OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Religion Brain & Behavior is 2. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Building better models: a cultural immunology approach	74
Are the religious make-believing, or are they making themselves believe?	65
Scripture’s systemic imagination	29
Beyond the border: advancing the study of Catholic identities and orthopraxic religion in Southern and Northern Ireland	25
Mystical dynamics: renewal, luminous light, and ego disintegration as key features associated with mystical oneness—a psychometric analysis using the PES100 in controlled psychedelic studies	12
How do culture and religion interact worldwide? A cultural match approach to understanding religiosity and well-being in the Many Analysts Religion Project	10
The interaction between forgiveness and resentment on mental health outcomes: two sides of the same coin?	10
An integrative neurocognitive model of human relations with supernatural agents, commentary to Balch, Grafman and McNamara	8
Local concerns aren’t always local: a broader view of local social ecologies provides greater explanatory power	8
Commentary to MARP: how to increase the robustness of survey studies	8
Rational atheism revisited: a comment on Disbelief by Will Gervais	7
Pierre Liénard (1968–2023)	7
Religion endures, but does it thrive?	7
Introducing a special issue on the role of moralizing gods in the evolution of socio-political complexity	7
Multiple origins for the evolution of collective rituals	6
Where we go one we go all: CSR in the digital age	6
Religious people view both science and religion as less epistemically valuable than non-religious people view science	6
From multiverse analysis to multiverse operationalisations: 262,143 ways of measuring well-being	6
Are cultures immune systems or blueprints of a systemic design?	6
Frontal asymmetry and physiological responses in religious and spiritual problems with and without conversion	6
How to understand a research question—a challenging first step in setting up a statistical model	6
Mapping the minds of participants: relationality and cultural schemas	5
Toward a cultural immunology of religious systems	5
Response: Secularization with Irish characteristics	5
A need to better understand the evolutionary process of beliefs about gods’ concerns	5

Cultural dissonance and consonance in mystical-type experiences: commentary on “Finding consonance: an integrative neurocognitive model of human relationships with supernatural agents”	5
Assessing religion and spirituality in a cross-cultural sample: development of religion and spirituality items for the Global Flourishing Study	5
Kin selection favors religious traditions: ancestor worship as a cultural descendant-leaving strategy	5
Some questions on the utility of transmission biases in ethnographic research	4
Formalized rituals may have preceded the emergence of religions	4
The varieties of nonreligious experience: meaning in life among believers, non-believers, and the spiritual but not religious	4
Rethinking the roots of human collective ritual	4
“I once was blind”: experimental manipulation of religious attitudes via choice blindness	4
God, witchcraft, and beliefs about illness in Mauritius	4
Conscious evolution of the noösphere: hubris or necessity?	4
The economic – and anthropological? – view of supernatural institutions	4
Predictive processing all the way down	4
Cultural evolution of gods’ minds: response to commentators	3
Toward an embodied cognitive science of religion: enaction, evolution, emergence	3
Comparing the three states of Dhikr, meditation, and thinking about God: an fMRI study	3
Social interaction spheres, the self, and the meanings of “prediction”	3
The promises and pitfalls of facilitated spiritual experiences for the study of religion	3
The role of religion in adolescent mental health: faith as a moderator of the relationship between distrust and depression	3
Prayer as collaborative problem solving	3
Where does CSR go from here?	3
Religion, Brain & Behavior adopts stricter transparency standards	3
A systematic review of the association between religiousness and children’s prosociality	3
Extraordinary-high rank expectation as a cognitive predisposition forming religion	3
Broadening the scope and refining the precision of theistic relational spirituality	2
Less egocentric and a bit more allocentric—the path to greater well-being?	2
Keep the black box open: a case for complex and continuous representationalism	2
From drowning to debunking: the cognitive science of religion's role in unraveling religious beliefs	2
A contemporary interpretation of Teilhard’s law of complexity-consciousness	2
The evolution of human ritual behavior as a cooperative signaling platform	2
Reintroducing the direction of evolution	2
The poverty of contentless culture	2
Identifying and validating the “varieties” of spiritual experience	2
Linking ritual transmission with the psychology of norm acquisition	2
Instrumentality, empiricism, and rationality in Nuosu divination	2
Corrected by collegial commentators: my beliefs about beliefs about Disbelief	2