OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Molecular Autism is 26. 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.)

Article	Citations
Autistic behavior is a common outcome of biallelic disruption of PDZD8 in humans and mice	67
Immune activation during pregnancy exacerbates ASD-related alterations in Shank3-deficient mice	62
CRISIS AFAR: an international collaborative study of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and service access in youth with autism and neurodevelopmental conditions	53
“What does ‘often’ even mean?” Revising and validating the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory in partnership with autistic people	48
Dynamic functional adaptations during touch observation in autism: connectivity strength is linked to attitudes towards social touch and social responsiveness	48
Sex differences in the temporal dynamics of autistic children’s natural conversations	47
Atypical early neural responses to native and non-native language in infants at high likelihood for developing autism	47
Enhanced motor noise in an autism subtype with poor motor skills	44
New guidance to seekers of autism biomarkers: an update from studies of identical twins	43
Bayonet-shaped language development in autism with regression: a retrospective study	41
Correction to: Hans Asperger, National Socialism, and “race hygiene” in Nazi-era Vienna	39
Two neuroanatomical subtypes of males with autism spectrum disorder revealed using semi-supervised machine learning	37
Retraction Note to: Improving the measurement of alexithymia in autistic adults: a psychometric investigation and refinement of the twenty-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale	35
Affect and gaze responses during an Emotion-Evoking Task in infants at an increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	34
Germline nuclear-predominant Pten murine model exhibits impaired social and perseverative behavior, microglial activation, and increased oxytocinergic activity	33
Genetic and morphological estimates of androgen exposure predict social deficits in multiple neurodevelopmental disorder cohorts	32
Correction to: The Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory (CATI): development and validation of a new measure of autistic traits in the general population	30
Preference for biological motion is reduced in ASD: implications for clinical trials and the search for biomarkers	30
Fever during pregnancy as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: results from a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Correction: Understanding the relationship between cerebellar structure and social abilities	27
Correction to: Visual attention and inhibitory control in children, teenagers and adults with autism without intellectual disability: results of oculomotor tasks from a 2-year longitudinal follow-up s	27
Enhanced fear limits behavioral flexibility in Shank2-deficient mice	27
Imbalance of flight–freeze responses and their cellular correlates in the Nlgn3−/y rat model of autism	27
Effect of presentation rate on auditory processing in Rett syndrome: event-related potential study	26
Atypical functional connectivity of temporal cortex with precuneus and visual regions may be an early-age signature of ASD	26

Diagnostic validity of Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, second edition (K-ADOS-2) in the Korean population