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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Challenging the binary: Gender/sex and the bio‐logics of normalcy70
Prediction of maturity offset and age at peak height velocity in a longitudinal series of boys and girls24
Objective and subjective measurement of sedentary behavior in human adults: A toolkit24
Biocultural approaches to transgender and gender diverse experience and health: Integrating biomarkers and advancing gender/sex research23
Pearl lecture: Biological normalcy: A new framework for biocultural analysis of human population variation22
A biosocial return to race? A cautionary view for the postgenomic era22
A highly sensitive multiplex immunoassay for inflammatory cytokines in dried blood spots22
Biologically normal sleep in the mother‐infant dyad21
Intention to have a second child, family support and actual fertility behavior in current China: An evolutionary perspective20
Want climate‐change adaptation? Evolutionary theory can help19
Centering human milk composition as normal human biological variation18
Mental health in academia: Hacks for cultivating and sustaining wellbeing17
What is normal, healthy growth? Global health, human biology, and parental perspectives17
The relationship between digit ratio (2D:4D) and muscular fitness: A systematic review and meta‐analysis17
What is normal bone health? A bioarchaeological perspective on meaningful measures and interpretations of bone strength, loss, and aging16
Human adaptation to climate change: An introduction to the special issue16
Stunting is the natural condition of human height15
Human biological variation and the “normal”14
One size does not fit all. How universal standards for normal height can hide deprivation and create false paradoxes14
Trends in obesity and severe obesity prevalence in the United States from 1999 to 201814
Social memory and niche construction in a hypervariable environment13
Associations between maternal socioeconomic, psychosocial and seasonal factors, infant characteristics and human milk cortisol concentrations13
Brown adipose tissue thermogenesis among young adults in northeastern Siberia and Midwest United States and its relationship with other biological adaptations to cold climates12
Human neonates prefer colostrum to mature milk: Evidence for an olfactory bias toward the “initial milk”?12
Hotter and sicker: External energy expenditure and the tangled evolutionary roots of anthropogenic climate change and chronic disease12
Reindeer herders from subarctic Finland exhibit high total energy expenditure and low energy intake during the autumn herd roundup12
Short‐term fetal nutritional stress and long‐term health: Child height11
Maternal physical, socioeconomic, and demographic characteristics and childbirth complications in rural lowland Nepal: Applying an evolutionary framework to understand the role of phenotypic plasticit11
Transient refugees' social support, mental health, and physiological markers: Evidence from Serbian asylum centers11
Linking subsistence harvest diversity and productivity to adaptive capacity in an Alaskan food sharing network11
Applying minimally invasive biomarkers of chronic stress across complex ecological contexts11
Mind the gap: Contesting normal/abnormal constructs of human biology and behaviors10
Extreme climatic events and human biology and health: A primer and opportunities for future research10
Weather permitting: Increased seasonal efficiency of nonshivering thermogenesis through brown adipose tissue activation in the winter10
High expression levels of circulating microRNA‐122 and microRNA‐222 are associated with obesity in children with Mayan ethnicity10
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 contexts10
Anthropometric measures do not explain the 2D:4D ratio sexual dimorphism in 7‐year‐old children10
Taking the sleep lab to the field: Biometric techniques for quantifying sleep and circadian rhythms in humans10
Fine motor skills and motor control networking in developmental age10
Reproductive hormone measurement from minimally invasive sample types: Methodological considerations and anthropological importance10
Skeletal manifestations of disease experience: Length of illness and porous cranial lesion formation in a contemporary juvenile mortality sample10
Fear, violence, inequality, and stunting in Guatemala9
Comparing different sample collection and storage methods for field‐based skin microbiome research9
A preliminary analysis of the secondary sex ratio decline after the COVID‐19 pandemic in Japan9
Maternal hair cortisol concentrations across pregnancy and the early postpartum period in a Puerto Rican sample9
The color of normal: How a Eurocentric focus erases pigmentation complexity9
Biophysical evidence to support and extend the vitamin D‐folate hypothesis as a paradigm for the evolution of human skin pigmentation9
Measuring food insecurity: An introduction to tools for human biologists and ecologists8
Validity and reliability of Meu Educativo®: A new tool to assess fundamental movement skills in school‐aged children8
How can evolutionary and biological anthropologists engage broader audiences?8
Differences in maternal and early child nutritional status by offspring sex in lowland Nepal8
Sexual dimorphism in deciduous tooth crown size: Variability within and between groups8
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 ch8
After Theranos: Using point‐of‐care testing to advance measures of health biomarkers in human biology research8
