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, James S. Skinner, Marie‐Christine Chagnon and André Nadeau 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

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

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.

Lifestyle, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk Factors 10 Years after Bariatric Surgery

2004 3.2k citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
Growth, Maturation, and Physical Activity

2004 2.2k citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
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 →
Sitting Time and Mortality from All Causes, Cardiovascular Disease, and Cancer

2009 1.2k citations Claude Bouchard et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
Regional distribution of body fat, plasma lipoproteins, and cardiovascular disease.

1990 1.0k citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
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 →
The Response to Long-Term Overfeeding in Identical Twins

1990 878 citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
The Human Obesity Gene Map: The 2005 Update

2006 817 citations Marie‐Christine Chagnon, Louis Përusse et al. Obesity profile →
A method to assess energy expenditure in children and adults

1983 730 citations Claude Bouchard, Angelo Tremblay et al. profile →
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 →
Individual differences in response to regular physical activity

2001 678 citations Claude Bouchard, Tuomo Rankinen Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
Familial aggregation ofV˙o _{2 max} response to exercise training: results from the HERITAGE Family Study

1999 646 citations Claude Bouchard, Treva Rice et al. profile →
The Human Gene Map for Performance and Health-Related Fitness Phenotypes

2006 553 citations Louis Përusse, Bernd Wolfarth et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →
Bariatric Surgery and Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes in Swedish Obese Subjects

2012 547 citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
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 →
Handbook of obesity

1997 517 citations Claude Bouchard et al. profile →
Physical Activity, Fitness, and Health

