Autism Research

Article	Citations
Global prevalence of autism: A systematic review update	1028
Motor Impairment Increases in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder as a Function of Social Communication, Cognitive and Functional Impairment, Repetitive Behavior Severity, and Comorbid Diagnoses: A	132
A systematic review on autistic people's experiences of stigma and coping strategies	83
Prediction in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review of Empirical Evidence	82
Autism‐related language preferences of English‐speaking individuals across the globe: A mixed methods investigation	72
A radical change in our autism research strategy is needed: Back to prototypes	71
The impact of COVID‐19 on stress, anxiety, and coping in youth with and without autism and their parents	70
Probiotics, prebiotics, synbiotics, and fecal microbiota transplantation in the treatment of behavioral symptoms of autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review	67
Emotion Dysregulation is Substantially Elevated in Autism Compared to the General Population: Impact on Psychiatric Services	62
Psychiatric problems during the COVID‐19 pandemic in children with autism spectrum disorder	60
Camouflaging in Autism: Examining Sex‐Based and Compensatory Models in Social Cognition and Communication	57
Understanding the Effects of Naturalistic Developmental Behavioral Interventions: A Project AIM Meta‐analysis	57
The impact of COVID‐19 on the mental health and wellbeing of caregivers of autistic children and youth: A scoping review	57
Eye gaze as a biomarker in the recognition of autism spectrum disorder using virtual reality and machine learning: A proof of concept for diagnosis	56
Autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia: An updated conceptual review	56
Exclusion of females in autism research: Empirical evidence for a “leaky” recruitment‐to‐research pipeline	53
Early Pandemic Experiences of Autistic Adults: Predictors of Psychological Distress	49
The prevalence and incidence of early‐onset dementia among adults with autism spectrum disorder	48
Representativeness of autistic samples in studies recruiting through social media	43
Prenatal maternal infection and risk for autism in offspring: A meta‐analysis	41
Analysis of the SPARK study COVID‐19 parent survey: Early impact of the pandemic on access to services, child/parent mental health, and benefits of online services	40
Sex differences in sensory processing in children with autism spectrum disorder	40
Sensory features in autism: Findings from a large population‐based surveillance system	36
Psychological distress among caregivers raising a child with autism spectrum disorder during the COVID‐19 pandemic	36
A conceptual model of risk and protective factors for autistic burnout	32

A further study of relations between motor impairment and social communication, cognitive, language, functional impairments, and repetitive behavior severity in children with ASD using the	32
Overlap of autism spectrum disorder and borderline personality disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	31
Prevalence and Age of Onset of Regression in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Systematic Review and Meta‐analytical Update	30
The Relationship Between Developmental Coordination Disorder and Concurrent Deficits in Social Communication and Repetitive Behaviors Among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	30
Rethinking autism spectrum disorder assessment for children during COVID‐19 and beyond	30
Identifying autism symptom severity trajectories across childhood	28
Assessing general and autism‐relevant quality of life in autistic adults: A psychometric investigation using item response theory	27
Autism severity and its relationship to disability	27
Adaptive and Maladaptive Bodily Awareness: Distinguishing Interoceptive Sensibility and Interoceptive Attention from Anxiety‐Induced Somatization in Autism and Alexithymia	27
Vinpocetine amended prenatal valproic acid induced features of ASD possibly by altering markers of neuronal function, inflammation, and oxidative stress	26
A Systematic Literature Review of Autism Research on Caregiver Talk	26
Meta‐Analysis Reveals Gait Anomalies in Autism	26
Contribution of the right temporoparietal junction and ventromedial prefrontal cortex to theory of mind in autism: A randomized, sham‐controlled tDCS study	26
The Autism‐Related lncRNA MSNP1AS Regulates Moesin Protein to Influence the RhoA, Rac1, and PI3K/Akt Pathways and Regulate the Structure and Survival of Neurons	26
Evaluating evidence‐based practice in light of the boundedness and proximity of outcomes: Capturing the scope of change	26
Associations between co‐occurring conditions and age of autism diagnosis: Implications for mental health training and adult autism research	25
