OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Psychobiology is 4. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten	57
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task	38
Children's planning of efficient tool use in a social context	31
Long‐term effects of father involvement in childhood on their son's physiological stress regulation system in adulthood	30
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women	28
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence	25
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Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight	22
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Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers	19
One brick at a time: Building a developmental profile of spatial abilities	17
The role of epigenetic mechanisms in the long‐term effects of early‐life adversity and mother–infant relationship on physiology and behavior of offspring in laboratory rats and mice	17
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Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage	16
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia	16
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	16
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water	16
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women	15
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood	15
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety	15
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The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review	14
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization	14
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation	14
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat	13

Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies	13
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Olfactory sensory and perceptual evaluation in newborn infants: A systematic review	12
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Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy	12
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats	11
Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment	11
Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally	11
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New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA	11
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill	11
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Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning	11
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta	11
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Environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence restores the reduced expression of synaptophysin and GFAP in the hippocampus of chronically stressed rats in a sex‐specific manner	11
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Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity	10
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Impact of stress and parenting on respiratory sinus arrythmia trajectories in early adolescence	10
Are fathers a good substitute for mothers? Paternal care and growth rates in Shodagor children	10
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography	10
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes	10
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials	9
Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention	9
Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage	9
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior	9
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat	9
Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood	9
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence	9
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Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits	9
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review	9
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents	9
Prenatal antidepressant exposure and sex differences in neonatal corpus callosum microstructure	9
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?	9
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate	9
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Neurophysiological patterns associated with blunted emotional face processing and withdrawal tendencies in young children exposed to intimate partner violence	8
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Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation	8
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens	8
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae	8
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture	8
Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress	8
Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths	8
Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats	8
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos	8

Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life	7
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers	7
Identifying the limits of peripheral visual processing in 9‐month‐old infants	7
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Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates	7
Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?	7
Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood	7
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Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces	7
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Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats	7
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs	6
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging	6
Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling	6
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats	6
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information	6
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The development of interoceptive hunger signals	6
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	6
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat	5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)	5
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder	5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children	5
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Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests	5
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Postweaning cafeteria diet induces a short‐term metabolic disfunction and a differential vulnerability to develop anxiety‐like and depressive‐like behaviors in male but not female rats	5
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Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse	5
Developmental psychobiology reviewer recognition for 2021	5
Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress	5
Pubertal transition with current life stress and support alters longitudinal diurnal cortisol patterns in adolescents exposed to early life adversity	5
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration	5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination	5
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches	5
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology	5
Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)	5
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning	5
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse	5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors	5
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Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana	5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?	5
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border	5
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence	5
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender	5
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review	5
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach	5
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Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review	4
Relationship Between Prone Skills and Motor‐Based Problem‐Solving Abilities in Full‐Term and Preterm Infants During the First 6 Months of Life	4
Understanding the causes and consequences of variability in infant ERP editing practices	4
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure, SLC6A4 genetic variations, and cortisol activity in 6‐year‐old children of depressed mothers: A cohort study	4
Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?	4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)	4
Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression	4
Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress	4
The effects of neonatal procedural pain and maternal isolation on hippocampal cell proliferation and reelin concentration in neonatal and adult male and female rats	4
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study	4
Paternal expressed emotion influences psychobiological indicators of threat and safety learning in daughters: A preliminary study	4
Using gastrointestinal distress reports to predict youth anxiety risk: Implications for mental health literacy and community care	4
Developmental Psychobiology Reviewer Recognition for 2022	4
Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence	4
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice	4
Increase in sexual motivation throughout adolescence in the cycling female rat	4
The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis	4
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats	4
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	4
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Implications of Developmental 17‐OHPC Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Pathways and Adolescent Mood–Related Behavior in Rats	4
A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy	4
Impact of maternal physical exercise on inflammatory and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis markers in the brain and lungs of prenatally stressed neonatal mice	4
Developmental age and fatty acid amide hydrolase genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice	4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period	4
Morphine exposure alters Fos expression in a sex‐, age‐, and brain region‐specific manner during adolescence	4
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Longitudinal study of infants receiving extra motor stimulation, full‐term control infants, and infants born preterm: High‐density EEG analyses of cortical activity in response to visual motion	4
Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age	4