OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Psychobiology is 4. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women	75
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task	37
Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers	31
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence	29
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Estrous Cycle Impacts Fear Extinction and Relapse in Female Adolescent Rats	23
Between‐ and Within‐Person Associations Between Serum Lipids and Adolescent Depressive Symptoms	23
The role of epigenetic mechanisms in the long‐term effects of early‐life adversity and mother–infant relationship on physiology and behavior of offspring in laboratory rats and mice	21
An Interpersonal Physiological Pathway Framework Linking Racism and Well‐Being in Black American Families	21
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women	19
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water	19
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation	18
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Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety	16
Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood	15
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization	15
Emotion Regulation and Neural Connectivity After Frustrative Non‐Reward in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Flexibility	15
Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	15
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies	14
A Role for Fetal Movement in Shaping Maternal Neurodevelopment	14
Advancing Wrist‐Worn Accelerometry for Measurement of Infant Motor Behavior	14
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia	14
New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA	13

Physiological Markers of Early Social Skills in Rural South Africa: The Role of Frontal Alpha Asymmetry and Heart Rate Variability	13
Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment	13
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage	13
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Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally	12
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat	12
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta	12
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Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats	12
Environmental enrichment initiated in adolescence restores the reduced expression of synaptophysin and GFAP in the hippocampus of chronically stressed rats in a sex‐specific manner	12
Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity	11
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes	11
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Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning	11
Correction to “Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression”	11
Exploring Neural Markers of Reward and Loss Processing and Problematic Parenting Styles Among Mothers With and Without Histories of Depression	11
Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy	11
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat	10
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Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate	10
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography	10
Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence	10
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Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review	10
Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths	10
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits	9
Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress	9
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens	9
Neurobehavioral Profiles in Low‐Risk Infants: Associations With Prenatal Maternal Biobehavior and Birth Characteristics	9
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae	9
Age‐dependent associations between RSA reactivity, affective and cognitive regulation, and psychopathology risk in young children exposed to varying levels of socioeconomic disadvantage	9
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior	9
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Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood	8
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?	8
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Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces	7
Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors	7
Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats	7
Effect of social instability stress in adolescence or adulthood on sensitivity to sucrose concentration in a social context in male and female Long‐Evans rats	7
Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats	7
Identifying the limits of peripheral visual processing in 9‐month‐old infants	7
Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?	7
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life	7
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Who Participates in Research and Why: Reducing Barriers to Diversifying Samples in Developmental Psychobiology	7
“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers	7
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture	7

Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos	7
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging	7
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Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse	6
57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology	6
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Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates	6
The development of interoceptive hunger signals	6
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning	6
Evaluating Household Income and Tobacco Exposure as Moderators of the Association Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Newborn Neurobehavior	6
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Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	6
Early Family Experiences and Neural Activity in Rural Pakistani Children: The Differential Role of Gender	6
Postweaning cafeteria diet induces a short‐term metabolic disfunction and a differential vulnerability to develop anxiety‐like and depressive‐like behaviors in male but not female rats	6
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs	6
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent‐to‐child transmission of social fears via verbal information	6
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Developmental psychobiology reviewer recognition for 2021	5
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence	5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)	5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors	5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?	5
Early life experience and sex influence acoustic repertoire use in wild‐born, but hand‐reared, captive cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)	5
Feasibility of an Online Acute Stressor in Preschool Children of Mothers with Depression	5
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Why do individuals with Williams syndrome or Down syndrome fail the Weather Prediction Task?	5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children	5
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests	5
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder	5
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach	5
Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)	5
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Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration	5
Losing a parent in early‐life impairs flock size discrimination and lowers oxytocin receptor abundance in a medial amygdala homologue of adult zebra finches	5
Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana	5
The Effects of Distraction and Reappraisal on the Late Positive Potential Across Discrete Emotions: A Study With Latinx Children	5
Cross‐Tissue Specificity of Pediatric DNA Methylation Associated With Cumulative Family Stress	5
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review	5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination	5
Acute and long‐lasting effects of adolescent fluoxetine exposure on feeding behavior in Sprague–Dawley rats	5
Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age	5
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Infant 6‐Month Psychophysiology During Interaction With Mother Is Differentiated by 12‐Month Attachment Quality	5
Children's shyness and physiological arousal to a peer's social stress	4
Preventive putative effect of agmatine on cognitive and molecular outcomes in ventral tegmental area of male offspring following physical and psychological prenatal stress	4
The effects of early rearing experiences on mutual eye gaze among captive olive baboons (Papio anubis)	4
The Interaction Between Socioeconomic Status, Parent–Child Relationship, and the COMT Val158Met Polymorphism Predicts Chinese Preschoolers' Executive Function	4
Implications of Developmental 17‐OHPC Exposure on the Mesocorticolimbic Serotonergic and Dopaminergic Pathways and Adolescent Mood–Related Behavior in Rats	4
Prenatal serotonin reuptake inhibitor antidepressant exposure, SLC6A4 genetic variations, and cortisol activity in 6‐year‐old children of depressed mothers: A cohort study	4
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Cannabis Use, and the Endocannabinoid System: A Scoping Review	4
Telomere Length and Change Among Infants Growing up in Low‐ to Mid‐Income Households	4
Longitudinal study of infants receiving extra motor stimulation, full‐term control infants, and infants born preterm: High‐density EEG analyses of cortical activity in response to visual motion	4
Interpersonal Contributors to Depression in Sexual Minority Adolescents: An Examination of Exposure to Acute Stressors and Neural Reactivity to Interpersonal Emotional Images	4
A preliminary investigation of epigenome‐wide DNA methylation and temperament during infancy	4
The role of task difficulty in directing selective attention in bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus) neonates: A developmental test of the intersensory redundancy hypothesis	4
Associations Between Prenatal Maternal Stress and Infant Resting Brain Activity: A Preregistered Investigation	4
Developmental Psychobiology Reviewer Recognition for 2022	4
Developmental age and fatty acid amide hydrolase genetic variation converge to mediate fear regulation in female mice	4
Psychometric Properties of the Neural Response to Rewards and Errors Across Mid‐ to Late‐Adolescence	4
Maternal Gestational Diabetes Mellitus (GDM) Moderates the Association Between Birth Weight and EEG Power in Healthy Term‐Age Newborns	4
Children's and Adults’ P100 and N170 Responses to Own‐ and Other‐Race Face Categories and Identities	4
The relationship of psychological well‐being and cognitive emotions with breastfeeding self‐efficacy in mothers in the postpartum period	4
Maternal prolactin levels during late pregnancy and nurturing behavior of offspring in mice	4
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study	4
Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding During Early Adolescence	4
Maternal separation: Does it hold the potential to model consequences of postpartum depression?	4
Neural sensitivity to social reward predicts links between social behavior and loneliness in youth during the COVID‐19 pandemic	4
Impact of maternal physical exercise on inflammatory and hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis markers in the brain and lungs of prenatally stressed neonatal mice	4
Relationship Between Prone Skills and Motor‐Based Problem‐Solving Abilities in Full‐Term and Preterm Infants During the First 6 Months of Life	4