OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Food Security is 24. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Food insecurity among parents of young children in the United States and Australia: focusing on etiology and outcomes	723
A method for estimating physical and economic food access at high spatial resolution	371
Required informational barriers to accessing groceries from food banks	352
Fish consumption pathways and food security in an Indonesian fishing community	174
The effect of extreme weather events on child nutrition and health	140
Changes in school feeding operations during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from 139 countries	115
Food deserts and food swamps in a Brazilian metropolis: comparison of methods to evaluate the community food environment in Belo Horizonte	89
Food systems thinking unpacked: a scoping review on industrial diets among adolescents in Ghana	82
Group-based approaches to nutrition-sensitive agriculture: insights from a post-project sustainability study in Côte d’Ivoire	76
Biodiversity in agricultural and food systems of jhum landscape in the West Garo Hills, North-eastern India	63
Reverse thinking: taking a healthy diet perspective towards food systems transformations	51
A whole system approach to childhood obesity: how a supportive environment was created in the city of Brighton and Hove, United Kingdom	46
New Senior Editor for agronomy, agricultural systems modelling, and climate change appointed at food security	45
It is beautiful: the uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Erik Nordman (2021) The uncommon knowledge of Elinor Ostrom. Essential lessons for collective action	43
E-grocery as a new site of financialization? Financial drivers of the rise and fall of China’s E-grocery sector	40
An everyday political economy of food insecurity in Myanmar’s Central Dry Zone	40
Adoption and disadoption of the improved clay granary for maize storage: evidence from the northern and central regions of Benin	37
Agricultural crime victimization and food security outcomes among smallholder farmers in rural Tanzania	34
The unbalanced development among legume species regarding sustainable and healthy agrifood systems in North-America and Europe: focus on food product innovations	31
Trade liberalization and nutrition transition: how export influences households’ macronutrient consumption in Vietnam	29
Large-scale agricultural investments and local food security – Evidence from a mixed-method case study in Benin	28
Strengthening the millet economy: lessons from a South Indian case study	28
Combining market and nonmarket food sources provides rural households with more options to achieve better diets in Southern Benin	27
Do online agri-food sellers contribute to food security in Indonesia? A PCA-based composite index and a Tobit approach	27
Retrofitting food and nutrition programmes to curb the global syndemic of undernutrition, obesity and climate change	24

Patterns of research on food security, 2020–2022