Claude Bouchard

125.7k total citations · 17 hit papers
1.1k papers, 74.0k citations indexed

About

Claude Bouchard is a scholar working on Physiology, Genetics and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. According to data from OpenAlex, Claude Bouchard has authored 1.1k papers receiving a total of 74.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 433 papers in Physiology, 314 papers in Genetics and 205 papers in Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health. Recurrent topics in Claude Bouchard's work include Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (222 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (190 papers) and Genetics and Physical Performance (173 papers). Claude Bouchard is often cited by papers focused on Adipose Tissue and Metabolism (222 papers), Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet (190 papers) and Genetics and Physical Performance (173 papers). Claude Bouchard collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Finland. Claude Bouchard's co-authors include Louis Përusse, Angelo Tremblay, Robert M. Malina, Angelo Tremblay, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Tuomo Rankinen, Jean‐Pierre Després, Marie‐Christine Chagnon, James S. Skinner and Arthur S. Leon and has published in prestigious journals such as New England Journal of Medicine, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Lancet.

In The Last Decade

Claude Bouchard

1.1k papers receiving 70.5k citations

Hit Papers

Lifestyle, Diabetes, and ... 1983 2026 1997 2011 2004 2004 1994 2009 1990 1000 2.0k 3.0k
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Lifestyle, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors 10 Years after Bariatric Surgery
    2004 3.2k citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
  2. Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity
    2004 2.2k citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
  3. Waist circumference and abdominal sagittal diameter: Best simple anthropometric indexes of abdominal visceral adipose tissue accumulation and related cardiovascular risk in men and women
    1994 1.6k citations Claude Bouchard, Angelo Tremblay et al. profile →
  4. Sitting Time and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer
    2009 1.2k citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
  5. Regional distribution of body fat, plasma lipoproteins, and cardiovascular disease.
    1990 1.0k citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
  6. Trends over 5 Decades in U.S. Occupation-Related Physical Activity and Their Associations with Obesity
    2011 889 citations Claude Bouchard et al. PLoS ONE profile →
  7. The Response to Long-Term Overfeeding in Identical Twins
    1990 878 citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
  8. The Human Obesity Gene Map: The 2005 Update
    2006 817 citations Louis Përusse, Claude Bouchard et al. Obesity profile →
  9. A method to assess energy expenditure in children and adults
    1983 730 citations Claude Bouchard, Angelo Tremblay et al. profile →
  10. Association of Bariatric Surgery With Long-term Remission of Type 2 Diabetes and With Microvascular and Macrovascular Complications
    2014 697 citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
  11. Individual differences in response to regular physical activity
    2001 678 citations Claude Bouchard, Tuomo Rankinen profile →
  12. Familial aggregation ofV˙o 2 max response to exercise training: results from the HERITAGE Family Study
    1999 646 citations Claude Bouchard, James S. Skinner et al. Journal of Applied Physiology profile →
  13. The Human Gene Map for Performance and Health-Related Fitness Phenotypes
    2006 553 citations Louis Përusse, Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
  14. Bariatric Surgery and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Swedish Obese Subjects
    2012 547 citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
  15. The effect of sex, age and race on estimating percentage body fat from body mass index: The Heritage Family Study
    2002 532 citations D. C. Rao, Claude Bouchard et al. International Journal of Obesity profile →
  16. Handbook of obesity
    1997 517 citations George A. Bray, Claude Bouchard profile →
  17. Physical Activity, Fitness, and Health
    1994 510 citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Claude Bouchard 31.9k 19.1k 12.8k 11.3k 11.1k 1.1k 74.0k
Luigi Ferrucci 43.9k 1.4× 10.5k 0.5× 5.0k 0.4× 8.3k 0.7× 10.6k 1.0× 1.6k 128.0k
Steven B. Heymsfield 41.0k 1.3× 15.8k 0.8× 2.1k 0.2× 7.3k 0.6× 6.1k 0.5× 753 70.8k
Nicholas J. Wareham 18.1k 0.6× 16.8k 0.9× 6.4k 0.5× 13.9k 1.2× 7.5k 0.7× 844 60.8k
Anne B. Newman 48.2k 1.5× 9.8k 0.5× 2.3k 0.2× 7.8k 0.7× 19.4k 1.7× 983 114.9k
Albert Hofman 17.4k 0.5× 15.1k 0.8× 4.7k 0.4× 9.1k 0.8× 27.4k 2.5× 1.5k 122.0k
Lewis H. Kuller 14.0k 0.4× 9.8k 0.5× 6.6k 0.5× 16.2k 1.4× 19.6k 1.8× 1.0k 78.4k
Elizabeth Barrett‐Connor 8.3k 0.3× 6.7k 0.4× 5.4k 0.4× 17.3k 1.5× 7.7k 0.7× 669 49.5k
Katherine M. Flegal 20.2k 0.6× 40.3k 2.1× 3.4k 0.3× 10.1k 0.9× 7.7k 0.7× 164 87.7k
George P. Chrousos 15.4k 0.5× 7.7k 0.4× 6.6k 0.5× 24.1k 2.1× 5.4k 0.5× 1.4k 96.8k
Tim Cole 15.5k 0.5× 29.6k 1.5× 4.6k 0.4× 5.7k 0.5× 3.4k 0.3× 668 72.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Claude Bouchard

