Autism Research

Papers
(The TQCC of Autism Research is 7. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)
ArticleCitations
Child language and autism diagnosis impact hierarchical temporal structure of parent–child vocal interactions in early childhood1184
Optimal interpregnancy interval in autism spectrum disorder: A multi‐national study of a modifiable risk factor94
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Autistic adults' perspectives on appropriate empathic responses to others' emotions70
Sex differences in the age of childhood autism diagnosis and the impact of co‐occurring conditions67
Behavioral responses to fevers and other medical events in children with and without ASD64
Preventing and improving interactions between autistic individuals and the criminal justice system: A roadmap for research63
Eye gaze as a biomarker in the recognition of autism spectrum disorder using virtual reality and machine learning: A proof of concept for diagnosis60
The cerebellum is linked to theory of mind alterations in autism. A direct clinical and MRI comparison between individuals with autism and cerebellar neurodegenerative pathologies57
Risk factors and clinical characteristics of autism spectrum disorder with regression in China56
Differences in self‐other control as cognitive mechanism to characterize theory of mind reasoning in autistic and non‐autistic adults48
No evidence for high inflexible precision of prediction errors in autism during lexical processing44
The association between COVID‐19, personal wellbeing, depression, and suicide risk factors in Australian autistic adults43
One size does not fit all: An individualized approach to understand heterogeneous cognitive performance in autistic adults43
Basic oculomotor function is similar in young children with ASD and typically developing controls41
Sex differences in age of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: Preliminary evidence from Uganda38
Intact memory storage but impaired retrieval in visual memory in autism: New insights from an electrophysiological study36
Predictors of individual differences in minimally verbal peer communication exchanges following peer‐oriented social intervention36
The Childhood Autism Rating Scale Second Edition (CARS2) and Its Applicability in an Iranian Sample32
Narrative abilities of autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The role of mentalising and executive function32
Abnormalities in cerebellar subregions' volume and cerebellocerebral structural covariance in autism spectrum disorder31
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Development and validation of an Arabic language eye‐tracking paradigm for the early screening and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in Qatar30
Infants who develop autism show smaller inventories of deictic and symbolic gestures at 12 months of age28
Autism severity level affects working memory and planning but not inhibition, shifting and emotional control28
Structural and contextual priors affect visual search in children with and without autism27
Reproducibility between preschool and school‐age Social Responsiveness Scale forms in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program27
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Decreased homotopic interhemispheric functional connectivity in children with autism spectrum disorder26
Insufficient evidence for inclusion of motor deficits in the ASD diagnostic criteria: A response to Bhat (2021)26
“Intolerance of uncertainty” mediates the relationship between social profile and anxiety in both Williams syndrome and autism25
Online administration of the ADOS for research with adolescents and adults in response to the pandemic24
Brain morphology, autistic traits, and polygenic risk for autism: A population‐basedneuroimaging study24
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Predictive language processing in young autistic children24
Autism 101 Commentaries24
Autism, pets, and the importance of seeing human24
Response to Natri24
Further developing the Frith–Happé animations: A quicker, more objective, and web‐based test of theory of mind for autistic and neurotypical adults24
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Evidence of item bias in a national flourishing measure for autistic youth24
Sex‐related patterns of functional brain networks in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder23
Characterizing subdomains of insistence on sameness in autistic youth22
Auditory evoked potentials in adolescents with autism: An investigation of brain development, intellectual impairment, and neural encoding22
A multilevel investigation of sensory sensitivity and responsivity in autistic adults22
Association between body mass index and subcortical volume in pre‐adolescent children with autism spectrum disorder: An exploratory study22
Improving parents' ability to advocate for services for youth with autism: A randomized clinical trial22
Child and caregiver predictors of primary caregiver participation in families of school‐aged Autistic children22
Gestational thyroid hormones and autism‐related traits in the EARLI and HOME studies21
Factorial validity of the Theory of Mind Inventory‐2 in children with autism spectrum disorder21
Short‐term trajectories of restricted and repetitive behaviors in minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder20
EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism20
Social competence in autism: A structural equation modeling approach20
Measuring flexibility in autistic adults: Exploring the factor structure of the flexibility scale self report20
The clinical relevance of subgroups of autistic adults: Stability and predictive value20
Parasympathetic withdrawal indexes risk for emotion dysregulation in children with autism spectrum disorder20
Self‐reported cognitive decline among middle and older age autistic adults19
Comment on: “Associations between parental psychiatric disorders and autism spectrum disorder in the offspring”18
