OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Obesity is 31. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction to: Neuroimaging and modulation in obesity and diabetes research: 10th anniversary meeting	169
Correction to: Response to Comment on “Gestational body weight gain and risk of low birth weight or macrosomia in women of Japan: a nationwide cohort study”	146
Associations between maternal pre-pregnancy BMI and mean diffusivity of the hippocampus and amygdala in infants	98
Association between adiposity distribution and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein, adipokines, interleukins and plasminogen activator inhibitor-1	78
The Universal Eating Monitor (UEM): objective assessment of food intake behavior in the laboratory setting	71
Obesity and metabolic syndrome in adults with a 22q11.2 microdeletion	69
The Physiology of the WEight-Reduced State (POWERS) study: environmental, psychological, and social determinants of health	66
Association of exposure to famine early in life with indicators of obesity in adulthood: testosterone as a potential mediator?	63
Are reallocating time to moderate-to-vigorous physical activity associated with preschoolers’ body composition?	61
Emergence of the adolescent obesity epidemic in the United States: five-decade visualization with humanoid avatars	51
Gene-environment interplay explaining individual variation in BMI outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of studies using polygenic indices	48
Study on weight loss outcomes after bariatric surgery to determine a metric least influenced by preoperative BMI	43
Effect of physical activity intervention on weight change in rural older Chinese: a cluster randomized controlled trial	42
Can we measure food intake in humans?	41
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	41
Changes in abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue thickness associate with disease and anthropometric factors	41
A higher proportion of small adipocytes is associated with increased visceral and ectopic lipid accumulation during weight gain in response to overfeeding in men	40
Weighted burden analysis in 200,000 exome-sequenced subjects characterises rare variant effects on BMI	40
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	38
The armadillo-repeat containing X-linked protein 3, ARMCX3, is a negative regulator of the browning of adipose tissue associated with obesity	37
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	37
Causality of abdominal obesity on cognition: a trans-ethnic Mendelian randomization study	36
Obesity and the cost of living crisis	36
Four weeks treatment with the GLP-1 receptor analogue liraglutide lowers liver fat and concomitantly circulating glucagon in individuals with overweight	35
Correction to: Growth differentiating factor-15 and adiposity in young adults: The African-PREDICT study	35

Association of plasma chemerin with all-cause and disease-specific mortality – results from a population-based study	33
Response to Comment on “Gestational body weight gain and risk of low birth weight or macrosomia in women of Japan: a nationwide cohort study”	33
The impact of obesity on bone health: molecular pathways, metabolic interactions, and associated pathologies	32
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	32
What is the evidence regarding the safety of new obesity pharmacotherapies	31
Association of novel metabolic status with asymptomatic intracranial arterial stenosis: A cross-sectional study	31
Prediabetes: a new indication for GLP-1s?	31
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	31