American Journal of Human Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of American Journal of Human Biology is 1. 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 2020-02-01 to 2024-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Systemic racism, chronic health inequities, andCOVID‐19: A syndemic in the making?218
Sexual and gender minority health vulnerabilities during the COVID‐19 health crisis73
COVID‐19‐related financial stress associated with higher likelihood of depression among pregnant women living in the United States60
Don't blame the BAME: Ethnic and structural inequalities in susceptibilities to COVID‐1952
“Epigenetic clocks”: Theory and applications in human biology46
Challenging the binary: Gender/sex and the bio‐logics of normalcy44
Stigma, pandemics, and human biology: Looking back, looking forward26
Hydration in relation to water insecurity, heat index, and lactation status in two small‐scale populations in hot‐humid and hot‐arid environments20
Doing biocultural anthropology: Continuity and change20
Biocultural approaches to transgender and gender diverse experience and health: Integrating biomarkers and advancing gender/sex research19
Elevated resting metabolic rates among female, but not male, reindeer herders from subarctic Finland19
COVID‐19, crisis, and emotional stress: A biocultural perspective of their impact on growth and development for the next generation18
Pearl lecture: Biological normalcy: A new framework for biocultural analysis of human population variation18
Prediction of maturity offset and age at peak height velocity in a longitudinal series of boys and girls18
Objective and subjective measurement of sedentary behavior in human adults: A toolkit17
Maternal and child health during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Contributions in the field of human biology17
Adherence to 24‐hour movement guidelines in low‐income Brazilian preschoolers and associations with demographic correlates17
Medieval menarche: Changes in pubertal timing before and after the Black Death16
Human adaptation to climate change: An introduction to the special issue16
Using point clouds to investigate the relationship between trabecular bone phenotype and behavior: An example utilizing the human calcaneus16
Biologically normal sleep in the mother‐infant dyad16
Want climate‐change adaptation? Evolutionary theory can help16
A missense variant in CREBRF is associated with taller stature in Samoans15
Obesity, noncommunicable diseases, and COVID‐19: A perfect storm15
Centering human milk composition as normal human biological variation15
Climate, landscape diversity, and food sovereignty in arid Australia: The firestick farming hypothesis15
Effects of a mixed‐subsistence diet on the growth of Hadza children14
What is normal bone health? A bioarchaeological perspective on meaningful measures and interpretations of bone strength, loss, and aging14
Human biological variation and the “normal”13
What is normal, healthy growth? Global health, human biology, and parental perspectives13
A composite measure of healthy lifestyle: A study from 38 countries and regions from Europe and North America, from the Health Behavior in School‐Aged Children survey13
One size does not fit all. How universal standards for normal height can hide deprivation and create false paradoxes13
Influence of parental perceived environment on physical activity, TV viewing, active play and Body Mass Index among Portuguese children: A mediation analysis13
A highly sensitive multiplex immunoassay for inflammatory cytokines in dried blood spots13
Do people manage climate risk through long‐distance relationships?13
Secular trends in age at menarche in 20th century Mexico: Differences by ethnicity, area of residency, and socioeconomic status12
Social memory and niche construction in a hypervariable environment12
Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations12
The interaction between FTO rs9939609 and physical activity is associated with a 2‐fold reduction in the risk of obesity in Korean population12
A biosocial return to race? A cautionary view for the postgenomic era12
Paternal origin of Tungusic‐speaking populations: Insights from the updated phylogenetic tree of Y‐chromosome haplogroup C2a‐M8611
Stunting is the natural condition of human height11
The associations between digit ratio, aerobic fitness, physical skills, and overall physical fitness of elite youth distance runners11
The relationship between digit ratio (2D:4D) and muscular fitness: A systematic review and meta‐analysis11
Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing11
Dried blood spot collection, sample quality, and fieldwork conditions: Structural validations for conversion into standard values11
Genetics of somatotype and physical fitness in children and adolescents11
Reindeer herders from subarctic Finland exhibit high total energy expenditure and low energy intake during the autumn herd roundup11
Scaling climate change to human behavior predicting good and bad years for Maya farmers11
Evaluating life history trade‐offs through the presence of linear enamel hypoplasia at Pueblo Bonito and Hawikku: A biocultural study of early life stress and survival in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwes10
Taking the sleep lab to the field: Biometric techniques for quantifying sleep and circadian rhythms in humans10
Hotter and sicker: External energy expenditure and the tangled evolutionary roots of anthropogenic climate change and chronic disease10
