OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Childhood Obesity 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Parental Perspectives Regarding the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Their Children	24
Families Chose In-Person Visits over Telehealth for Pediatric Weight Management during the COVID-19 Pandemic	23
Reliability of Anthropometric Measurement of Young Children with Parent Involvement	23
Parental Reasons for Engaging in or Avoiding Weight Talk With Children	21
Maternal Sedentary Behavior and Physical Activity across Pregnancy and Early Childhood Growth	21
Intergenerational Determinants of Weight Status Concordance and Discordance in Parent/Adolescent Dyads from the Family Life, Activity, Sun, Health, and Eating Study	20
Topiramate for Weight Management in Children With Severe Obesity	18
Cost-Effectiveness of Access to Obesity Care and Treatments for Adolescents	17
Are Students Paid to Market Sugar-Sweetened Beverages to Peers? A Review of University Pouring Rights Contracts	16
Body Weight at Age Four Years and Readiness to Start School: A Prospective Cohort Study	16
Rates of Body Mass Index Increase in Children During the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Effects of Early Wake-Up Time on Obesity in Adolescents	13
Scaling What Works: The Role of CDC’s CORD 3.0 in Packaging Family Healthy Weight Programs for Real-World Impact to Address Childhood Obesity	12
Associations of Neighborhood Food Retail Environments with Weight Status in a Regional Pediatric Health System	12
Evaluation of a Fruit and Vegetable Voucher Program in a Prenatal and Pediatric Primary Care-Based Obesity Prevention Program	12
Rosalind Franklin Society Proudly Announces the 2024 Award Recipient for Childhood Obesity	12
Who Gets a Code for Obesity? Reliability, Use, and Implications of Combining International Classification of Diseases-Based Obesity Codes, 2014-2021	12
Three- and Twelve-Month Changes in Child and Adult Care Food Program Best Practices and Preschool Children’s Dietary Intake in Family Child Care Homes after the Happy Healthy Homes Randomized Controll	12
Wellness Achieved Through Changing Habits: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Acceptance-Based Intervention for Adolescent Girls With Overweight or Obesity	11
Psychosocial Outcomes Reported in Randomized Behavioral Intervention Trials for Children and Adolescents with Overweight and Obesity: A Scoping Review	11
Treating Children and Adolescents With Obesity: Characteristics of Success	11
Real-World Experience of the Efficacy and Safety of Phentermine Use in Adolescents: A Case Series	10
Maternal Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Is Associated With Higher BMI Among Preschool-Aged Children: A Cross-Sectional Study	10
Understanding Accelerated Summer Body Mass Index Gain by Tracking Changes in Children's Height, Weight, and Body Mass Index Throughout the Year	10
Weighing Words: Exploring Parent–Adolescent Communication about Physical Activity, Weight, and Emotional Responses in Adolescents with Overweight/Obesity and Asthma	10

The Influence of Social Determinants of Health and Structural Racism on Childhood Obesity	9
Associations Between Neighborhood Opportunity and Indicators of Physical Fitness for New York City Public School Youth	9
Adapting the Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment: A Cross-Country Case Study of Improving Early Childhood Health Environments in the United States, Australia, and the United Kingdom	9
Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiometabolic Health in Middle-School Children	8
Food Insecurity Influences Weight Trajectory in Children with Obesity	8
Examining the Relationship between Infant Weight Status and Parent–Infant Interactions within a Food and Nonfood Context	8
Family-Based Behavioral Treatment for Childhood Obesity Adapted to Align with the MOHealthNet Medicaid Benefit: Results of the Missouri Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration Study	8
Nonpharmacological Childhood Obesity Management in Denmark Reduces Steatotic Liver Disease and Obesity	8
Examining Changes in Implementation of Priority Healthy Eating and Physical Activity Practices, and Related Barriers, Over Time in Australian Early Childhood Education and Care Services: A Repeated Cr	8
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in Young Children with Obesity	8
Neighborhood Public Transportation Access and Adolescent Body Mass Index: Results from the FLASHE Study	7
Successful Virtual Delivery of a Group Childhood Healthy Weight Program	7
Caring for Kids of All Sizes: An Outpatient Quality Improvement Pilot Project to Decrease Weight Stigma	7
A Scale-Out Study of an Evidence-Based Family Meals Program Delivered in the Head Start Setting: Results, Challenges, and Opportunities	7
“ Som la Pera ,” a School-Based, Peer-Led Social Marketing Intervention to Engage Spanish Adolescents in a Healthy Lifestyle: A Parallel-Cluster Randomiz	7
What Do Health Professionals and Parents Want as Part of an Online Childhood Obesity Prevention Program?	6
Honoring Dr. Dianne Stanton Ward: A Legacy of Transformative Leadership in Childhood Obesity Prevention and Health Promotion	6
