OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Trends in Cognitive Sciences is 56. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Unraveling the interplay between math anxiety and math achievement	220
What counts when heartbeats are counted	216
Hierarchical functional system development supports executive function	211
How social media shapes polarization	203
Brain–computer interfaces as a causal probe for scientific inquiry	175
Beyond learnability: understanding human visual development with DNNs	169
A framework for studying the conceptual structure of human relationships	156
Anxiety involves altered planning	143
Detecting deception with artificial intelligence: promises and perils	139
Phase resets undermine measures of phase-dependent perception	130
Advisory Board and Contents	124
Ritalin as a causal perturbation	122
Evidence accumulation modelling in the wild: understanding safety-critical decisions	121
A 3D framework of implicit attitude change	117
Cognitive fossils: using cultural artifacts to reconstruct psychological changes throughout history	115
Advisory Board and Contents	115
Subscription and Copyright Information	114
Testing circuit-level theories of consciousness in humans	113
And yet, the hippocampus codes conjunctively	107
Patients with dorsal-stream lesions can perceive global shape	96
Dynamic reading in a digital age: new insights on cognition	96
Superiority and stigma in modern psychology and neuroscience	94
Subscription and Copyright Information	93
Detecting the visual word form area in a bilingual brain	89
The computational structure of consummatory anhedonia	88

Testing the unit of working memory manipulation	88
The affective gradient hypothesis: an affect-centered account of motivated behavior	87
Abstract task representations for inference and control	85
Trajectories of resilience and mental distress to global major disruptions	83
The computational challenge of social learning	80
The computational roots of positivity and confirmation biases in reinforcement learning	77
Enriched learning: behavior, brain, and computation	77
Subscription and Copyright Information	75
Covert orienting: the dark matter of social attention	73
On the origin of memory neurons in the human hippocampus	72
Exploring the role of dimensionality transformation in episodic memory	70
Simplifying social learning	67
Sensing fear: fast and precise threat evaluation in human sensory cortex	66
Beyond discrete-choice options	66
Using music to probe how perception shapes imagination	65
Subscription and Copyright Information	64
Distortion of mental body representations	63
Subscription and Copyright Information	62
Still challenging the pattern separation dogma: ‘quiero retruco’	61
Advisory Board and Contents	61
Subscription and Copyright Information	60
Advisory Board and Contents	60
The cognitive side of communication in social insects	59
Subscription and Copyright Information	59
Awake reactivation is not a uniform process	58
Advisory Board and Contents	58
Reward is enough for social learning	58
Generating meaning: active inference and the scope and limits of passive AI	57
What does decoding from the PFC reveal about consciousness?	56
An oscillatory pipelining mechanism supporting previewing during visual exploration and reading	56
Novel strategies for expanding memory’s penumbra in aging	56