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Papers

(The median citation count of Eating Disorders is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Importance of initial nutritional status in refeeding syndrome in children with anorexia nervosa	43
Recruitment and retention in the concealed weighing arm of a pilot study comparing weighing methods in the treatment of adults with anorexia nervosa: lessons learned	43
A qualitative investigation of tattooing as an adaptive appearance investment: positive body image and eating disorder recovery in a predominantly transgender and gender expansive sample	40
The nature and effects of psychotherapy clients’ nondisclosure of eating and body image concerns	39
Prevention of eating disorders: 2022 in review	22
Exploring clinician perspectives on the DSM-5 eating disorder severity ratings: a qualitative study	22
Interactions between emotion regulation and everyday flexibility in anorexia nervosa: Preliminary evidence of associations with clinical outcomes	20
A qualitative study of modifications and adaptations to an evidence-based prevention intervention during implementation on college campuses	19
Clinical ethics consultation for patients with eating disorders: a single center retrospective content analysis	19
Parents and caregivers as key players in the prevention and identification of body image concerns and eating disorders among early adolescents	18
“There is a paywall to my happiness”: the influence of socioeconomic determinants on transgender and gender diverse young adults’ experiences with eating disorders	18
Triggers for eating disorder onset in youth with anorexia nervosa across the weight spectrum	17
Self-compassion and body image inflexibility as mediators of outcomes in a residential eating disorder sample	16
Examining transdiagnostic factors among religious and spiritual individuals with comorbid eating disorders and post-traumatic stress disorders	16
Does hopelessness predict treatment outcomes in adults with binge-spectrum eating disorders?	16
Comparing illness duration and age as predictors of treatment outcome in female inpatients with anorexia nervosa	15
Clinical characterization of Co-morbid autoimmune disease and eating disorders: a retrospective chart review	13
The independent contribution of muscularity-oriented disordered eating to functional impairment and emotional distress in adult men and women	13
Values engagement as a predictor of eating disorder severity in a residential sample of female adolescents with eating disorders	12
Initial examination of virtual support groups as a resource for caregivers of individuals with eating disorders	12
Factors associated with probability of inpatient hospitalization in military-affiliated adolescents and young adults with eating disorders	11
Preliminary associations of body weight, weight bias, and dietary restriction with eating disorder diagnosis in women experiencing food insecurity	11
Associations between the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3 subscales and eating pathology	11
”Actually, let’s not give sick people any more ideas”: eating disorder recovery content on TikTok	11
Updates in the treatment of eating disorders in 2024: a year in review in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention	10

The protective role of positive body image on the associations between body objectification, disordered eating symptoms, and depression among Korean women	10
Longitudinal investigation of pain catastrophizing, pain intensity, and suicidal ideation in women receiving residential treatment for an eating disorder	9
Adult Eating Disorders Integrated Mental Health Service (AEDimhs): an evaluation of a new primary care intervention model	9
Does completion of 12 months of treatment show improved outcomes? A case series from an adult dialectical behaviour therapy programme for multi-diagnostic eating disorders (MED-DBT)	9
Partnerships with primary care providers: Opportunities to prevent eating disorders and mitigate their progression in young people	9
Introduction to the Special issue of Eating Disorders : a Proud Step Forward: Advancing Research on Body Image and Disordered Eating Among LGBTQ+ Populations	9
In-person and cyber sexual violence are common in young women who have eating disordered symptoms	9
The accuracy of early weight gain in predicting treatment outcome in a large outpatient sample of patients with anorexia nervosa	9
Experiences of discrimination in healthcare settings, trust in providers and disordered eating behaviors in LGBTQ+ college students	9
Dietary interventions in family-based treatment for eating disorders: results of a randomized comparative effectiveness study	9
Eating disorder virtual intensive outpatient program: patient satisfaction according to age group	8
Disentangling cognitive flexibility: a model-based assessment of women with anorexia nervosa	8
LGBTQ+ outpatients present to eating disorder treatment earlier and with more severe depressive symptoms than cisgender heterosexual peers	8
