OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Molecular Autism is 15. 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
Dynamic functional adaptations during touch observation in autism: connectivity strength is linked to attitudes towards social touch and social responsiveness	48
“What does ‘often’ even mean?” Revising and validating the Comprehensive Autistic Trait Inventory in partnership with autistic people	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
Fever during pregnancy as a risk factor for neurodevelopmental disorders: results from a systematic review and meta-analysis	30
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
Imbalance of flight–freeze responses and their cellular correlates in the Nlgn3−/y rat model of autism	27
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
Diagnostic validity of Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, second edition (K-ADOS-2) in the Korean population	26
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
A 3D approach to understanding heterogeneity in early developing autisms	25
The search for gastrointestinal inflammation in autism: a systematic review and meta-analysis of non-invasive gastrointestinal markers	24
Auditory N1 event-related potential amplitude is predictive of serum concentration of BPN14770 in fragile X syndrome	23
Shank3 deletion in PV neurons is associated with abnormal behaviors and neuronal functions that are rescued by increasing GABAergic signaling	23
Brainstem white matter microstructure is associated with hyporesponsiveness and overall sensory features in autistic children	22
A systematic review and meta-analysis of suicidality in autistic and possibly autistic people without co-occurring intellectual disability	22
Sex-specific and sex-independent steroid-related biomarkers in early second trimester maternal serum associated with autism	21
Embryonic origin of two ASD subtypes of social symptom severity: the larger the brain cortical organoid size, the more severe the social symptoms	21
Resting state EEG power spectrum and functional connectivity in autism: a cross-sectional analysis	21
Mapping neural correlates of biological motion perception in autistic children using high-density diffuse optical tomography	21
Facial expression recognition is linked to clinical and neurofunctional differences in autism	20
Prospective and detailed behavioral phenotyping in DDX3X syndrome	20
Neurite orientation dispersion and density imaging reveals white matter microstructural alterations in adults with autism	20
Pharmacological and dietary-supplement treatments for autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	19
Obsessional thinking and autistic traits are each uniquely associated with greater traits of gender dysphoria in clinical and nonclinical adult samples	19
Dietary zinc supplementation rescues fear-based learning and synaptic function in the Tbr1+/− mouse model of autism spectrum disorders	19
Transcallosal white matter and cortical gray matter variations in autistic adults aged 30–73 years	19
Salivary testosterone in male and female youth with and without autism spectrum disorder: considerations of development, sex, and diagnosis	19
The preference for surprise in reinforcement learning underlies the differences in developmental changes in risk preference between autistic and neurotypical youth	18
Do autistic individuals show atypical performance in probabilistic learning? A comparison of cue-number, predictive strength, and prediction error	18
Molecular architecture of the altered cortical complexity in autism	17
The association between social camouflage and mental health among autistic people in Japan and the UK: a cross-cultural study	17
The Monash Autism-ADHD genetics and neurodevelopment (MAGNET) project design and methodologies: a dimensional approach to understanding neurobiological and genetic aetiology	16
Sensory salience processing moderates attenuated gazes on faces in autism spectrum disorder: a case–control study	16
Psychometric validation and refinement of the Interoception Sensory Questionnaire (ISQ) in adolescents and adults on the autism spectrum	16
Sex differences in social and emotional insight in youth with and without autism	16
Shifted phase of EEG cross-frequency coupling in individuals with Phelan-McDermid syndrome	16
MEK inhibition ameliorates social behavior phenotypes in a Spred1 knockout mouse model for RASopathy disorders	15
Rescuing epileptic and behavioral alterations in a Dravet syndrome mouse model by inhibiting eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K)	15
Friend matters: sex differences in social language during autism diagnostic interviews	15
A constellation of eye-tracking measures reveals social attention differences in ASD and the broad autism phenotype	15