OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Molecular Autism is 14. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Affect and gaze responses during an Emotion-Evoking Task in infants at an increased likelihood for autism spectrum disorder	79
Dynamic functional adaptations during touch observation in autism: connectivity strength is linked to attitudes towards social touch and social responsiveness	76
Diagnostic validity of Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule, second edition (K-ADOS-2) in the Korean population	56
Dietary zinc supplementation rescues fear-based learning and synaptic function in the Tbr1+/− mouse model of autism spectrum disorders	55
Sex-specific and sex-independent steroid-related biomarkers in early second trimester maternal serum associated with autism	53
Atypical functional connectivity of temporal cortex with precuneus and visual regions may be an early-age signature of ASD	50
Sensory salience processing moderates attenuated gazes on faces in autism spectrum disorder: a case–control study	47
Salivary testosterone in male and female youth with and without autism spectrum disorder: considerations of development, sex, and diagnosis	45
Transcallosal white matter and cortical gray matter variations in autistic adults aged 30–73 years	39
The association between social camouflage and mental health among autistic people in Japan and the UK: a cross-cultural study	37
Rescuing epileptic and behavioral alterations in a Dravet syndrome mouse model by inhibiting eukaryotic elongation factor 2 kinase (eEF2K)	36
SETD5 haploinsufficiency affects mitochondrial compartment in neural cells	35
Additive interaction between birth asphyxia and febrile seizures on autism spectrum disorder: a population-based study	32
Comparative profiling of white matter development in the human and mouse brain reveals volumetric deficits and delayed myelination in Angelman syndrome	32
Autistic and non-autistic individuals show the same amygdala activity during emotional face processing	32
Altered interactive dynamics of gaze behavior during face-to-face interaction in autistic individuals: a dual eye-tracking study	31
Association of polygenic scores for autism with volumetric MRI phenotypes in cerebellum and brainstem in adults	30
Better statistical reporting does not lead to statistical rigour: lessons from two decades of pseudoreplication in mouse-model studies of neurological disorders	30
Increased cerebral lactate levels in adults with autism spectrum disorders compared to non-autistic controls: a magnetic resonance spectroscopy study	29
Phenotypic differences between female and male individuals with suspicion of autism spectrum disorder	28
Neuroligin-2 shapes individual slow waves during slow-wave sleep and the response to sleep deprivation in mice	28
A proof-of-concept study of growth hormone in children with Phelan–McDermid syndrome	28
Characterizing genetic pathways unique to autism spectrum disorder at multiple levels of biological analysis	27
Autistic adults have poorer quality healthcare and worse health based on self-report data	27
Developmental trajectories in infants and pre-school children with Neurofibromatosis 1	26

Shank2 identifies a subset of glycinergic neurons involved in altered nociception in an autism model	26
Examining the effect of a wearable, anxiety detection technology on improving the awareness of anxiety signs in autism spectrum disorder: a pilot randomized controlled trial	25
Infants later diagnosed with autism have lower canonical babbling ratios in the first year of life	24
Subcortical brain volume variations in autistic individuals across the lifespan	24
Socio-affective communication in Tph2-deficient rat pups: communal nesting aggravates growth retardation despite ameliorating maternal affiliation deficits	22
Neurodevelopmental impairments in children with septo-optic dysplasia spectrum conditions: a systematic review	21
Large multicenter randomized trials in autism: key insights gained from the balovaptan clinical development program	21
Increased rates of chronic physical health conditions across all organ systems in autistic adolescents and adults	21
Genetic and environmental contributions to co-occurring physical health conditions in autism spectrum condition and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	21
Trajectory of depressive symptoms over adolescence in autistic and neurotypical youth	20
Granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor-induced macrophages of individuals with autism spectrum disorder adversely affect neuronal dendrites through the secretion of pro-inflammatory cytokine	19
Impact of imitation abilities on social communication in autistic children: evidence from an Early Start Denver Model intervention study	18
Sex differences in friendships and loneliness in autistic and non-autistic children across development	18
Childhood diagnoses in individuals identified as autistics in adulthood	17
Immune activation during pregnancy exacerbates ASD-related alterations in Shank3-deficient mice	17
Atypical maturation of the functional connectome hierarchy in autism	17
Imbalance of flight–freeze responses and their cellular correlates in the Nlgn3−/y rat model of autism	17
Prospective association of the infant gut microbiome with social behaviors in the ECHO consortium	16
Sex differences in social and emotional insight in youth with and without autism	16
Do autistic individuals show atypical performance in probabilistic learning? A comparison of cue-number, predictive strength, and prediction error	16
Molecular architecture of the altered cortical complexity in autism	16
Auditory N1 event-related potential amplitude is predictive of serum concentration of BPN14770 in fragile X syndrome	16
De novo variants in CACNA1E found in patients with intellectual disability, developmental regression and social cognition deficit but no seizures	15
Maternal vitamin D during pregnancy and offspring autism and autism-associated traits: a prospective cohort study	15
Investigating frank autism: clinician initial impressions and autism characteristics	15
Correction to: The relevance of the interpersonal theory of suicide for predicting past-year and lifetime suicidality in autistic adults	15
Clinical impact and in vitro characterization of ADNP variants in pediatric patients	14
Locus coeruleus tonic upregulation increases selectivity to inconspicuous auditory information in autistic compared to non-autistic individuals: a combined pupillometry and electroencephalography stud	14
Linking functional and structural brain organisation with behaviour in autism: a multimodal EU-AIMS Longitudinal European Autism Project (LEAP) study	14
Autistic adults benefit from and enjoy learning via social interaction as much as neurotypical adults do	14