OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Behavioral and Brain Sciences is 17. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	304
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	90
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	86
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	73
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	48
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	43
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	37
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	34
Correction, uncertainty, and anchoring effects	32
Rational framing effects: A multidisciplinary case	32
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	31
Beyond playing 20 questions with nature: Integrative experiment design in the social and behavioral sciences	30
The unboxing has already begun: One motivation construct at a time	29
Primordial feeling of possession in development	29
Natural logic and baby LoTH	22
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	21
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework	20
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	17