NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2024. General and abdominal adiposity and hypertension in eight world regions: a pooled analysis of 837 population-based studies with 7· 5 million participants. The Lancet, 404(10455), 851-863, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)01405-3

Żyrek J, Klimek M, Apanasewicz A, Ciochoń A, Danel DP, Marcinkowska UMM, Mijas M, Ziomkiewicz A, Galbarczyk A. 2024. Social support during pregnancy and the risk of postpartum depression in Polish women. A prospective study. 2024. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 6906, doi: doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-57477-1

Słojewska K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Tubek-Krokosz A, Krzych-Miłkowska K, Szklarczyk J, Mijas M, Ścibor M, Jasienska G. 2024. Higher number of steps is related to lower endogenous progesterone but not estradiol levels in women. PLOS ONE 19 (4), e0299580, doi: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299580

Galbarczyk A, Marcinkowska UMM, Klimek M, Jasienska G. 2023. Extreme pubic hair removal as a potential risk factor for recurrent urinary tract infections in women. Scientific Reports,13;1: 119045, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-46481-6

Klimek M, Entringer S, Matras A, Blukacz M, Nenko I, Galbarczyk A, Jasienska G. 2023. Early-life adversities and later-life reproductive patterns in women with fully traced reproductive history. Scientific Reports, 8;13: 9328, doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-36226-w

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2023. Diminishing benefits of urban living for children and adolescents’ growth and development. Nature 615, 874–883, doi: 10.1038/s41586-023-05772-8

Klimek M, Marcinkowska UM, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2023. The age at first reproduction as a potential mediator between facial fluctuating asymmetry and reproductive success in women. American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 181(2):166-172, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24746

Ciochoń A, Apanasewicz A, Danel D.P, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Ziomkiewicz A, Marcinkowska U.M. 2022. Antenatal classes in the context of prenatal anxiety and depression during the COVID-19 pandemic. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 9(9), 5073, doi: 10.3390/ijerph19095073

Klimek M, Marcinkowska UM, Fedurek P, Kleisner K, Danel DP. 2022. Like father, like child? Paternal age at birth and offspring’s facial asymmetry and distinctiveness. Symmetry, 14(2), doi: 10.3390/sym14020344

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2021. Worldwide trends in hypertension prevalence and progress in treatment and control from 1990 to 2019: a pooled analysis of 1201 population-representative studies with 104 million participants. The Lancet, 398: 957-980, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01330-1

Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Blukacz M, Nenko I, Jabłońska M, Jasienska G. 2021. Inflammaging: blame the sons. Relationships between the number of sons and the level of inflammatory mediators among post-reproductive women. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 175: 656-664, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24295

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2021. Heterogeneous contributions of change in population distribution of body mass index to change in obesity and underweight. eLife, 10: e60060, doi: 10.7554/eLife.60060

Miłkowska K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Zabłocka-Słowińska K, Jasienska G. 2021. Pathogen disgust, but not moral disgust, changes across the menstrual cycle. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42: 402-408, doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2021.03.002

Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2021. Biomarkers of fetal conditions: finger ridge-counts, facial fluctuating asymmetry, and digit ratio (2D:4D) – are they correlated in women? American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 174: 224-231, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.24164

Miłkowska K, Nenko I, Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Jasienska G. 2020. Season of birth and biomarkers of early-life environment. American Journal of Human Biology (in press), doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23532

Marcinkowska UM, Ziomkiewicz A, Kleisner K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Sancilio A, Jasienska G, Bribiescas RG. 2020. The hidden cost of beauty: oxidative stress and attractiveness in postmenopausal women. Scientific Reports, 10: 21970, doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-76627-9

NCD Risk Factor Collaboration (NCD-RisC). 2020. Height and body-mass index trajectories of school-aged children and adolescents from 1985 to 2019 in 200 countries: Pooled analysis of 2,182 population-based studies with 65 million participants. The Lancet, 396: 1511-1524, doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31859-6

Fischer Pedersen JK, Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Sobocki J, Christensen DL, Jasienska G. 2020. Digit ratio (2D:4D) is not related to cardiovascular diseases or their risk factors in menopausal women. American Journal of Human Biology, e23505, doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23505

Rogers MP, Lee KMN, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Klein LD, Zabłocka-Słowińska K, Jasienska G, Clancy KBH. 2020. Declining ages at menarche in an agrarian rural region of Poland. American Journal of Human Biology, e23362, doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23362

Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2019. Sons may be bad for maternal health at older age. New evidence for costs of reproduction in humans. The Journals of Gerontology Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences: gly190, doi: 10.1093/gerona/gly190

Kuna B, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2018. Age difference between parents influences parity and number of sons. American Journal of Human Biology: e23095, doi: 10.1002/ajhb.23095

Richards G, Klimek M, Jasienska G, Marcinkowska U.M. 2018. Digit ratio (2D:4D) and circulating testosterone, oestradiol, and progesterone levels across the menstrual cycle. Early Human Development 117: 68-73, doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2017.12.006

Marcinkowska U.M, Little A.C, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Klimek M, Jasienska G. 2017. Costs of reproduction are reflected in women’s faces: post-menopausal women with fewer children are perceived as more attractive, healthier and younger than women with more children. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 2017: 1–5, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.23362

Klimek M, Macinkowska U.M, Jasienska G. 2017. Value of digit ratio 2D:4D, a biomarker of prenatal hormone exposure, is stable across the menstrual cycle. Early Human Development 110: 21-24, doi: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2017.04.014

Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2016. Women with more feminine digit ratio (2D:4D) have higher reproductive success. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 160: 549–55, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22989

Ziomkiewicz A, Sancilio A, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Jasienska G, Bribiescas R. 2016. Evidence for the cost of reproduction in humans revealed by associations between lifetime reproductive effort and oxidative stress in postmenopausal women. PLOS ONE e0145753, doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145753 * among top 10% most cited PLOS ONE papers published in 2016

Alvarado LC, Muller M, Thompson ME, Klimek M, Nenko I, Jasienska G. 2015. The Paternal Provisioning Hypothesis: Effects of Workload and Testosterone Production on Men’s Musculature. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158: 19-35, doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22771

Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Colleran H, Thune I, Ellison PT, Ziomkiewicz A, Jasienska G. 2015. Digit ratio (2D:4D) does not correlate with daily 17β–estradiol and progesterone concentrations in healthy women of reproductive age. American Journal of Human Biology 27: 667–673, doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22717

Puskarczyk K, Galbarczyk A, Klimek M, Nenko I, Odrzywołek L, Jasienska G. 2015. Being born after your brother is not a disadvantage: Reproductive success does not depend on the sex of the preceding sibling. American Journal of Human Biology 27: 731-733, doi: 10.1002/ajhb.22710

Klimek M, Galbarczyk A, Nenko I, Alvarado LC, Jasienska G. 2014. Digit ratio (2D:4D) as an indicator of body size, testosterone concentration and number of children in human males. Annals of Human Biology 41: 518-523, doi: 10.3109/03014460.2014.902993

I review papers for the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, American Journal of Human Biology, PLOS ONE, Hormones and Behavior, Scientific Reports