Pride and body image among transgender and nonbinary adults: the mediating role of body appreciation between gender identity pride and intuitive eating	8
The effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on perceived stress, rumination, and distress tolerance in women with Bulimia Nervosa	8
Ayahuasca ceremony leaders’ perspectives on special considerations for eating disorders	7
Cognitive flexibility and emotion regulation in eating disorder patients with comorbid generalized anxiety and posttraumatic stress symptoms	7
Psychotropic medication prescribed for children and young people with eating disorders in mental health in-patient services: a quality improvement programme	7
Using clinical cutoff scores on the eating disorder examination-questionnaire to evaluate eating disorder symptoms during and after naturalistic intensive treatment	7
Preventing eating pathology among elite adolescent ballet dancers: a pilot trial of the Athlete Body Project	7
The relationship between emotion regulation difficulties and eating disorder outcomes: a longitudinal examination in a residential eating disorder treatment facility	6
Examining the association of eating psychopathology with suicidality: Comparing cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of interpersonal-psychological mediators	6
Is sleep disturbance associated with treatment outcome among individuals with binge-spectrum eating disorders? A preliminary study	6
Peer mentors’ experiences of delivering peer support for individuals with eating disorders: giving back and supporting processes of change	6
The impact of intuitive eating on the association between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and disordered eating among women who have experienced intimate partner violence (IPV)	6
Emotion dysregulation and thinness- and muscularity-oriented eating disorder symptoms in Chinese transgender and gender-diverse adults: a network perspective	6
Losing, gaining, or staying the same: how do different weight change attempts relate to muscle dysmorphia and eating disorder symptoms across genders?	6
The effect of eHealth-based guided self help interventions for binge eating disorder : a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	6
Complex posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and anorexia nervosa manifestations. Dissociative symptoms and emotion dysregulation as explanatory mechanisms	6
Enhancing understanding of social media literacy to better inform prevention of body image and eating disorders	6
Eating behaviours and personality characteristics of clinicians and researchers working in eating disorders	6
Treatment adherence and nasogastric tube use in hospitalized youth with anorexia nervosa and premorbid overweight/obesity	5
Global, regional, and national secular trends in the burden of anorexia nervosa, 1990–2019: a joinpoint and age-period-cohort analysis for the global burden of disease 2019	5
Mental health facilities with eating disorder treatment programs and substance use disorder treatment in the United States	5
Eating disorders are more closely associated with bipolar disorder than with major depressive disorder	5
Online dialectical behavior therapy for binge eating disorder: an open trial	5
Measuring eating disorders in Autistic people: a proposal for future research	5
Binge eating age of onset, frequency, and associated emotional distress among women aged 60 years and over	5
Measuring disordered eating in adolescent boys: a systematic literature review	5
Development of a gender-affirming care protocol in eating disorder treatment settings	5
In memoriam: Leigh Cohn	5
Elevated fullness and bloating as correlates of eating pathology: Implications for screening	5
Prevalence of non-suicidal self-injury, suicidal ideation, suicide attempts, suicide mortality in eating disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Understanding eating disorder symptoms in adolescents: testing a cognitive-behavioural model of eating disorders in a community sample	4
Associations between eating disorders and difficulties with emotion regulation in a sample of adolescent boys and young adult men	4
Self-compassion promotes positive mental health in women with anorexia nervosa: A two-week daily diary study	4
Exploring the internal medicine comorbidities associated with eating disorders: correlation between disease severity and cardiac abnormalities in adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa	4
The role of sexual assault history and PTSD in responses to food intake among women with bulimic-spectrum eating disorders	4
Developing a justice-focused body image program for U.S. middle schoolers: a school-based community-engaged research process	4
Self-objectification and eating disorder psychopathology in women: the mediating role of rumination	4

A qualitative analysis of relationship advice from the perspective of people living with and recovering from eating disorders while in diverse romantic relationships	4
