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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
What we don't know about what babies know: Reconsidering psychophysics, exploration, and infant behavior	281
The adaptiveness of fear (and other emotions) considered more broadly: Missed literature on the nature of emotions and its functions	89
Belonging to a community of moral values as a key criterion of society	86
Trait attribution explains human–robot interactions	68
Citizen science can help to alleviate the generalizability crisis	61
The Trojan horse of historical myths: Emotion-driven narratives as a strategy for coalitional recruitment	47
Conformity versus transmission in animal cultures	40
Explananda and explanantia in deep neural network models of neurological network functions	35
Disentangling paradigm and method can help bring qualitative research to post-positivist psychology and address the generalizability crisis	34
Ecological Affordances across Life Stages: An Affordance Management Framework	31
The cost of crisis in clinical psychological science	31
Tradition and invention: The bifocal stance theory of cultural evolution	31
Taking social psychology out of context	30
Integrating cultural evolution and behavioral genetics	29
Cultural evolutionary theory is not enough: Ambiguous culture, neglect of structure, and the absence of theory in behavior genetics	26
The many geographical layers of culture	21
The disintegrated theory of consciousness: Sleep, waking, and meta-awareness	20
Frames, trade-offs, and perspectives	17
Making the unconscious conscious: Developing maladaptive scripts into conviction narratives	17