Autism Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Autism Research is 8. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)
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A Frank Assessment of SHANK: Impacts of Pathogenic Variations in SHANK3 on Preclinical Models of Phelan McDermid Syndrome146
Inter‐trial theta phase consistency during face processing in infants is associated with later emerging autism127
Correction to “Well‐being spectrum traits are associated with polygenic scores for autism”104
Sensorimotor Behavior in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Biological Parents97
Reports of Echolalia and Related Behaviors in Autism From Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians: Evidence From the Simon Simplex Collection91
Increased perceived stress is negatively associated with activities of daily living and subjective quality of life in younger, middle, and older autistic adults71
Improving parents' ability to advocate for services for youth with autism: A randomized clinical trial69
Gestational thyroid hormones and autism‐related traits in the EARLI and HOME studies58
From Misophonia Through Puberphonia: Window Toward Gender Dysphoria in Autism?55
Enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism49
EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism48
Social orienting and initiated joint attention behaviors in 9 to 12 month old children with autism spectrum disorder: A family home movies study45
Development and validation of an Arabic language eye‐tracking paradigm for the early screening and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in Qatar45
Social anxiety is more likely to influence reputation management decisions than autistic traits44
GABA and glutamate measurements in temporal cortex of autistic children43
Screening for Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder Symptoms Among Autistic Adults: Measurement Invariance With a Comparison General Sample39
How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review39
Narrative abilities of autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The role of mentalising and executive function36
Decreased interoceptive accuracy in children with autism spectrum disorder and with comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder35
Parenting stress in caregiver‐mediated interventions for toddlers with autism: An application of quantile regression mixed models35
Comparative Analysis of Phenotypic and Genotypic Differences Between Individuals Affected by Regressive and Non‐Regressive Autism: A Cross‐Sectional Study35
Autism severity level affects working memory and planning but not inhibition, shifting and emotional control34
The devil is in the details: Advancing our collective understanding of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions34
Subjective wellbeing of autistic adolescents and young adults: A cross sectional study33
Child and caregiver predictors of primary caregiver participation in families of school‐aged Autistic children33
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Atypical facial mimicry for basic emotions in children with autism spectrum disorder32
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Overlap of autism spectrum disorder and borderline personality disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis30
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Impaired inhibitory control when processing real but not cartoon emotional faces in autistic children: Evidence from an event‐related potential study29
Reduced mismatch negativity in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder is associated with their impaired adaptive functioning29
Are autistic females at greater risk of suicide? A call for clarity to advance suicide prevention for the whole community28
Specialization of anterior and posterior hippocampal functional connectivity differs in autism28
Heritability of social behavioral phenotypes and preliminary associations with autism spectrum disorder risk genes in rhesus macaques: A whole exome sequencing study27
Genomic strategies to untangle the etiology of autism: A primer27
Attention to live eye contact in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder26
Impaired attentional bias toward one's own face in autism spectrum disorder: ERP evidence26
Spoken language outcomes in limited language preschoolers with autism and global developmental delay: RCT of early intervention approaches25
Measuring and validating autistic burnout24
The impact of prefrontal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on theory of mind, emotion regulation and emotional‐behavioral functions in children with autism disorder: A randomiz24
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Altered Patterns of Dynamic Functional Connectivity Underpin Reduced Expressions of Social–Emotional Reciprocity in Autistic Adults23
Cerebellar gamma‐aminobutyric acid: Investigation of group effects in neurodevelopmental disorders23
Feasibility and acceptability of a caregiver‐mediated early support program, delivered online, for infants at elevated familial likelihood for autism: A feasibility randomized controlled trial22
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Sex‐Based Differences in Prenatal and Perinatal Predictors of Autism Spectrum Disorder Using Machine Learning With National Health Data22
Toward a cumulative science of vocal markers of autism: A cross‐linguistic meta‐analysis‐based investigation of acoustic markers in American and Danish autistic children22
Patterns of sleep disturbances and associations with depressive symptoms in autistic young adults22
Theory of Mind Mediates the Association Between Autistic Traits and Social Isolation in Middle‐Aged and Older Adults21
Maternal Mediterranean‐Style Diet During Pregnancy and Child Social Impairment as Measured by the Social Responsiveness Scale21
Applying a public health approach to autism research: A framework for action21
Male and Female Healthcare Trajectories in Autism: Are There Any Differences Considering Age at Diagnosis and Intellectual or Developmental Disabilities Status?21
Characterizing the autism spectrum phenotype in DYRK1A‐related syndrome20
