Autism Research

Papers
(The median citation count of Autism Research is 2. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
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Child language and autism diagnosis impact hierarchical temporal structure of parent–child vocal interactions in early childhood1399
Optimal interpregnancy interval in autism spectrum disorder: A multi‐national study of a modifiable risk factor117
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Autistic adults' perspectives on appropriate empathic responses to others' emotions79
Behavioral responses to fevers and other medical events in children with and without ASD79
Preventing and improving interactions between autistic individuals and the criminal justice system: A roadmap for research77
Differences in self‐other control as cognitive mechanism to characterize theory of mind reasoning in autistic and non‐autistic adults76
Risk factors and clinical characteristics of autism spectrum disorder with regression in China76
No evidence for high inflexible precision of prediction errors in autism during lexical processing69
The cerebellum is linked to theory of mind alterations in autism. A direct clinical and MRI comparison between individuals with autism and cerebellar neurodegenerative pathologies61
One size does not fit all: An individualized approach to understand heterogeneous cognitive performance in autistic adults60
The association between COVID‐19, personal wellbeing, depression, and suicide risk factors in Australian autistic adults51
Evidence of item bias in a national flourishing measure for autistic youth50
Aging and autism: Do measures of autism symptoms, co‐occurring mental health conditions, or quality of life differ between younger and older autistic adults?50
Basic oculomotor function is similar in young children with ASD and typically developing controls46
Sex differences in age of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder: Preliminary evidence from Uganda45
Predictors of individual differences in minimally verbal peer communication exchanges following peer‐oriented social intervention40
Intact memory storage but impaired retrieval in visual memory in autism: New insights from an electrophysiological study37
Abnormalities in cerebellar subregions' volume and cerebellocerebral structural covariance in autism spectrum disorder37
Development and validation of an Arabic language eye‐tracking paradigm for the early screening and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorders in Qatar36
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Autism severity level affects working memory and planning but not inhibition, shifting and emotional control35
Infants who develop autism show smaller inventories of deictic and symbolic gestures at 12 months of age34
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Reproducibility between preschool and school‐age Social Responsiveness Scale forms in the Environmental influences on Child Health Outcomes program32
Online administration of the ADOS for research with adolescents and adults in response to the pandemic31
Predictive language processing in young autistic children31
Further developing the Frith–Happé animations: A quicker, more objective, and web‐based test of theory of mind for autistic and neurotypical adults31
Autism 101 Commentaries31
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Autism, pets, and the importance of seeing human30
Response to Natri30
Autistic identity: A systematic review of quantitative research29
Gestational thyroid hormones and autism‐related traits in the EARLI and HOME studies28
The INSAR Community Collaborator Request: Using community–academic partnerships to enhance outcomes of participatory autism research27
Comparative effectiveness trial: Modular behavior approach for young autistic children compared to comprehensive behavioral intervention27
Atypical facial mimicry for basic emotions in children with autism spectrum disorder27
Child and caregiver predictors of primary caregiver participation in families of school‐aged Autistic children26
Associations between coping strategies and mental health outcomes in autistic adults26
Sex‐related patterns of functional brain networks in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder26
Association between body mass index and subcortical volume in pre‐adolescent children with autism spectrum disorder: An exploratory study26
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Factorial validity of the Theory of Mind Inventory‐2 in children with autism spectrum disorder25
Improving parents' ability to advocate for services for youth with autism: A randomized clinical trial25
Characterizing subdomains of insistence on sameness in autistic youth25
Auditory evoked potentials in adolescents with autism: An investigation of brain development, intellectual impairment, and neural encoding25
A multilevel investigation of sensory sensitivity and responsivity in autistic adults25
The clinical relevance of subgroups of autistic adults: Stability and predictive value24
Measuring flexibility in autistic adults: Exploring the factor structure of the flexibility scale self report24
Social competence in autism: A structural equation modeling approach24
Self‐reported cognitive decline among middle and older age autistic adults24
