OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 19. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Interpersonal Brain Synchronization in Social Pain Contexts: An fNIRS-Based Exploration of Empathy	49
Correction to: A 7-Tesla MRI study of the periaqueductal gray: resting state and task activation under threat	47
Correction to: Envisioning translational hyperscanning: how applied neuroscience might improve family-centered care	34
Neural mechanisms underlying the interactive exchange of facial emotional expressions	32
How representative are neuroimaging samples? Large-scale evidence for trait anxiety differences between fMRI and behaviour-only research participants	32
Mapping the ‘funny bone’: neuroanatomical correlates of humor creativity in professional comedians	29
Low competitive status elicits aggression in healthy young men: behavioural and neural evidence	28
Alexithymia and somatization in agenesis of the corpus callosum	27
Expertise influences congruency monitoring during action observation at the motor level	25
Inter-brain amplitude correlation differentiates cooperation from competition in a motion-sensing sports game	24
Present and future self in memory: the role of vmPFC in the self-reference effect	24
Neural encoding of novel social networks: evidence that perceivers prioritize others’ centrality	22
Social cognitive processes explain bias in juror decisions	22
Genetic architecture of well-being: cumulative effect of serotonergic polymorphisms	21
Unsupervised classification reveals consistency and degeneracy in neural network patterns of emotion	21
Reduced brain activity and functional connectivity during creative idea generation in individuals with smartphone addiction	21
Social thinking is for doing: the posterior cerebellum supports predictions of social actions based on personality traits	21
Attention to the other’s body sensations modulates the ventromedial prefrontal cortex	20
Increasing self–other similarity modulates ethnic bias in sensorimotor resonance to others’ pain	19
Patterns of brain activity associated with nostalgia: a social-cognitive neuroscience perspective	19
The cortical and subcortical correlates of face pareidolia in the macaque brain	19