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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

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 Influences on the Covariance and Genetic Correlations in a Bivariate Twin Model: An Application to Well-Being	17
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
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
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 Association Between Puberty Timing and Body Mass Index in a Longitudinal Setting: The Contribution of Genetic Factors	12
Human Capital Mediates Natural Selection in Contemporary Humans	11
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
Multilevel Modeling in Classical Twin and Modern Molecular Behavior Genetics	10
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
Bias and Precision of Parameter Estimates from Models Using Polygenic Scores to Estimate Environmental and Genetic Parental Influences	9
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
What Do People Know About the Heritability of Sleep?	8

Genetic Moderation of the Association Between Early Family Instability and Trajectories of Aggressive Behaviors from Middle Childhood to Adolescence	8
Continuity and Change in the Genetic and Environmental Etiology of Youth Antisocial Behavior	8
Genetically Informed Regression Analysis: Application to Aggression Prediction by Inattention and Hyperactivity in Children and Adults	8
Integrative Multi-omics Analysis of Childhood Aggressive Behavior	8
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
Multilevel Twin Models: Geographical Region as a Third Level Variable	7
Gene-by-Crisis Interaction for Optimism and Meaning in Life: The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic	7
A Polygenic Approach to Understanding Resilience to Peer Victimisation	7
The Associations of Polygenic Scores for Risky Behaviors and Parenting Behaviors with Adolescent Externalizing Problems	7
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
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
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
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