Exploring the mediating effect of camouflaging and the moderating effect of autistic identity on the relationship between autistic traits and mental wellbeing20
Do children with and without autism spectrum disorder use different visuospatial processing skills to perform the Rey–Osterrieth complex figure test?20
Associations between sleep problems and domains relevant to daytime functioning and clinical symptomatology in autism: A meta‐analysis20
Testing an Advocacy Program to Improve Service Access Among Latino Families of Autistic Youth: A Randomized Controlled Trial20
Social interaction links active musical rhythm engagement and expressive communication in autistic toddlers20
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Objective assessment of autism spectrum disorder based on performance in structured interpersonal acting‐out tasks with prosodic stability and variability19
The Factor Structure and Validity of the Psychopathy Checklist‐Short Version When Used With Autistic Psychiatric Inpatients19
The Selective Social Attention task in children with autism spectrum disorder: Results from the Autism Biomarkers Consortium for Clinical Trials (ABC‐CT) feasibility study19
Social motivation by self‐ and caregiver‐report: Reporter concordance and social correlates among autistic and neurotypical youth19
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Specificity of the short‐story task for autism diagnosis when controlling for depression19
Differential effects of COVID‐related lockdown on sleep–wake rhythms in adults with autism spectrum disorder compared to the general population19
Action execution and observation in autistic adults: A systematic review of fMRI studies18
Age‐Related Trajectories of Autistic Traits in Children With Angelman Syndrome18
Why add motor to the definition of ASD: A response to Bishop et al.'s critique of Bhat (2021)18
Mapping the time course of overt emotion dysregulation, self‐injurious behavior, and aggression in psychiatrically hospitalized autistic youth: A naturalistic study18
Structure and dynamics of anxiety in people with ASD and ID: A network analysis18
Maladaptive behaviors in children with autism and parental hopelessness: The moderating role of parental reflective functioning18
Non‐autistic adults can recognize posed autistic facial expressions: Implications for internal representations of emotion18
Neurophysiological effects of a combined treatment of lovastatin and minocycline in patients with fragile X syndrome: Ancillary results of the LOVAMIX randomized clinical trial18
Examining the Relationship Between Parental Broader Autism Phenotype Traits, Offspring Autism, and Parental Mental Health17
Evaluating More Granular Options for Socio‐Demographic Questions in Autism Research17
Protein‐Altering Variants' Analysis in Autism Subgroups Uncovers Early Brain‐Expressed Gene Modules Relevant to Autism Pathophysiology17
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Assessing the utility of electronic measures as a proxy for cognitive ability17
The Impact of Affective Theory of Mind on Autistic Individual's Perception of Remorse16
Examining the association between prenatal cannabis exposure and child autism traits: A multi‐cohort investigation in the environmental influences on child health outcome program16
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The potential of exercise to benefit and harm social‐cognitive abilities16
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The importance of parenting self‐efficacy and social support for family quality of life in children newly diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder: A one‐year follow‐up study16
First Impressions Towards Autistic People: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis16
Exploring the Heterogeneity of Self‐Injurious Behaviors in Autistic Youth: Patterns, Predictors, and Implications for Intervention16
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Inner experiences, mental health, and well‐being in autistic and non‐autistic adults16
Vasopressin, and not oxytocin, receptor gene methylation is associated with individual differences in receptive joint attention in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)15
Telehealth coaching in Project ImPACT indirectly affects children's expressive language ability through parent intervention strategy use and child intentional communication: An RCT15
Subject‐performed task effect on working memory performance in children with autism spectrum disorder15
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Parental age and autism severity in the Rhode Island Consortium for Autism Research and Treatment (RI‐CART) study15
Developing Inner Speech to Help Autistic Individuals Improve Their Self‐Regulation Ability: A Pilot Randomized‐Controlled Trial15
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Autistic people outperform neurotypicals in a cartoon version of the Reading the Mind in the Eyes15
RETRACTED: Auditory perceptual learning in autistic adults15
Research on social attention in autism and the challenges of the research domain criteria (RDoC) framework15
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Subregion‐specific thalamocortical functional connectivity, executive function, and social behavior in children with autism spectrum disorders14
Prenatal depression and risk of child autism‐related traits among participants in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program14
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Orienting to and away from the eyes in infants at high likelihood for autism when scanning faces14
Activation of Thematic and Taxonomic Relations During Lexical‐Semantic Processing in Autistic Children: Evidence From Eye Movements14
GABA and Glx predict EEG responses of visual sensitivity in autism14
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Brain glutathione and GABA+ levels in autistic children14
Dietary intake in children on the autism spectrum is altered and linked to differences in autistic traits and sensory processing styles13
Empathy among autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The importance of informant effects13
Cognitive Flexibility Mediates the Associations Between Perceived Stress, Social Camouflaging and Mental Health Challenges in Autistic Adults13
Rhythmic and interval‐based temporal orienting in autism13
