OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Autism is 35. 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Age at autism spectrum disorder diagnosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis from 2012 to 2019	233
Core experiences of parents of children with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown	130
Research priorities of the autism community: A systematic review of key stakeholder perspectives	119
Preferences for identity-first versus person-first language in a US sample of autism stakeholders	109
Effects of autism acceptance training on explicit and implicit biases toward autism	90
Patterns in reporting and participant inclusion related to race and ethnicity in autism intervention literature: Data from a large-scale systematic review of evidence-based practices	88
Feeding and eating problems in children and adolescents with autism: A scoping review	84
‘Autistic person’ or ‘person with autism’? Person-first language preference in Dutch adults with autism and parents	70
How do core autism traits and associated symptoms relate to quality of life? Findings from the Longitudinal European Autism Project	70
Defining autistic burnout through experts by lived experience: Grounded Delphi method investigating #AutisticBurnout	69
The ‘double empathy problem’: Ten years on	68
‘Anything but the phone!’: Communication mode preferences in the autism community	61
COVID-19, social isolation and the mental health of autistic people and their families: A qualitative study	61
Early diagnosis of autism in the community is associated with marked improvement in social symptoms within 1–2 years	59
Prevalence of epilepsy in autism spectrum disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	59
Loneliness in autistic adults: A systematic review	51
Changing the story: How diagnosticians can support a neurodiversity perspective from the start	50
Exploring an e-learning community’s response to the language and terminology use in autism from two massive open online courses on autism education and technology use	49
Adverse event reporting in intervention research for young autistic children	48
If you want to develop an effective autism training, ask autistic students to help you	47
Participatory autism research: Early career and established researchers’ views and experiences	46
‘It’s not that they don’t want to access the support . . . it’s the impact of the autism’: The experience of eating disorder services from the perspective of autistic women, parents and healthc	46
The role of loneliness as a mediator between autism features and mental health among autistic young adults	46
Camouflaging in autism spectrum disorder: Examining the roles of sex, gender identity, and diagnostic timing	45
Oxytocin levels tend to be lower in autistic children: A meta-analysis of 31 studies	45

Social identities and mental well-being in autistic adults	44
Virtual interview training for autistic transition age youth: A randomized controlled feasibility and effectiveness trial	44
Self-reported camouflaging behaviours used by autistic adults during everyday social interactions	42
Autistic experiences of applied behavior analysis	40
Greater gender diversity among autistic children by self-report and parent-report	40
Associations between social camouflaging and internalizing symptoms in autistic and non-autistic adolescents	39
A blind spot in mental healthcare? Psychotherapists lack education and expertise for the support of adults on the autism spectrum	38
The lived experience of gender dysphoria in autistic adults: An interpretative phenomenological analysis	36
Studies of autistic traits in the general population are not studies of autism	36
Is autism stigma higher in South Korea than the United States? Examining cultural tightness, intergroup bias, and concerns about heredity as contributors to heightened autism stigma	36
Special education for students with autism during the COVID-19 pandemic: “Each day brings new challenges”	35
“Camouflaging” by adolescent autistic girls who attend both mainstream and specialist resource classes: Perspectives of girls, their mothers and their educators	35