EEG frequency tagging evidence of intact social interaction recognition in adults with autism24
Parasympathetic withdrawal indexes risk for emotion dysregulation in children with autism spectrum disorder24
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Visual mental imagery abilities in autism23
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Increased perceived stress is negatively associated with activities of daily living and subjective quality of life in younger, middle, and older autistic adults23
Parent–infant interaction trajectories in infants with an elevated likelihood for autism in relation to 3‐year clinical outcome22
Rare variants in the outcome of social skills group training for autism22
The cognitive benefits of bilingualism in autism spectrum disorder: Is theory of mind boosted and by which underlying factors?22
Pupillary response during social emotion tasks in autism spectrum disorder22
Neural sensitivity to facial identity and facial expression discrimination in adults with autism22
Associations between early language, motor abilities, and later autism traits in infants with typical and elevated likelihood of autism21
Subdomains of restricted and repetitive behaviors within autism: Exploratory structural equation modeling using the diagnostic interview for social and communication disorders20
The devil is in the details: Advancing our collective understanding of naturalistic developmental behavioral interventions20
Social anxiety is more likely to influence reputation management decisions than autistic traits20
The effect of recasting by mothers with different conversational styles on the communication behavior of autistic children: Lag sequential analysis19
Remote monitoring of social attention in neurogenetic syndromes and idiopathic neurodevelopmental disability19
Utilizing network analysis to identify core items of quality of life for children with autism spectrum disorder19
Neural correlates of audiovisual narrative speech perception in children and adults on the autism spectrum: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study18
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Adaptive and Behavioral Profiles in Down Syndrome and Co‐Occurring Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case–Control Study18
Development and psychometric evaluation of a Thai Diagnostic Autism Scale for the early diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder17
Overlap of autism spectrum disorder and borderline personality disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis17
Evaluating evidence‐based practice in light of the boundedness and proximity of outcomes: Capturing the scope of change17
Characteristics of children on the autism spectrum who benefit the most from receiving intervention in inclusive versus specialised early childhood education settings17
ECHO autism adult healthcare: Training community clinicians to provide quality care for autistic adults17
Camera Movement Impacts on Mu‐Wave Activity During Action Observation in Adults With Autism Spectrum Disorders Without Intellectual Disabilities17
Narrative abilities of autistic and non‐autistic adolescents: The role of mentalising and executive function16
GABA and glutamate measurements in temporal cortex of autistic children16
An atlas of genetic correlations between gestational age and common psychiatric disorders16
A multimodal approach can identify specific motor profiles in autism and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder16
Increased context adjustment is associated with auditory sensitivities but not with autistic traits16
Parent responsiveness mediates the association between hyporeactivity at age 1 year and communication at age 2 years in children at elevated likelihood of ASD16
A multi‐omic approach identifies an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) regulatory complex of functional epimutations in placentas from children born preterm16
The first five minutes: Initial impressions during autism spectrum disorder diagnostic evaluations in young children15
Mental health issues in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder: A multi‐time‐point study related to COVID‐19 pandemic15
No differences in implicit hand maps among different degrees of autistic traits15
Response to “A radical change in our autism research strategy is needed: Back to prototypes” by Mottron et al. (2021)15
Heritability of quantitative autism spectrum traits in adults: A family‐based study15
Subjective wellbeing of autistic adolescents and young adults: A cross sectional study15
Efficacy of very early interventions on neurodevelopmental outcomes for infants and toddlers at increased likelihood of or diagnosed with autism: A systematic review and meta‐analysis15
Longitudinal change in symptom severity in children with ASD: Results from the ELENA cohort15
The psychometric properties of the Greek version of the Social Communication Questionnaire15
Gray matter volume alteration is associated with insistence on sameness and cognitive flexibility in autistic youth15
Fine motor skill and expressive language in minimally verbal and verbal school‐aged autistic children15
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Three autism subtypes based on single‐subject gray matter network revealed by semi‐supervised machine learning14
Enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism14
Developmental profiles of young children with autism spectrum disorder and global developmental delay: A study with the GriffithsIIIscales14
Effects of age on the hippocampus and verbal memory in adults with autism spectrum disorder: Longitudinal versus cross‐sectional findings14
Characterizing associations between emotion dysregulation, anxiety, and repetitive behaviors in autistic youth with intellectual disability14
Transitive inference in a clinical childhood sample with a focus on autism spectrum disorder14
Somatosensory temporal sensitivity in adults on the autism spectrum: A high‐density electrophysiological mapping study using the mismatch negativity (MMN) sensory memory paradigm14
The effect of volatility in linguistic input on prediction behavior in autistic toddlers14
Changing perspectives on autism: Overlapping contributions of evolutionary psychiatry and the neurodiversity movement14
Parenting stress in caregiver‐mediated interventions for toddlers with autism: An application of quantile regression mixed models14
Motor, cognitive, and socio‐cognitive mechanisms explaining social skills in autism and typical development14
Early measurement of autism risk constructs in the general population: A new factor structure of the First Years Inventory (FYIv3.1) for ages 6–16 months14
A further study of relations between motor impairment and social communication, cognitive, language, functional impairments, and repetitive behavior severity in children with ASD using the 14
Association of cognitive and adaptive skills with internalizing and externalizing problems in autistic children and adolescents14
Early executive functioning predicts externalizing problems in neurodiverse preschoolers13
Breastfeeding patterns in infants are associated with a later diagnosis of autism Spectrum disorder13
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Comment on: “Associations between parental psychiatric disorders and autism spectrum disorder in the offspring”13
Motor difficulties in 16p11.2 copy number variation13
Are minimally verbal autistic children's modality and form of communication associated with parent responsivity?13
Evaluating commercially available wireless cardiovascular monitors for measuring and transmitting real‐time physiological responses in children with autism13
The prevalence and developmental course of auditory processing differences in autistic children12
Conversational adaptation in children and teens with autism: Differences in talkativeness across contexts12
Sex differences in the age of childhood autism diagnosis and the impact of co‐occurring conditions12
Relationship between quantitative digital behavioral features and clinical profiles in young autistic children12
Inter‐trial theta phase consistency during face processing in infants is associated with later emerging autism12
A systematic review and meta‐analysis of associations between primarily non‐autistic people's characteristics and attitudes toward autistic people12
Correction to “Well‐being spectrum traits are associated with polygenic scores for autism”12
Easily readable? Examining the readability of lay summaries published in Autism Research12
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Poly‐victimization of autistic adults: An investigation of individual‐level correlates12
Decreased interoceptive accuracy in children with autism spectrum disorder and with comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder11
Sensorimotor Behavior in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder and Their Unaffected Biological Parents11
Social orienting and initiated joint attention behaviors in 9 to 12 month old children with autism spectrum disorder: A family home movies study11
Insufficient evidence for inclusion of motor deficits in the ASD diagnostic criteria: A response to Bhat (2021)11
Gaze and social functioning associations in autism spectrum disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis11
Emotion recognition in autism spectrum disorder across age groups: A cross‐sectional investigation of various visual and auditory communicative domains11
Risperidone versus aripiprazole fracture risk in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders11
Reports of Echolalia and Related Behaviors in Autism From Parents, Teachers, and Clinicians: Evidence From the Simon Simplex Collection11
The Childhood Autism Rating Scale Second Edition (CARS2) and Its Applicability in an Iranian Sample11
Bilingualism Effects in Metaphor and Simile Comprehension and Production in Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder11
Eye gaze as a biomarker in the recognition of autism spectrum disorder using virtual reality and machine learning: A proof of concept for diagnosis11
“Intolerance of uncertainty” mediates the relationship between social profile and anxiety in both Williams syndrome and autism11
Autism spectrum disorder and schizophrenia: An updated conceptual review11
Autism‐related language preferences of English‐speaking individuals across the globe: A mixed methods investigation11
Parent Outcomes from a Randomized Controlled Trial Investigating a Modular Behavioral Intervention for Young Autistic Children11
