OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior is 3. 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
Howard Rachlin: An extended scientist	50
What we want. A review of Beyond Pleasure and Pain; How Motivation Works by E. Tory Higgins	24
Of rats and robots: A mutual learning paradigm	22
Minding behavior	22
Applications of operant demand to treatment selection I: Characterizing demand for evidence‐based practices	20
Is superstitious responding a matter of detectability? A replication of Killeen (1978)	14
Effects of economic context and reward amount on delay and probability discounting	13
Discrimination of highly similar stimuli as members of different equivalence classes	12
Generalized contextual control based on nonarbitrary and arbitrary transfer of stimulus functions	12
Assessing differential personal information value with social discounting and hypothetical payment tasks with university students	12
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Effects of immediate‐reinforcement training on delay discounting behavior in rats	12
Pairs of rats cooperate more when responding to simultaneous reinforcement than to alternated reinforcement	11
Modeling choice across time: Effects of response–reinforcer discriminability	11
Behavioral mechanisms of oxycodone's effects in female and male rats: II. Reinforcement magnitude and implications for impulsive/risky choice	10
Does increasing absolute conditioned reinforcement rate improve sensitivity to relative conditioned reinforcement rate?	9
Influence of amount and delay of reward on choice and response rate: A free‐operant, multiple‐schedule analogue of a discrete‐trial procedure	9
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Avoidance of hot air blast in Rattus norvegicus	9
The effects of simultaneous point gains and losses on human persistence	9
Valuing the future at different temporal points: The role of time framing on discounting	9
Experimental analysis of canine behavior and cognition: Introduction to the special issue	8
Emergence of a three‐sample conditional discrimination as foundation for reasoning capabilities	8
Contributions of delay, duration, and intensity of shock on rats' choices involving conflicting‐valence consequences	8
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Hyperbolic discounting and exponentiated demand: Modeling demand for cigarettes in three dimensions	8
Merging meaningful classes and abstract equivalence classes by exclusion	8
Effects of reinforcer probability on attending to element and compound sample stimuli	7
Constructional fear treatment: Teaching fearful shelter dogs to approach and interact with a novel person	7
Response‐dependent point loss and response force as disrupting operations on behavioral resistance to change in humans	7
Impact of putamen inhibition byDREADDson schedule‐induced drinking in rhesus monkeys	7
Reinforcer efficacy of grain for horses	6
The generalization‐across‐dimensions model applied to conditional temporal discrimination	6
“You can be a behaviorist and still talk about the mind – as long as you don't put it into a person's head”: An interview with Howard Rachlin¹	6
The temporal structure of goal‐directed and habitual operant behavior	6
The aversiveness of timeout from response‐dependent and response‐independent food deliveries as a function of delivery rate	6
Resistance to change, of behavior and of theory	6
Verbal behavior development theory and relational frame theory: Reflecting on similarities and differences	6
Pigeons' performance in the number‐left task: Associative or computational mechanism?	6
Common Ground	6
Issue Information	6
Aversive control versus stimulus control by punishment	6
Using must‐have and can‐have features to improve conceptual learning	6
Use of a habituation–dishabituation test to determine canine olfactory sensitivity	6
Clinical neuropharmacology of cocaine reinforcement: A narrative review of human laboratory self‐administration studies	5
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Some detrimental effects of conditioned reinforcement on the maintenance of dog behavior	5
Comparing traditional match‐to‐sample training with observational learning to establish equivalence classes with adults	5
Synthesized alternative reinforcement and resurgence	5
Expanding on cross‐price elasticity: Understanding tobacco product demand and substitution from the cross‐price purchase task	5
The behavioral origins of phylogenic responses and ontogenic habits	5
Establishing derived reinforcers via stimulus equivalence	5
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Issue Information	5
2023 Guest Reviewer List	5
Effects of advance notice on transition‐related pausing in pigeons	5
Operant demand and public health	5
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Issue Information	4
The role of bidirectional naming in the emergence of analogical relations in children	4
The effect of risk on intertemporal choice and preference reversal	4
2024 Guest Reviewer List	4
Application of dose‐addition analyses to characterize the abuse‐related effects of drug mixtures	4
A laboratory model of canine search vigilance decrement, II: Noncontingent reward and Pavlovian appetitive stimuli	4
Resurgence in a discrete‐trial procedure in rats	4
Social discounting in a symmetric giving and taking frame: An artifactual field experiment with young South African adults	4
Issue Information	4
Evolutionary theory prediction: Response rate as a joint function of reinforcement rate and reinforcer magnitude	4
Application of synchronous music reinforcement to increase walking speed: A novel approach for training intensity	4
More complex incidental bidirectional naming results from exposure alone	4
Issue Information	4
Cultural differences in intertemporal decision making: A comparison between Chile and China	4
Discounting of outcomes in which immediate gains are followed by delayed losses	4
Strengthening the procedural fidelity research‐to‐practice loop in animal behavior	4

A free‐operant olfactory choice procedure to assess preference for social and nonsocial scents in female rats	4
Consumer choices with variations in item price, delay, and opportunity cost	4
Temporal distribution of schedule‐induced behavior depends on the essential value of the reinforcer	4
A method for studying reinforcement factors controlling impulsive choice for use in behavioral neuroscience	4
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Ecological momentary assessment of delay discounting, reward valuation, and craving in very light cigarette users	4
Evidence of precurrent responses expanding equivalence classes in a delayed matching‐to‐sample task	3
Issue Information	3
Separate and combined effects of operant ABA renewal mitigation strategies	3
Theory of reinforcement schedules	3
Punishment and dynamic choice: Assessment of the direct‐suppression model	3
Applications of operant demand to treatment selection III: Consumer behavior analysis of treatment choice	3
shinybeez: A Shiny app for behavioral economic easy demand and discounting	3
Assessing negative reinforcement through simultaneous observing and committed concurrent progressive‐ratio procedures: Preliminary investigations	3
Use of preexposure prophylaxis and condom purchasing decisions	3
Applications of operant demand to treatment selection II: Covariance of evidence strength and treatment consumption	3
An analysis of renewal following fading of reinforcer type	3
Correction to “The generalization‐across‐dimensions model applied to conditional temporal discrimination”	3
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Pattern‐setting for improving risky decision‐making	3
Behavioral ephemera, difficult discriminations, and behavioral stability	3
Validation of a novel effort‐discounting assessment and evaluation of the effort‐delay confound on effort discounting	3
Translational evaluation of on/off alternative reinforcement cycling	3
Interpretation(s) of essential value in operant demand	3
Matching, behavioral economics, and teleological behaviorism: Final cause analysis of substance use and health behavior	3
Optimizing variables for contingency management among infant caregivers using a simulated purchase task	3
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Revaluation of overselected stimuli: Emergence of control by underselected stimuli depends on degree of overselectivity	3
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An analysis of discounting model selection methods: Assessing the generalization of discounting models	3
Overconsumption as a function of how individuals make choices: A paper in honor of Howard Rachlin's contributions to psychology	3
Do contingency‐conflicting elements drop out of equivalence classes? Retesting Sidman's (2000) theory	3
The instrumental role of operant paradigms in translational psychiatric research: Insights from a maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia risk	3