OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience is 24. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The basal ganglia and the cerebellum in human emotion	99
Using reinforcement learning models in social neuroscience: frameworks, pitfalls and suggestions of best practices	71
The posterior crus II cerebellum is specialized for social mentalizing and emotional self-experiences: a meta-analysis	69
Inter-brain synchrony in teams predicts collective performance	68
Tools of the Trade Multivoxel pattern analysis in fMRI: a practical introduction for social and affective neuroscientists	61
Neural synchrony in mother–child conversation: Exploring the role of conversation patterns	58
Shared and distinct functional networks for empathy and pain processing: a systematic review and meta-analysis of fMRI studies	57
Neurostructural correlates of hope: dispositional hope mediates the impact of the SMA gray matter volume on subjective well-being in late adolescence	54
Tools of the trade: estimating time-varying connectivity patterns from fMRI data	52
Brain and motor synchrony in children and adolescents with ASD—a fNIRS hyperscanning study	50
Attentional conditions differentially affect early, intermediate and late neural responses to fearful and neutral faces	44
Beyond synchrony: the capacity of fMRI hyperscanning for the study of human social interaction	44
Dual brain stimulation enhances interpersonal learning through spontaneous movement synchrony	44
Touch and social support influence interpersonal synchrony and pain	43
HyPyP: a Hyperscanning Python Pipeline for inter-brain connectivity analysis	42
Interpersonal similarity of autistic traits predicts friendship quality	35
Is obesity related to enhanced neural reactivity to visual food cues? A review and meta-analysis	33
Social value orientation modulates fairness processing during social decision-making: evidence from behavior and brain potentials	33
Childhood violence exposure and social deprivation are linked to adolescent threat and reward neural function	31
Shifting prosocial intuitions: neurocognitive evidence for a value-based account of group-based cooperation	30
The role of social isolation in opioid addiction	30
A hierarchical model for interpersonal verbal communication	28
Social network analysis for social neuroscientists	27
Childhood trauma, brain structure and emotion recognition in patients with schizophrenia and healthy participants	26
The integration of social and neural synchrony: a case for ecologically valid research using MEG neuroimaging	24