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Pupillary response during social emotion tasks in autism spectrum disorder18
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Increased perceived stress is negatively associated with activities of daily living and subjective quality of life in younger, middle, and older autistic adults18
Visual mental imagery abilities in autism18
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Prenatal maternal infection and risk for autism in offspring: A meta‐analysis17
Associations between early language, motor abilities, and later autism traits in infants with typical and elevated likelihood of autism17
Rare variants in the outcome of social skills group training for autism17
The INSAR Community Collaborator Request: Using community–academic partnerships to enhance outcomes of participatory autism research17
Risperidone versus aripiprazole fracture risk in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders17
Subdomains of restricted and repetitive behaviors within autism: Exploratory structural equation modeling using the diagnostic interview for social and communication disorders17
Parent–infant interaction trajectories in infants with an elevated likelihood for autism in relation to 3‐year clinical outcome17
The cognitive benefits of bilingualism in autism spectrum disorder: Is theory of mind boosted and by which underlying factors?17
Neural sensitivity to facial identity and facial expression discrimination in adults with autism17
Social anxiety is more likely to influence reputation management decisions than autistic traits17
The effect of recasting by mothers with different conversational styles on the communication behavior of autistic children: Lag sequential analysis16
The devil is in the details: Advancing our collective understanding of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions16
Atypical facial mimicry for basic emotions in children with autism spectrum disorder16
Sensorimotor Behavior in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Biological Parents15
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Social orienting and initiated joint attention behaviors in 9 to 12 month old children with autism spectrum disorder: A family home movies study15
Utilizing network analysis to identify core items of quality of life for children with autism spectrum disorder15
Neural correlates of audiovisual narrative speech perception in children and adults on the autism spectrum: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study15
Evaluating evidence‐based practice in light of the boundedness and proximity of outcomes: Capturing the scope of change15
Remote monitoring of social attention in neurogenetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disability15
Adaptive and Behavioral Profiles in Down Syndrome and Co‐Occurring Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case–Control Study15
Development and psychometric evaluation of a Thai Diagnostic Autism Scale for the early diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder15
A multi‐omic approach identifies an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regulatory complex of functional epimutations in placentas from children born preterm14
The N170 event‐related potential reflects delayed neural response to faces when visual attention is directed to the eyes in youths with ASD14
Parent responsiveness mediates the association between hyporeactivity at age 1 year and communication at age 2 years in children at elevated likelihood of ASD14
GABA and glutamate measurements in temporal cortex of autistic children14
ECHO autism adult healthcare: Training community clinicians to provide quality care for autistic adults14
An atlas of genetic correlations between gestational age and common psychiatric disorders14
Assessing the validity of administrative health data for the identification of children and youth with autism spectrum disorder in Ontario14
Increased context adjustment is associated with auditory sensitivities but not with autistic traits14
Characteristics of children on the autism spectrum who benefit the most from receiving intervention in inclusive versus specialised early childhood education settings14
A multimodal approach can identify specific motor profiles in autism and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder14
How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review14
The first five minutes: Initial impressions during autism spectrum disorder diagnostic evaluations in young children14
Mental health issues in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder: A multi‐time‐point study related to COVID‐19 pandemic13
Poly‐victimization of autistic adults: An investigation of individual‐level correlates13
Heritability of quantitative autism spectrum traits in adults: A family‐based study13
No differences in implicit hand maps among different degrees of autistic traits13
Gray matter volume alteration is associated with insistence on sameness and cognitive flexibility in autistic youth13
Subjective wellbeing of autistic adolescents and young adults: A cross sectional study13
Fine motor skill and expressive language in minimally verbal and verbal school‐aged autistic children12
Motor, cognitive, and socio‐cognitive mechanisms explaining social skills in autism and typical development12
Dysfunction in interpersonal neural synchronization as a mechanism for social impairment in autism spectrum disorder12
The psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Social Communication Questionnaire12
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Comparative effectiveness trial: Modular behavior approach for young autistic children compared to comprehensive behavioral intervention12
Transitive inference in a clinical childhood sample with a focus on autism spectrum disorder12
Assessing general and autism‐relevant quality of life in autistic adults: A psychometric investigation using item response theory12
