OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 9. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	106
Editorial Board	67
Linking homeostasis to reinforcement learning: internal state control of motivated behavior	66
What episodic memory reveals about the default mode network	50
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	47
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	40
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	39
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	39
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	33
What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes	33
Cue-approach training for food behavior	32
Using cognitive load tasks to constrain hypotheses about the role of the default mode network in social cognition: uncertainty reduction as a unifying framework	27
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	27
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	27
Editorial Board	26
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	26
My path from traditional to critical quantitative methods: integrating racial equity frameworks in quantitative research	25
Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos	25
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	25
Occam’s razor misapplied: Pinpointing the role of the default mode network in creativity	25
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia	24
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	23
Editorial Board	23
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	22
Editorial Board	22

The default mode network and the complex dynamics of ongoing experience: an attractor-state perspective	21
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	20
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	20
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	20
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	20
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	20
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness	20
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	19
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	17
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	17
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	17
Theory of Mind in the wild	17
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	17
Theoretical and philosophical perspectives on race and racism in education	16
The brain that controls itself	16
Cognition is an emergent property	16
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	15
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior	15
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	15
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	15
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	15
Timescales of dopamine release in the striatum as a window into hierarchical control	14
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	14
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities	14
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms	14
The default network and social cognition: new insights and future directions	14
The basal ganglia as a policy-based controller	14
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	14
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	14
School funding and racist causality: historical and QuantCrit perspectives	14
Facing the heat: behavioral and molecular underpinnings of heat stress in bumblebees	14
Addressing loneliness through AI: philosophical perspectives	13
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	13
Integrating foundational theories of loneliness to develop effective interventions	13
An individual–collective–systemic behavioral climate intervention framework	13
Embracing the void: exploring the relationship between chronic loneliness and social touch	13
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	13
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	13
The default mode network: where spontaneous thought meets memory consolidation	13
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]	13
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	12
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	12
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	12
Understanding the association between loneliness and social media: a revised theoretical model	12
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	12
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	12
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	12
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	12
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	11
Editorial Board	11

Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	11
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	11
Editorial Board	11
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	10
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	10
Erratum to “The basal forebrain serves social information processing” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 56 (2024) 101372]	10
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action	10
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function	9
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	9
Priors and proprioceptive predictions	9
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	9
Editorial Board	9
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace	9
Positivity and collective climate action	9
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience	9
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	9
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	9
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	9
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	9
Impactful environmental psychology needs formal theories	9
Extended cognition and life after death	9