SARS‐CoV‐2 infection inIndiabucks the trend: Trained innate immunity?10
Influence of sex and resistance training status on orofacial muscle strength and morphology in healthy adults between the ages of 18 and 40: A cross‐sectional study10
Intention to have a second child, family support and actual fertility behavior in current China: An evolutionary perspective10
Intersecting vulnerabilities in human biology: Synergistic interactions between climate change and increasing obesity rates9
Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis among young adults in northeastern Siberia and Midwest United States and its relationship with other biological adaptations to cold climates9
Weather permitting: Increased seasonal efficiency of nonshivering thermogenesis through brown adipose tissue activation in the winter9
Sexual dimorphism in facial shape of modern Buryats of Southern Siberia9
Linking subsistence harvest diversity and productivity to adaptive capacity in an Alaskan food sharing network9
Human neonates prefer colostrum to mature milk: Evidence for an olfactory bias toward the “initial milk”?9
Promoting mental health in community and research settings during COVID‐19: Perspectives and experiences from Soweto, South Africa9
Maternal physical, socioeconomic, and demographic characteristics and childbirth complications in rural lowland Nepal: Applying an evolutionary framework to understand the role of phenotypic plasticit9
Mind the gap: Contesting normal/abnormal constructs of human biology and behaviors9
Fear, violence, inequality, and stunting in Guatemala9
Transmission‐dynamics models for the SARS Coronavirus‐29
Reproductive hormone measurement from minimally invasive sample types: Methodological considerations and anthropological importance8
Seasonality and season of birth effect in the UK Biobank cohort8
Differences in maternal and early child nutritional status by offspring sex in lowland Nepal8
Obstetric dimensions of the female pelvis are less integrated than locomotor dimensions and show protective scaling patterns: Implications for the obstetrical dilemma8
The color of normal: How a Eurocentric focus erases pigmentation complexity8
Biophysical evidence to support and extend the vitamin D‐folate hypothesis as a paradigm for the evolution of human skin pigmentation8
Beyond serosurveys: Human biology and the measurement of SARS‐Cov‐2 antibodies8
Anthropometric measures do not explain the 2D:4D ratio sexual dimorphism in 7‐year‐old children8
Secular change in height and weight of rural school children and youth in west‐central Poland: 1986 to 20168
Skeletal muscle size distribution in large‐sized male and female athletes7
Comparing different sample collection and storage methods for field‐based skin microbiome research7
Host genetic factors and susceptibility to SARS‐CoV‐2 infection7
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?7
Recognizing normal reproductive biology: A comparative analysis of variability in menstrual cycle biomarkers in German and Bolivian women7
Socioeconomic inequalities in children's health‐related quality of life according to weight status7
High expression levels of circulating microRNA‐122 and microRNA‐222 are associated with obesity in children with Mayan ethnicity7
Evaluation of the body adiposity index against dual‐energy X‐ray absorptiometry for assessing body composition in children and adolescents7
Physical growth and body adiposity patterns in children and adolescents at high altitudes in Peru: Proposed percentiles for assessment7
A biocultural examination of home food production and child growth in highland Peru7
Validation of an enzyme‐linked immunoassay assay for osteocalcin, a marker of bone formation, in dried blood spots7
Bringing the lab bench to the field: Point‐of‐care testing for enhancing health research and stakeholder engagement in rural/remote, indigenous, and resource‐limited contexts6
Field methods and strategies for assessing female reproductive functioning6
Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample6
After Theranos: Using point‐of‐care testing to advance measures of health biomarkers in human biology research6
The COVID‐19 liquid gold rush: Critical perspectives of human milk and SARS‐CoV‐2 infection6
Measuring attack on self: The need for field‐friendly methods development and research on autoimmunity in human biology6
A preliminary analysis of the secondary sex ratio decline after the COVID‐19 pandemic in Japan6
Applying minimally invasive biomarkers of chronic stress across complex ecological contexts6
Inflammation and central adiposity as mediators of depression and uncontrolled diabetes in the study on global AGEing and adult health (SAGE)6
Increased thymus weight in sudden infant death syndrome compared to controls: The role of sub‐clinical infections6
Fine motor skills and motor control networking in developmental age6
Short‐term fetal nutritional stress and long‐term health: Child height6
Maternal birth weight is associated with milk epidermal growth factor in Filipino women6
Association between age at menarche and body mass index, waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, and waist to height ratio in adult women6
Opportunities and constraints in women's resource security amid climate change: A case study of arid‐living Namibian agro‐pastoralists6
Continuity and change in biocultural anthropology6
