OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Eating Disorders Review is 7. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID‐19 and implications for eating disorders	293
Duration of untreated eating disorder and relationship to outcomes: A systematic review of the literature	107
Effects of COVID‐19 lockdown on eating disorders and obesity: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	98
Children and adolescents with eating disorders during COVID‐19 confinement: Difficulties and future challenges	97
Comparing eating behaviours, and symptoms of depression and anxiety between Spain and Greece during the COVID‐19 outbreak: Cross‐sectional analysis of two different confinement strategies	79
COVID‐19 and eating disorders during confinement: Analysis of factors associated with resilience and aggravation of symptoms	72
A systematic review of network analysis studies in eating disorders: Is time to broaden the core psychopathology to non specific symptoms	65
Exploring the ways in which COVID‐19 and lockdown has affected the lives of adult patients with anorexia nervosa and their carers	63
Bulimia nervosa in times of the COVID‐19 pandemic—Results from an online survey of former inpatients	58
COVID Isolation Eating Scale (CIES): Analysis of the impact of confinement in eating disorders and obesity—A collaborative international study	54
Eating behaviour and symptom trajectories in patients with a history of binge eating disorder during COVID‐19 pandemic	48
Prevalence of food addiction determined by the Yale Food Addiction Scale and associated factors: A systematic review with meta‐analysis	44
Assessing the impact of First Episode Rapid Early Intervention for Eating Disorders on duration of untreated eating disorder: A multi‐centre quasi‐experimental study	40
The impact of duration of illness on treatment nonresponse and drop‐out: Exploring the relevance of enduring eating disorder concept	40
Transdiagnostic vulnerability factors in eating disorders: A network analysis	38
‘Therapists in action’—Home treatment in adolescent anorexia nervosa: A stepped care approach to shorten inpatient treatment	33
Time to make a change: A call for more experimental research on key mechanisms in anorexia nervosa	31
Optimising care pathways for adult anorexia nervosa. What is the evidence to guide the provision of high‐quality, cost‐effective services?	30
Comorbid depression as a negative predictor of weight gain during treatment of anorexia nervosa: A systematic scoping review	30
Early maladaptive schemas in eating disorders: A systematic review	27
Emotional traumatic experiences significantly contribute to identify a maltreated ecophenotype sub‐group in eating disorders: Experimental evidence	26
What do we know about the epidemiology of avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder in children and adolescents? A systematic review of the literature	24
Heart rate variability as a biomarker for anorexia nervosa: A review	24
The value of including families in the treatment of anorexia nervosa	23
The relationship between perfectionism and eating‐related symptoms in adolescents: A systematic review	23

Weight bias and linguistic body representation in anorexia nervosa: Findings from the BodyTalk project	23
Inpatient treatment of anorexia nervosa in adolescents: A 1‐year follow‐up study	22
Lifetime patterns of comorbidity in eating disorders: An approach using sequence analysis	22
Treatment outcomes of psychotherapy for binge‐eating disorder in a randomized controlled trial: Examining the roles of childhood abuse and post‐traumatic stress disorder	21
Cognitive improvement following weight gain in patients with anorexia nervosa: A systematic review	21
Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder: Psychopathological similarities and differences in comparison to anorexia nervosa and the general population	21
The efficacy of virtual reality in the treatment of binge‐purging eating disorders: A meta‐analysis	21
The effects of probiotics administration on the gut microbiome in adolescents with anorexia nervosa—A study protocol for a longitudinal, double‐blind, randomized, placebo‐controlled trial	20
Autistic characteristics in eating disorders: Treatment adaptations and impact on clinical outcomes	20
Detection, treatment, and course of eating disorders in Finland: A population‐based study of adolescent and young adult females and males	20
Length of stay for anorexia nervosa: Systematic review and meta‐analysis	19
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) and obesity. Impact of obesity and its main comorbidities in the evolution of the disease	19
Drive for thinness provides an alternative, more meaningful, severity indicator than the DSM‐5 severity indices for eating disorders	18
A framework for conceptualising early intervention for eating disorders	18
Depressive symptoms rather than executive functioning predict group cognitive behavioural therapy outcome in binge eating disorder	18
Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation treatment in severe, enduring anorexia nervosa: An open longer‐term follow‐up	18
Conventional weight loss interventions across the different BMI obesity classes: A systematic review and quantitative comparative analysis	17
Can you find the right support for children, adolescents and young adults with anorexia nervosa: Access to age‐appropriate care systems in various healthcare systems	17
Intolerance of uncertainty and maladaptive perfectionism as maintenance factors for eating disorders and obsessive‐compulsive disorder symptoms	16
Feeling imperfect and imperfectly feeling: A network analysis on perfectionism, interoceptive sensibility, and eating symptomatology in anorexia nervosa	16
No addiction transfer from preoperative food addiction to other addictive behaviors during the first year after bariatric surgery	16
Early intervention in child and adolescent eating disorders: The role of a parenting group	16
Driving better intervention outcomes in eating disorders: A systematic synthesis of research priority setting and the involvement of consumer input	15
Brain white matter microstructure in obese women with binge eating disorder	15
Pilot assessment of a virtual intensive outpatient program for adults with eating disorders	15
Machine learning to advance the prediction, prevention and treatment of eating disorders	14
BED‐online: Acceptance and efficacy of an internet‐based treatment for binge‐eating disorder: A randomized clinical trial including waitlist conditions	14
