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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	109
Editorial Board	70
Linking homeostasis to reinforcement learning: internal state control of motivated behavior	53
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	49
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	44
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	41
What episodic memory reveals about the default mode network	41
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	39
What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes	35
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	32
Cue-approach training for food behavior	32
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	31
Editorial Board	30
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia	28
My path from traditional to critical quantitative methods: integrating racial equity frameworks in quantitative research	28
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	28
Occam’s razor misapplied: Pinpointing the role of the default mode network in creativity	27
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	27
Using cognitive load tasks to constrain hypotheses about the role of the default mode network in social cognition: uncertainty reduction as a unifying framework	25
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	25
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	25
Editorial Board	23
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	23
Editorial Board	23
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	22

Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	22
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	22
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	22
The Circular Science of Mind and Behavior: Control Theory Across Brains and Machines	22
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	22
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	21
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
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	20
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness	19
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	18
Theoretical and philosophical perspectives on race and racism in education	18
The brain that controls itself	18
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	17
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	17
Cognition is an emergent property	17
Facing the heat: behavioral and molecular underpinnings of heat stress in bumblebees	16
The default network and social cognition: new insights and future directions	16
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior	16
The basal ganglia as a policy-based controller	16
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	16
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	16
Addressing loneliness through AI: philosophical perspectives	15
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms	15
Timescales of dopamine release in the striatum as a window into hierarchical control	15
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	15
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	15
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities	15
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	15
School funding and racist causality: historical and QuantCrit perspectives	14
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	14
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	14
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]	14
Embracing the void: exploring the relationship between chronic loneliness and social touch	14
An individual–collective–systemic behavioral climate intervention framework	14
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	13
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	13
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	13
Integrating foundational theories of loneliness to develop effective interventions	13
Editorial Board	13
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	13
The default mode network: where spontaneous thought meets memory consolidation	13
Editorial Board	13
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
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	12
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	12
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	12
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	12
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	12
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	11

Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	11
Editorial Board	10
Mental navigation as a default computational mode in human cognition	10
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	10
Priors and proprioceptive predictions	10
Understanding the association between loneliness and social media: a revised theoretical model	10
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action	10
Erratum to “The basal forebrain serves social information processing” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 56 (2024) 101372]	10
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness	10
Editorial Board	10
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	10
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	10
Editorial Board	10
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	9
Extended cognition and life after death	9
Impactful environmental psychology needs formal theories	9
A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system	9
Positivity and collective climate action	9
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience	9
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	9
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	9
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace	9