OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences is 11. 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
Editorial Board	343
Editorial Board	210
Editorial Board	140
The developmental origins of stress reactivity: an intergenerational life-course perspective	133
The cost burden of problematic internet usage	116
How do alterations of the basal ganglia affect procedural memory in Tourette syndrome?	103
Reducing dehumanisation through virtual reality: prospects and pitfalls	90
Resources, costs and long-term value: an integrative perspective on serotonin and meta-decision making	89
How dopamine enables learning from aversion	85
A review of the genetic basis of problematic Internet use	82
Editorial overview: How do the executive and reward systems interact to determine eating behavior? Current theoretical frameworks and training approaches	77
Treasure islands: foraging ecology and the emergence of tool use in wild Goffin’s cockatoos	72
Behavioral and cognitive perspectives on the evolution of tool use from wild chimpanzees	60
One cannot simply 'be flexible’: regulating control parameters requires learning	56
Clinical transforming of personality disorders: comorbidity, severity or dynamical changes in the structure of individuality?	55
Experimental approaches to study sensory disconnection in humans during sleep and anesthesia	54
Editorial Board	54
Quo vadis taxonomies of consistent behavioural patterns: time to change horses?	48
A seat at the (language) table: incorporating the cerebellum into frameworks for language processing	47
Impact of cerebellar-specific genetic and circuit manipulations on the behavioral phenotype and cerebellar physiology in murine autism models	46
Cue-approach training for food behavior	45
Neuroimaging, hormonal and genetic biomarkers for pathological aggression — success or failure?	43
Editorial Board	42
Editorial Board	42
Editorial overview: Value-based decision making: control, value, and context in action	42

Focusing on the self to humanize others: the role of empathy and morality	42
Space, the original frontier	40
Children: dehumanized or not yet fully human?	36
Early-phase neuroplasticity induced by offline transcranial ultrasound stimulation in primates	35
Current prevention strategies and future directions for problem Internet use	34
Nature of mathematics tasks and what teachers do	32
Attentional and perceptual biases of climate change	30
Understanding others through observed touch: neural correlates, developmental aspects, and psychopathology	30
Dehumanization and mental health: clinical implications and future directions	30
Dehumanizing organizations: insidious effects of having one’s human integrity denied at work	30
The Default Mode Network and inner time consciousness	29
Multiple senses influencing healthy food preference	29
Effective ways for reducing dehumanization: interpersonal and intergroup strategies	29
Efficacy of a combined food-response inhibition and attention training for weight loss	29
A broader mind: concern with other humans, equality, and animals	27
The brain that controls itself	27
Theory of Mind in the wild	27
Neural circuits for inference-based decision-making	27
Cultural differences in mindset beliefs regarding mathematics learning	27
Learning and skill development in wild primates: toward a better understanding of cognitive evolution	26
Multisensory contributions to affective touch	26
Cognition is an emergent property	25
Insights from an online self-help forum for people with gaming problems	24
Erratum regarding editorial disclosures	23
Act natural: a review of new methods for assessing dopamine’s role in natural behavior	23
Supporting mathematics learning: a review of spatial abilities from research to practice	23
Epigenetic protection: maternal touch and DNA-methylation in early life	22
How technology can advance the study of animal cognition in the wild	21
The goal conflict model: a theory of the hedonic regulation of eating behavior	21
Understanding the effects of partisan identity on climate change	21
Cooperation and cognition in wild canids	21
What are we measuring when we measure task switch costs?	19
Slow touch in non-human species: translational research into the C-tactile (CT) afferent system	19
Optimizing self-motion perception: a control theory perspective on vestibular–visual integration and adaptive mechanisms	19
Stress and the control of remembering: balancing hippocampal and striatal forms of memory retrieval	19
The Data Chronicles: how teacher metrics shape urban realities	19
Brief touch is different from a massage: insights from nonhuman primates	18
Beyond food for thought: tool use and manufacture by wild nonhuman primates in nonforaging contexts	17
Gut microbiome-brain axis and inflammation in temperament, personality and psychopathology	17
Enlarging the victim’s perspective on dehumanization	17
Chimpanzee vocal communication: what we know from the wild	17
Corrigendum to ‘On the age-specific neurochemical and endocrine biomarkers of temperament traits in adolescents’ [Curr Opin Behav Sci, vol 43, February 2022, Pages 118–124]	17
Editorial Board	17
Elite influence on public attitudes about climate policy	17
From individual to collective climate emotions and actions: a review	17
Editorial Board	16
Multicomponential affective processes modulating food-seeking behaviors	16
The brain bases of regulation of eating behaviors: the role of reward, executive control, and valuation processes, and new paths to propel the field forward	16
Supporting children and adolescents developing in adversity: a scoping review of resilience-promoting interventions from a socioecological perspective	16
Associative learning and high-level cognitive processes in the control of food-related behaviors	16

Diversity of the nature of input and output signals in the cerebellum suggests a diversity of function	16
Dynamics of neural activity in early nervous system evolution	15
The dorsomedial striatum: an optimal cellular environment for encoding and updating goal-directed learning	14
Variations on an ancient theme — the central complex across insects	14
Evolution of fish brains and behaviors: how many ways to generate the same outcomes?	14
Dehumanization of outgroup members and cross-group interactions	13
Editorial Board	13
Is the core function of orbitofrontal cortex to signal values or make predictions?	13
Bridging the gap: (a)typical psychedelic and near-death experience insights	13
Theoretical models of types of problematic usage of the Internet: when theorists meet therapists	13
The non-human perspective on the neurobiology of temperament, personality, and psychopathology: what’s next?	13
Legal aspects of problematic Internet usage	13
The impact of public health messages on audience engagement and collective climate action	12
Answering big questions with small data: the use of field experiments in primate cognition	12
Harnessing temperament to elucidate the complexities of serotonin function	12
Context-sensitive valuation and learning	12
Probing the role of reward expectancy in Pavlovian-instrumental transfer	12
The question why and how people differ in personality cannot be answered satisfactorily while neglecting biological approaches	12
Transient nature of stable behavioural patterns, and how we can respect it	12
The effect of effort on reward prediction error signals in midbrain dopamine neurons	12
C-tactile (CT) afferents: evidence of their function from microneurography studies in humans	12
The contextual regulation of goal-directed actions	12
Contributions of the subcortical auditory system to predictive coding and the neural encoding of speech	12
Editorial Board	12
The frog-manikin holding the blue parasol umbrella: imaginative generativity in evolution, life, and consciousness	11
New challenges in facing cyberchondria during the coronavirus disease pandemic	11
Priors and proprioceptive predictions	11
Neurocognitive mechanisms underlying multiplication and subtraction performance in adults and skill development in children: a scoping review	11
Extended cognition and life after death	11
Positivity and collective climate action	11
Clinical cerebellar neuroscience: cognitive functioning in spinocerebellar ataxias: an update and future directions	11