Alteration of the fecal microbiota in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder13
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Elevated symptoms of executive dysfunction predict lower adaptive functioning in 3‐year‐olds with autism spectrum disorder13
A preliminary randomized controlled study of the PEERS® program for Taiwanese autistic adolescents: The effectiveness on reducing school bullying and enhancing social function13
Genetic mouse models of autism spectrum disorder present subtle heterogenous cardiac abnormalities13
Supporting the need for the motor domain to be included in the definition of autism spectrum disorder: A response to Bishop et al.'s critique of Bhat (2021)12
Genetic and epigenetic signatures associated with plasma oxytocin levels in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder12
Agreement of parent‐reported cognitive level with standardized measures among children with autism spectrum disorder12
Autism as emergent: Comments on Mottron 202112
Letter to the editor12
Cognitive‐Behavior Therapy for Social Anxiety Does Not Increase Reports of Camouflaging Behavior in Autistic Adults: Results From an Exploratory Study12
Screen to Screen Versus Face to Face: Evaluating Telehealth Autism Diagnostic Assessments for Young Children in a Diverse Clinical Setting12
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Visual working memory performance is intact across development in autism spectrum disorder12
Separate scoring algorithms for specific identification priorities optimize the screening properties of the Screening Tool for Autism in Toddlers (STAT)12
Assessing global developmental delay across instruments in minimally verbal preschool autistic children: The importance of a multi‐method and multi‐informant approach12
Reexamining empathy in autism: Empathic disequilibrium as a novel predictor of autism diagnosis and autistic traits12
Measurement invariance of the Autism Impact Measure (AIM) across sex in children with autism spectrum disorder12
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Comparing vagus nerve stimulation and resective surgery outcomes in patients with co‐occurring autism and epilepsy to patients with epilepsy alone: A population‐based study12
Joint intention understanding in children with autism spectrum disorder12
Scene construction and autobiographical memory retrieval in autism spectrum disorder12
What role does the environment play in language development? Exploring the associations among socioeconomic status, parent language input, and language skills in school‐aged children with autism12
Language growth in verbal autistic children from 5 to 11 years11
Sensory processing in 16p11.2 deletion and 16p11.2 duplication11
Linkage of whole genome sequencing and administrative health data in autism: A proof of concept study11
Is language ability associated with behaviors of concern in autism? A systematic review11
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Auditory and Semantic Processing of Speech‐in‐Noise in Autism: A Behavioral and EEG Study11
Hand–foot coordination is significantly influenced by motion direction in individuals with autism spectrum disorder11
Arousal‐modulated memory encoding and retrieval in adults with autism spectrum disorder11
Figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorders: A review11
The National Prevalence of Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Their Associations With Health Conditions Among General Junior High School Students in China: Findings From the China Education Panel Survey11
Prolonged neural encoding of visual information in autism11
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Response to Tien and Wei letter11
Audiovisual temporal binding window narrows with age in autistic individuals11
Developmental process of the understanding of linguistic register in children: A comparison of typically developing children, autistic children, and children with Williams syndrome11
Expanding Research on Contextual Factors in Autism Research: What Took Us So Long?11
A systematic review on autistic people's experiences of stigma and coping strategies11
Parasympathetic withdrawal indexes risk for emotion dysregulation in children with autism spectrum disorder11
Camera Movement Impacts on Mu‐Wave Activity During Action Observation in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Without Intellectual Disabilities10
Evaluating commercially available wireless cardiovascular monitors for measuring and transmitting real‐time physiological responses in children with autism10
Cluster analysis of teachers report for identifying symptoms of autism spectrum and/or attention deficit hyperactivity in school population: EPINED study10
Motor difficulties in 16p11.2 copy number variation10
Cardiovascular disease risk factors in autistic adults: The impact of sleep quality and antipsychotic medication use10
Characterizing subdomains of insistence on sameness in autistic youth10
Is visual gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder related to sequence of emotion intensity presentation? An eye‐tracking study of natural emotion perception processes10
Characterizing associations between emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and repetitive behaviors in autistic youth with intellectual disability10
Addressing current barriers to autism diagnoses through a tiered diagnostic approach involving pediatric primary care providers10
Easily readable? Examining the readability of lay summaries published in Autism Research10
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Autism‐related language preferences of English‐speaking individuals across the globe: A mixed methods investigation10
Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis10
Gray matter volume alteration is associated with insistence on sameness and cognitive flexibility in autistic youth10
How do autistic people fare in adult life and can we predict it from childhood?10
Relationship between quantitative digital behavioral features and clinical profiles in young autistic children10
Autistic identity: A systematic review of quantitative research10
Neural sensitivity to facial identity and facial expression discrimination in adults with autism10