Do Biological Sex and Early Developmental Milestones Predict the Age of First Concerns and Eventual Diagnosis in Autism Spectrum Disorder?	25
A lost generation? The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on early career ASD researchers	25
Prolonged Auditory Brainstem Response in Universal Hearing Screening of Newborns with Autism Spectrum Disorder	25
Increased prefrontal GABA concentrations in adults with autism spectrum disorders	25
Sex differentiation of brain structures in autism: Findings from a gray matter asymmetry study	24
Association between autism spectrum disorder and inflammatory bowel disease: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	24
The association between COVID‐19, personal wellbeing, depression, and suicide risk factors in Australian autistic adults	24
The sexual health, orientation, and activity of autistic adolescents and adults	24
A full semantic toolbox is essential for autism research and practice to thrive	24
The cognitive benefits of bilingualism in autism spectrum disorder: Is theory of mind boosted and by which underlying factors?	24
Current and lifetime somatic symptom burden among transition‐aged autistic young adults	24
Maternal prenatal selenium levels and child risk of neurodevelopmental disorders: A prospective birth cohort study	24
The cerebellum is linked to theory of mind alterations in autism. A direct clinical and MRI comparison between individuals with autism and cerebellar neurodegenerative pathologies	24
Factors associated with age at autism diagnosis in a community sample of Australian adults	22
Overconnectivity of the right Heschl's and inferior temporal gyrus correlates with symptom severity in preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder	22
Feasibility and acceptability of a telehealth model for autism diagnostic evaluations in children, adolescents, and adults	22
Executive Function Skills Are Linked to Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors: Three Correlational Meta Analyses	22
A granular perspective on inclusion: Objectively measured interactions of preschoolers with and without autism	21
Employment profiles of autistic adults in Australia	21
Heart Rate Variability in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Associations With Medication and Symptom Severity	21
Multidimensional motor performance in children with autism mostly remains stable with age and predicts social communication delay, language delay, functional delay, and repetitive behavior severity af	21
Toward a cumulative science of vocal markers of autism: A cross‐linguistic meta‐analysis‐based investigation of acoustic markers in American and Danish autistic children	21
A Data Driven Approach Reveals That Anomalous Motor System Connectivity is Associated With the Severity of Core Autism Symptoms	20
The Comorbidity of Schizophrenia Spectrum and Mood Disorders in Autism Spectrum Disorder	20
Atypical gaze patterns to facial feature areas in autism spectrum disorders reveal age and culture effects: A meta‐analysis of eye‐tracking studies	20
Atypical Head Movement during Face‐to‐Face Interaction in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	20
Motor skills predict adaptive behavior in autistic children and adolescents	20
Muscle strength and executive function in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder	20
Duloxetine ameliorates valproicacid‐inducedhyperactivity, anxiety‐like behavior, and social interaction deficits in zebrafish	20
Health profiles of adults with autism spectrum disorder: Differences between women and men	20
Keep it simple: Identification of basic versus complex emotions in spoken language in individuals with autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disability: A meta‐analysis study	20
Motor performance, praxis, and social skills in autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder	20
Maternal Vitamin D Levels During Pregnancy in Association With Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or Intellectual Disability (ID) in Offspring; Exploring Non‐linear Patterns and Dem	19
When diagnosis hampers research	19

Priors Bias Perceptual Decisions in Autism, But Are Less Flexibly Adjusted to the Context	18
Sex Differences in Gender‐Diverse Expressions and Identities among Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder	18
Atypical structural connectivity of language networks in autism spectrum disorder: A meta‐analysis of diffusion tensor imaging studies	18
Effects of age on the hippocampus and verbal memory in adults with autism spectrum disorder: Longitudinal versus cross‐sectional findings	18
Inter‐relationships between trait resilience, coping strategies, and mental health outcomes in autistic adults	18