Short‐term trajectories of restricted and repetitive behaviors in minimally verbal children with autism spectrum disorder11
How auditory processing influences the autistic profile: A review11
A comparison of methods for measuring camouflaging in autism11
Heritability of abnormalities in limbic networks of autism spectrum disorder children: Evidence from an autism spectrum disorder twin study11
Structural and contextual priors affect visual search in children with and without autism11
Decreased homotopic interhemispheric functional connectivity in children with autism spectrum disorder10
Sensory features in autism: Findings from a large population‐based surveillance system10
Altered Patterns of Dynamic Functional Connectivity Underpin Reduced Expressions of Social–Emotional Reciprocity in Autistic Adults10
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Semi‐Automated Multi‐Label Classification of Autistic Mannerisms by Machine Learning on Post Hoc Skeletal Tracking10
Does the gender matter?: Anxiety symptoms and emotion dysregulation in adults with autism and intellectual disabilities10
Association between atopic diseases and neurodevelopmental disabilities in a longitudinal birth cohort10
Severity should be distinguished from prototypicality10
Distinct social attention profiles in preschoolers with autism contrasted to fragile X syndrome10
Child behavior problems and parental psychological distress in Chinese families of children with autism: The putative moderating role of parental social support and cultural values10
Dysfunction in interpersonal neural synchronization as a mechanism for social impairment in autism spectrum disorder10
Brain morphology, autistic traits, and polygenic risk for autism: A population‐basedneuroimaging study10
Assessing general and autism‐relevant quality of life in autistic adults: A psychometric investigation using item response theory10
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Impaired inhibitory control when processing real but not cartoon emotional faces in autistic children: Evidence from an event‐related potential study10
A biomarker‐based study of prenatal smoking exposure and autism in a Finnish national birth cohort9
An urban versus rural comparison of obesity between youth with and without autism spectrum disorder9
Cerebellar gamma‐aminobutyric acid: Investigation of group effects in neurodevelopmental disorders9
The impact of depressive and anxious symptoms on quality of life in adults on the autism spectrum9
Language in Autism Research: Accurate and Respectful9
Resilience, and positive parenting in parents of children with syndromic autism and intellectual disability. Evidence from the impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on family's quality of life an9
Role of autonomic, nociceptive, and limbic brainstem nuclei in core autism features9
Patterns of sensory modulation by age and sex in young people on the autism spectrum9
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Access and barriers to supports for children and caregivers attending public child developmental assessment services: Findings from the Sydney child neurodevelopment research registry9
Speech‐in‐noise perception in autistic adolescents with and without early language delay9
Vowel distinctiveness as a concurrent predictor of expressive language function in autistic children9
Dissecting the heterogeneous subcortical brain volume of autism spectrum disorder using community detection9
Quantitative assessment of tip‐toe behavior in individuals with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability: A cross‐sectional study9
The Sensory Observation Autism Rating Scale (SOAR): Developed using the PROMIS® framework9
Increased resting‐state thalamocortical functional connectivity in children and young adults with autism spectrum disorder9
Feeling intimidated and uncomfortable: Established and exacerbated educational inequities experienced by black parents of autistic children9
Accuracy of initial diagnostic impressions of autism in toddlers and behaviors that inform these impressions9
Waiting Times and Influencing Factors in Children and Adults Undergoing Assessment for Autism, ADHD, and Other Neurodevelopmental Differences9
Locus conversions are rare in the LRFN5 locus9
Caregiver sensitivity predicts infant language use, and infant language complexity predicts caregiver language complexity, in the context of possible emerging autism9
Applying a public health approach to autism research: A framework for action9
The impact of measurement on clinical trials: Comparison of preliminary outcomes of a brief mobile intervention for autistic adults using multiple measurement approaches9
Comparison of fitness levels between elementary school children with autism spectrum disorder and age‐matched neurotypically developing children8
A granular perspective on inclusion: Objectively measured interactions of preschoolers with and without autism8
The use of noninvasive brain stimulation techniques in autism spectrum disorder8
Is autism a unitary biological entity? A revised and extended response to “A radical change in our autism research strategy is needed: Back to prototypes” (Mottron, 2021, Autism Research)8
Health conditions in autism: Defining the trajectory from adolescence to early adulthood8