The association between the 2D:4D ratio and offspring sex at birth: A cross‐sectional study in Ghana5
Maternal marital status predicts self‐reported stress among pregnant women following hurricane Florence5
Reliability of biological maturation analyses performed by equations predicting skeletal age and peak height velocity with hand and wrist X‐ray results5
More voices are always better: Tackling power differentials in knowledge production and access in human biology5
Relationships between mental health and diet during pregnancy and birth outcomes in a lower‐middle income country: “Healthy mothers, healthy communities” study in Vanuatu5
Body mass index trajectories and noncommunicable diseases in women: The role of leisure time physical activity5
An integrative approach to studying plasticity in growth disruption and outcomes: A bioarchaeological case study of Napoleonic soldiers5
Impact of modernization on urinary concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and selenium in rural residents of Northern Laos5
Fetal brain ultrasound measures and maternal nutrition: A feasibility study in Ecuador5
Waist circumference percentiles for Hispanic‐American children and comparison with other international references5
Parental incarceration and child physical health outcomes from infancy to adulthood: A critical review and multilevel model of potential pathways5
Obese individuals do not underreport dietary intake to a greater extent than nonobese individuals when data are allometrically‐scaled5
Cephalopelvic disproportion as primary diagnosis for cesarean section: Role of neonatal birthweight in relation to maternal height at a Hospital in Merida, Mexico5
Association of TGFβ1 codon 10 (T>C) and IL‐10 (G>C) cytokine gene polymorphisms with longevity in a cohort of Italian population5
Regional variation in growth status. The Peruvian health and optimist growth study5
Demystifying mentorship: Tips for successfully navigating the mentor–mentee journey5
Biocultural pathways linking periodontal disease expression to food insecurity, immune dysregulation, and nutrition4
Symptoms at midlife among women in Nagaland, India4
Toolkit article: Approaches to measuring social inequities in health in human biology research4
Association of saliva 25(OH)D concentration with body composition and proportion among pre‐pubertal and pubertal Polish children4
Human Biologists confront theCOVID‐19 pandemic4
Cross‐cultural variation in thirst perception in hot‐humid and hot‐arid environments: Evidence from two small‐scale populations4
Repeatability of adaptive traits among ethnic Tibetan highlanders4
Sleep duration is related to increased mortality risk through white blood cell counts in a large national sample4
The role of body height as a co‐factor of excess weight in Switzerland4
Effects of energy and essential fatty acids content in breast milk on infant's head dimensions4
Magnitude and spatial distribution of food and nutrition security during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Tucumán (Argentina)4
Low prevalence of anemia among Shuar communities of Amazonian Ecuador4
Human biology is a matter of life or death: Effective science communication for COVID‐19 research4
The role of dietary calcium in the etiology of childhood rickets in the past and the present4
When the flood passes, does health return? A short panel examining water and food insecurity, nutrition, and disease after an extreme flood in lowland Bolivia4
Roles of age, sex, and weight status in the muscular fitness of Chinese Tibetan children and adolescents living at altitudes over 3600 m: A cross‐sectional study4
Ecoimmunology in the field: Measuring multiple dimensions of immune function with minimally invasive, field‐adapted techniques4
Analysis of secular trends in physical fitness of children and adolescents (8–18 years) from Kraków (Poland) between 2010 and 20204
Re‐examining Biocultural Approaches in Human Biology4
Association between type 2 diabetes mellitus & TCF7L2 gene variants in the Emirati population: Genetics of diabetes in the United Arab Emirates4
Body adiposity index to analyze the percentage of fat in young men aged between 7 and 17 years4
Segmented physical activity and sedentary behavior patterns among children in Maasai village and Nairobi city4
Seasonal variations in physical activity and sedentary behavior among preschool children in a Central China city4
Physical activity levels among the adults of Majha region of Punjab, India: A cross‐sectional study4
Adolescent growth and BMI and their associations with early childhood growth in an urban South African cohort4
Family characteristics, perceived environment for physical activity, and childhood obesity: An approach with structural equation models4
Transient refugees' social support, mental health, and physiological markers: Evidence from Serbian asylum centers4
Extreme climatic events and human biology and health: A primer and opportunities for future research4
Uniparental origins of the admixed Argentine Patagonia4
Body size at birth in babies born during World War II: The evidence from Poland3
Trekking and toddlers: Towards a biocultural analysis of growth among infants and young children in a rural region of the Himalayas3
The timing of adrenarche in Maya girls, Merida, Mexico3
Comparison of handgrip strength values in young children when using two different types of dynamometers3
What is normal body weight? Perceptions around “average” and “healthy” body weight among adolescents in Indiana3