Response to “A radical change in our autism research strategy is needed: Back to prototypes” by Mottron et al. (2021)12
Longitudinal change in symptom severity in children with ASD: Results from the ELENA cohort12
The effect of volatility in linguistic input on prediction behavior in autistic toddlers12
Breastfeeding patterns in infants are associated with a later diagnosis of autism Spectrum disorder12
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‐analysis12
Somatosensory temporal sensitivity in adults on the autism spectrum: A high‐density electrophysiological mapping study using the mismatch negativity (MMN) sensory memory paradigm11
Developmental profiles of young children with autism spectrum disorder and global developmental delay: A study with the GriffithsIIIscales11
Parenting stress in caregiver‐mediated interventions for toddlers with autism: An application of quantile regression mixed models11
Association between atopic diseases and neurodevelopmental disabilities in a longitudinal birth cohort11
Association of cognitive and adaptive skills with internalizing and externalizing problems in autistic children and adolescents11
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 months11
Emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross‐sectional investigation of various visual and auditory communicative domains11
Effects of age on the hippocampus and verbal memory in adults with autism spectrum disorder: Longitudinal versus cross‐sectional findings11
Autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia: An updated conceptual review11
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 11
Enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism11
Three autism subtypes based on single‐subject gray matter network revealed by semi‐supervised machine learning11
Overlap of autism spectrum disorder and borderline personality disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis11
Aging and autism: Do measures of autism symptoms, co‐occurring mental health conditions, or quality of life differ between younger and older autistic adults?11
Changing perspectives on autism: Overlapping contributions of evolutionary psychiatry and the neurodiversity movement11
Characterizing associations between emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and repetitive behaviors in autistic youth with intellectual disability10
Autistic identity: A systematic review of quantitative research10
Evaluating commercially available wireless cardiovascular monitors for measuring and transmitting real‐time physiological responses in children with autism10
Easily readable? Examining the readability of lay summaries published in Autism Research10
Reports of Echolalia and Related Behaviors in Autism From Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians: Evidence From the Simon Simplex Collection10
Are minimally verbal autistic children's modality and form of communication associated with parent responsivity?10
Decreased interoceptive accuracy in children with autism spectrum disorder and with comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder10
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Early executive functioning predicts externalizing problems in neurodiverse preschoolers10
Motor difficulties in 16p11.2 copy number variation10
Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis10
Relationship between quantitative digital behavioral features and clinical profiles in young autistic children10
Sensory features in autism: Findings from a large population‐based surveillance system9
The prevalence and developmental course of auditory processing differences in autistic children9
Associations between coping strategies and mental health outcomes in autistic adults9
Parent Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating a Modular Behavioral Intervention for Young Autistic Children9
Bilingualism Effects in Metaphor and Simile Comprehension and Production in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder9
Cerebellar gamma‐aminobutyric acid: Investigation of group effects in neurodevelopmental disorders9
Distinct social attention profiles in preschoolers with autism contrasted to fragile X syndrome9
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A systematic review and meta‐analysis of associations between primarily non‐autistic people's characteristics and attitudes toward autistic people9
Correction to “Well‐being spectrum traits are associated with polygenic scores for autism”9
Heritability of abnormalities in limbic networks of autism spectrum disorder children: Evidence from an autism spectrum disorder twin study9
A comparison of methods for measuring camouflaging in autism9
The role of intellectual disability with autism spectrum disorder and the documented cooccurring conditions: A population‐based study9
“We are exhausted, worn out, and broken”: Understanding the impact of service satisfaction on caregiver well‐being9
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Gut mobilization improves behavioral symptoms and modulates urinary p‐cresol in chronically constipated autistic children: A prospective study9
Autism‐related language preferences of English‐speaking individuals across the globe: A mixed methods investigation9
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Conversational adaptation in children and teens with autism: Differences in talkativeness across contexts9
Inter‐trial theta phase consistency during face processing in infants is associated with later emerging autism9
Does the gender matter?: Anxiety symptoms and emotion dysregulation in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities9
Risk of psychosis in autism spectrum disorder individuals exposed to psychosocial stressors: A 9‐year chart review study9
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Severity should be distinguished from prototypicality9
Patterns of sensory modulation by age and sex in young people on the autism spectrum8
Increased resting‐state thalamocortical functional connectivity in children and young adults with autism spectrum disorder8
