OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Appetite is 45. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A systematic review on consumer acceptance of alternative proteins: Pulses, algae, insects, plant-based meat alternatives, and cultured meat	501
Obesity, eating behavior and physical activity during COVID-19 lockdown: A study of UK adults	494
Physical activity, dietary habits and sleep quality before and during COVID-19 lockdown: A longitudinal study	222
Eating behavior and food purchases during the COVID-19 lockdown: A cross-sectional study among adults in the Netherlands	208
Food choice motives and the nutritional quality of diet during the COVID-19 lockdown in France	180
Increased emotional eating during COVID-19 associated with lockdown, psychological and social distress	173
Perceived naturalness, disgust, trust and food neophobia as predictors of cultured meat acceptance in ten countries	168
Alternative proteins, evolving attitudes: Comparing consumer attitudes to plant-based and cultured meat in Belgium in two consecutive years	140
Eating in the lockdown during the Covid 19 pandemic; self-reported changes in eating behaviour, and associations with BMI, eating style, coping and health anxiety	136
Review of factors affecting consumer acceptance of cultured meat	134
Exploring changes in body image, eating and exercise during the COVID-19 lockdown: A UK survey	134
Behavioral reasoning perspectives on organic food purchase	133
Meta-analysis of consumers' willingness to pay for sustainable food products	130
Towards reduced meat consumption: A systematic literature review of intervention effectiveness, 2001–2019	122
Changes in dietary patterns among youths in China during COVID-19 epidemic: The COVID-19 impact on lifestyle change survey (COINLICS)	121
The impact of the Covid-19 lockdown on the experiences and feeding practices of new mothers in the UK: Preliminary data from the COVID-19 New Mum Study	110
Child eating behaviors, parental feeding practices and food shopping motivations during the COVID-19 lockdown in France: (How) did they change?	102
Parental stress, food parenting practices and child snack intake during the COVID-19 pandemic	101
Food purchase and eating behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-sectional survey of Russian adults	96
Towards a multi-level framework of household food waste and consumer behaviour: Untangling spaghetti soup	96
“Waste not and stay at home” evidence of decreased food waste during the COVID-19 pandemic from the U.S. and Italy	92
Identifying barriers to decreasing meat consumption and increasing acceptance of meat substitutes among Swedish consumers	85
Gender differences in meat consumption and openness to vegetarianism	84
Susceptibility to increased high energy dense sweet and savoury food intake in response to the COVID-19 lockdown: The role of craving control and acceptance coping strategies	81
Panic buying in times of coronavirus (COVID-19): Extending the theory of planned behavior to understand the stockpiling of nonperishable food in Germany	74

A qualitative exploration of the impact of COVID-19 on individuals with eating disorders in the UK	69
The habitual nature of food purchases at the supermarket: Implications for policy making	66
Interventions to reduce meat consumption by appealing to animal welfare: Meta-analysis and evidence-based recommendations	65
Meat replacer? No thanks! The clash between naturalness and processing: An explorative study of the perception of plant-based foods	65
Social media’s influence on adolescents′ food choices: A mixed studies systematic literature review	63
Emotional eating during COVID-19 in the United Kingdom: Exploring the roles of alexithymia and emotion dysregulation	62
Consumer perceptions of conventional and alternative protein sources: A mixed-methods approach with meal and product framing	62
What is restrained eating and how do we identify it?	61
Gender differences in global estimates of cooking frequency prior to COVID-19	59
The impact of the Nutri-Score nutrition label on perceived healthiness and purchase intentions	57
COVID-19 stress and eating and drinking behaviors in the United States during the early stages of the pandemic	54
Using consumption and reward simulations to increase the appeal of plant-based foods	53
Measuring consumers’ knowledge of the environmental impact of foods	53
A comparison of EU and US consumers’ willingness to pay for gene-edited food: Evidence from apples	53
What does it mean to say that cultured meat is unnatural?	52
Young adults' experiences with flexitarianism: The 4Cs	52
Changes in sociocultural attitudes towards appearance, body image, eating attitudes and behaviours, physical activity, and quality of life in students before and during COVID-19 lockdown	51
To meat, or not to meat: A longitudinal investigation of transitioning to and from plant-based diets	47
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on household food waste behaviour: A systematic review	46
Changes in lifestyle, diet, and body weight during the first COVID 19 ‘lockdown’ in a student sample	46
The psychometric properties of Orthorexia Nervosa assessment scales: A systematic review and reliability generalization	45