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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Howard Rachlin: An extended scientist	47
What we want. A review of Beyond Pleasure and Pain; How Motivation Works by E. Tory Higgins	41
Minding behavior	21
Of rats and robots: A mutual learning paradigm	20
Applications of operant demand to treatment selection I: Characterizing demand for evidence‐based practices	18
Effects of economic context and reward amount on delay and probability discounting	16
Is superstitious responding a matter of detectability? A replication of Killeen (1978)	16
Generalized contextual control based on nonarbitrary and arbitrary transfer of stimulus functions	13
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Discrimination of highly similar stimuli as members of different equivalence classes	12
Pairs of rats cooperate more when responding to simultaneous reinforcement than to alternated reinforcement	11
Effects of immediate‐reinforcement training on delay discounting behavior in rats	11
Assessing differential personal information value with social discounting and hypothetical payment tasks with university students	11
Behavioral mechanisms of oxycodone's effects in female and male rats: II. Reinforcement magnitude and implications for impulsive/risky choice	10
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Modeling choice across time: Effects of response–reinforcer discriminability	10
Influence of amount and delay of reward on choice and response rate: A free‐operant, multiple‐schedule analogue of a discrete‐trial procedure	9
Does increasing absolute conditioned reinforcement rate improve sensitivity to relative conditioned reinforcement rate?	9
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	8
Constructional fear treatment: Teaching fearful shelter dogs to approach and interact with a novel person	8
Emergence of a three‐sample conditional discrimination as foundation for reasoning capabilities	8
Hyperbolic discounting and exponentiated demand: Modeling demand for cigarettes in three dimensions	8
Response‐dependent point loss and response force as disrupting operations on behavioral resistance to change in humans	8

Effects of reinforcer probability on attending to element and compound sample stimuli	7
Merging meaningful classes and abstract equivalence classes by exclusion	7
Zebrafish choice behavior is sensitive to reinforcer rate, immediacy, and magnitude ratios	7
Experimental analysis of canine behavior and cognition: Introduction to the special issue	7
Contributions of delay, duration, and intensity of shock on rats' choices involving conflicting‐valence consequences	7
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Verbal behavior development theory and relational frame theory: Reflecting on similarities and differences	6
Use of a habituation–dishabituation test to determine canine olfactory sensitivity	6
Resistance to change, of behavior and of theory	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
Common Ground	6
The generalization‐across‐dimensions model applied to conditional temporal discrimination	6
Impact of putamen inhibition byDREADDson schedule‐induced drinking in rhesus monkeys	6
Reinforcer efficacy of grain for horses	6
The temporal structure of goal‐directed and habitual operant behavior	6
Aversive control versus stimulus control by punishment	6
The aversiveness of timeout from response‐dependent and response‐independent food deliveries as a function of delivery rate	5
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2023 Guest Reviewer List	5
Establishing derived reinforcers via stimulus equivalence	5
Issue Information	5
Expanding on cross‐price elasticity: Understanding tobacco product demand and substitution from the cross‐price purchase task	5
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Effects of advance notice on transition‐related pausing in pigeons	5
The behavioral origins of phylogenic responses and ontogenic habits	5
Clinical neuropharmacology of cocaine reinforcement: A narrative review of human laboratory self‐administration studies	5
Comparing stimulus preference and response force in a conjugate preparation	5
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Synthesized alternative reinforcement and resurgence	5
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Social discounting in a symmetric giving and taking frame: An artifactual field experiment with young South African adults	4
More complex incidental bidirectional naming results from exposure alone	4
Some detrimental effects of conditioned reinforcement on the maintenance of dog behavior	4
Operant demand and public health	4
Ecological momentary assessment of delay discounting, reward valuation, and craving in very light cigarette users	4
Resurgence in a discrete‐trial procedure in rats	4
Discounting of outcomes in which immediate gains are followed by delayed losses	4
Evolutionary theory prediction: Response rate as a joint function of reinforcement rate and reinforcer magnitude	4
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Temporal distribution of schedule‐induced behavior depends on the essential value of the reinforcer	4
Cultural differences in intertemporal decision making: A comparison between Chile and China	4
Application of dose‐addition analyses to characterize the abuse‐related effects of drug mixtures	4
Strengthening the procedural fidelity research‐to‐practice loop in animal behavior	4
The effect of risk on intertemporal choice and preference reversal	4
In Memoriam: Jack Michael (1926‐2020)	4
A method for studying reinforcement factors controlling impulsive choice for use in behavioral neuroscience	4
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A laboratory model of canine search vigilance decrement, II: Noncontingent reward and Pavlovian appetitive stimuli	4
Pattern‐setting for improving risky decision‐making	3
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Assessing negative reinforcement through simultaneous observing and committed concurrent progressive‐ratio procedures: Preliminary investigations	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
The role of bidirectional naming in the emergence of analogical relations in children	3
Theory of reinforcement schedules	3
Issue Information	3
An analysis of discounting model selection methods: Assessing the generalization of discounting models	3
Do contingency‐conflicting elements drop out of equivalence classes? Retesting Sidman's (2000) theory	3
Overconsumption as a function of how individuals make choices: A paper in honor of Howard Rachlin's contributions to psychology	3
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Optimizing variables for contingency management among infant caregivers using a simulated purchase task	3
Consumer choices with variations in item price, delay, and opportunity cost	3
Application of synchronous music reinforcement to increase walking speed: A novel approach for training intensity	3
Revaluation of overselected stimuli: Emergence of control by underselected stimuli depends on degree of overselectivity	3
The instrumental role of operant paradigms in translational psychiatric research: Insights from a maternal immune activation model of schizophrenia risk	3
Applications of operant demand to treatment selection III: Consumer behavior analysis of treatment choice	3
Applications of operant demand to treatment selection II: Covariance of evidence strength and treatment consumption	3
shinybeez: A Shiny app for behavioral economic easy demand and discounting	3
Correction to “The generalization‐across‐dimensions model applied to conditional temporal discrimination”	3
Issue Information	3