Clinical and Biological Phenotypes of Patients Carrying a Heterozygous Variant in Genes of Leptin-Melanocortin Signaling Pathway	6
Effectiveness of a Scalable mHealth Intervention for Children With Overweight and Obesity	6
The National Physical Activity Plan Early Childhood Education Strategy: State Policy Surveillance	6
Tracking Physical Activity and Nutrition Policies and Practices in Early Childhood Education and Care: Five Years Post-Implementation of a Provincial-Level Active Play Standard	6
Development and Testing of the Observational System for Recording Physical Activity in Children–Toddlers	6
Retraction of: Body Mass Index and Gut Microbiome: A Cluster-Randomized, Controlled, Pilot Feasibility Study (doi: 10.1089/chi.2022.0171)	6
Real-World Use of Phentermine and Topiramate for Adolescent Obesity: Retrospective Effectiveness and Safety Analysis	6
Prenatal and Pediatric Primary Care-Based Child Obesity Prevention: Effects of Adverse Social Determinants of Health on Intervention Attendance and Impact	5
Differences in Geographical Location and Health Behaviors of Participants in a Family-Based Lifestyle Intervention for Children and Adolescents Living with Obesity	5
Four-Year Accelerometry Outcomes from a Cluster Randomized Whole of Systems Trial of Prevention Strategies for Childhood Obesity	5
Food Waste, Preference, and Cost: Perceived Barriers and Self-Reported Food Service Best Practices in Family Child Care Homes	5
Teaching Second-Year Medical Students How to Counsel Pediatric Patients With Unhealthy Body Mass Index	5
High BMI z-Scores from Different Growth References Are Not Comparable: An Example from a Weight Management Trial with an Anti-Obesity Medication in Pubertal Adolescents with Obesity	5
Obesity Prevalence and Dietary Factors Among Preschool-Aged Head Start Children in Remote Alaska Native Communities: Baseline Data from the “ Got Neqpiaq?	5
Keys to Achieving Clinically Important Weight Loss: Perceptions of Responders and Nonresponders in the Clinic and Community Approaches to Healthy Weight Trial	5
Short-Term Efficacy of a Childhood Obesity Prevention Program Designed to Pair Feeding Content With Nutrition Education	5
Change in Weight Status Among Children Who Do and Do Not Participate in Intensive Health Behavior and Lifestyle Treatment for Obesity	5
Parental Perspectives on Their Child’s Body Image	5
Parental Influences on Physical Activity and Screen Time among Preschool Children from Low-Income Families in Brazil	5
Increased BMI Velocity is Associated with Elevated Patient Health Questionnaire-9 Scores in Adolescents with Obesity	5
Accelerometer-Based Physical Activity and Shape and Weight Concerns Among Youth With Overweight and Obesity: A Pilot Exploratory Ecological Momentary Assessment Study	5
Parental Priorities for Childhood Obesity Management in Primary Care	5
Greater Improvement in Obesity Among Children With Prediabetes in a Clinical Weight Management Program	4
High Blood Pressure in Children Aged 3 to 12 Years Old With Overweight or Obesity	4
Accuracy and Precision of Opportunistic Measures of Body Composition from the Tanita DC-430U	4
An Assessment of the Relationship Between BMI and Children Undergoing Surgical Procedures: A Retrospective Study	4
Exploring Disparities in Dietary Quality Among Young Children Across Diverse Racial, Ethnic, and Immigrant Households	4
Childhood Obesity Body Mass Index and Gut Microbiome: A Cluster Randomized Controlled Pilot Feasibility Study	4
Household Income Moderates Longitudinal Relations Between Neighborhood Child Opportunity Index and BMI Growth	4
Emotional Eating Prevalence and Correlates in Adolescents in the United States	4
Rural Family Satisfaction With Telehealth Delivery of an Intervention for Pediatric Obesity and Associated Family Characteristics	4
Implementation and Effectiveness Outcomes of a Pilot Comparative Effectiveness Randomized Controlled Trial Evaluating a Food Is Medicine Program Among At-Risk Pediatric Populations	4
A Scoping Review of Tailoring in Pediatric Obesity Interventions	4

Managing Obesity in Young Children: A Multiple Methods Study Assessing Feasibility, Acceptability, and Implementation of a Multicomponent, Family-Based Intervention	4
Association of Dietary Inflammatory Potential with Inflammatory Biomarkers in Brazilian Children: The Role of Obesity Status in the South American Youth/Child Cardiovascular and Environmental (SAYCARE	4
Exploratory Decision Trees to Predict Obesity Intervention Response among Hispanic American Youth	4
A Qualitative Assessment of Preoperative Educational Needs Among Adolescent Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Patients and Parents or Guardians	4
Resting Energy Expenditure Profiles in Pediatric Patients with Obesity Undergoing Sleeve Gastrectomy	4
Independent and Interactive Associations of Subjective and Objective Socioeconomic Status With Body Composition and Parent-Reported Hyperphagia Among Children	4
Considerations for Interpreting Childhood Obesity Treatment Trials from the COVID-19 Pandemic Era	4
Adoption of Nutrition and Physical Activity Best Practices in the Early Care and Education Setting: Examination of Differences Between Centers and Family Child Care Homes	4
Utilization of Counseling Services by Pediatric Patients With Obesity Using MarketScan Data (2017–2019)	4