Factors affecting attitudes toward migrants—An evolutionary approach3
Secular changes in the waist, hips circumferences and selected associated indicators, among preschool children from Kraków (Poland), between 1983 and 20183
The pace of secular changes of body measurements of children and adolescents from Kolkata (India) in the context of socioeconomic inequalities between the sexes3
Trends in obesity and severe obesity prevalence in the United States from 1999 to 20183
Sexual dimorphism in deciduous tooth crown size: Variability within and between groups3
The influence of socioeconomic status and age on the prevalence of overweight and obesity among 5 to 10‐year‐old children in Curitiba, Brazil3
The impact of winter warming and more frequent icing events on reindeer herder occupational safety, health, and wellbeing3
Water insecurity, self‐reported physical health, and objective measures of biological health in the Peruvian Amazon3
Economic impacts and nutritional outcomes of the 2017 floods in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing families3
Human cold adaptation: An unfinished agenda v2.03
Relationship between rs9939609 FTO polymorphism with waist circumference and body fat is moderated by ponderal index at birth in youth3
Body adiposity measures and risk of adolescent hypertension among the postpubescents Northeast India3
Selection in utero against male twins in the United States early in the COVID‐19 pandemic3
Proportionality indices, geographic altitude, and gestational age in newborns from Jujuy, Argentina3
Low birth weight and its relation to physical fitness parameters in children: Its negative effect on muscle strength and cardiorespiratory endurance3
Correlations between dental wear and oral cavity characteristics: Mandibular torus, palatine torus, and oral exostoses3
MC1R diversity and its role in skin pigmentation variation in West Maharashtra, India3
Severe cyclones and sex‐specific birth outcomes in Queensland, Australia: An interrupted time‐series analysis3
Why does strength training improve endurance performance?3
Body height, weight, and Body Mass Index – magnitude and pace of secular changes in children and adolescents from Kraków (Poland) between 1983 and 20203
Athletes in sporting events with upper‐body gripping movements have greater handgrip strength than those in sporting events that prioritize the lower body3
Understanding the devastating second wave of COVID‐19 pandemic in India3
Why is low body fat rarely seen in large‐sized male athletes?3
Maternal stress and hair cortisol among pregnant women following hurricane Florence3
Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in Hawaii: Levels and sources of serum vitamin D in older adults3
Not a matter of shape: The influence of tool characteristics on electrodermal activity in response to haptic exploration of Lower Palaeolithic tools3
Association of sleep duration with underweight and obesity in older adults: A cross‐sectional study of the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey3
Influence of climatic stress on nonmetric sexually dimorphic features of the skull and pelvis3
Minimally invasive biomarkers in human and non‐human primate evolutionary biology: Tools for understanding variation and adaptation3
Determinants of infant carrying behavior in rural Papua New Guinea3
Current and future applications of biomarkers in samples collected through minimally invasive methods for cancer medicine and population‐based research3
Variability of C‐reactive protein in first‐generation Ecuadorian immigrants living in the United States3
Investigating the normalization and normative views of gestational weight gain: Balancing recommendations with the promotion and support of healthy pregnancy diets3
Nightly fasting duration is not associated with the prevalence of metabolic syndrome among non‐shift workers: The Furukawa Nutrition and Health Studymx3
Trends in growth and developmental tempo in boys aged 7 to 18 years between 1966 and 2012 in Poland3
Measuring food insecurity: An introduction to tools for human biologists and ecologists3
Age variation in blood pressure: Rural–urban and sex differences among the Hmar adults of Manipur, Northeast India3
A longitudinal study of handgrip strength asymmetry3
Body composition helps: Differences in energy expenditure between pregnant and nonpregnant females3
Associations between autoimmune dysfunction and pollutants in Akwesasne Mohawk women: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and polychlorinated biphenyl exposure3
Influence of ecoregional and lifestyle factors on growth and body composition of Indian children and adolescents aged 9–18 years—A multicenter study3
Background, rationale, and methodological overview of the REACT project—return‐to‐action on growth, motor development, and health after the COVID‐19 pandemic in primary school ch3
Assessment of skeletal age in youth female soccer players: Agreement between Greulich‐Pyle and Fels protocols3
Sex differences in adipose development in a hunter‐gatherer population3
The dietary impacts of drought in a traditional pastoralist economy3
Body surface area equations for physically active men and women3
The relationship between the digit ratio (2D:4D) and vertical jump performance in young athletes3
What is the best anthropometric predictor for identifying higher risk for cardiovascular diseases in afro‐descendant Brazilian women? A cross‐sectional population‐based study3
