OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity is 38. 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.)

Article	Citations
2020 WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour for children and adolescents aged 5–17 years: summary of the evidence	532
Advancing the global physical activity agenda: recommendations for future research by the 2020 WHO physical activity and sedentary behavior guidelines development group	194
Evidence on physical activity and falls prevention for people aged 65+ years: systematic review to inform the WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour	169
Evidence on physical activity and osteoporosis prevention for people aged 65+ years: a systematic review to inform the WHO guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behaviour	138
New global guidelines on sedentary behaviour and health for adults: broadening the behavioural targets	134
Factors influencing physical activity participation among people living with or beyond cancer: a systematic scoping review	111
Seasons, weather, and device-measured movement behaviors: a scoping review from 2006 to 2020	102
Global prevalence of physical activity for children and adolescents; inconsistencies, research gaps, and recommendations: a narrative review	98
A systematic review and meta-analysis of school-based interventions with health education to reduce body mass index in adolescents aged 10 to 19 years	95
A systematic review of artificial intelligence chatbots for promoting physical activity, healthy diet, and weight loss	95
The effectiveness of digital interventions for increasing physical activity in individuals of low socioeconomic status: a systematic review and meta-analysis	88
Dynamics of the complex food environment underlying dietary intake in low-income groups: a systems map of associations extracted from a systematic umbrella literature review	73
The effect of leisure time physical activity and sedentary behaviour on the health of workers with different occupational physical activity demands: a systematic review	69
Association of ultra-processed food consumption with cardiovascular mortality in the US population: long-term results from a large prospective multicenter study	64
A meta-analysis of the reproducibility of food frequency questionnaires in nutritional epidemiological studies	63
School-based gardening, cooking and nutrition intervention increased vegetable intake but did not reduce BMI: Texas sprouts - a cluster randomized controlled trial	62
The impact of exercise interventions concerning executive functions of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis	61
Musculoskeletal pain and sedentary behaviour in occupational and non-occupational settings: a systematic review with meta-analysis	61
Systematic review of the correlates of outdoor play and time among children aged 3-12 years	60
How effective are physical activity interventions when they are scaled-up: a systematic review	59
The effect of social media interventions on physical activity and dietary behaviours in young people and adults: a systematic review	59
Physical activity and sedentary time of youth in structured settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis	59
Children’s moderate-to-vigorous physical activity on weekdays versus weekend days: a multi-country analysis	54
Mediterranean diet and depression: a population-based cohort study	54
Inequality in physical activity, global trends by income inequality and gender in adults	54

A scoping review of physical activity interventions for older adults	53
Walking cadence (steps/min) and intensity in 41 to 60-year-old adults: the CADENCE-adults study	50
Objective understanding of the Nutri-score front-of-pack label by European consumers and its effect on food choices: an online experimental study	50
The prevalence of multimorbidity and its association with physical activity and sleep duration in middle aged and elderly adults: a longitudinal analysis from China	46
A collaborative approach to adopting/adapting guidelines. The Australian 24-hour movement guidelines for children (5-12 years) and young people (13-17 years): An integration of physical activity, sede	46
Barriers and facilitators to diet, physical activity and lifestyle behavior intervention adherence: a qualitative systematic review of the literature	44
How COVID-19 lockdown and reopening affected daily steps: evidence based on 164,630 person-days of prospectively collected data from Shanghai, China	44
Sociodemographic differences in motives for food selection: results from the LoCard cross-sectional survey	44
Walking cadence (steps/min) and intensity in 61–85-year-old adults: the CADENCE-Adults study	43
Barriers and facilitators to implementing community-based physical activity interventions: a qualitative systematic review	41
Physical activity and prospective associations with indicators of health and development in children aged <5 years: a systematic review	39
A secondary analysis of the childhood obesity prevention Cochrane Review through a wider determinants of health lens: implications for research funders, researchers, policymakers and practitioners	39
Consolidating evidence on the effectiveness of interventions promoting fruit and vegetable consumption: an umbrella review	39
Accelerometer-measured physical activity and sedentary time among children and their parents in the UK before and after COVID-19 lockdowns: a natural experiment	38