Low birth weight and its relation to physical fitness parameters in children: Its negative effect on muscle strength and cardiorespiratory endurance8
Demystifying mentorship: Tips for successfully navigating the mentor–mentee journey8
Obese individuals do not underreport dietary intake to a greater extent than nonobese individuals when data are allometrically‐scaled8
More voices are always better: Tackling power differentials in knowledge production and access in human biology8
Magnitude and spatial distribution of food and nutrition security during the COVID‐19 pandemic in Tucumán (Argentina)7
The role of dietary calcium in the etiology of childhood rickets in the past and the present7
Recognizing normal reproductive biology: A comparative analysis of variability in menstrual cycle biomarkers in German and Bolivian women7
Coping mechanisms during the COVID‐19 pandemic and lockdown in metropolitan Johannesburg, South Africa: A qualitative study7
Parental incarceration and child physical health outcomes from infancy to adulthood: A critical review and multilevel model of potential pathways7
Water insecurity, self‐reported physical health, and objective measures of biological health in the Peruvian Amazon6
Current and future applications of biomarkers in samples collected through minimally invasive methods for cancer medicine and population‐based research6
Regional variation in growth status. The Peruvian health and optimist growth study6
Opportunities and constraints in women's resource security amid climate change: A case study of arid‐living Namibian agro‐pastoralists6
Ecoimmunology in the field: Measuring multiple dimensions of immune function with minimally invasive, field‐adapted techniques6
Body surface area equations for physically active men and women6
Cardiovascular diseases display etiological and seasonal trend in human population: Evidence from seasonal cardiovascular comorbid diseases (SCCD) index6
Body height, weight, and Body Mass Index – magnitude and pace of secular changes in children and adolescents from Kraków (Poland) between 1983 and 20206
Scoliosis and skeletal muscle mass are strongly associated with low back pain‐related disability in humans: An evolutionary anthropology point of view6
Measuring attack on self: The need for field‐friendly methods development and research on autoimmunity in human biology6
Analysis of secular trends in physical fitness of children and adolescents (8–18 years) from Kraków (Poland) between 2010 and 20206
Selection in utero against male twins in the United States early in the COVID‐19 pandemic6
Toolkit article: Approaches to measuring social inequities in health in human biology research6
Birth weight and body composition in 6‐to‐8 years old Maya children5
Human cold adaptation: An unfinished agenda v2.05
Influence of ecoregional and lifestyle factors on growth and body composition of Indian children and adolescents aged 9–18 years—A multicenter study5
Comparative analysis of the growth and development differences of children and adolescents between developed and undeveloped urban and rural areas in China5
Sex differences in adipose development in a hunter‐gatherer population5
The association between the 2D:4D ratio and offspring sex at birth: A cross‐sectional study in Ghana5
Impact of modernization on urinary concentrations of arsenic, cadmium, lead, and selenium in rural residents of Northern Laos5
The impact of winter warming and more frequent icing events on reindeer herder occupational safety, health, and wellbeing5
Reliability of biological maturation analyses performed by equations predicting skeletal age and peak height velocity with hand and wrist X‐ray results5
Segmented physical activity and sedentary behavior patterns among children in Maasai village and Nairobi city5
Sleep duration is related to increased mortality risk through white blood cell counts in a large national sample5
Athletes in sporting events with upper‐body gripping movements have greater handgrip strength than those in sporting events that prioritize the lower body5
Association of household fuel use with hypertension and blood pressure among adult women in rural Bangladesh: A cross‐sectional study5
Cross‐cultural variation in thirst perception in hot‐humid and hot‐arid environments: Evidence from two small‐scale populations5
The role of body height as a co‐factor of excess weight in Switzerland5
Visceral adiposity index is a better predictor to discriminate metabolic syndrome than other classical adiposity indices among young adults5
Uniparental origins of the admixed Argentine Patagonia5
COVID ‐19 and India's vulnerable indigenous populations5
Trends in growth and developmental tempo in boys aged 7 to 18 years between 1966 and 2012 in Poland5
When the flood passes, does health return? A short panel examining water and food insecurity, nutrition, and disease after an extreme flood in lowland Bolivia5
Associations between early marriage and preterm delivery: Evidence from lowland Nepal5
The dietary impacts of drought in a traditional pastoralist economy5
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 study5
Biocultural pathways linking periodontal disease expression to food insecurity, immune dysregulation, and nutrition5
Association of sleep duration with underweight and obesity in older adults: A cross‐sectional study of the Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey4
MULT: A new BMI reference to assess nutritional status of multi‐ethnic children and adolescents4
