OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Attachment & Human Development is 5. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Revisiting the founder of attachment theory: memories and informal reflections	50
The predictive significance of attachment script assessment hyperactivation and deactivation: evidence of associations with romantic relationship functioning	32
Father-separation and well-being in forcibly displaced Syrian children	27
Telehealth delivery of modified attachment and biobehavioral catch-up: feasibility, acceptability, and lessons learned	23
Neural correlates of distress and comfort in individuals with avoidant, anxious and secure attachment style: an fMRI study	23
Attachment and attitudes toward children: effects of security priming in parents and non-parents	22
Mentalizing in first-time fathers: reflective functioning as a mediator between attachment representation and sensitivity	21
Revisiting the debate on effects of parental power-assertive control in two longitudinal studies: early attachment security as a moderator	18
A longitudinal study of child adjustment during the COVID-19 pandemic: the protective role of the parent-child relationship in middle childhood	17
Cross-modal coherence and incoherence of early infant interactive behavior: links to attachment in infants born very preterm or full-term	15
Longitudinal study of the cascading effects of racial discrimination on parenting and adjustment among African American youth	15
Mothers’ parental mentalization, attachment dimensions and mother-infant relational patterns	13
Commentary: attachment theory goes to school	13
Depression in middle childhood: secure base script as a cognitive diathesis in the relationship between daily stress and depressive symptoms	12
Prospecting the attachment research field: a move to the level of engagement	12
Classes of child-mother attachment disorganization from infancy to the preschool years	11
A meta-analysis of the distribution of preschool and early childhood attachment as assessed in the strange situation procedure and its modified versions	11
Inflammatory and environmental contributions to social information processing	9
Mary Main: portrait and tribute	8
A deeper look at the association between childhood maltreatment and reflective functioning	8
An exploration of ex-boarding school adults’ attachment styles and substance use behaviours	8
Scripted attachment representations of current romantic relationships: measurement and validation	8
Maternal and paternal insightfulness and reaction to the diagnosis in families of preschoolers with Autism spectrum disorder: associations with observed parental sensitivity and inter-parent interacti	8
Intergenerational transmission of trauma from mother to infant: the mediating role of disrupted prenatal maternal representations of the child	7
Correction	7

Concepts travel faster than thought: an empirical study of the use of attachment classifications in child protection investigations	7
Attachment perspectives on race, prejudice, and anti-racism: Introduction to the Special Issue	7
Parental mentalization goes to school: a brief online mentalization-based intervention to improve parental academic support	7
The God, the blood, and the fuzzy: reflections onCornerstonesand two target articles	7
Behavioral problems, dissociative symptoms, and empathic behaviors in children adopted in infancy from institutional and foster care in the Czech Republic	7
A “transmission gap” between research and practice? A Q-methodology study of perceptions of the application of attachment theory among clinicians working with children and among attachment researchers	7
Cornerstones and discourses in attachment study: celebrating the publication of a new landmark	6
Children’s emerging receptive, positive orientation toward their parents in the network of early attachment relationships	6
Replication crisis lost in translation? On translational caution and premature applications of attachment theory	6
Adult attachment assessed via the ASA and AAI: Empirical convergence and links with autonomic physiological responding during attachment assessments	5
Attachment and brooding rumination during children’s transition to adolescence: the moderating role of effortful control	5
The American contribution to attachment theory: John Bowlby’s WHO trip to the USA in 1950 and the development of his ideas on separation and attachment	5