OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 12. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	334
Editorial Board	195
Editorial Board	150
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective	134
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	131
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	123
Three types of individual variation in brain networks revealed by single-subject functional connectivity analyses	113
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	99
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	88
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	86
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	85
The early origins and the growing popularity of the individual-subject analytic approach in human neuroscience	83
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	78
Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos	75
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	70
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	69
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?	59
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia	55
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	54
Editorial Board	54
Cue-approach training for food behavior	53
Quo vadis taxonomies of consistent behavioural patterns: time to change horses?	48
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	46
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?	46
Editorial Board	45

Editorial overview: Value-based decision making: control, value, and context in action	44
Editorial Board	44
Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	42
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	42
Space, the original frontier	42
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	41
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	40
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	40
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology	39
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	39
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	36
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	35
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	34
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness	32
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	32
Theory of Mind in the wild	31
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	31
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	30
Cognition is an emergent property	30
A broader mind: concern with other humans, equality, and animals	30
The brain that controls itself	29
Neural circuits for inference-based decision-making	29
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	29
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	28
Erratum regarding editorial disclosures	28
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	28
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	27
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	27
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior	27
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	27
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	26
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	26
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	26
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	26
Slow touch in non-human species: translational research into the C-tactile (CT) afferent system	25
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	24
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms	23
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities	23
Brief touch is different from a massage: insights from nonhuman primates	23
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	22
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]	22
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	22
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	22
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	22
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	21
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	21
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	21
Editorial Board	21
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	21
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	19

Editorial Board	19
The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning	19
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	19
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	19
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?	18
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	18
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	17
Editorial Board	17
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	17
Context-sensitive valuation and learning	17
Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	17
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage	17
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	17
The question why and how people differ in personality cannot be answered satisfactorily while neglecting biological approaches	16
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?	16
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	16
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	16
Probing the role of reward expectancy in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer	16
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action	16
The effect of effort on reward prediction error signals in midbrain dopamine neurons	16
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	15
Editorial Board	15
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function	14
The contextual regulation of goal-directed actions	14
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	14
Transient nature of stable behavioural patterns, and how we can respect it	14
Priors and proprioceptive predictions	13
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness	13
How perception of control shapes decision making	13
Mutually beneficial relationship between meaning in life and resilience	13
On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents	13
Virtuous cycles of organizational climate action: a multilevel view of pro-environmental behavior in the workplace	13
Extended cognition and life after death	13
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	12
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	12
Affect and emotions as drivers of climate change perception and action: a review	12
From deep brain phenotyping to functional atlasing	12
A light at the end of the axon: genetically encoded fluorescent indicators shine light on the dopamine system	12
Response inhibition training and measures of explicit and implicit food valuation	12
Positivity and collective climate action	12
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	12
Editorial Board	12