OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Body Image is 32. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Body functionality: A review of the literature	112
Meta-analysis of gender differences in body appreciation	91
Are We There Yet? Progress in Depicting Diverse Images of Beauty in Instagram’s Body Positivity Movement	80
Uploading your best self: Selfie editing and body dissatisfaction	75
Becoming an object: A review of self-objectification in girls	72
#Loveyourbody: The effect of body positive Instagram captions on women’s body image	68
Compared to Facebook, Instagram use causes more appearance comparison and lower body satisfaction in college women	68
Social media, body satisfaction and well-being among adolescents: A mediation model of appearance-ideal internalization and comparison	65
The effect of Instagram #fitspiration images on young women’s mood, body image, and exercise behaviour	65
Unique associations of social media use and online appearance preoccupation with depression, anxiety, and appearance rejection sensitivity	64
The Appearance-Related Social Media Consciousness Scale: Development and validation with adolescents	57
Social media, body image, and the question of causation: Meta-analyses of experimental and longitudinal evidence	55
Young women’s body image following upwards comparison to Instagram models: The role of physical appearance perfectionism and cognitive emotion regulation	52
The Happy American Body 2.0: Predictors of affective body satisfaction in two U.S. national internet panel surveys	49
Body Positivity (#BoPo) in everyday life: An ecological momentary assessment study showing potential benefits to individuals’ body image and emotional wellbeing	46
#Take idealized bodies out of the picture: A scoping review of social media content aiming to protect and promote positive body image	45
Body appreciation and its psychological correlates: A systematic review and meta-analysis	44
Weight stigma and media: An examination of the effect of advertising campaigns on weight bias, internalized weight bias, self-esteem, body image, and affect	42
A cluster randomized controlled trial of the SoMe social media literacy body image and wellbeing program for adolescent boys and girls: Study protocol	41
A picture is worth a thousand words: The effect of viewing celebrity Instagram images with disclaimer and body positive captions on women’s body image	41
The experience of embodiment scale: Development and psychometric evaluation	41
Taking it apart and putting it back together again: Using Item Pool Visualisation to summarise complex data patterns in (positive) body image research	39
Add a comment … how fitspiration and body positive captions attached to social media images influence the mood and body esteem of young female Instagram users	38
Science mapping research on body image: A bibliometric review of publications in Body Image, 2004–2020	38
#Bopo: Enhancing body image through body positive social media- evidence to date and research directions	37

Differences in weight stigma between gay, bisexual, and heterosexual men	37
Body image disturbance and sexual orientation: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	37
Body image and internalization of appearance ideals in Black women: An update and call for culturally-sensitive research	35
Examining associations among weight stigma, weight bias internalization, body dissatisfaction, and eating disorder symptoms: Does weight status matter?	34
What a body can do: Rethinking body functionality through a feminist materialist disability lens	34
#quarantine15: A content analysis of Instagram posts during COVID-19	33
Assessing the measurement invariance of a Latin-American Spanish translation of the Body Appreciation Scale-2 in Mexican, Argentinean, and Colombian adolescents	33