Erratum to Eliciting Language Samples for Analysis (ELSA): A New Protocol for Assessing Expressive Language and Communication in Autism8
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Impaired attentional bias toward one's own face in autism spectrum disorder: ERP evidence8
Risk factors and clinical correlates of sensory dysfunction in preschool children with and without autism spectrum disorder8
Practice is the best of all instructors—Effects of enactment encoding and episodic future thinking on prospective memory performance in high‐functioning adults with autism spectrum disorder8
More similar than different: Characterizing special interests in autistic boys and girls based on caregiver report8
The time has come for living systematic reviews in autism research8
Progress in autism research requires several recognition‐definition‐investigation cycles8
Combining voice and language features improves automated autism detection8
Expanding perspectives on figurative language processing in autism spectrum disorder: A commentary on Lampri et al.'s review8
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Autism 101 commentaries8
Patterns of sleep disturbances and associations with depressive symptoms in autistic young adults8
Motor performance, praxis, and social skills in autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder8
Introduction to commentary by Laurent Mottron and responses8
The impact of autism spectrum disorder on parent employment: Results from the r‐Kids study8
Gender diversity in a Chinese community sample and its associations with autism traits8
Duloxetine ameliorates valproicacid‐inducedhyperactivity, anxiety‐like behavior, and social interaction deficits in zebrafish8
Prompting visual attention to print versus pictures during shared book reading with digital storybooks for preschoolers withASDcompared toTDpeers8
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Specialization of anterior and posterior hippocampal functional connectivity differs in autism8
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Autism and the criminal justice system: An analysis of 93 cases8
Is she still angry? Intact learning but no updating of facial expressions priors in autism7
Exploring brainstem auditory evoked potentials and mental development index as early indicators of autism spectrum disorders in high‐risk infants7
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Development of peak alpha frequency reflects a distinct trajectory of neural maturation in autistic children7
Bidding on the go: Links between walking, social actions, and caregiver responses in infant siblings of children with autism spectrum disorder7
Do focused interests support word learning? A study with autistic and nonautistic children7
Categorizing and identifying preferred interests in autistic toddlers7
Facing up to others' emotions: No evidence of autism‐related deficits in metacognitive awareness of emotion recognition7
Gauging facial feature viewing preference as a stable individual trait in autism spectrum disorder7
Development and validation of a machine learning‐based tool to predict autism among children7
Weaker face recognition in adults with autism arises from perceptually based alterations7
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Inaccurate prevalence estimates impacts autism policy: A letter to the editor in relation to “Global prevalence of autism: A systematic review update” by Zeidan et al. (2022)7
Are autistic females at greater risk of suicide? A call for clarity to advance suicide prevention for the whole community7
Motor symptoms in the ASD diagnostic criteria: A conservative perspective7
Knockout of tanc2 causes autism‐like behavior and sleep disturbance in zebrafish7
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Super responders: Predicting language gains from JASPER among limited language children with autism spectrum disorder7
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Commentary: The challenges and promises of competitively employing autistic adults in the United States7
A response to and caution of “Language is a critical mediator of autistic experiences within the criminal justice system”7
Increased prefrontal GABA concentrations in adults with autism spectrum disorders7
Cluster analysis of teachers report for identifying symptoms of autism spectrum and/or attention deficit hyperactivity in school population: EPINED study7
Measuring and validating autistic burnout7
Contribution of the serotonergic system to developmental brain abnormalities in autism spectrum disorder7
Anxiety in autistic preschool children: Phenomenology and a network analysis of correlates7
The impact of sleep quality, fatigue and social well‐being on depressive symptomatology in autistic older adolescents and young adults6
Atypical gaze patterns to facial feature areas in autism spectrum disorders reveal age and culture effects: A meta‐analysis of eye‐tracking studies6
Cataloguing and characterizing interests in typically developing toddlers and toddlers who develop ASD6
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Transdiagnostic and sex differences in cognitive profiles of autism spectrum disorder and attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder6
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