OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Psychobiology is 5. 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
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Maternal early life and prenatal stress in relation to birth outcomes in Argentinian mothers	34
Cultural Values Influence the Developmental Trajectory of Resistance to Social Influence Over the Course of Adolescence	28
Childhood Maltreatment and Electrodermal Reactivity to Stress Among Pregnant Women	27
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Children's planning of efficient tool use in a social context	20
Cumulative risks predict epigenetic age in adult survivors of extremely low birth weight	19
Assessing the motivational value of infant video clips on chimpanzees through discrimination learning task	18
Psychophysiological adjustment to formal education varies as a function of peer status and socioeconomic status in children beginning kindergarten	18
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	18
Evaluating visuomotor coordination in children with amblyopia	17
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Exploring joint HPA–inflammatory stress response profiles in adolescent girls: Implications for developmental models of neuroendocrine dysregulation	17
The impact of prenatal maternal stress due to potentially traumatic events on child temperament: A systematic review	17
Anxiety, aggression, reward sensitivity, and forebrain dopamine receptor expression in a laboratory rat model of early‐life disadvantage	16
Effect of baby swimming lessons on infants’ avoidance of bodies of water	16
Developmental windows for effects of choline and folate on excitatory and inhibitory neurotransmission during human gestation	15
Early adversity changes the economic conditions of mouse structural brain network organization	15
Early Adversity Affects Cerebellar Structure and Function—A Systematic Review of Human and Animal Studies	14
Association between physical activity and allostatic load among pregnant women	14
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Effects of Peripubertal Experiences on Competitive Behavior in Male Rats at Different Stages of Adulthood	13
Pupillary Responses to Dynamic Negative Versus Positive Facial Expressions of Emotion in Children and Parents: Links to Depression and Anxiety	13
Practice and proficiency: Factors that facilitate infant walking skill	13

Emotion Regulation and Neural Connectivity After Frustrative Non‐Reward in Adolescents: The Moderating Role of Cognitive Flexibility	13
Olfactory sensory and perceptual evaluation in newborn infants: A systematic review	12
Chronic early‐life stress increases cognitive impulsivity and D2 immunoreactivity in the nucleus accumbens of adult rats	12
Youth coping and cardiac autonomic functioning: Implications for social and academic adjustment	12
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Maternal hair cortisol predicts periodic and aperiodic infant frontal EEG activity longitudinally across infancy	12
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Timing of adoption is associated with electrophysiological brain activity and externalizing problems among children adopted internationally	12
Maternal deprivation affects goat kids’ social behavior before and after weaning	12
Modifying quantitative sensory testing to investigate behavioral reactivity in a pediatric global developmental delay sample: Relation to peripheral innervation and chronic pain outcomes	12
Measuring fetal heart rate and variability: Fetal cardiotocography versus electrocardiography	11
Hair and plasma cortisol throughout the first 3 years of development in infant rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta	11
Temperament in Early Childhood Is Associated With Gut Microbiota Composition and Diversity	11
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New Mothers’ Experiences of Childhood Adversity and Current Context of Economic Adversity Predict Parent and Infant RSA	11
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Taking a few deep breaths significantly reduces children's physiological arousal in everyday settings: Results of a preregistered video intervention	11
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	11
Role of tactile stimulation during the preweaning period on the development of the peripheral sensory sural (SU) nerve in adult artificially reared female rat	11
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Demographic and health predictors of telomere length during adolescence	10
Reliability of an automated gaze‐controlled paradigm for capturing neural responses during visual and face processing in toddlerhood	10
Peak selection and latency jitter correction in developmental event‐related potentials	10
Mother and sibling interactions during the preweaning period influence myelination and impulse propagation of the sensory sural nerve in the adult rat	10
Maternal Prenatal Stress and the Offspring Gut Microbiome: A Cross‐Species Systematic Review	10
Paternal adverse childhood experiences: Associations with infant DNA methylation	10
Sex differences in autism‐like behavior and dopaminergic neurons in substantia nigra of juvenile mice prenatally exposed to valproate	10
Pupil responses to dynamic negative facial expressions of emotion in infants and parents	10
Environmental enrichment decreases anxiety‐like behavior in zebrafish larvae	9
Quality not quantity: Deficient juvenile play experiences lead to altered medial prefrontal cortex neurons and sociocognitive skill deficits	9
Differential Effects of Prenatal Buprenorphine and Methadone on Postnatal Growth and Gene Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens	9
Sex differences in the vulnerability of the hippocampus to prenatal stress	9
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Warm Parenting Throughout Adolescence Predicts Basal Parasympathetic Activity Among Mexican‐Origin Youths	9
Developmental administration of valproic acid alters DNA methylation and maternal behavior	9
Is economic hardship associated with young children's cortisol levels?	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
