OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 10. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
What will it take to mitigate climate change? Maximizing norm transmission and potency for change-accelerating outcomes	392
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective	238
Editorial Board	157
Editorial Board	148
Editorial Board	128
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	97
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	94
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	93
Linking homeostasis to reinforcement learning: internal state control of motivated behavior	90
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	79
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	66
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	63
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?	61
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?	58
Quo vadis taxonomies of consistent behavioural patterns: time to change horses?	54
Cue-approach training for food behavior	53
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	51
Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos	49
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	48
Occam’s razor misapplied: Pinpointing the role of the default mode network in creativity	47
Editorial Board	46
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia	45
My path from traditional to critical quantitative methods: integrating racial equity frameworks in quantitative research	44
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	38
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	37

Editorial Board	35
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	35
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	34
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness	34
Editorial Board	34
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	33
Space, the original frontier	31
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	30
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	29
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	29
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	28
The default mode network and the complex dynamics of ongoing experience: an attractor-state perspective	28
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	28
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	27
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	27
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology	27
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	24
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	24
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	24
Theoretical and philosophical perspectives on race and racism in education	23
A broader mind: concern with other humans, equality, and animals	23
The brain that controls itself	23
Cognition is an emergent property	21
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	21
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	21
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	21
Theory of Mind in the wild	21
Facing the heat: behavioral and molecular underpinnings of heat stress in bumblebees	20
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior	20
Timescales of dopamine release in the striatum as a window into hierarchical control	20
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	19
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	19
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	19
Erratum regarding editorial disclosures	19
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	19
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	19
The default network and social cognition: new insights and future directions	19
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	19
Addressing loneliness through AI: philosophical perspectives	18
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities	18
An individual–collective–systemic behavioral climate intervention framework	18
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms	18
Embracing the void: exploring the relationship between chronic loneliness and social touch	16
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	16
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	16
Brief touch is different from a massage: insights from nonhuman primates	15
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	15
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	15
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	15
Slow touch in non-human species: translational research into the C-tactile (CT) afferent system	15

Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	14
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	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
Editorial Board	14
Integrating foundational theories of loneliness to develop effective interventions	14
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	14
Editorial Board	14
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	14
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	14
Editorial Board	13
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	13
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	13
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	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	13
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	13
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	13
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	13
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	12
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?	12
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	12
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action	12
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage	12
The question why and how people differ in personality cannot be answered satisfactorily while neglecting biological approaches	12
Erratum to “The basal forebrain serves social information processing” [Curr Opin Behav Sci 56 (2024) 101372]	12
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience	11
Positivity and collective climate action	11
Priors and proprioceptive predictions	11
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	11
Editorial Board	11
Extended cognition and life after death	11
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function	11
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	11
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	11
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace	11
Impactful environmental psychology needs formal theories	10
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	10
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	10
On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents	10
Transient nature of stable behavioural patterns, and how we can respect it	10
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review	10
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness	10
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	10
A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system	10