Communication and social interaction in the cannabinoid‐type 1 receptor null mouse: Implications for autism spectrum disorder	18
Associations between sleep problems and domains relevant to daytime functioning and clinical symptomatology in autism: A meta‐analysis	18
Measurement invariance of the Childhood Autism Rating Scale (CARS) across six countries	18
The Impact of Bilingualism on the Executive Functions of Autistic Children: A Study of English–Arabic Children	18
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 randomiz	18
Dysfunction in interpersonal neural synchronization as a mechanism for social impairment in autism spectrum disorder	18
Children with autism spectrum disorder show altered functional connectivity and abnormal maturation trajectories in response to inverted faces	17
Cultural differences in social communication and interaction: A gap in autism research	17
Co‐occurring conditions and racial‐ethnic disparities: Medicaid enrolled adults on the autism spectrum	17
A comparison of methods for measuring camouflaging in autism	17
Cognitive correlates of autism spectrum disorder symptoms	17
Parallel age‐related cognitive effects in autism: A cross‐sectional replication study	17
Increased perceived stress is negatively associated with activities of daily living and subjective quality of life in younger, middle, and older autistic adults	17
The relationship between sensory reactivity differences and mental health symptoms in preschool‐age autistic children	17
Early developmental trajectories of expressive vocabulary and gesture production in a longitudinal cohort of Italian infants at high‐risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder	17
The relationship between camouflaging and mental health in autistic children and adolescents	17
Brain morphology, autistic traits, and polygenic risk for autism: A population‐basedneuroimaging study	17
Utility of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule and the Brief Observation of Social and Communication Change for Measuring Outcomes for a Parent‐Mediated Early Autism Intervention	16
Autistic traits are associated with faster pace of aging: Evidence from the Dunedin study at age 45	16
The Mid‐Fusiform Sulcus in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Establishing a Novel Anatomical Landmark Related to Face Processing	16
Early trajectories of motor skills in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder	16
WISC‐V Profiles and Their Correlates in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder without Intellectual Developmental Disorder: Report from the ELENA Cohort	16
Vocal markers of autism: Assessing the generalizability of machine learning models	16
Atypical Functional Covariance Connectivity Between Gray and White Matter in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder	15
Response to “A Radical Change in Our Autism Research Strategy is Needed: Back to Prototypes” by Mottron et al. (2021)	15
Maternal tobacco smoking and offspring autism spectrum disorder or traits in ECHO cohorts	15
Eating disturbances in adults with autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disabilities	15
Further developing the Frith–Happé animations: A quicker, more objective, and web‐based test of theory of mind for autistic and neurotypical adults	15
Building Meaning: Meta‐analysis of Component Skills Supporting Reading Comprehension in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	15
Somatosensory Temporal Discrimination in Autism Spectrum Disorder	15
Association between spectral electroencephalography power and autism risk and diagnosis in early development	15
Alteration of the fecal microbiota in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder	15
Predictors of adaptive functioning in preschool aged children with autism spectrum disorder	15
Tumor necrosis factor‐α expression aberration of M1/M2 macrophages in adult high‐functioning autism spectrum disorder	14
The course and prognostic capability of motor difficulties in infants showing early signs of autism	14
Prevalence of autism spectrum disorder in a large, diverse metropolitan area: Variation by sociodemographic factors	14
Heritability of social behavioral phenotypes and preliminary associations with autism spectrum disorder risk genes in rhesus macaques: A whole exome sequencing study	14
Premature mortality in a population‐based cohort of autistic adults in Canada	14
Imputing cognitive impairment in SPARK, a large autism cohort	14
Addressing current barriers to autism diagnoses through a tiered diagnostic approach involving pediatric primary care providers	14
Progress in autism research requires several recognition‐definition‐investigation cycles	14
Reexamining empathy in autism: Empathic disequilibrium as a novel predictor of autism diagnosis and autistic traits	14