Is she still angry? Intact learning but no updating of facial expressions priors in autism10
Somatosensory temporal sensitivity in adults on the autism spectrum: A high‐density electrophysiological mapping study using the mismatch negativity (MMN) sensory memory paradigm10
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Sensory features in autism: Findings from a large population‐based surveillance system10
Visual mental imagery abilities in autism10
Remote monitoring of social attention in neurogenetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disability10
A multi‐omic approach identifies an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regulatory complex of functional epimutations in placentas from children born preterm10
The INSAR Community Collaborator Request: Using community–academic partnerships to enhance outcomes of participatory autism research10
The Sensory Observation Autism Rating Scale (SOAR): Developed using the PROMIS® framework10
Social competence in autism: A structural equation modeling approach10
Role of autonomic, nociceptive, and limbic brainstem nuclei in core autism features10
Speech‐in‐noise perception in autistic adolescents with and without early language delay10
Longitudinal change in symptom severity in children with ASD: Results from the ELENA cohort10
Increased prefrontal GABA concentrations in adults with autism spectrum disorders9
What Is Distinctive About Autism Arising Following Severe Institutional Deprivation? A Direct Comparison With a Community Sample of Early Diagnosed Autistic People9
Broken or socially mistuned mirroring in ASD? An investigation via transcranial magnetic stimulation9
Maternal Touch During Mother–Infant Interactions in Infants With and Without an Elevated Likelihood for Autism: Links With Symptom‐Level Difficulties of Maternal Psychological Stress9
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The impact of adverse childhood events on service support and educational outcomes of children who are autistic: A theory‐guided analysis using structural equation modeling9
Common Gut Microbial Signatures in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder9
Naa15 Haploinsufficiency and De Novo Missense Variants Associate With Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Interfere With Neurogenesis and Neuron Development9
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Representativeness of autistic samples in studies recruiting through social media9
“We are exhausted, worn out, and broken”: Understanding the impact of service satisfaction on caregiver well‐being9
Prevalence of neurodevelopmental differences and autism in Scottish primary schools 2018–20229
Development of peak alpha frequency reflects a distinct trajectory of neural maturation in autistic children9
Motor‐Communication Skill Link in Minimally Speaking Children on the Autism Spectrum from the U.S. and India9
Altered Primary Somatosensory Neuron Development in a Pten Heterozygous Model for Autism Spectrum Disorder9
Prenatal exposure to pesticide residues in the diet in association with child autism‐related traits: Results from the EARLI study9
Bumetanide oral solution for the treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: Results from two randomized phase III studies9
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Facing up to others' emotions: No evidence of autism‐related deficits in metacognitive awareness of emotion recognition9
The challenge of detecting adverse events in adults with autism spectrum disorder who have intellectual disability9
Characterizing restricted and unusual interests in autistic youth9
Facial Expression Databases and Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Scoping Review9
Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in a large, diverse metropolitan area: Variation by sociodemographic factors9
Postweaning positive modulation of α5GABAA receptors improves autism‐like features in prenatal valproate rat model in a sex‐specific manner9
Autistic Traits and Emotion Dysregulation in 5–11‐Year‐Old Intellectually Able Children With Autism Spectrum Condition: Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation Strategies9
Continuity and change in loneliness and stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of autistic and non‐autistic adults9
Contribution of the serotonergic system to developmental brain abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder9
Adapting measures of motor imitation for use by caregivers in virtual contexts: Reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change8
Disclosing an autism diagnosis: A social identity approach8
Consistency and reliability of automated language measures across expressive language samples in autism8
The autistic brain can process local but not global emotion regularities in facial and musical sequences8
Acoustic Exaggeration Enhances Speech Discrimination in Young Autistic Children8
Seeing through a robot's eyes: A cross‐sectional exploratory study in developing a robotic screening technology for autism8
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Investigating implicit emotion processing in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross‐modal emotional priming study8
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Association of placental pathology and gross morphology with autism spectrum disorders8
Sensory experiences questionnaire unravels differences in sensory profiles between MECP2‐related disorders8
Prevalence of bias against neurodivergence‐related terms in artificial intelligence language models8
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Speed and accuracy of emotion recognition in autistic adults: The role of stimulus type, response format, and emotion8
Family history of psychiatric conditions and development of siblings of children with autism8
Developmental profiles of children at risk for autism spectrum disorder at school entry8
Autism is associated with in vivo changes in gray matter neurite architecture8
Association of Thyroid Hormone and Insulin‐Like Growth Factor‐1 Levels With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis8
A practical approach to identifying autistic adults within the electronic health record8
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