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“Nobody Here Likes Her”—The Impact of Parental Verbal Threat Information on Children's Fear of Strangers	8
Chloride Modulates Central pH Sensitivity and Plasticity of Brainstem Breathing‐Related Biorhythms in Zebra Finch Embryos	8
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Fast changes in default and control network activity underlying intraindividual response time variability in childhood: Does age and sex matter?	8
Endogenous Control and Reward‐based Mechanisms Shape Infants’ Attention Biases to Caregiver Faces	8
Behavioral responses to natural rewards in developing male and female rats	8
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Emotion regulation and reactivity are associated with cortical thickness in early to mid‐childhood	8
Bidirectional Relations Among Maternal Positive Emotion, Infant Positive Emotionality, and Infant Physiological Regulation Across the First 18 Months of Life	8
Identifying the limits of peripheral visual processing in 9‐month‐old infants	8
Early Supraspinal Influences on Human Embryonic Posture	7

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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
Testing detectability, attractivity, hedonic specificity, extractability, and robustness of colostrum odor—Toward an olfactory bioassay for human neonates	7
Parent‐Reported Toddler Dysregulation and Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia Predict Trajectories of Childhood Externalizing Behaviors	7
Ganaxolone Therapy After Preterm Birth Restores Cerebellar Oligodendrocyte Maturation and Myelination in Guinea Pigs	7
Progressive Voxel‐Wise Homotopic Connectivity from childhood to adulthood: Age‐related functional asymmetry in resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging	7
Time–frequency dynamics of error monitoring in childhood: An EEG study	7
Effects of Early Life Scarcity‐Adversity on Maturational Milestones in Male and Female Rats	7
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Psychometric properties of infant electroencephalography: Developmental stability, reliability, and construct validity of frontal alpha asymmetry and delta–beta coupling	7
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The development of interoceptive hunger signals	7
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57th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Developmental Psychobiology	6
Longitudinal patterns of neuroendocrine coupling from middle childhood to early adolescence	6
Behavioral and neurostructural correlates of childhood physical violence victimization: Interaction with family functioning	6
Trauma exposure and mental health outcomes among Central American and Mexican children held in immigration detention at the United States–Mexico border	6
Examining the Relation Between Prenatal Emotion Dysregulation and Toddler Vocabulary Development: A Biobehavioral Approach	6
Evaluating Household Income and Tobacco Exposure as Moderators of the Association Between Prenatal Cannabis Exposure and Newborn Neurobehavior	6
Oxytocin system polymorphisms rs237887 and rs2740210 variants increase the risk of depression in pregnant women with early abuse	6
Influence of oxytocin on parenting behaviors and parent–child bonding: A systematic review	6
Comparative analysis of electrodermal activity metrics and their association with child behavior in autism spectrum disorder	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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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
Practice does not make perfect: Juvenile object play does not improve the predation skills of adult mink in “simulated prey” tests	5
Ethologically relevant repeated acute social stress induces maternal neglect in the lactating female mouse	5
When and how do children solve the Weather Prediction Task?	5
Association of maternal and paternal psychosocial stress and infant hair cortisol among Arab American immigrants: A pilot study	5
Nonrapid eye movement sleep characteristics and relations with motor, memory, and cognitive ability from infancy to preadolescence	5
Psychoneuroimmunological Evidence for Biological Embedding During Early Adolescence	5
Morphine exposure alters Fos expression in a sex‐, age‐, and brain region‐specific manner during adolescence	5
From One's Heart to the Mind of Others: A Study in School‐Aged Children	5
Parenting under pressure: Parental transmission and buffering of child fear during the COVID‐19 pandemic	5
The impact of dopamine receptor D4, temperamental negativity, and household chaos on young twins’ externalizing behaviors	5
Juvenile Gouldian finches (Erythrura gouldiae) form sibling subgroups during social integration	5
The Interaction Between Socioeconomic Status, Parent–Child Relationship, and the COMT Val158Met Polymorphism Predicts Chinese Preschoolers' Executive Function	5
Mother's engagement with infant linked to infant's responding to threat	5
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Maternal Childhood Trauma and Offspring Hypothalamic–Pituitary–Adrenal Axis Function from Infancy to 6 Years of Age	5
Developmental psychobiology reviewer recognition for 2021	5
Assessing Children's Autonomic Nervous System Activity During Structured Tasks: A Feasibility and Reliability Study in Ghana	5
Adolescent girls’ intrapersonal and interpersonal parasympathetic regulation during peer support is moderated by trait and state co‐rumination	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
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The effects of neonatal procedural pain and maternal isolation on hippocampal cell proliferation and reelin concentration in neonatal and adult male and female rats	5
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Prenatal Zika Virus Exposure Alters the Interaction Between Affective Processing and Decision‐Making in Juvenile Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)	5
Obituary for Celia L. Moore (1942–2025)	5