OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Annals of Human Biology is 3. 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
Greater male vulnerability to stunting? Evaluating sex differences in growth, pathways and biocultural mechanisms	26
A cross-sectional study of blood selenium concentration and cognitive function in elderly Americans: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2011–2014	21
Genetic substructure and admixture of Mongolians and Kazakhs inferred from genome-wide array genotyping	16
The genetic and cultural impact of the Steppe migration into Europe	14
Sex differences in childhood sleep and health implications	14
Poor sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepiness and association with mental health in college students	12
Sex differences in cardiovascular risk may be related to sex differences in diet patterns: a narrative review	11
Speed agility trends in children according to growth	11
Ancient genomes from a rural site in Imperial Rome (1^st–3^rdcent. CE): a genetic junction in the Roman Empire	10
Androgen receptor gene microsatellite polymorphism is associated with muscle mass and strength in bodybuilders and power athlete status	10
Inferring the population structure and admixture history of three Hmong-Mien-speaking Miao tribes from southwest China based on genome-wide SNP genotyping	10
Construct validity of percentage of predicted adult height and BAUS skeletal age to assess biological maturity in academy soccer	10
Infant sex differences in human milk intake and composition from 1- to 3-month post-delivery in a healthy United States cohort	10
Sex differences in bone mineral content and bone geometry accrual: a review of the Paediatric Bone Mineral Accural Study (1991–2017)	9
Useful autosomal STR marker sets for forensic and paternity applications in the Central Indian population	9
Recent selection of candidate genes for mammal domestication in Europeans and language change in Europe: a hypothesis	8
Screen media use by Portuguese children in 2009 and 2016: a repeated cross-sectional study	8
More data on ancient human mitogenome variability in Italy: new mitochondrial genome sequences from three Upper Palaeolithic burials	8
Genetic polymorphism of 27 Y-STR loci in Kazakh populations from Northern Kazakhstan	8
Cytokine concentrations in saliva vs. plasma at rest and in response to intense exercise in adolescent athletes	8
Independent and combined influence of physical fitness components on self-esteem in adolescents: DADOS study	8
Decline in semen quality of North African men: a retrospective study of 20,958 sperm analyses of men from different North African countries tested in Tunisia over a period of 6 years (2013–2018)	7
Where Asia meets Europe – recent insights from ancient human genomics	7
Allele frequencies and forensic parameters of 22 autosomal STR loci in a population of 983 individuals from Serbia and comparison with 24 other populations	7
The impact of leptin and its receptor polymorphisms on type 1 diabetes in a population of northwest Iran	6

Reproductive life histories: can incremental dentine isotope analysis identify pubertal growth, pregnancy and lactation?	6
Paleogenomics of the prehistory of Europe: human migrations, domestication and disease	6
Correlation of body composition parameters and anthropometric somatotypes with Prakriti body types among the Meitei adults of Manipur, India	6
Human height: a model common complex trait	6
Feasibility of using infrared thermal imaging to examine brown adipose tissue in infants aged 18 to 25 months	6
Effects of orthodontic treatment on masticatory muscles activity: a meta-analysis	6
Sex differences in the association of measures of sexual maturation to common toxicants: Lead, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT), dichloro-diphenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE), and polychlorinated bi	5
The association between maternal and foetal factors with birth weight discordance in twins from Yucatan, Mexico	5
Dental age estimation of Malaysian Indian children and adolescents: applicability of Chaillet and Demirjian’s modified method using artificial neural network	5
The mitochondrial DNA control region sequences from the Chinese sui population of southwestern China	5
From old markers to next generation: reconstructing the history of the peopling of Sardinia	5
Body fat and muscle in relation to heart rate variability in young-to-middle age men: a cross sectional study	5
Genetic polymorphism of 27 Y-STR loci in Kazakh populations from Eastern Kazakhstan	5
Prevalence of the Cusp of Carabelli: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Bio-banding in soccer: past, present, and future	4
Contribution of environmental factors and female reproductive history to hypertension and obesity incidence in later life	4
Prevalence and characterisation of size and sequence-based microvariant alleles at nine autosomal STR markers in the Central Indian population	4
Genome-wide analysis of runs of homozygosity in Pakistani controls with no history of speech or language-related developmental phenotypes	4
Genetic diversity, forensic characteristics and phylogenetic analysis of the Qiongzhong aborigines residing in the tropical rainforests of Hainan Island via 19 autosomal STRs	4
GSTT1, GSTP1 and XPC genes are associated with longevity in an Italian cohort	4
Whole and segmental body composition changes during mid-follicular and mid-luteal phases of the menstrual cycle in recreationally active young women	4
Diversity in matrilineages among the Jomon individuals of Japan	4
Deep phenotyping of pubertal development in Norwegian children: the Bergen Growth Study 2	4
Effect of MTHFR (rs1801133) and FTO (rs9939609) genetic polymorphisms and obesity in T2DM: a study among Bengalee Hindu caste population of West Bengal, India	4
Analysis of the influence of glutathione S-transferase (GSTM1 and GSTT1) genes on the risk of essential hypertension	4
Age at menarche and chemical exposure: per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane (DDT), dichloro-diphenyl-dichloroethylene (DDE), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB	4
Obesity and adiposity of 3- to 6-year-old children born to mothers with hyperglycaemia first detected in pregnancy in an urban South African setting	4
Morphological variations and prevalence of aberrant traits of primary molars	4
From growth charts to growth status: how concepts of optimal growth and tempo influence the interpretation of growth measurements	4
Pubertal growth in height, sitting height and leg length in achondroplasia	4
Built environment, physical activity, and obesity of adults in Pingshan District, Shenzhen City in Southern China	4
Evaluation of the genomic diversity and shared ancestry of the Meitei community of Manipur (India) with the East Asian populations using autosomal STRs	3
Growth delay: an alternative measure of population health based on child height distributions	3
Consanguineous marriage and its relevance to divorce, polygyny and survival of marriage: evidence from a population-based analysis in Jordan	3
Quantitative peripheral computed tomography to measure muscle area and assess lean soft tissue mass in children	3
Dental age estimation of Malaysian children: a comparison of two-dimensional versus three-dimensional imaging analyses of the developing root apices	3
Dental maturation in a Chinese sample using Demirjian method	3
Insights into Punic genetic signatures in the southern necropolis of Tharros (Sardinia)	3
Assessment of height growth in Indian children using growth centiles and growth curves	3
X-chromosomal STRs for genetic composition analysis of Guizhou Dong group and its phylogenetic relationships with other reference populations	3
Studying factors influencing facial developmental instability	3
Secular trends of age at menarche and the effect of famine exposure on age at menarche in rural Chinese women	3
Urbanisation and its associated factors affecting human gut microbiota: where are we heading to?	3
The surname structure of Trentino (Italy) and its relationship with dialects and genes	3
The effects of body size and training environment on the physical performance of adolescent basketball players: the INEX study	3
Forensic features and phylogenetic analyses of the population of Nayagarh (Odisha), India using 23 Y-STRs	3