OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Neuroscience 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
An Empirical Evaluation of Methodologies Used for Emotion Recognition via EEG Signals	25
Readiness potentials changed by decision-making in the chicken game	19
The role of the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) in social decision-making against high- and low-rank opponents: a transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) study	18
The degree of mu rhythm suppression in women is associated with presence of children as well as empathy and anxiety level	17
Comparing level 1 and level 2 visuo-spatial perspective-taking in the brain: evidence from fMRI	14
Social status in zebrafish modulates the behavioral response to 5-HT2C receptor agonists and antagonists	11
Event-related correlates of evolving trust evaluations	10
Distinct neural correlates of accuracy and bias in the perception of facial emotion expressions	10
Emotional engagement with close friends in adolescence predicts neural correlates of empathy in adulthood	9
Interpersonal negotiation skills in ADHD	9
Uncertainty cues amplify late positive potential responses to aversive emotional stimuli	8
Desensitized gamers? Violent video game exposure and empathy for pain in adolescents – an ERP study	8
Recognizing communicative intentions from single- and dyadic point light displays in autistic adults	7
An fMRI-study of leading and following using rhythmic tapping	7
Sensorimotor anticipation of others’ actions in real-world and video settings: Modulation by level of engagement?	7
To bridge or not to bridge: Moral Judgement in Cocaine Use Disorders, a case-control study on human morality	7
Neural correlates of enhancing question asking and initiations in children with autism spectrum disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial	7
A common neural response to perceiving but not implicitly regulating infant and adult affect in postpartum mothers	6
A functional neuroimaging investigation of Moral Foundations Theory	6
Social reward anticipation in infants as revealed by event-related potentials	6
Parent–child dyads with greater parenting stress exhibit less synchrony in posterior areas and more synchrony in frontal areas of the prefrontal cortex during shared play	6
Investigating the relationship of theory of mind and empathy with neuroimaging, neuropsychological, and neuropsychiatric data in persons with multiple sclerosis	5
Social appropriateness perception of dynamic interactions	5
The neurobiological map of theory of mind and pragmatic communication in autism	5
Loneliness - not for the faint of heart? Effects of transient loneliness induction on neural and parasympathetic responses to affective stimuli	5

Competition during verbal creative processes influences on ERS/ERD	5
Facial attractiveness is more associated with individual warmth than with competence: Behavioral and neural evidence	5
From physical to digital: A theoretical-methodological primer on designing hyperscanning investigations to explore remote exchanges	5
Oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor alterations in the superior temporal sulcus and hypothalamus in schizophrenia	5
Directed causal networks for leading and following in hyperscanning EEG	5
An examination of mindfulness on Mu suppression and pain empathy and its relation to trait empathy	4
Communicative intentions automatically hold attention – evidence from event-related potentials	4
Null effect of anodal and cathodal transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) on own- and other-race face recognition	4
Medial prefrontal activity during self-other judgments is modulated by relationship need fulfillment	4
Community-level explicit racial prejudice potentiates whites’ neural responses to black faces: A spatial meta-analysis	4
Stronger mentalizing network connectivity in expectant fathers predicts postpartum father-infant bonding and parenting behavior	4
The relation between belief in a just world and early processing of deserved and undeserved outcomes: An ERP study	4
The enhancement effect of social interaction on emotional contagion: an EEG-Based hyperscanning study	4