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ghosh, Sujoy & Claude Bouchard. (2024). Considerations on efforts needed to improve our understanding of the genetics of obesity. International Journal of Obesity. 49(2). 206–210.
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Gagnon, Éloi, Émilie Gobeil, Jérôme Bourgault, et al.. (2023). Genetic control of body weight by the human brain proteome. iScience. 26(4). 106376–106376. 1 indexed citations
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Barber, Jacob L., Prashant Rao, Michael Mi, et al.. (2023). Omics-driven investigation of the biology underlying intrinsic submaximal working capacity and its trainability. Physiological Genomics. 55(11). 517–543. 4 indexed citations
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Silbernagel, Günther, Yan Chen, Marcus E. Kleber, et al.. (2023). Inverse association between apolipoprotein C-II and cardiovascular mortality: role of lipoprotein lipase activity modulation. European Heart Journal. 44(25). 2335–2345. 11 indexed citations
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Chen, Yan, Jacob L. Barber, Bridget Armstrong, et al.. (2023). Effects of exercise training on ANGPTL3/8 and ANGPTL4/8 and their associations with cardiometabolic traits. Journal of Lipid Research. 65(2). 100495–100495. 7 indexed citations
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Mi, Michael, Jacob L. Barber, Prashant Rao, et al.. (2023). Plasma Proteomic Kinetics in Response to Acute Exercise. Molecular & Cellular Proteomics. 22(8). 100601–100601. 10 indexed citations
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Robbins, Jeremy, Bennet Peterson, Daniela Schranner, et al.. (2021). Human plasma proteomic profiles indicative of cardiorespiratory fitness. Nature Metabolism. 3(6). 786–797. 41 indexed citations
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Bouchard, Claude. (2021). Genetics of Obesity: What We Have Learned Over Decades of Research. Obesity. 29(5). 802–820. 105 indexed citations
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Barber, Jacob L., Jeremy Robbins, Robert E. Gerszten, et al.. (2021). Regular exercise and patterns of response across multiple cardiometabolic traits: the HERITAGE family study. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 56(2). 95–100. 14 indexed citations
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Bray, George A. & Claude Bouchard. (2020). The biology of human overfeeding: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews. 21(9). e13040–e13040. 58 indexed citations
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Sarzynski, Mark A. & Claude Bouchard. (2020). World-class athletic performance and genetic endowment. Nature Metabolism. 2(9). 796–798. 8 indexed citations
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Ross, Robert, Bret H. Goodpaster, Lauren G. Koch, et al.. (2019). Precision exercise medicine: understanding exercise response variability. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 53(18). 1141–1153. 183 indexed citations
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Ghosh, Sujoy, Xiaoran Chai, Palash Ghosh, et al.. (2019). Exploring the underlying biology of intrinsic cardiorespiratory fitness through integrative analysis of genomic variants and muscle gene expression profiling. Journal of Applied Physiology. 126(5). 1292–1314. 16 indexed citations
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Castro, Alex, André Luís Lugnani de Andrade, Arthur Fernandes Gáspari, et al.. (2019). Association of skeletal muscle and serum metabolites with maximum power output gains in response to continuous endurance or high-intensity interval training programs: The TIMES study – A randomized controlled trial. PLoS ONE. 14(2). e0212115–e0212115. 35 indexed citations
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Barber, Jacob L., Kia N. Zellars, Kurt G. Barringhaus, et al.. (2019). The Effects of Regular Exercise on Circulating Cardiovascular-related MicroRNAs. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 7527–7527. 53 indexed citations
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Bouchard, Claude. (2008). Physical Activity and Obesity: Lessons from the HERITAGE Family Study. 4(1). 1–3. 1 indexed citations
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Ukkola, Olavi, Merja Santaniemi, Tuomo Rankinen, et al.. (2005). Adiponectin polymorphisms, adiposity and insulin metabolism: HERITAGE family study and Oulu diabetic study. Annals of Medicine. 37(2). 141–150. 39 indexed citations
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Jobin, Jean, et al.. (1985). Familial Resemblance in Maximal Heart Rate, Blood Lactate and Aerobic Power. Human Heredity. 35(3). 182–189. 72 indexed citations
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Bouchard, Claude, J. LeBlanc, Jean Jobin, et al.. (1983). Familial Resemblance in Catecholamine Changes to Cold Stress and Maximal Exercise. Human Heredity. 33(3). 170–178. 3 indexed citations
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Bouchard, Claude, A Demirjian, & Ramón Miguel Molina Barrios. (1980). Heritability Estimates of Somatotype Components Based upon Familial Data. Human Heredity. 30(2). 112–118. 24 indexed citations

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