OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 8. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking homeostasis to reinforcement learning: internal state control of motivated behavior	102
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	67
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	64
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	47
Editorial Board	47
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	38
Editorial Board	38
What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes	36
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	33
Using cognitive load tasks to constrain hypotheses about the role of the default mode network in social cognition: uncertainty reduction as a unifying framework	32
Cue-approach training for food behavior	31
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	26
Occam’s razor misapplied: Pinpointing the role of the default mode network in creativity	26
Editorial Board	25
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	25
Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos	25
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia	25
My path from traditional to critical quantitative methods: integrating racial equity frameworks in quantitative research	25
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	24
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	23
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	23
Editorial Board	23
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	22
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	22
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	22

The default mode network and the complex dynamics of ongoing experience: an attractor-state perspective	21
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	20
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	20
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	20
Editorial Board	20
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness	19
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	19
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	18
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	17
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	17
Theory of Mind in the wild	17
Cognition is an emergent property	16
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	16
The brain that controls itself	16
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	15
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	15
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	15
Theoretical and philosophical perspectives on race and racism in education	15
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	14
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	14
Timescales of dopamine release in the striatum as a window into hierarchical control	14
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior	14
Facing the heat: behavioral and molecular underpinnings of heat stress in bumblebees	14
The default network and social cognition: new insights and future directions	14
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	14
Addressing loneliness through AI: philosophical perspectives	13
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities	13
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms	13
An individual–collective–systemic behavioral climate intervention framework	13
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	13
School funding and racist causality: historical and QuantCrit perspectives	13
Embracing the void: exploring the relationship between chronic loneliness and social touch	13
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	13
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	13
Integrating foundational theories of loneliness to develop effective interventions	12
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	12
Editorial Board	12
The default mode network: where spontaneous thought meets memory consolidation	12
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	12
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	12
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	12
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	11
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	11
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	11
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	11
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	11
Editorial Board	11
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
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	11

Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	10
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	10
Editorial Board	10
Editorial Board	10
Erratum to “The basal forebrain serves social information processing” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 56 (2024) 101372]	10
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	10
Editorial Board	10
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action	10
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage	10
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	9
Extended cognition and life after death	9
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness	9
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function	9
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	9
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	9
Positivity and collective climate action	9
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace	9
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	8
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	8
Reflections on my engagement with QuantCrit: operating as a lens or corrective surgery?	8
Priors and proprioceptive predictions	8
Prevalence of problematic Internet use during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic	8
Response inhibition training and measures of explicit and implicit food valuation	8
Impactful environmental psychology needs formal theories	8
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience	8
Socially scripted vocal learning in primates	8
A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system	8