The Great Recession weighted on Portuguese children: A structural equation modeling approach considering eating patterns3
Field‐testing olfactory ability to understand human olfactory ecology3
An examination of breastmilk composition among high altitude Peruvian women3
Overweight and obesity in adulthood, sociodemographic factors, lifestyle, and the early burden of noncommunicable diseases among Americans: NHANES 2007–20182
Maternal–infant interaction quality is associated with child NR3C1 CpG site methylation at 7 years of age2
Energetic costs of testosterone in two subsistence populations2
Influence of height on likelihood of employment, occupational sorting, and earnings in 27 post‐communist countries2
Genetic variants of PON1, GSTM1, GSTT1, and locus 9p21.3, and the risk for premature coronary artery disease in Yucatan, Mexico2
Cardiovascular disease risk factors distribution and clustering across different geographic levels in Nepal2
Birth weight and body composition in 6‐to‐8 years old Maya children2
Comparative analysis of the growth and development differences of children and adolescents between developed and undeveloped urban and rural areas in China2
Directly measured aerobic fitness in male Maasai of Tanzania2
Child, caretaker, and community: Testing predictors of anemia and response to iron supplementation in Peruvian preschool‐aged children2
Paternal genetic structure of the Bosnian‐Herzegovinian Roma: A Y‐chromosomal STR study2
Changes in the prevalence of undernutrition, overweight and obesity in children and adolescents from Buenos Aires, Mendoza, and Misiones provinces (Argentina) over the last two decades2
COVID ‐19 and India's vulnerable indigenous populations2
Energy intake and expenditure in children and adolescents, contributions of biological maturity2
Adverse heat‐health outcomes and critical environmental limits (Pennsylvania State University Human Environmental Age Thresholds project)2
Reliability of field‐ and laboratory‐based assessments of health‐related fitness in preschool‐aged children2
A critical biocultural approach to early growth in the United States2
Deconstructing sex differences in C‐reactive protein trends over time2
Pregnancy outcomes among evacuees of the Sinabung volcano, 2010–2018 (North Sumatra, Indonesia): A matched cohort study2
The mediating role of visceral adiposity in the relationship among schooling, physical inactivity, and unhealthy metabolic phenotype2
Forced migration and integration ‐ comparison of physical fitness of children from Poland and Ukraine as an indicator of general health2
Obesogenic environment around schools is associated with atherogenic risk in Brazilian children2
Theoretical constraints: Science, caretaking, and the creation of normative ideals2
Growth patterns of normo‐nourished Afghan, Haitian and Congolese children aged 6–59 months: A comparative study2
Association among length of residence, physical activity, and obesity in the US immigrants: A regression‐based mediation analysis2
Body mass estimation for circum‐Pacific Asian people based on somatometric data2
Movement behaviors in short versus adequate nocturnal sleepers: A compositional analysis of preschoolers2
Cardiovascular risk factors across different levels of urbanization in Brazilian Afro‐derived communities (quilombos)2
Digit ratio (2D:4D) is not related to cardiovascular diseases or their risk factors in menopausal women2
Body norms and normative bodies in Highland Guatemala2
When is sitting height a better measure of adult body size than total height, and why? The contrasting examples of body mass, waist circumference, and lung volume2
Thermoregulation of Tuvan pastoralists and Western Europeans during cold exposure2
Effects of spot size on biomarker levels of field‐collected dried blood spots: A new algorithm for exact dried blood spot size measurement2
Scoliosis and skeletal muscle mass are strongly associated with low back pain‐related disability in humans: An evolutionary anthropology point of view2
Influence of sociodemographic factors in birth seasonality in Spain2
Reference percentiles for tri‐ponderal mass index and its association with general and abdominal obesity among Iranian children and adolescents: A report from the SHED LIGHT study2
Nutritional status, intestinal parasitic infections, and socio‐environmental conditions in Mbyá‐guaraní children: The current situation in communities incentral Misiones, Argentina2
Changing body norms in the context of increasing body size: Samoa in 1995 and 20182
Effects of caste, birth season, and family income on digit ratios2
Validity and reliability of Meu Educativo®: A new tool to assess fundamental movement skills in school‐aged children2
Use of joinpoint regressions to evaluate changes over time in conscript height2
Skeletal manifestations of disease experience: Length of illness and porous cranial lesion formation in a contemporary juvenile mortality sample2
Testosterone deficiency and the risk of anemia: A propensity score–matched analysis2
Salivary secretory immunoglobulin A variation between female varsity athletes and nonathletes2
Familial allomaternal care exposure is predictive of infant development2
Does age estimated from teeth forming in different early life periods show differential discrepancy with known age?2
The relationship between 2D:4D ratio and postpartum adult female variables in a Ghanaian population2
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