Prevalence and treatment of mental, behavioral, and developmental disorders in children with co‐occurring autism spectrum disorder and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A population‐based stud	14
Job loss predicts worsening depressive symptoms for young adults with autism: A COVID‐19 natural experiment	14
A systematic review and meta‐analysis of associations between primarily non‐autistic people's characteristics and attitudes toward autistic people	14
Gait as a quantitative translational outcome measure in Angelman syndrome	13
Patterns of sensory modulation by age and sex in young people on the autism spectrum	13
Pharmacological inhibition of the primary endocannabinoid producing enzyme, DGL‐α, induces autism spectrum disorder‐like and co‐morbid phenotypes in adult C57BL/J mice	13
Age‐related parietal GABA alterations in children with autism spectrum disorder	13
Associations between coping strategies and mental health outcomes in autistic adults	13
Influence of Neighborhood Environment on Physical Activity Participation among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	13
Autism: Screening of inborn errors of metabolism and unexpected results	13
Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	13
Attend Less, Fear More: Elevated Distress to Social Threat in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorder	12
Association between atopic diseases and neurodevelopmental disabilities in a longitudinal birth cohort	12
Facial emotion training as an intervention in autism spectrum disorder: A meta‐analysis of randomized controlled trials	12
Continuity and change in loneliness and stress during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A longitudinal study of autistic and non‐autistic adults	12
Needs assessment in unmet healthcare and family support services: A survey of caregivers of children and youth with autism spectrum disorder in Delaware	12
Testing the extreme male brain hypothesis: Is autism spectrum disorder associated with a more male‐typical brain?	12
Characteristics of children on the autism spectrum who benefit the most from receiving intervention in inclusive versus specialised early childhood education settings	12
Joint attention and intelligence in children with autism spectrum disorder without severe intellectual disability	12
Work and well‐being: Vocational activity trajectories in young adults with autism spectrum disorder	12
Phonetic Inflexibility in Autistic Adults	12
Enhanced Memory for Vocal Melodies in Autism Spectrum Disorder and Williams Syndrome	12
Electroretinography in adults with high‐functioning autism spectrum disorder	12
Evaluating commercially available wireless cardiovascular monitors for measuring and transmitting real‐time physiological responses in children with autism	12
Evidence‐based use of scalable biomarkers to increase diagnostic efficiency and decrease the lifetime costs of autism	12
Neural coding of formant‐exaggerated speech and nonspeech in children with and without autism spectrum disorders	12
Fear Potentiated Startle in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Association With Anxiety Symptoms and Amygdala Volume	12
Combining voice and language features improves automated autism detection	12
New approaches to social skills training: Blended group interventions for girls with social communication difficulties	11
Competing Perceptual Salience in a Visual Word Recognition Task Differentially Affects Children With and Without Autism Spectrum Disorder	11
The association of in utero tobacco smoke exposure, quantified by serum cotinine, and Autism Spectrum Disorder	11
Mapping the time course of overt emotion dysregulation, self‐injurious behavior, and aggression in psychiatrically hospitalized autistic youth: A naturalistic study	11
Autism and the criminal justice system: An analysis of 93 cases	11

The N170 event‐related potential reflects delayed neural response to faces when visual attention is directed to the eyes in youths with ASD	11
Amplitude of low frequency fluctuations during resting state fMRI in autistic children	11
Evaluating the interrelations between the autism polygenic score and psychiatric family history in risk for autism	11
Caregiver responsiveness as a mechanism to improve social communication in toddlers: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	11
Social anxiety symptoms in autism spectrum disorder and social anxiety disorder: Considering the reliability of self‐report instruments in adult cohorts	11
Insufficient evidence for inclusion of motor deficits in the ASD diagnostic criteria: A response to Bhat (2021)	11
Who gains and who loses? Sociodemographic disparities in access to special education services among autistic students	11
