OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Maturitas 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	89
Predicting metabolically unhealthy status using explainable machine learning based on menopausal symptoms	85
Is menopause affecting my Quality of Life? A public awareness project"	77
‘There is absolutely no facet of my life that it hasn't affected’ - experiences of symptoms during perimenopause	72
Violence against women and menopause-related disorders	71
Sexual health and wellbeing in menopause	66
Editorial Board	64
Unveiling the association between dietary metals and prostate health: Identifying benign prostatic hyperplasia using a SHAP-based interpretable machine learning model in US adults	62
Dietary patterns are associated with health-related quality of life during menopause	55
The effect of menopause on lipoprotein (a) concentrations: a systematic review and meta-analysis	52
Teaching menopause to health care professionals	49
Distressing, debilitating and embarrassing: surprising symptoms and the need for holistic approach to menopause care	49
Vegeterian diets and longevity	48
Effects of malnutrition on mortality in oldest-old inpatients with COVID-19 in the GERIA-COVID cohort: Additional findings from the AgeBru cohort	47
Oncological screening policies for transpeople	46
Editorial Board	45
Editorial Board	44
Effectiveness of hormone therapy in recent menopause: impact on quality of life and sexual function	40
Management of the genitourinary syndrome of menopause to improve the quality of life	40
Biocultural understandings of menopause: Insights from Japan	39
Epidemiological analysis of women undergoing hormone therapy in the general population of Spain at present	39
Prevalence of low mood, thoughts of self-harm and suicidal ideation in peri- and postmenopausal women	39
Improvement strategies of a health-literacy-friendly patient decision aid for the osteoporosis treatment by a multi-criteria network structure model	38
Comment on Wang et al., ‘impacts of fetal/infant and adolescent exposure to famine on age at menopause in Chinese women’: Methodological gaps in famine–menopause analyses (exposure and risks)	37
Association between leg-to-trunk lean mass ratio measured by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and later falls in older Japanese men: the Fujiwara-kyo Osteoporosis Risk in Men (FORMEN) cohort study	36

Ubiquitous monitoring of the environment and menopause	36
Association between social determinants of health and intrinsic capacity trajectories: A population-based longitudinal study	35
Exercise counters the negative impact of bed rest on executive functions in middle-aged and older adults: A proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial	34
Pathogenic TP73 variants may lead to premature ovarian insufficiency by hyperactivating primordial follicles via the PI3K/AKT/FOXO3A pathway	34
Does physical activity mediate the reduction of depressive symptoms in older adults treated with behavioural activation? A secondary analysis of a cluster randomised trial	34
Associations of mortality with leisure-time physical activity and sitting time in postmenopausal women: Insights from NHANES	33
Trajectories of metabolic parameters after bilateral oophorectomy in premenopausal women	31