The social responsiveness scale is an efficient screening tool for autism spectrum disorder traits in adults with anorexia nervosa	14
Outcomes of brief and enhanced cognitive‐behavioural therapy for adults with non‐underweight eating disorders: A non‐randomized comparison	14
Neuropsychological and clinical findings of Cognitive Remediation Therapy feasibility randomised controlled trial in young people with anorexia nervosa	14
Provisional posttraumatic stress disorder is associated with greater severity of eating disorder and comorbid symptoms in adolescents treated in residential care	14
Effectiveness and influencing factors of online education for caregivers of patients with eating disorders during COVID‐19 pandemic in China	13
Effectiveness of exercise‐based interventions in patients with anorexia nervosa: A systematic review	13
A novel approach for autism spectrum condition patients with eating disorders: Analysis of treatment cost‐savings	13
Where does purging disorder lie on the symptomatologic and personality continuum when compared to other eating disorder subtypes? Implications for the DSM	13
A systematic review: Solutions to problems caused by age transition between eating disorder services	12
The landscape of eating disorders research: A 40‐year bibliometric analysis	12
“If she had broken her leg she would not have waited in agony for 9 months”: Caregiver's experiences of eating disorder treatment	12
Self‐defining memories in female patients with anorexia nervosa	12
Self‐disgust and disgust sensitivity are increased in anorexia nervosa inpatients, but only self‐disgust mediates between comorbid and core psychopathology	12
Null hypothesis significance tests, a misleading approach to scientific knowledge: Some implications for eating disorders research	12
A comparison of the eating disorder service experiences of autistic and non‐autistic women in the UK	12
Food addiction in anorexia nervosa: Implications for the understanding of crossover diagnosis	12
Ghrelin as a possible biomarker and maintaining factor in patients with eating disorders reporting childhood traumatic experiences	11
Urinary free cortisol and childhood maltreatments in eating disorder patients: New evidence for an ecophenotype subgroup	11
The psychometric network structure of mental health in eating disorder patients	11
Cognitive remediation therapy for anorexia nervosa as a rolling group intervention: Data from a longitudinal study in an eating disorders specialized inpatient unit	11
Affectionless control: A parenting style associated with obesity and binge eating disorder in adulthood	10
Sensory processing and eating behaviours in autism: A systematic review	10
Facilitators and barriers to supporting young people with eating disorders during their transition to, and time at, university: An exploration of clinicians' perspectives	10

Irritable bowel syndrome and functional dyspepsia in patients with eating disorders ‐ a systematic review	10
Outpatient therapy for adult anorexia nervosa: Early weight gain trajectories and outcome	10
Emotional processing in recovered anorexia nervosa patients: A 15 year longitudinal study	10
Characterizing rates of physical activity in individuals with binge eating disorder using wearable sensor technologies and clinical interviews	10
Increased cognitive flexibility mediates the improvement of eating disorders symptoms, depressive symptoms and level of daily life functioning in patients with anorexia nervosa treated in specialised	10
Relation between vitamin D and impulse behaviours in patients with eating disorder: a pilot observational study	9
The validity of the fifth and the 10th Body Mass Index percentile as weight cut‐offs for anorexia nervosa in adolescence: No evidence from quantitative and network investigation of psychopathology	9
The association between sexual orientation and eating disorders‐related eating behaviours in adolescents: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	9
Early warning systems in inpatient anorexia nervosa: A validation of the MARSIPAN‐based modified early warning system	9
Development and evaluation of an adapted physical activity program in anorexia nervosa inpatients: A pilot study	9
Bad mood food? Increased versus decreased food cue reactivity in anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa during negative emotions	8
Relationships between autistic traits, taste preference, taste perception, and eating behaviour	8
A systematic review of interventions to support transitions from intensive treatment for adults with anorexia nervosa and/or their carers	8
Weight‐loss interventions for improving emotional eating among adults with high body mass index: A systematic review with meta‐analysis and meta‐regression	8
Participants' experience of approach bias modification training with transcranial Direct Current Stimulation as a combination treatment for binge eating disorder	8
A cluster analysis of purging disorder: Validation analyses with eating disorder symptoms, general psychopathology and personality	8
Using bodily postures in the treatment of anorexia nervosa: Effects of power posing on interoception and affective states	8
Eating disorder symptoms and their associations with anthropometric and psychiatric polygenic scores	8
A German version of the Caregiver Skills scale for caregivers of patients with anorexia nervosa	7
What distinguish patients with compulsory treatment for severely undernourished anorexia nervosa	7
Different pathways, same goals: A large‐scale qualitative study of autistic and non‐autistic patient‐generated definitions of recovery from an eating disorder	7
Perceived change mechanisms in multi‐family therapy for anorexia nervosa: A qualitative follow‐up study of adolescent and parent experiences	7
Hippocampal volumes in anorexia nervosa at different stages of the disorder	7
Evaluating a motivational and psycho‐educational self‐help intervention for athletes with mild eating disorder symptoms: A mixed methods feasibility study	7
Executive functions in binge spectrum eating disorders with comorbid compulsive buying	7
The role of self‐monitoring metacognition sub‐function and negative urgency related to binge severity	7
Eating disorder onset during childhood is associated with higher trauma dose, provisional PTSD, and severity of illness in residential treatment	7
Implementation of mentalization‐based treatment in a day hospital program for eating disorders—A pilot study	7
The autism diagnostic observation schedule: Patterns in individuals with anorexia nervosa	7
Psychotropic medication use in treatment‐seeking youth with eating disorders	7