1994 510 citations Claude Bouchard et al. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Considerations on efforts needed to improve our understanding of the genetics of obesity 2024 ·International Journal of Obesity ·Sujoy Ghosh, Claude Bouchard	0
2	Genetic control of body weight by the human brain proteome 2023 ·iScience ·Éloi Gagnon, (unknown), Émilie Gobeil, Jérôme Bourgault, Christian Couture, Patricia L. Mitchell, Claude Bouchard, Angelo Tremblay, Patrick Mathieu, Andréanne Michaud, Louis Përusse, Benoît J. Arsenault	1
3	Omics-driven investigation of the biology underlying intrinsic submaximal working capacity and its trainability 2023 ·Physiological Genomics ·(unknown), Jacob L. Barber, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Prashant Rao, Michael Mi, Daniel H. Katz, Jeremy Robbins, Clary B. Clish, Robert E. Gerszten, Mark A. Sarzynski, Sujoy Ghosh, Claude Bouchard	4
4	Effects of exercise training on ANGPTL3/8 and ANGPTL4/8 and their associations with cardiometabolic traits 2023 ·Journal of Lipid Research ·(unknown), Yan Chen, (unknown), Jacob L. Barber, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Bridget Armstrong, Robert E. Gerszten, Günther Silbernagel, Robert J. Konrad, Claude Bouchard, Mark A. Sarzynski	7
5	Inverse association between apolipoprotein C-II and cardiovascular mortality: role of lipoprotein lipase activity modulation 2023 ·European Heart Journal ·Günther Silbernagel, Yan Chen, (unknown), Marcus E. Kleber, Michael M. Hoffmann, Tatjana Stojaković, Andreas Stang, Mark A. Sarzynski, Claude Bouchard, Winfried März, Yuewei Qian, Hubert Scharnagl, Robert J. Konrad	11
6	Genetics of Obesity: What We Have Learned Over Decades of Research 2021 ·Obesity ·Claude Bouchard	105
7	Human plasma proteomic profiles indicative of cardiorespiratory fitness 2021 ·Nature Metabolism ·Jeremy Robbins, Bennet Peterson, Daniela Schranner, Usman A. Tahir, Theresa Rienmüller, Shuliang Deng, Michelle J. Keyes, Daniel H. Katz, Pierre M. Jean Beltran, Jacob L. Barber, Christian Baumgärtner, Steven A. Carr, Sujoy Ghosh, Changyu Shen, Lori L. Jennings, Robert Ross, Mark A. Sarzynski, Claude Bouchard, Robert E. Gerszten	41
8	Regular exercise and patterns of response across multiple cardiometabolic traits: the HERITAGE family study 2021 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Jacob L. Barber, (unknown), Jeremy Robbins, Robert E. Gerszten, Arthur S. Leon, D. C. Rao, James S. Skinner, Claude Bouchard, Mark A. Sarzynski	14
9	World-class athletic performance and genetic endowment 2020 ·Nature Metabolism ·Mark A. Sarzynski, Claude Bouchard	8
10	Precision exercise medicine: understanding exercise response variability 2019 ·British Journal of Sports Medicine ·Robert Ross, Bret H. Goodpaster, Lauren G. Koch, Mark A. Sarzynski, Wendy M. Kohrt, Neil M. Johannsen, James S. Skinner, Alex Castro, Brian A. Irving, Robert C. Noland, Lauren M. Sparks, Guillaume Spielmann, Andrew G. Day, Werner Pitsch, Will G. Hopkins, Claude Bouchard	183
11	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 2019 ·PLoS ONE ·Alex Castro, (unknown), (unknown), André Luís Lugnani de Andrade, Arthur Fernandes Gáspari, (unknown), (unknown), Cláudia Regina Cavaglieri, Sujoy Ghosh, Claude Bouchard, Mara Patrícia Traina Chacon‐Mikahil	35
12	The Effects of Regular Exercise on Circulating Cardiovascular-related MicroRNAs 2019 ·Scientific Reports ·Jacob L. Barber, Kia N. Zellars, Kurt G. Barringhaus, Claude Bouchard, Francis G. Spinale, Mark A. Sarzynski	53
13	Physical Activity and Obesity: Lessons from the HERITAGE Family Study 2008 ·Claude Bouchard	1
14	Adiponectin polymorphisms, adiposity and insulin metabolism: HERITAGE family study and Oulu diabetic study 2005 ·Annals of Medicine ·Olavi Ukkola, Merja Santaniemi, Tuomo Rankinen, Arthur S. Leon, James S. Skinner, Jack H. Wilmore, D. C. Rao, Richard N. Bergman, Y. Antero Kesäniemi, Claude Bouchard	39
15	Cardiac output and stroke volume changes with endurance training: The HERITAGE Family Study 2001 ·Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ·Jack H. Wilmore, Philip R. Stanforth, Jacques Gagnon, Treva Rice, Stephen Mandel, Arthur S. Leon, D. C. Rao, (unknown), Claude Bouchard	60
16	L’obésité est-elle une maladie génétique ? 1998 ·Claude Bouchard	2
17	Three mitochondrial DNA restriction polymorphisms in elite endurance athletes and sedentary controls 1998 ·Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise ·Miguel A. Rivera, Bernd Wolfarth, France T. Dionne, Marie‐Christine Chagnon, Jean‐Aimé Simoneau, Marcel R. Boulay, Thomas M. K. Song, Louis Përusse, Jacques Gagnon, Arthur S. Leon, D. C. Rao, J. S. Skinner, Jack H. Wilmore, Joseph Keul, Claude Bouchard	30
18	Familial Resemblance in Maximal Heart Rate, Blood Lactate and Aerobic Power 1985 ·Human Heredity ·(unknown), (unknown), Jean Jobin, J. LeBlanc, Claude Bouchard	72
19	Familial Resemblance in Catecholamine Changes to Cold Stress and Maximal Exercise 1983 ·Human Heredity ·Claude Bouchard, J. LeBlanc, (unknown), Jean Jobin, M. Jobin, A. Labrie, Claude Leblanc	3
20	Heritability Estimates of Somatotype Components Based upon Familial Data 1980 ·Human Heredity ·Claude Bouchard, A Demirjian, Ramón Miguel Molina Barrios	24

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