OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 15. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	292
Editorial Board	175
Editorial Board	137
Editorial Board	120
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective	118
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	117
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	101
The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience	90
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	81
Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses	78
How positive affect buffers stress responses	76
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	71
What are ‘positive’ affect and emotion?	70
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	66
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?	65
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	61
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?	57
Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos	52
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	51
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	50
Cue-approach training for food behavior	49
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	49
Quo vadis taxonomies of consistent behavioural patterns: time to change horses?	47
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	45
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	45

Editorial overview: Value-based decision making: control, value, and context in action	44
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	42
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology	42
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	42
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	40
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	40
Editorial Board	39
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	38
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	38
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	38
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	37
Space, the original frontier	37
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	36
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	35
Finding a balance: modulatory effects of positive affect on attentional and cognitive control	35
Theory of Mind in the wild	34
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	33
On defining positive affect (PA): considering attitudes toward emotions, measures of PA, and approach motivation	32
A broader mind: concern with other humans, equality, and animals	32
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	31
Neural circuits for inference-based decision-making	31
Cognition is an emergent property	30
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	30
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	29
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	29
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	29
Erratum regarding editorial disclosures	28
What is it about positive affect that alters attentional scope?	27
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	27
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	27
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	26
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	26
Slow touch in non-human species: translational research into the C-tactile (CT) afferent system	25
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	25
Brief touch is different from a massage: insights from nonhuman primates	25
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	25
Individual differences in learning positive affective value	25
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	24
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	24
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	24
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	24
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	24
Editorial Board	23
Editorial Board	23
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	23
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]	23
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	23
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	23
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	22
Categorizing the function of positive emotions	21

Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?	21
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	21
Editorial overview: Positive affect: taxonomies, mechanisms and applications	21
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	21
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	21
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	20
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	20
The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning	20
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	19
When does empathy feel good?	19
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?	19
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	18
Editorial Board	18
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage	18
Context-sensitive valuation and learning	18
The effect of effort on reward prediction error signals in midbrain dopamine neurons	18
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	17
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	17
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	17
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	17
Utilizing electroencephalography (EEG) to investigate positive affect	17
From deep brain phenotyping to functional atlasing	17
The question why and how people differ in personality cannot be answered satisfactorily while neglecting biological approaches	17
Probing the role of reward expectancy in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer	17
Transient nature of stable behavioural patterns, and how we can respect it	16
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	16
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience	16
Editorial Board	16
How perception of control shapes decision making	16
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness	16
Extended cognition and life after death	16
The contextual regulation of goal-directed actions	16
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	16
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace	16
On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents	15
A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system	15
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	15
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review	15
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function	15
Smarter than humans: rationality reflected in primate neuronal reward signals	15