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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women	36
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task	29
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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	24
Between‐ and Within‐Person Associations Between Serum Lipids and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms	21
Estrous Cycle Impacts Fear Extinction and Relapse in Female Adolescent Rats	19
An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well‐Being in Black American Families	18
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Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence	17
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers	17
Associations Between New Mothers’ Neural Reward Response and Perceptions of Their Own Infant	17
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women	16
Emotion Regulation and Neural Connectivity After Frustrative Non‐Reward in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Flexibility	15
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies	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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Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization	14
Physiological Markers of Early Social Skills in Rural South Africa: The Role of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Heart Rate Variability	14
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water	14
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage	14
Advancing Wrist‐Worn Accelerometry for Measurement of Infant Motor Behavior	13
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Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood	12
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Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation	12
A Role for Fetal Movement in Shaping Maternal Neurodevelopment	12
New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA	12
Investigating Physiology‐Behavior Associations for Youth During Parent–Child Conflict Discussions	12
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat	11
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Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment	10
Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity	10
Correction to “Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression”	10
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	10
Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression	10
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta	9
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Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat	9
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes	9
Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy	9
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Adrenal Biomarkers of Stress in Transgender and Gender‐Diverse Adolescents	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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Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage	8
Neurobehavioral Profiles in Low‐Risk Infants: Associations With Prenatal Maternal Biobehavior and Birth Characteristics	8
Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress	8
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence	8
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?	8
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review	8
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens	8
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits	8
Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths	8
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Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?	7
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture	7
Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood	7
Maternal High‐Fat Diet and Neonatal LPS Exposure Prolong USV Sequences and Shift Call‐Type Repertoires in Neonatal Rats	7
Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces	7
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers	7
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Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats	7
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos	7
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Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors	6
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Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging	6
Developing Best Practices for Inclusion in fNIRS Research: Equity for Participants With Afro‐Textured Hair	6
Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats	6
The development of interoceptive hunger signals	6
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs	6
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Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates	6
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life	6

Who Participates in Research and Why: Reducing Barriers to Diversifying Samples in Developmental Psychobiology	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
Evaluating Household Income and Tobacco Exposure as Moderators of the Association Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Newborn Neurobehavior	5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)	5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors	5
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder	5
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse	5
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning	5
The Effects of Distraction and Reappraisal on the Late Positive Potential Across Discrete Emotions: A Study With Latinx Children	5
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender	5
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence	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
Maternal Milk Allopregnanolone May Buffer Negative Associations Between Maternal Postpartum Psychological Distress and Infant Regulatory Capacity	5
Developmental psychobiology reviewer recognition for 2021	5
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology	5
Cross‐Tissue Specificity of Pediatric DNA Methylation Associated With Cumulative Family Stress	5
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
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?	5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children	5
Socioeconomic Status, the Home Language Environment, Noise Exposure, and the Mismatch Response in Infancy	5
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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
Infant 6‐Month Psychophysiology During Interaction With Mother Is Differentiated by 12‐Month Attachment Quality	4
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats	4
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review	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
Implications of Developmental 17‐OHPC Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Pathways and Adolescent Mood–Related Behavior in Rats	4
Associations Between Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Resting Brain Activity: A Preregistered Investigation	4
Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression	4
A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy	4
Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress	4
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The Interaction Between Socioeconomic Status, Parent–Child Relationship, and the COMT Val158Met Polymorphism Predicts Chinese Preschoolers' Executive Fun	4
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Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding During Early Adolescence	4
Interpersonal Contributors to Depression in Sexual Minority Adolescents: An Examination of Exposure to Acute Stressors and Neural Reactivity to Interpersonal Emotional Images	4
Telomere Length and Change Among Infants Growing up in Low‐ to Mid‐Income Households	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
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period	4
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study	4
Children's and Adults’ P100 and N170 Responses to Own‐ and Other‐Race Face Categories and Identities	4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)	4
Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?	4
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Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)	4
Abstracts From the 58th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology (ISDP), November 12–14, 2025, Catamaran Hotel & Spa, San Diego, CA, USA	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
Psychometric Properties of the Neural Response to Rewards and Errors Across Mid‐ to Late‐Adolescence	4
Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moderates the Association Between Birth Weight and EEG Power in Healthy Term‐Age Newborns	4
Examining the Relationship Between Early Feeding Difficulties and Language Development: A Longitudinal Study	4
Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age	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
Developmental Psychobiology Reviewer Recognition for 2022	4
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Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana	4
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	4