OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Behavior Genetics is 5. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Estimation of Parental Effects Using Polygenic Scores	36
Direct and Indirect Effects of Maternal, Paternal, and Offspring Genotypes: Trio-GCTA	29
Best Practices for Binary and Ordinal Data Analyses	28
Genetic Risk for Smoking: Disentangling Interplay Between Genes and Socioeconomic Status	26
Genetic and Environmental Variation in Continuous Phenotypes in the ABCD Study®	20
Modeling Interaction and Dispersion Effects in the Analysis of Gene-by-Environment Interaction	18
Incorporating Polygenic Risk Scores in the ACE Twin Model to Estimate A–C Covariance	18
Genetic Correlates of Psychological Responses to the COVID-19 Crisis in Young Adult Twins in Great Britain	16
GW-SEM 2.0: Efficient, Flexible, and Accessible Multivariate GWAS	16
Genetic Influences on the Covariance and Genetic Correlations in a Bivariate Twin Model: An Application to Well-Being	16
Continuity of Genetic Risk for Aggressive Behavior Across the Life-Course	15
Using Multimodel Inference/Model Averaging to Model Causes of Covariation Between Variables in Twins	14
Mapping Pathways by Which Genetic Risk Influences Adolescent Externalizing Behavior: The Interplay Between Externalizing Polygenic Risk Scores, Parental Knowledge, and Peer Substance Use	13
The Association Between Puberty Timing and Body Mass Index in a Longitudinal Setting: The Contribution of Genetic Factors	12
Polygenic Risk for Aggression Predicts Adult Substance Use Disorder Diagnoses via Substance Use Offending in Emerging Adulthood and is Moderated by a Family-Centered Intervention	12
The CADM2 Gene and Behavior: A Phenome-Wide Scan in UK-Biobank	11
The Analytic Identification of Variance Component Models Common to Behavior Genetics	11
Human Capital Mediates Natural Selection in Contemporary Humans	11
LGBTQ+ Perspectives on Conducting Genomic Research on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity	10
Combining Structural-Equation Modeling with Genomic-Relatedness-Matrix Restricted Maximum Likelihood in OpenMx	10
Multilevel Modeling in Classical Twin and Modern Molecular Behavior Genetics	10
MR-DoC2: Bidirectional Causal Modeling with Instrumental Variables and Data from Relatives	9
On the Transformation of Genetic Effect Size from Logit to Liability Scale	9
Bias and Precision of Parameter Estimates from Models Using Polygenic Scores to Estimate Environmental and Genetic Parental Influences	9
What Do People Know About the Heritability of Sleep?	8

Genetically Informed Regression Analysis: Application to Aggression Prediction by Inattention and Hyperactivity in Children and Adults	8
Continuity and Change in the Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Youth Antisocial Behavior	8
Genetic Moderation of the Association Between Early Family Instability and Trajectories of Aggressive Behaviors from Middle Childhood to Adolescence	8
Multilevel Twin Models: Geographical Region as a Third Level Variable	7
Integrative Multi-omics Analysis of Childhood Aggressive Behavior	7
A Polygenic Approach to Understanding Resilience to Peer Victimisation	7
Gene-by-Crisis Interaction for Optimism and Meaning in Life: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
The Augmented Classical Twin Design: Incorporating Genome‐Wide Identity by Descent Sharing Into Twin Studies in Order to Model Violations of the Equal Environments Assumption	7
The Associations of Polygenic Scores for Risky Behaviors and Parenting Behaviors with Adolescent Externalizing Problems	7
Heritability Estimation of Cognitive Phenotypes in the ABCD Study® Using Mixed Models	6
Cigarette Smoking Behavior a Gateway to Opium Use Disorder: A Mendelian Randomization Analysis	6
Genotype Data and Derived Genetic Instruments of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development Study® for Better Understanding of Human Brain Development	6
Gene × Environment Interactions in the Development of Preschool Effortful Control, and Its Implications for Childhood Externalizing Behavior	6
Exploring the Genetic and Environmental Etiologies of Phonological Awareness, Morphological Awareness, and Vocabulary Among Chinese–English Bilingual Children: The Moderating Role of Second Language I	6
Guidelines for Evaluating the Comparability of Down-Sampled GWAS Summary Statistics	5
Modeling Parent-Specific Genetic Nurture in Families with Missing Parental Genotypes: Application to Birthweight and BMI	5
Bidirectional Causal Associations Between Same-Sex Attraction and Psychological Distress: Testing Moderation and Mediation Effects	5
Genetic and Environmental Influences on Semantic Verbal Fluency Across Midlife and Later Life	5
DNA Methylation Analysis of Imprinted Genes in the Cortex and Hippocampus of Cross-Fostered Mice Selectively Bred for Increased Voluntary Wheel-Running	5
Heritability × SES Interaction for IQ: Is it Present in US Adoption Studies?	5
Investigating the causal risk factors for self-harm by integrating Mendelian randomisation within twin modelling	5
Developmental Cascades from Polygenic and Prenatal Substance Use to Adolescent Substance Use: Leveraging Severity and Directionality of Externalizing and Internalizing Problems to Understand Pubertal	5
A General Cognitive Ability Factor for the UK Biobank	5