The relationship between the digit ratio (2D:4D) and vertical jump performance in young athletes4
Associations between different heart rate variability ratios and cardiometabolic risk factors in young adults4
Nutritional status, intestinal parasitic infections, and socio‐environmental conditions in Mbyá‐guaraní children: The current situation in communities incentral Misiones, Argentina4
DHEAS and nutritional status among Sidama, Ngandu, and Aka children: Effects of cortisol and implications for adrenarche4
What is normal body weight? Perceptions around “average” and “healthy” body weight among adolescents in Indiana4
Assessment of skeletal age in youth female soccer players: Agreement between Greulich‐Pyle and Fels protocols4
Family characteristics, perceived environment for physical activity, and childhood obesity: An approach with structural equation models4
Pelvic and neonatal size correlations in light of evolutionary hypotheses4
Relationship between body mass index and physical fitness index in Chinese college students: Results from a cross‐sectional survey4
Minimally invasive biomarkers in human and non‐human primate evolutionary biology: Tools for understanding variation and adaptation4
Agreement between bioimpedance analysis and ultrasound scanning in body composition assessment4
Overweight and obesity in adulthood, sociodemographic factors, lifestyle, and the early burden of noncommunicable diseases among Americans: NHANES 2007–20184
Changes in body weight and body composition during the menstrual cycle4
Influence of sociodemographic factors in birth seasonality in Spain4
Energetic costs of testosterone in two subsistence populations4
Body composition helps: Differences in energy expenditure between pregnant and nonpregnant females4
Maternal stress and hair cortisol among pregnant women following hurricane Florence4
Repeatability of adaptive traits among ethnic Tibetan highlanders4
Secular trends in the anthropometric characteristics of children in a rural community in Yucatan, Mexico4
Ancient DNA analysis reveals temporal and geographical patterns of mitochondrial diversity in pre‐Hispanic populations from Central Argentina4
MULT: New height references and their efficiency in multi‐ethnic populations4
Economic impacts and nutritional outcomes of the 2017 floods in Bangladeshi Shodagor fishing families4
Body adiposity index to analyze the percentage of fat in young men aged between 7 and 17 years4
Low prevalence of anemia among Shuar communities of Amazonian Ecuador4
Effects of spot size on biomarker levels of field‐collected dried blood spots: A new algorithm for exact dried blood spot size measurement4
Facial cues to physical strength are not always associated with facial masculinity: Comparative study of Europeans and Southern Siberians4
Physical activity levels among the adults of Majha region of Punjab, India: A cross‐sectional study4
Vitamin D deficiency and insufficiency in Hawaii: Levels and sources of serum vitamin D in older adults4
Neighborhood obesogenic environment and cardiometabolic risk in Brazilian children: The mediation role of the mother's body mass index4
Changes in maternal anthropometric measurements in the first postpartum month and associated factors4
Validation of predictive equations to estimate resting metabolic rate of females and males across different activity levels3
Child, caretaker, and community: Testing predictors of anemia and response to iron supplementation in Peruvian preschool‐aged children3
Radioulnar contrasts in fingerprint ridge counts: Searching for dermatoglyphic markers of early sex development3
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 decades3
Regional variation in growth status: A cross‐sectional survey among Tibetan adolescents living at three different high altitudes in Tibet, China3
Age variation in blood pressure: Rural–urban and sex differences among the Hmar adults of Manipur, Northeast India3
Not a matter of shape: The influence of tool characteristics on electrodermal activity in response to haptic exploration of Lower Palaeolithic tools3
Comparison of handgrip strength values in young children when using two different types of dynamometers3
Body adiposity measures and risk of adolescent hypertension among the postpubescents Northeast India3
Growth patterns of normo‐nourished Afghan, Haitian and Congolese children aged 6–59 months: A comparative study3
The circadian rhythm of calcium and bone homeostasis in Maasai3
Risk factors associated with weak and asymmetric handgrip strength in older Chinese adults3
Ultra‐processed food and homemade fried food consumption is associated with overweight/obesity in Latin American university students during COVID‐193
The Great Recession weighted on Portuguese children: A structural equation modeling approach considering eating patterns3
Understanding the devastating second wave of COVID‐19 pandemic in India3
Influence of climatic stress on nonmetric sexually dimorphic features of the skull and pelvis3
Adverse heat‐health outcomes and critical environmental limits (Pennsylvania State University Human Environmental Age Thresholds project)3
Body size and weight status of adult Indian males born in the 1890s–1950s: Age and secular change in the context of demographic, economic, and political transformation3
Association among length of residence, physical activity, and obesity in the US immigrants: A regression‐based mediation analysis3
