OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is 34. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Biospecimens in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: Rationale and protocol	180
A data integration method for new advances in development cognitive neuroscience	152
Developmental aspects of fear generalization – A MEG study on neurocognitive correlates in adolescents versus adults	123
Characterizing different cognitive and neurobiological profiles in a community sample of children using a non-parametric approach: An fMRI study	112
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	95
Facial emotion processing and language during early-to-middle childhood development: An event related potential study	94
Music impacts brain cortical microstructural maturation in very preterm infants: A longitudinal diffusion MR imaging study	81
Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years	72
Charting the human amygdala development across childhood and adolescence: Manual and automatic segmentation	63
Developmental trajectories of gyrification and sulcal morphometrics in children and adolescents at high familial risk for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia	62
Neurocognitive risks of asthma during childhood	60
Identifying high school risk factors that forecast heavy drinking onset in understudied young adults	60
Measurement of emerging neurocognitive and language skills in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study	56
Optimal two-time point longitudinal models for estimating individual-level change: Asymptotic insights and practical implications	56
Early childhood family threat and longitudinal amygdala-mPFC circuit development: Examining cortical thickness and gray matter-white matter contrast	55
Advancing high quality longitudinal data collection: Implications for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study design and recruitment	52
Cognitive control processes and emotion regulation in adolescence: Examining the impact of affective inhibition and heart-rate-variability on emotion regulation dynamics in daily life	50
Leveraging brain science for impactful advocacy and policymaking: The synergistic partnership between developmental cognitive neuroscientists and a parent-led grassroots movement to drive dyslexia pre	50
Detection and analysis of cortical beta bursts in developmental EEG data	49
Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity	46
Corrigendum to “Multiple mechanisms regulate statistical learning of orthographic regularities in school-age children: Neurophysiological evidence” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 59C (2023) 101190]	42
Developing cortex is functionally pluripotent: Evidence from blindness	42
Reduced volume of the left cerebellar lobule VIIb and its increased connectivity within the cerebellum predict more general psychopathology one year later via worse cognitive flexibility in children	40
Fronto-amygdala resting state functional connectivity is associated with anxiety symptoms among adolescent girls more advanced in pubertal maturation	39
Hooked on a thought: Associations between rumination and neural responses to social rejection in adolescent girls	39

Preterm neonates distinguish rhythm violation through a hierarchy of cortical processing	39
A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and resting state functional connectivity	38
Microstructural development from 9 to 14 years: Evidence from the ABCD Study	38
The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods	37
Identifying developmental changes in functional brain connectivity associated with cognitive functioning in children and adolescents with ADHD	37
Causation, trait correlation, and translation: Developmental brain imaging in research on neuropsychiatric conditions of childhood	36
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	36
The development of functional connectivity within the dorsal striatum from early childhood to adulthood	35
Evaluating a novel high-density EEG sensor net structure for improving inclusivity in infants with curly or tightly coiled hair	35
Diminished reinforcement sensitivity in adolescence is associated with enhanced response switching and reduced coding of choice probability in the medial frontal pole	34