Quantitative assessment of tip‐toe behavior in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability: A cross‐sectional study8
Feeling intimidated and uncomfortable: Established and exacerbated educational inequities experienced by black parents of autistic children8
Pathways to adaptive functioning in autism from early childhood to adolescence8
The impact of depressive and anxious symptoms on quality of life in adults on the autism spectrum8
Dissecting the heterogeneous subcortical brain volume of autism spectrum disorder using community detection8
The Sensory Observation Autism Rating Scale (SOAR): Developed using the PROMIS® framework8
Language in Autism Research: Accurate and Respectful8
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 an8
Toward a cumulative science of vocal markers of autism: A cross‐linguistic meta‐analysis‐based investigation of acoustic markers in American and Danish autistic children8
Health conditions in autism: Defining the trajectory from adolescence to early adulthood8
Association between spectral electroencephalography power and autism risk and diagnosis in early development8
The impact of measurement on clinical trials: Comparison of preliminary outcomes of a brief mobile intervention for autistic adults using multiple measurement approaches8
Accuracy of initial diagnostic impressions of autism in toddlers and behaviors that inform these impressions8
Patterns of sleep disturbances and associations with depressive symptoms in autistic young adults8
An urban versus rural comparison of obesity between youth with and without autism spectrum disorder8
Vowel distinctiveness as a concurrent predictor of expressive language function in autistic children8
Applying a public health approach to autism research: A framework for action8
Cross‐replicating findings on unique motor impairments of children with ASD using confirmatory factor analysis and a novel SPARK study sample8
Speech‐in‐noise perception in autistic adolescents with and without early language delay8
Cataloguing and characterizing interests in typically developing toddlers and toddlers who develop ASD8
A biomarker‐based study of prenatal smoking exposure and autism in a Finnish national birth cohort8
Role of autonomic, nociceptive, and limbic brainstem nuclei in core autism features8
The implementation of reciprocal imitation training in a Part C early intervention setting: A stepped‐wedge pragmatic trial8
Understanding aggression in autism across childhood: Comparisons with a non‐autistic sample8
Locus conversions are rare in the LRFN5 locus8
Progress in autism research requires several recognition‐definition‐investigation cycles8
Caregiver sensitivity predicts infant language use, and infant language complexity predicts caregiver language complexity, in the context of possible emerging autism8
An elevated anxiety level among prepubertal autistic boys with non‐treatment‐seeking functional gastrointestinal disorders: A case–control study7
The impact of autism spectrum disorder on parent employment: Results from the r‐Kids study7
Gender diversity in a Chinese community sample and its associations with autism traits7
Is visual gaze in children with autism spectrum disorder related to sequence of emotion intensity presentation? An eye‐tracking study of natural emotion perception processes7
Motor performance, praxis, and social skills in autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder7
Practice is the best of all instructors—Effects of enactment encoding and episodic future thinking on prospective memory performance in high‐functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder7
Autism and the criminal justice system: An analysis of 93 cases7
Erratum to Eliciting Language Samples for Analysis (ELSA): A New Protocol for Assessing Expressive Language and Communication in Autism7
Associations between sleep problems and domains relevant to daytime functioning and clinical symptomatology in autism: A meta‐analysis7
Duloxetine ameliorates valproicacid‐inducedhyperactivity, anxiety‐like behavior, and social interaction deficits in zebrafish7
Comparison of fitness levels between elementary school children with autism spectrum disorder and age‐matched neurotypically developing children7
Introduction to commentary by Laurent Mottron and responses7
Investigating the impact of disposable surgical face‐masks on face identity and emotion recognition in adults with autism spectrum disorder7
Is autism a unitary biological entity? A revised and extended response to “A radical change in our autism research strategy is needed: Back to prototypes” (Mottron, 2021, Autism Research)7
A granular perspective on inclusion: Objectively measured interactions of preschoolers with and without autism7
Autism 101 commentaries7
Prompting visual attention to print versus pictures during shared book reading with digital storybooks for preschoolers withASDcompared toTDpeers7
Expanding perspectives on figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorder: A commentary on Lampri et al.'s review7
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Eating disturbances in adults with autism spectrum disorder without intellectual disabilities7
The use of noninvasive brain stimulation techniques in autism spectrum disorder7
Combining voice and language features improves automated autism detection7
Leisure, community, workforce participation and quality of life in primary and secondary caregivers of autistic children7
The time has come for living systematic reviews in autism research7
Dietary intake and growth deficits in Rett syndrome—A cross‐section study7
Risk factors and clinical correlates of sensory dysfunction in preschool children with and without autism spectrum disorder7
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More similar than different: Characterizing special interests in autistic boys and girls based on caregiver report7
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