OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Developmental Origins of Health and Disease is 4. 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
Dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, and impairment of placental metabolism in the offspring of obese mothers	29
A cautionary note on using Mendelian randomization to examine the Barker hypothesis and Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (DOHaD)	19
Characterising and monitoring preconception health in England: a review of national population-level indicators and core data sources	19
Maternal childhood trauma and prenatal stressors are associated with child behavioral health	18
Reduced peanut sensitization with maternal peanut consumption and early peanut introduction while breastfeeding	15
Digit ratio (2D:4D) and amniotic testosterone and estradiol: an attempted replication of Lutchmaya et al. (2004)	14
Season-of-birth phenomenon in health and longevity: epidemiologic evidence and mechanistic considerations	13
Gestational exposure to Δ⁹-THC impacts ovarian follicular dynamics and angiogenesis in adulthood in Wistar rats	11
Digit ratio, a proposed marker of the prenatal hormone environment, is not associated with prenatal sex steroids, anogenital distance, or gender-typed play behavior in preschool age children	11
Birth weight and adult earnings: a systematic review and meta-analysis	11
Supraphysiological estradiol levels on the hCG trigger day are associated with SGA for singletons born from fresh embryo transfer	11
Will prenatal exposure to SARS-CoV-2 define a birth cohort with accelerated aging in the century ahead?	10
Limosilactobacillus fermentum prevents gut-kidney oxidative damage and the rise in blood pressure in male rat offspring exposed to a maternal high-fat diet	9
High-fructose diet during puberty alters the sperm parameters, testosterone concentration, and histopathology of testes and epididymis in adult Wistar rats	9
Epigenetic mechanisms involved in intrauterine growth restriction and aberrant kidney development and function	9
Association between gestational cannabis exposure and maternal, perinatal, placental, and childhood outcomes	8
Dipeptidyl peptidase IV inhibition delays developmental programming of obesity and metabolic disease in male offspring of obese mothers	8
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on research and careers of early career researchers: a DOHaD perspective	8
Hair cortisol levels in pregnancy as a possible determinant of fetal sex: a longitudinal study	8
Developmental Origins of Health and Disease, resilience and social justice in the COVID era	8
Maternal BMI, breastfeeding and perinatal factors that influence early childhood growth trajectories: a scoping review	7
Myocardial perfusion and function dichotomy in growth restricted preterm infants	7
Understanding the importance of the early-life period for adult health: a systematic review	7
Altered neurodevelopmental DNA methylation status after fetal growth restriction with brain-sparing	7
Metformin in obese pregnancy has no adverse effects on cardiovascular risk in early childhood	7

Fetal programming by androgen excess impairs liver lipid content and PPARg expression in adult rats	7
Are there sex differences in fetal growth strategies and in the long-term effects of pregnancy complications on cognitive functioning?	7
Association between maternal prenatal psychological distress and autism spectrum disorder among 3-year-old children: The Japan Environment and Children’s Study	6
The fetal origins of disease: a prospective cohort study on the association of preeclampsia and childhood obesity	6
Maternal intake of fructose or artificial sweetener during pregnancy and lactation has persistent effects on metabolic and reproductive health of dams post-weaning	6
The effect of resveratrol in cardio-metabolic disorders during pregnancy and offspring outcomes: a review	6
Early-childhood BMI trajectories in relation to preclinical cardiovascular measurements in adolescence	6
Public knowledge and opinion of epigenetics and epigenetic concepts	6
Self-reported mental health status of donor sperm-conceived adults	6
Caregiving adversity during infancy and preschool cognitive function: adaptations to context?	6
Folate and vitamin B12 status: associations with maternal glucose and neonatal DNA methylation sites related to dysglycaemia, in pregnant women with obesity	6
DNA methylation mediates a randomized controlled trial home-visiting intervention during pregnancy and the Bayley infant’s cognitive scores at 12 months of age	6
Circulating microRNAs from early childhood and adolescence are associated with pre-diabetes at 18 years of age in women from the PMNS cohort	6
Prenatal and pubertal exposure to 17α-ethinylestradiol disrupts folliculogenesis and promotes morphophysiological changes in ovaries of old gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus)	6
Maternal intake of alpha-lipoic acid prevents development of symptoms associated with a fructose-rich diet in the male offspring in Wistar rats	5
Reproductive fluids, added to the culture media, contribute to minimizing phenotypical differences between in vitro-derived and artificial insemination-derived piglets	5
The application of in utero magnetic resonance imaging in the study of the metabolic and cardiovascular consequences of the developmental origins of health and disease	5
Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging: insights into developmental programming and its consequences for aging	5
Associations between stool micro-transcriptome, gut microbiota, and infant growth	5
Growth from birth to 6 months of infants with and without intrauterine preeclampsia exposure	5
Epigenetics and DOHaD: how translation to predictive testing will require a better public understanding	5
Prolonged atrazine exposure beginning in utero and adult uterine morphology in mice	5
Advanced maternal age perturbs mouse embryo development and alters the phenotype of derived embryonic stem cells	5
Pregnancy outcomes in women with preexisting thyroid diseases: a French cohort study	5
Placental nanoparticle gene therapy normalizes gene expression changes in the fetal liver associated with fetal growth restriction in a fetal sex-specific manner	5
Life course of retrospective harmonization initiatives: key elements to consider	4
Two-Eyed Seeing and developmental origins of health and disease studies with indigenous partners	4
Sex specific associations between in utero exposure to persistent organic pollutants and allergy-related outcomes in childhood: The Rhea Mother–Child Cohort (Crete, Greece)	4
Treatment with topiramate in rats during childhood causes testicular structural impairment at adulthood	4
Dynamic DNA methylation changes in early versus late adulthood suggest nondeterministic effects of childhood adversity: a meta-analysis	4
COVID-19: can we treat the mother without harming her baby?	4
Neurodevelopmental assessment of infants born to mothers with hypertensive disorder of pregnancy at six months of age	4
Perinatal and post-weaning exposure to a high-fat diet causes histomorphometric, neuroplastic, and histopathological changes in the rat ileum	4
DNA methylation profile of liver of mice conceived by in vitro fertilization	4
Evaluation of H19, Mest, Meg3, and Peg3 genes affecting growth and metabolism in umbilical cord blood cells of infants born to mothers with gestational diabetes and healthy mothers in Rafsanjan City,	4
The role of genetics in fetal programming of adult cardiometabolic disease	4
Body composition during the first 4 months in infants affected by neonatal abstinence syndrome: a pilot study	4
Placental insufficiency induces a sexually dimorphic response in the expression of cardiac growth and metabolic signalling molecules upon exposure to a postnatal western diet in guinea pigs	4
Leptin and adiponectin concentrations in infants with low birth weight: relationship with maternal health and postnatal growth	4
Hyperglycemia in pregnancy and developmental outcomes in children at 18–60 months of age: the PANDORA Wave 1 study	4
Relation of maternal birthweight with early pregnancy obesity, gestational diabetes, and offspring macrosomia	4
Obese mothers supplemented with melatonin during gestation and lactation ameliorate the male offspring’s pancreatic islet cellular composition and beta-cell function	4
The role of maternal diet on offspring hyperinsulinaemia and adiposity after birth: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials	4
Maternal exercise during pregnancy modulates mitochondrial function and redox status in a sex-dependent way in adult offspring’s skeletal muscle	4