Sexual stature difference fluctuations in pre‐ andpost‐BlackDeath London as an indicator of living standards3
Skeletal maturation in male elite youth athletes from the Middle East3
Testosterone deficiency and the risk of anemia: A propensity score–matched analysis3
Human milk immune factors, maternal nutritional status, and infant sex: The INSPIRE study3
Reliability of field‐ and laboratory‐based assessments of health‐related fitness in preschool‐aged children3
Understanding the genetic history of Malay populations in Peninsular Malaysia via KIR genes diversity3
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 study3
Investigating the normalization and normative views of gestational weight gain: Balancing recommendations with the promotion and support of healthy pregnancy diets3
The pace of secular changes of body measurements of children and adolescents from Kolkata (India) in the context of socioeconomic inequalities between the sexes3
#Hackademics: Hacks toward success in academia3
The impact of COVID‐19 on the number of births in Yucatan, Mexico3
Interactions with alloparents are associated with the diversity of infant skin and fecal bacterial communities in Chicago, United States3
Does age estimated from teeth forming in different early life periods show differential discrepancy with known age?3
Cardiovascular disease risk factors distribution and clustering across different geographic levels in Nepal3
The utility of dried blood spot measurement of bone turnover markers in biological anthropology3
A longitudinal study of handgrip strength asymmetry3
Global variations in eruption chronology of permanent teeth: A systematic review and meta‐analysis3
Theoretical constraints: Science, caretaking, and the creation of normative ideals3
Variability of C‐reactive protein in first‐generation Ecuadorian immigrants living in the United States3
Human adaptation to cold and warm climatic conditions: A comparison between two geographically diverse Indigenous populations3
Severe cyclones and sex‐specific birth outcomes in Queensland, Australia: An interrupted time‐series analysis3
Changes in blood pressure, oxygen saturation, hemoglobin concentration, and heart rate among low‐altitude migrants living at high altitude (5380 m) for 360 days3
MC1R diversity and its role in skin pigmentation variation in West Maharashtra, India3
What is the best anthropometric predictor for identifying higher risk for cardiovascular diseases in afro‐descendant Brazilian women? A cross‐sectional population‐based study3
Body norms, body image, and media in a market‐integrating indigenous population in Argentina: A mixed‐methods investigation3
Contributions of evolutionary anthropology to understanding climate‐induced human migration3
Associations between autoimmune dysfunction and pollutants in Akwesasne Mohawk women: Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane and polychlorinated biphenyl exposure3
What is health? Allostasis and the evolution of human design. PeterSterlingCambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 20203
Human milk lactoferrin variation in relation to maternal inflammation and iron deficiency in northern Kenya3
Secular changes in the waist, hips circumferences and selected associated indicators, among preschool children from Kraków (Poland), between 1983 and 20183
Anthropometric parameters to estimate body frame size in children and adolescents: A systematic review3
Relationship between rs9939609 FTO polymorphism with waist circumference and body fat is moderated by ponderal index at birth in youth3
Infant eating behaviors and Milk feeding independently predict infant size3
Forced migration and integration ‐ comparison of physical fitness of children from Poland and Ukraine as an indicator of general health2
Effect of COVID‐19 pandemic on lifestyle and bone mineral density in young adults2
Pregnancy outcomes among evacuees of the Sinabung volcano, 2010–2018 (North Sumatra, Indonesia): A matched cohort study2
Do vasomotor and genitourinary symptoms of menopause vary between sedente and migrant groups? A study on the Oraon tribal populations of Eastern India2
Paternal genetic structure of the Bosnian‐Herzegovinian Roma: A Y‐chromosomal STR study2
Mitochondrial genetic variation in human bioenergetics, adaptation, and adult disease2
Directly measured aerobic fitness in male Maasai of Tanzania2
Indication of mixed glucose and fatty acid use by inferred brown adipose tissue activity in Samoans2
Association between muscle strength and executive function in Tibetan adolescents at high altitude in China: Results from a cross‐sectional study at 16–18 years of age2
The impact of kin proximity on net marital fertility and maternal survival in Sweden 1900–1910—Evidence for cooperative breeding in a societal context of nuclear families, or just contextual correlati2
Multiple births and low birth weight: Evidence from South Korea2
Testing the buffering hypothesis: Breastfeeding problems, cessation, and social support in the UK2
Individual and school correlates of body mass index and cardiorespiratory fitness in primary school children from the REACT project: A multivariate multilevel analysis2
Consequences of delayed care during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Emerging research and new lines of inquiry for human biologists and anthropologists2
Association betweenFTO(rs17817449) genetic variant, gamma‐glutamyl transferase, and hypertension in Slovak midlife women2
