OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience is 33. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	148
Identifying high school risk factors that forecast heavy drinking onset in understudied young adults	118
Developmental trajectories of gyrification and sulcal morphometrics in children and adolescents at high familial risk for bipolar disorder or schizophrenia	106
Music impacts brain cortical microstructural maturation in very preterm infants: A longitudinal diffusion MR imaging study	78
Neurocognitive risks of asthma during childhood	74
Distinct theta oscillation coherence patterns during visual selective attention in children with and without attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	57
A data integration method for new advances in development cognitive neuroscience	56
Characterizing different cognitive and neurobiological profiles in a community sample of children using a non-parametric approach: An fMRI study	55
Resting brain activity in early childhood predicts IQ at 18 years	48
Developmental aspects of fear generalization – A MEG study on neurocognitive correlates in adolescents versus adults	48
Biospecimens in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study: Rationale and protocol	48
Neurodevelopmental correlates of emotion regulation in adolescence: An accelerated longitudinal study	48
Developing cortex is functionally pluripotent: Evidence from blindness	47
Fronto-amygdala resting state functional connectivity is associated with anxiety symptoms among adolescent girls more advanced in pubertal maturation	46
Irritability in early to middle childhood: Cross-sectional and longitudinal associations with resting state amygdala and ventral striatum connectivity	45
Corrigendum to “Previous institutionalization is associated with elevated functional connectivity between the nucleus accumbens and amygdala during aversive learning” [Dev. Cognit. Neurosci. 76 (2025)	45
Optimal two-time point longitudinal models for estimating individual-level change: Asymptotic insights and practical implications	43
Corrigendum to “Multiple mechanisms regulate statistical learning of orthographic regularities in school-age children: Neurophysiological evidence” [Dev. Cogn. Neurosci. 59C (2023) 101190]	43
Cognitive control processes and emotion regulation in adolescence: Examining the impact of affective inhibition and heart-rate-variability on emotion regulation dynamics in daily life	42
Hooked on a thought: Associations between rumination and neural responses to social rejection in adolescent girls	42
Reduced volume of the left cerebellar lobule VIIb and its increased connectivity within the cerebellum predict more general psychopathology one year later via worse cognitive flexibility in children	42
Advancing high quality longitudinal data collection: Implications for the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) Study design and recruitment	41
Measurement of emerging neurocognitive and language skills in the HEALthy Brain and Child Development (HBCD) study	40
Early childhood family threat and longitudinal amygdala-mPFC circuit development: Examining cortical thickness and gray matter-white matter contrast	39
Utilizing functional neuroimaging to study early language development	37

Preterm neonates distinguish rhythm violation through a hierarchy of cortical processing	37
The Hitchhiker’s guide to longitudinal models: A primer on model selection for repeated-measures methods	35
A systematic review of childhood maltreatment and resting state functional connectivity	35
Leveraging brain science for impactful advocacy and policymaking: The synergistic partnership between developmental cognitive neuroscientists and a parent-led grassroots movement to drive dyslexia pre	35
Diminished reinforcement sensitivity in adolescence is associated with enhanced response switching and reduced coding of choice probability in the medial frontal pole	34
Causation, trait correlation, and translation: Developmental brain imaging in research on neuropsychiatric conditions of childhood	34
Relational victimization prospectively predicts increases in error-related brain activity and social anxiety in children and adolescents across two years	33
Editorial Board/Aims and Scope	33