhood Overweight/Obesity: A Cross-Sectional Study in Greece	15
Alarming Trends in Severe Obesity in Chinese Children from 1991 to 2015	14
Changes in Weight-Related Health Behaviors and Social Determinants of Health among Youth with Overweight/Obesity during the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
The Effectiveness of a Blended In-Person and Online Family-Based Childhood Obesity Management Program	14
Adolescent Exposure to Weight Loss Imagery on Instagram: A Content Analysis of “Top” Images	13
Relationship between Obesity and Iron Deficiency in Healthy Adolescents	13
A Media Literacy-Based Nutrition Program Fosters Parent–Child Food Marketing Discussions, Improves Home Food Environment, and Youth Consumption of Fruits and Vegetables	13
Observations of Maternal Feeding Practices and Styles and Young Children's Obesity Risk: A Longitudinal Study of Hispanic Mothers with Low Incomes	13
What Change in Body Mass Index Is Required to Improve Cardiovascular Outcomes in Childhood and Adolescent Obesity through Lifestyle Interventions: A Meta-Regression	13
Feasibility of Targeting Hispanic Fathers and Children in an Obesity Intervention: Papás Saludables Niños Saludables	13
Starting Early Program Impacts on Feeding at Infant 10 Months Age: A Randomized Controlled Trial	12
Clustering Patterns of Physical Fitness, Physical Activity, Sedentary, and Dietary Behavior among School Children	11
Are There Inter-Individual Differences in Fat Mass and Percent Body Fat as a Result of Aerobic Exercise Training in Overweight and Obese Children and Adolescents? A Meta-Analytic Perspective	11

Food Insecurity Influences Weight Trajectory in Children with Obesity	11
Weight Gain during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a High-Risk Cohort of Children in San Francisco, CA	11
Effectiveness of a Weight Loss Program Using Digital Health in Adolescents and Preadolescents	11
A Healthy Start: National Trends in Child Care Regulations and Uptake of Obesity Prevention Standards (2010–2018)	10
Food Insecurity and Obesity in US Adolescents: A Population-Based Analysis	10
Weight Status, Medication Use, and Recreational Activities of Treatment-Naïve Transgender Youth	10
Changes in the Health-Related Quality of Life and Weight Status of Children with Overweight or Obesity Aged 7 to 13 Years after Participating in a 10-Week Lifestyle Intervention	9
Breastfeeding Associations with Childhood Obesity and Body Composition: Findings from a Racially Diverse Maternal–Child Cohort	9
Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention Preferences of Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity	9
Predictors of Engagement in a Pediatric Weight Management Clinic after Referral	9
Utilization Trends and Disparities in Adolescent Bariatric Surgery in the United States 2009–2017	8
The Relation of Adiposity Rebound to Subsequent BMI in a Large Electronic Health Record Database	8
Modifiable Early Childhood Risk Factors for Obesity at Age Four Years	8
Let's Not Just Dismiss the Weight Watchers Kurbo App	8
Evolution of a Coalition Network during a Whole-of-Community Intervention to Prevent Early Childhood Obesity	8
Can a Behavioral Weight-Loss Intervention Change Adolescents' Food Addiction Severity?	7
Associations of Neighborhood Safety and Collective Efficacy with Dietary Intake among Preschool-Aged Children and Mothers	7
The Impact of a Multipronged Intervention to Increase School Lunch Participation among Secondary School Students in an Urban Public School District	7
How Important is Motor Competence for Healthy Weight Status across Adolescence?	7
Physical Activity and Screen Time Practices of Family Child Care Providers: Do They Meet Best Practice Guidelines?	7
Muscle-to-Fat Ratio for Predicting Metabolic Syndrome Components in Children with Overweight and Obesity	7
Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: Methods for Taxonomy Development for Application in Taxonomic Meta-Analysis	7
High Rates of Obesity at Presentation Persist into Survivorship across Childhood Cancer Types	7
The Impact of Parental Diabetes on the Prevalence of Childhood Obesity	7
Longitudinal Assessment of Childhood Dietary Patterns: Associations with Body Mass Index z-Score among Children in the Samoan Ola Tuputupua'e (Growing Up) Cohort	7
Associations between Obesity and Adverse Childhood Experiences in the United States	7
Design and Approach of the Healthy Weight Clinic Pediatric Weight Management Intervention Package and Implementation: Massachusetts-CORD 3.0	6
Cross-Sectional Associations of Built and Social Neighborhood Environment Variables with Body Mass Index in a Large Sample of Urban Predominantly African American Children	6
Gustatory Function Can Improve after Multimodal Lifestyle Intervention: A Longitudinal Observational Study in Pediatric Patients with Obesity	6