Association of adverse childhood experiences and precuneus volume with intrusive reexperiencing in autism spectrum disorder	11
Social attention as a cross‐cultural transdiagnostic neurodevelopmental risk marker	11
Differential Item Functioning Based on Autism Features, IQ, and Age on the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Disorders (SCARED) Among Youth on the Autism Spectrum	11
Preventing and improving interactions between autistic individuals and the criminal justice system: A roadmap for research	11
Structural and contextual priors affect visual search in children with and without autism	10
Symptom severity and posttraumatic growth in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder: The moderating role of social support	10
Comparison of fitness levels between elementary school children with autism spectrum disorder and age‐matched neurotypically developing children	10
Factorial validity of the Theory of Mind Inventory‐2 in children with autism spectrum disorder	10
Expression Changes in Epigenetic Gene Pathways Associated With One‐Carbon Nutritional Metabolites in Maternal Blood From Pregnancies Resulting in Autism and Non‐Typical Neurodevelopment	10
Educational classifications of autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability among school‐aged children in North Carolina: Associations with race, rurality, and resource availability	10
Examination of pubertal timing and tempo in females and males with autism spectrum disorder compared to typically developing youth	10
Decreased homotopic interhemispheric functional connectivity in children with autism spectrum disorder	10
Aging and autism: Do measures of autism symptoms, co‐occurring mental health conditions, or quality of life differ between younger and older autistic adults?	10
Replication study of ADOS‐2 Toddler Module cut‐off scores for autism spectrum disorder classification	10
Associations between parental psychiatric disorders and autism spectrum disorder in the offspring	10
Cognitive flexibility in autism: Evidence from young autistic children	9
Resilience, and positive parenting in parents of children with syndromic autism and intellectual disability. Evidence from the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on family's quality of life an	9
Heritability of quantitative autism spectrum traits in adults: A family‐based study	9
The first five minutes: Initial impressions during autism spectrum disorder diagnostic evaluations in young children	9
Different Ways of Making a Point: A Study of Gestural Communication in Typical and Atypical Early Development	9
Alexithymia is related to poor social competence in autistic and nonautistic children	9
Examining factors related to the age of diagnosis of children with autism spectrum disorder from immigrant and non‐immigrant backgrounds in a diverse clinical sample	9
Social synchronization during joint attention in children with autism spectrum disorder	9
LRFN5 locus structure is associated with autism and influenced by the sex of the individual and locus conversions	9
Differential effects of COVID‐related lockdown on sleep–wake rhythms in adults with autism spectrum disorder compared to the general population	9
The importance of home: Satisfaction with accommodation, neighborhood, and life in adults with autism	9
Pathways to adaptive functioning in autism from early childhood to adolescence	9
The Revised Children's Communication Checklist‐2 (CCC‐R): Factor Structure and Psychometric Evaluation	9
Predictive language processing in young autistic children	9
Differences in Brain Structural Covariance Network Characteristics in Children and Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorder	9
Social cognitive skills groups increase medial prefrontal cortex activity in children with autism spectrum disorder	9
Early adversity and positive parenting: Association with cognitive outcomes in children with autism spectrum disorder	9
Speed and accuracy of emotion recognition in autistic adults: The role of stimulus type, response format, and emotion	9
What are quantitative traits and how can they be used in autism research?	9
The relationship between autism spectrum and sleep–wake traits	9
Altered medial prefrontal cortex and dorsal raphé activity predict genotype and correlate with abnormal learning behavior in a mouse model of autism‐associated 2p16.3 deletion	9
Applying a public health approach to autism research: A framework for action	9
Increased resting‐state thalamocortical functional connectivity in children and young adults with autism spectrum disorder	9
Easily readable? Examining the readability of lay summaries published in Autism Research	9
Diagnosing autism in low‐income countries: Clinical record‐based analysis in Sri Lanka	9
