OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Obesity is 32. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Association of exposure to famine early in life with indicators of obesity in adulthood: testosterone as a potential mediator?	222
Are reallocating time to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity associated with preschoolers’ body composition?	127
The Physiology of the WEight-Reduced State (POWERS) study: environmental, psychological, and social determinants of health	83
Effect of physical activity intervention on weight change in rural older Chinese: a cluster randomized controlled trial	82
Obesity and the cost of living crisis	81
Work- and mental health-related events and body mass index trajectories during the Covid-19 lockdown. Evidence from the lifelines cohort study in the Netherlands	80
The armadillo-repeat containing X-linked protein 3, ARMCX3, is a negative regulator of the browning of adipose tissue associated with obesity	78
Gene-environment interplay explaining individual variation in BMI outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using polygenic indices	69
Sex-specific longitudinal associations between repeatedly measured movement behaviours and adiposity measures in school-aged children: a compositional data analysis approach	56
Obesity and metabolic syndrome in adults with a 22q11.2 microdeletion	53
Major adverse cardiovascular events among patients with type-2 diabetes, a nationwide cohort study comparing primary metabolic and bariatric surgery to GLP-1 receptor agonist treatment	50
Changes in abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness associate with disease and anthropometric factors	50
Early childhood adversity and body mass index in childhood and adolescence: linking registry data on adversities with school health records of 53,401 children from Copenhagen	49
Can we measure food intake in humans?	49
Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and mean diffusivity of the hippocampus and amygdala in infants	48
Study on weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery to determine a metric least influenced by preoperative BMI	47
Association between adiposity distribution and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, adipokines, interleukins and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1	44
Body mass index and waist circumference trajectories across the life course and birth cohorts, 1996–2015 Malaysia: sex and ethnicity matter	43
Correction: Quality of life improvements associated with weight loss using a novel shape-shifting hydrogel capsule: RESET study results	42
Deoxyguanosine kinase mutation F180S is associated with a lean phenotype in mice	42
Maternal gestational diabetes and childhood adiposity risk from 6 to 8 years of age	41
What is the evidence regarding the safety of new obesity pharmacotherapies	41
What internet- and mobile-based interventions are currently available for adults with overweight or obesity experiencing symptoms of depression? A systematic review	37
Excess BMI in early adolescence adversely impacts maturating functional circuits supporting high-level cognition and their structural correlates	36
A sequential deep learning model for predicting people with obesity in adults aged 18–64 using physical fitness variables	35

Association of body mass index and weight change with pneumonia mortality in a Japanese population: Japan Public Health Center-based Prospective Study	35
Are associations of adulthood overweight and obesity with all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and obesity-related cancer modified by comparative body weight at age 10 years in the UK Biobank	35
Four weeks treatment with the GLP-1 receptor analogue liraglutide lowers liver fat and concomitantly circulating glucagon in individuals with overweight	34
Long-term fasting-induced parasympathetic and sympathetic autonomic nervous system modulation in a subgroup of the GENESIS study	34
The associations of maternal and paternal obesity with latent patterns of offspring BMI development between 7 and 17 years of age: pooled analyses of cohorts born in 1958 and 2001 in the United Kingdo	33
Association of plasma chemerin with all-cause and disease-specific mortality – results from a population-based study	33
Prediabetes: a new indication for GLP-1s?	32
The impact of calorific screening thresholds and weight status when validating UK supermarket transaction records in dietary evaluation: FIO-STRIDE	32
Association of novel metabolic status with asymptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis: A cross-sectional study	32
Obesity affects brain cortex gene expression in an APOE genotype and sex dependent manner	32
Associations of childhood BMI, general and visceral fat mass with metabolite profiles at school-age	32
The impact of obesity on bone health: molecular pathways, metabolic interactions, and associated pathologies	32