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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	95
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	62
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	61
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	54
Editorial Board	52
Editorial Board	47
Editorial Board	45
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective	38
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	37
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	37
Linking homeostasis to reinforcement learning: internal state control of motivated behavior	36
What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes	35
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	35
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?	34
Cue-approach training for food behavior	31
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?	31
Quo vadis taxonomies of consistent behavioural patterns: time to change horses?	31
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	30
Occam’s razor misapplied: Pinpointing the role of the default mode network in creativity	30
Editorial Board	29
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia	28
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	27
My path from traditional to critical quantitative methods: integrating racial equity frameworks in quantitative research	25
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	25
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	24

Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos	24
Editorial Board	24
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	23
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	23
Space, the original frontier	23
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	22
Editorial Board	22
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	21
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	21
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology	21
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	20
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	20
The default mode network and the complex dynamics of ongoing experience: an attractor-state perspective	20
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	20
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	19
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness	19
Theoretical and philosophical perspectives on race and racism in education	19
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	19
The brain that controls itself	18
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	18
Theory of Mind in the wild	18
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	18
Cognition is an emergent property	18
The default network and social cognition: new insights and future directions	17
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	17
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior	16
Timescales of dopamine release in the striatum as a window into hierarchical control	16
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	15
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	15
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	15
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	15
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	15
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	15
Facing the heat: behavioral and molecular underpinnings of heat stress in bumblebees	15
Slow touch in non-human species: translational research into the C-tactile (CT) afferent system	14
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	14
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms	14
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities	14
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	14
Addressing loneliness through AI: philosophical perspectives	14
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	13
Integrating foundational theories of loneliness to develop effective interventions	13
Brief touch is different from a massage: insights from nonhuman primates	13
Embracing the void: exploring the relationship between chronic loneliness and social touch	13
An individual–collective–systemic behavioral climate intervention framework	13
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	13
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	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]	12
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	12
Editorial Board	12

Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	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	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
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	12
Erratum to “The basal forebrain serves social information processing” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 56 (2024) 101372]	11
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	11
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage	11
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	11
The question why and how people differ in personality cannot be answered satisfactorily while neglecting biological approaches	11
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	11
Editorial Board	11
Editorial Board	11
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	11
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	11
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	11
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action	10
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?	10
Priors and proprioceptive predictions	10
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	10
Positivity and collective climate action	10
Extended cognition and life after death	10
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	10
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace	10
Editorial Board	9
On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents	9
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	9
Transient nature of stable behavioural patterns, and how we can respect it	9
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	9
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness	9
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	9
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	9
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function	9
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	9
Impactful environmental psychology needs formal theories	9
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience	9