Dietary intake in children on the autism spectrum is altered and linked to differences in autistic traits and sensory processing styles	9
The importance of low IQ to early diagnosis of autism	9
Reduced brain volume and white matter alterations in Shank3‐deficient rats	9
Measures of tonic and phasic activity of the locus coeruleus—norepinephrine system in children with autism spectrum disorder: An event‐related potential and pupillometry study	9
Bumetanide oral solution for the treatment of children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: Results from two randomized phase III studies	9
Decreased interoceptive accuracy in children with autism spectrum disorder and with comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder	8
Parent responsiveness mediates the association between hyporeactivity at age 1 year and communication at age 2 years in children at elevated likelihood of ASD	8
Self‐reported cognitive decline among middle and older age autistic adults	8
Sensory processing in 16p11.2 deletion and 16p11.2 duplication	8
“Intolerance of uncertainty” mediates the relationship between social profile and anxiety in both Williams syndrome and autism	8
Parent‐reported Autism Diagnostic Stability and Trajectories in the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children	8
Atypical sensory processing features in children with autism, and their relationships with maladaptive behaviors and caregiver strain	8
Genetic mouse models of autism spectrum disorder present subtle heterogenous cardiac abnormalities	8
An Investigation of the Dynamic Thiol/Disulfide Homeostasis, As a Novel Oxidative Stress Plasma Biomarker, in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders	8
Changes in Electroencephalogram Coherence in Adolescents With Autism Spectrum Disorder After a Social Skills Intervention	8
Puppets facilitate attention to social cues in children with ASD	8
Early measurement of autism risk constructs in the general population: A new factor structure of the First Years Inventory (FYIv3.1) for ages 6–16 months	8
Conversational adaptation in children and teens with autism: Differences in talkativeness across contexts	8
Sex differences in age of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: Preliminary evidence from Uganda	8
Closing the species gap: Translational approaches to studying sensory processing differences relevant for autism spectrum disorder	8
One size does not fit all: An individualized approach to understand heterogeneous cognitive performance in autistic adults	8
Altered markers of mitochondrial function in adults with autism spectrum disorder	8
Reading Goals and Executive Function in Autism: An Eye‐Tracking Study	8
The validity and reliability of the simplified Chinese version of the Social Communication Questionnaire	8
Characteristics of the autism spectrum disorder gastrointestinal and related behaviors inventory in children	8
Features that best define the heterogeneity and homogeneity of autism in preschool‐age children: A multisite case–control analysis replicated across two independent samples	8
A Neuroimaging Preparation Protocol Tailored for Autism	8
Why do we need sex‐balanced studies of autism?	8
Super responders: Predicting language gains from JASPER among limited language children with autism spectrum disorder	8
Social orienting and initiated joint attention behaviors in 9 to 12 month old children with autism spectrum disorder: A family home movies study	8
Efficacy of very early interventions on neurodevelopmental outcomes for infants and toddlers at increased likelihood of or diagnosed with autism: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	8
Evidence of item bias in a national flourishing measure for autistic youth	8
Social and non‐social sensory responsivity in toddlers at high‐risk for autism spectrum disorder	8
Development and psychometric evaluation of a Thai Diagnostic Autism Scale for the early diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder	8
Unified framework for early stage status prediction of autism based on infant structural magnetic resonance imaging	8
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Oromotor skills in autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review	8
Anti‐ableist language is fully compatible with high‐quality autism research: Response to Singer et al. (2023)	8
Individuals with autism spectrum disorder are impaired in absolute but not relative pitch and duration matching in speech and song imitation	8
Is traditional back translation enough? Comparison of translation methodology for an ASD screening tool	8
Sweat, Sit, Sleep: A Compositional Analysis of 24‐hr Movement Behaviors and Body Mass Index among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	8
Understanding aggression in autism across childhood: Comparisons with a non‐autistic sample	8