OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 10. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective	381
Editorial Board	232
Editorial Board	150
Editorial Board	142
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	125
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	94
What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes	93
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	88
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	86
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	76
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	64
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	63
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?	58
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	55
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?	51
Cue-approach training for food behavior	50
Occam’s razor misapplied: Pinpointing the role of the default mode network in creativity	49
My path from traditional to critical quantitative methods: integrating racial equity frameworks in quantitative research	47
Quo vadis taxonomies of consistent behavioural patterns: time to change horses?	47
Editorial Board	45
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia	44
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	44
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	42
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	36
Editorial Board	35

Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos	35
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	34
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	34
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	34
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	33
Editorial Board	30
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness	30
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology	30
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	28
Space, the original frontier	28
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	28
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	28
The default mode network and the complex dynamics of ongoing experience: an attractor-state perspective	27
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	27
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	27
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	26
Theory of Mind in the wild	24
A broader mind: concern with other humans, equality, and animals	23
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	23
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	23
Theoretical and philosophical perspectives on race and racism in education	23
The brain that controls itself	22
Cognition is an emergent property	21
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	21
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	20
Erratum regarding editorial disclosures	20
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	19
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	19
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior	19
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	19
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	19
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	19
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	18
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	18
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	18
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	18
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities	17
Brief touch is different from a massage: insights from nonhuman primates	17
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	17
An individual–collective–systemic behavioral climate intervention framework	16
Slow touch in non-human species: translational research into the C-tactile (CT) afferent system	16
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms	16
Addressing loneliness through AI: philosophical perspectives	16
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	15
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	15
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	15
Corrigendum to ‘On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents’ [Curr Opin Behav Sci, vol 43, February 2022, Pages 118–124]	15
The brain bases of regulation of eating behaviors: the role of reward, executive control, and valuation processes, and new paths to propel the field forward	14
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	14
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	14

From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	14
Editorial Board	14
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	13
Editorial Board	13
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	13
Editorial Board	13
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	13
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	13
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage	13
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	13
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	13
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	13
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	13
Erratum to “The basal forebrain serves social information processing” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 56 (2024) 101372]	12
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	12
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?	12
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action	12
Editorial Board	12
The question why and how people differ in personality cannot be answered satisfactorily while neglecting biological approaches	12
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	12
Extended cognition and life after death	11
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	11
Positivity and collective climate action	11
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness	11
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	11
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	10
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	10
On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents	10
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review	10
Diversity of REM sleep	10
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience	10
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	10
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function	10
Response inhibition training and measures of explicit and implicit food valuation	10
Socially scripted vocal learning in primates	10
Transient nature of stable behavioural patterns, and how we can respect it	10
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace	10
Priors and proprioceptive predictions	10
A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system	10