Maternal Stress Moderates the Relationship of Food Insufficiency with Body Mass Index Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adulthood among U.S. Rural Youth	6
Sleep, Food Insecurity, and Weight Status: Findings from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating Study	6
Topiramate for Weight Management in Children With Severe Obesity	6
Associations between Bottle-Feeding during Infancy and Obesity at Age 6 Years Are Mediated by Greater Infancy Weight Gain	6
Maternal Gestational Diabetes and Early Childhood Obesity: A Retrospective Cohort Study	6
“We've Had to Build the Plane as We Flew It.”:Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on School-Based Weight Management Interventions	6
Childhood Obesity Evidence Base Project: A Rationale for Taxonomic versus Conventional Meta-Analysis	5
Obesity Risk Assessment Tool among 3–5 Year Olds: Validation with Biomarkers of Low-Grade Chronic Inflammation	5
Investigating the Relationship between Body Mass Index and Pain in the Spine in Children or Adolescents: A Systematic Review	5
Planned Evaluation of the Healthy Weight Clinic Pediatric Weight Management and Implementation: Massachusetts-CORD 3.0	5
Association between Sleep Duration and Body Composition in Girls Ten to Eighteen Years of Age: A Population-Based Study	5
Promoting Sleep and Balanced Screen Time among School-Aged Children with Neurodevelopmental and Mental Health Disorders: A Parent Perspective	5
Moving Pediatric Healthy Weight Interventions into Real-World Settings, Using Implementation Science to Address Access, Flexibility, and Sustainability	5
Parent Food-Related Behaviors and Family-Based Dietary and Activity Environments: Associations with BMI z-Scores in Low-Income Preschoolers	5
Maternal Chronic Hypertension Elevates the Risk for Long-Term Selected Endocrine and Metabolic Morbidity in the Offspring, Particularly Childhood Obesity	5
Effect of Coffee and Tea Consumption on Adolescent Weight Control: An Interventional Pilot Study	5
A Mixed-Methods Examination of Referral Processes to Clinic–Community Partnership Programs for the Treatment of Childhood Obesity	5
Disparities in Nutrition Counseling at Pediatric Wellness Visits in South Carolina	5
Childhood Obesity Can Be an “Island in the Stream”	4
Maternal Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity across Pregnancy and Early Childhood Growth	4
Efficacy of a Primary Care eHealth Obesity Treatment Pilot Intervention Developed for Vulnerable Pediatric Patients	4

Longitudinal Association between Weight Status, Aerobic Capacity, Muscular Strength, and Endurance among New York City Youth, 2010–2017	4
The Associations between Childhood Obesity, Academic Performance, and Perception of Teachers: From Kindergarten to Fifth Grade	4
Executive Functioning, Depressive Symptoms, and Intervention Engagement in a Sample of Adolescents Enrolled in a Weight Management Program	4
Effects of Exercise on Resting Metabolic Rate in Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity	4
Packaging of a Pediatric Weight Management Intervention and Implementation Blueprint for Rural and Micropolitan Communities: The Nebraska CORD 3.0 Project	4
Parenting Styles and Their Associations With Children's Body Composition, Activity Patterns, Fitness, Diet, Health, and Academic Achievement	4
Associations of Percent Body Fat and Motor Skill Development in Preschool-Aged Children: National Youth Fitness Survey	4
Contribution of Hedonic Hunger and Binge Eating to Childhood Obesity	4
Examining the Relationship between Infant Weight Status and Parent–Infant Interactions within a Food and Nonfood Context	4
Connections between Friendship Quality, Peer Competence, and Obesity in Early Childhood through Adolescence	4
Association between Eating Patterns and Excess Body Weight in Adolescents	4
Is It Time to Remove BMI Screening from School Settings?	4
Social Determinants of Health and Body Mass Index in American Indian/Alaska Native Children	4
Association of Trunk/Leg Fat Mass Ratio with Low-Density Lipoproteins-Cholesterol and Triglycerides Concentration in Children and Adolescents: A Cross-Sectional, Retrospective Study	4
Could Celiac Disease and Overweight/Obesity Coexist in School-Aged Children and Adolescents? A Systematic Review	4
How Do Interpersonal Relationships Affect Children's Weight Management? A Qualitative Analysis of Parents' Long-Term Perceptions after Obesity Treatment	4
School-Based Secondary Obesity Prevention for Eight- to Twelve-Year-Olds: Results from the Students, Nurses, and Parents Seeking Healthy Options Together Randomized Trial	4
Association of Obesity and Body Fat Percentage with Pubertal State in Six- to Nine-Year-Old Chinese Females	4
User Characteristics and Parenting Practices Associated with Adolescents' Initial Use of a Lifestyle Behavior Modification Intervention	4