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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	146
A data integration method for new advances in development cognitive neuroscience	114
Identifying high school risk factors that forecast heavy drinking onset in understudied young adults	90
Neurocognitive risks of asthma during childhood	85
Developmental trajectories of gyrification and sulcal morphometrics in children and adolescents at high familial risk for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia	68
Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years	66
Characterizing different cognitive and neurobiological profiles in a community sample of children using a non-parametric approach: An fMRI study	63
Biospecimens in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: Rationale and protocol	58
Functional connectivity patterns as an early indicator of later very early preterm outcomes	57
Distinct theta oscillation coherence patterns during visual selective attention in children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	57
Music impacts brain cortical microstructural maturation in very preterm infants: A longitudinal diffusion MR imaging study	54
Neurodevelopmental correlates of emotion regulation in adolescence: An accelerated longitudinal study	53
Number words recruit numerosity-related cortex in 3- to 5-year-old children	53
Pubertal timing predicts resting-state functional connectivity of cortical networks	52
Developmental aspects of fear generalization – A MEG study on neurocognitive correlates in adolescents versus adults	52
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	51
Preterm neonates distinguish rhythm violation through a hierarchy of cortical processing	50
Corrigendum to “Multiple mechanisms regulate statistical learning of orthographic regularities in school-age children: Neurophysiological evidence” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 59C (2023) 101190]	50
Corrigendum to “Previous institutionalization is associated with elevated functional connectivity between the nucleus accumbens and amygdala during aversive learning” [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 76 (2025)	50
Measurement of emerging neurocognitive and language skills in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study	49
Hooked on a thought: Associations between rumination and neural responses to social rejection in adolescent girls	47
Advancing high quality longitudinal data collection: Implications for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study design and recruitment	45
Fronto-amygdala resting state functional connectivity is associated with anxiety symptoms among adolescent girls more advanced in pubertal maturation	45
Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity	45
Utilizing functional neuroimaging to study early language development	44

The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods	44
Developing cortex is functionally pluripotent: Evidence from blindness	42
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	41
Optimal two-time point longitudinal models for estimating individual-level change: Asymptotic insights and practical implications	40
Early childhood family threat and longitudinal amygdala-mPFC circuit development: Examining cortical thickness and gray matter-white matter contrast	39
A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and resting state functional connectivity	38
Audiovisual integration in reading among school-aged children: Evidence from combined fMRI and EEG	37
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	35
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	35