Updates in the treatment of eating disorders in 2023: a year in review in eating disorders: the Journal of treatment & Prevention	4
Post-traumatic stress symptoms in parents of adolescents hospitalized with Anorexia nervosa	4
Investigating differences in cognitive flexibility, clinical perfectionism, and eating disorder-specific rumination across anorexia nervosa illness states	3
Future directions for equity-centered body image and eating disorders prevention work	3
Family-based treatment takes longer for adolescents with mental health comorbidities: findings from a community mental health service	3
Refining the evidence base of cognitive behavioral therapy for binge eating disorder: methodological considerations	3
From stopgap to opportunity: outcomes across age groups in an intentionally designed, remote eating disorder treatment program	3
Anhedonia in cognitive behavioral therapy for binge eating spectrum disorders	3
How to assess eating disorder severity in males?The DSM-5 severity index versus severity based on drive for thinness	3
PTSD symptoms as a potential mediator of associations between military sexual assault and disordered eating	3
A pilot randomized trial of the body advocacy movement: a novel, dissonance-based intervention designed to target fear of weight gain and anti-fat bias in young adults	3
An exploratory examination of delay discounting in women and girls diagnosed with an eating disorder	3
Waiting list intervention for adolescents with anorexia nervosa	3
The impact of incorporating an eating disorder screening tool and an eating disorder diagnostic workshop in outpatient general psychiatry settings in publicly insured populations: a case series	3
Severe and enduring anorexia nervosa and the proposed “Terminal anorexia” category: an expanded meta synthesis	3
The impact of open versus closed weighing on rate of weight gain and length of stay among inpatients with anorexia nervosa	3
Implementation of Family-Based Treatment for Primary Care in a novel healthcare system: description of the adaptation process	3
Examining the roles of reward sensitivity and difficulties in emotion regulation in relation to low-restraint binge eating	3
Is eating disorders a risk agent for all-cause mortality: a meta-analysis	3
Body image distress and disordered eating among gay and straight men from Greece and Cyprus	3
Differential effects of community involvement on eating disorder prevention outcomes in sexual minority men	3
Examining eating pathology and psychosocial functioning across subjective eating disorder recovery stages in sexual and gender minority individuals	3
Weight status is associated with clinical characteristics among individuals with bulimia nervosa	3
Eating disorders: the journal of treatment and prevention 2023 year in review statement from the editors celebrating 30 years and a commitment to lived experience inclusion	3
An evaluation of lived experience email peer support for young people with eating disorders	2
Mentalizing ability in acute and remitted anorexia nervosa	2
Investigating longitudinal bidirectional associations between appearance comparisons to fitspiration content on Instagram, positive and negative body image, and dietary restraint	2
Enhancing assessment for eating disorders: the impact of a podcast-based pre-treatment psychoeducation intervention	2
Updates in the treatment of Eating Disorders in 2022: a year in review in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment & Prevention	2
Investigating the factor structure of the Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDE-Q) in a clinical sample of patients with eating disorders in Mexico	2
Building the representation of male mental health professionals in eating disorder treatment	2
The need for more inclusive measurement to advance equity in eating disorders prevention	2
Can CBT-E be delivered in an online group format? A pilot study of the Body Image module in a child and adolescent eating disorder service	2
Eating disorder treatment experiences among racially/ethnically minoritized samples	2
Clinician bodies in eating disorder services: a commentary	2
Prevention of eating disorders: 2025 in review	2
A case-control study of potentially traumatic events in Mexican individuals with eating disorders	2
Identifying mechanistic links between sleep disturbance and binge eating: the role of depressed mood	2
Disordered eating instruments in the pregnancy cohort: a systematic review update	2
Clinical characteristics of medically hospitalized youth with anorexia nervosa/atypical anorexia nervosa and premorbid overweight/obesity	2
Distinct profiles of university students engaged in food and alcohol disturbance behaviors	2
Digital guided self-help for eating disorders: thematic analysis of participant text messages to coaches	2
Sexual minority stressors and disordered eating behaviors in daily life: a daily diary study of sexual minority cisgender female couples	2
Stress, hardiness and eating disorder symptoms in military academy cadets	2