The relationship between 2D:4D ratio and postpartum adult female variables in a Ghanaian population2
Sexual orientation‐based disparities in bone health: Evidence of reduced bone mineral density and mineral content among sexual minority men but not women in multiple NHANES waves2
Individual measures of social support may have limited impact on physiological parameters among elderly Kuwaitis2
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The Portuguese economic crisis is associated with socioeconomic and sex disparities on children's health‐related behaviors and obesity: A cross‐sectional study2
Compliance with the 24‐h movement behaviors guidelines among urban and rural Brazilian preschoolers2
Deconstructing sex differences in C‐reactive protein trends over time2
Genetic variants of PON1, GSTM1, GSTT1, and locus 9p21.3, and the risk for premature coronary artery disease in Yucatan, Mexico2
Comparison of passive drool and cotton‐based collection methods for salivary C‐reactive protein measurement2
The effect of shift work on body mass index: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of observational studies2
Bilateral asymmetry in arm anthropometric measurements according to laterality and nutritional status in children and adolescents from 6 to 12 years old2
Physical attractiveness and cardiometabolic risk2
Effects of caste, birth season, and family income on digit ratios2
The change in handgrip strength, after physical exercise, is moderated by digit ratio (2D:4D): A study among the young adults in Poland2
A single bout of breast milk expression does not increase resting metabolic rate2
Does obesity mediate the relationship between diabetes and osteoporosis in Chinese elderly population?2
Sleep duration in middle childhood and age at menarche2
Abstracts2
Secular trends in height, weight, and body mass index in the context of economic and political transformations in Russia from 1885 to 20212
Uncertainty in a globalizing world. Livelihood and fertility variance increases in response to rapid change2
DNA polymorphisms associated with lactase persistence, self‐perceived symptoms of lactose intolerance, milk and dairy consumption, and ancestry, in the Uruguayan population2
Sex differences and shifts in body composition, physical activity, and total energy expenditure across a 3‐month expedition2
Perception of strength, attractiveness and aggressiveness of Maasai male faces calibrated to handgrip strength: Evidence from a European sample2
Movement behaviors in short versus adequate nocturnal sleepers: A compositional analysis of preschoolers2
Tibial cortical and trabecular variables together can pinpoint the timing of impact loading relative to menarche in premenopausal females2
Maternal–infant interaction quality is associated with child NR3C1 CpG site methylation at 7 years of age2
A critical biocultural approach to early growth in the United States2
Effects of exercise on whole‐blood transcriptome profile in children with overweight/obesity2
Association between infectious exposures in infancy and epigenetic age acceleration in young adulthood in metropolitan Cebu, Philippines2
Obesogenic environment around schools is associated with atherogenic risk in Brazilian children2
Secular trends and spatial network effect on the height of Chinese adult adolescents from 1985 to 20192
Sex segregation in strength sports: Do equal‐sized muscles express the same levels of strength between sexes?2
Does the immune system of milk increase activity for infants experiencing infectious disease episodes in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania?2
Sibling rivalry between twins in utero and childhood: Evidence from birthweight and survival of 95 919 twin pairs in 72 low‐ and middle‐income countries2
Evidence and potential drivers of neglected parasitic helminth and protist infections among a small preliminary sample of children from rural Mississippi2
Trends in the prevalence of obesity, overweight, and thinness among schoolchildren aged 7–14 years from southern Brazil (2002–2019)2
Is age of menarche directly related to vitamin D levels?2
No association between developmental instability as a general measure of stress and2D:4Ddigit ratios in a non‐western sample2
Pearl Memorial Lecture. Humans at the extremes: Exploring human adaptation to ecological and social stressors2
Let's talk teaching: Progressive pedagogy in anthropology courses2
Body norms and normative bodies inHighland Guatemala2
Integrative approaches to dispersing science: A case study of March Mammal Madness2
Statistical analysis of the longitudinal fundamental movement skills data in the REACT project using the multilevel ordinal logistic model2
An increase in the developmental tempo affects the secular trend in height in male Austrian conscripts birth cohorts 1951–20022
Thermoregulation of Tuvan pastoralists and Western Europeans during cold exposure2
Ancestry and admixture of a southernmost Chilean population: The reflection of a migratory history2
Cardiovascular risk factors across different levels of urbanization in Brazilian Afro‐derived communities (quilombos)2
Finger ridge‐counts correlate with the second to fourth digit ratio (2d:4d)2
Enhancing the discussion on physical fitness assessment in preschool children: A focus on the PREFIT battery2
Body structural and cellular aging of women with low socioeconomic status in Hungary: A pilot study2
Dietary calcium versus vitamin D in rickets: A response to Vlok et al.2
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