Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior is a research topic within Social Psychology. Science Explorer counts 52k research works in it since 1950. 9.9% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the role of oxytocin and vasopressin in regulating social behavior, trust, attachment, empathy, and parental care. It delves into the neurobiological mechanisms underlying these behaviors and their implications for anxiety and mental health.

Oxytocin
Social Behavior
Neurobiology
Trust
Attachment
Empathy
Parental Care
Vasopressin
Neuropeptides
Anxiety

Research works: 52k
In the world top 10%: 5.1k
Top-10% rate: 9.9%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -11%
Largest producer: United States

Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

Which countries lead Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.7k and 577 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.7k works
2 China 577 works
3 Japan 331 works
4 Germany 279 works
5 United Kingdom 215 works
6 Canada 210 works
7 France 164 works
8 Italy 159 works
9 Brazil 139 works
10 Russia 131 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States1,701 · 43.6%China577 · 14.8%Japan331 · 8.5%Germany279 · 7.1%6 others listed1,017 · 26.1%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Harvard University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 67 works
2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 59 works
3 Harvard UniversityUnited States 49 works
4 University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States 34 works
5 Emory UniversityUnited States 32 works
6 University of TorontoCanada 30 works
7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 29 works
8 University of California, DavisUnited States 27 works
9 National Institutes of HealthUnited States 27 works
10 Universidade de São PauloBrazil 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior include Rob Knight, Jun Wang and Karl John Friston.

1 Rob Knight United States 468k citations
2 Jun Wang China 340k citations
3 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
4 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
5 Róbert Langer United States 303k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior?

The most cited paper in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior is "Parental Investment and Sexual Selection" (Robert L. Trivers, 2017), with 9,562 citations. Next come "Emotion Circuits in the Brain" (8,519) and "Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior" (6,205).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Parental Investment and Sexual Selection Robert L. Trivers Book chapter	12 Jul 2017	9,562
2	Emotion Circuits in the Brain Joseph E. LeDoux · Annual Review of Neuroscience Review	Mar 2000	8,519
3	Epigenetic programming by maternal behavior Ian C.G. Weaver, Nadia Cervoni, Frances A. Champagne et al. · Nature Neuroscience	27 Jun 2004	6,205
4	Acute Stressors and Cortisol Responses: A Theoretical Integration and Synthesis of Laboratory Research. Sally S. Dickerson, Margaret E. Kemeny · Psychological Bulletin	2004	5,904
5	The adolescent brain and age-related behavioral manifestations LINDA PATIA SPEAR · Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews	Jun 2000	5,518

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Where is Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research done?

The largest centres of Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), New York (United States), Tokyo (Japan) and Paris (France).

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 96 works
2 New YorkUnited States 85 works
3 TokyoJapan 82 works
4 ParisFrance 68 works
5 LondonUnited Kingdom 62 works
6 AtlantaUnited States 59 works
7 MoscowRussia 57 works
8 São PauloBrazil 49 works
9 BostonUnited States 47 works
10 ShanghaiChina 44 works

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Where is the best place to study Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior?

Among universities, judged by research, Harvard University, University of Basel and Emory University score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Harvard UniversityUnited States	68.8	16.9%	3.3×	49	-10.3%
2	University of BaselSwitzerland	66.9	33.4%	5.5×	10	+15.5%
3	Emory UniversityUnited States	59.8	12.4%	8.6×	32	-4.3%
4	New York UniversityUnited States	56.8	22.7%	3.8×	20	-18.5%
5	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	55.4	21.9%	4.2×	22	-21.8%
6	University of TorontoCanada	53.6	13.8%	3.2×	30	-9.5%
7	University of HaifaIsrael	53.2	16.1%	11.8×	12	+28.3%
8	Stanford UniversityUnited States	51.5	20.2%	2.5×	18	-19.4%
9	Cornell UniversityUnited States	51.4	10.5%	4.3×	27	+7.4%
10	Georgia State UniversityUnited States	50.0	7.7%	17.2×	23	+24.7%
11	Columbia UniversityUnited States	49.0	15.0%	3.4×	17	-5.0%
12	University of VirginiaUnited States	48.9	10.5%	6.3×	18	+23.8%
13	KU LeuvenBelgium	48.9	17.9%	3.7×	17	-5.5%
14	University of Veterinary Medicine ViennaAustria	47.9	13.1%	41.7×	10	+8.8%
15	Princeton UniversityUnited States	47.2	15.0%	4.5×	9	+39.8%
16	McGill UniversityCanada	47.1	10.3%	4.4×	20	-37.9%
17	Yale UniversityUnited States	46.2	11.4%	4.1×	21	-39.2%
18	Fudan UniversityChina	46.2	19.2%	2.0×	15	+73.1%
19	University of ZurichSwitzerland	46.1	16.3%	4.3×	14	-23.3%
20	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	45.7	17.4%	1.9×	12	-6.0%
21	Zhejiang UniversityChina	45.0	19.6%	1.2×	16	+26.2%
22	Peking UniversityChina	43.6	22.2%	1.3×	12	+26.9%
23	University of California, DavisUnited States	42.6	6.5%	7.3×	27	-37.4%
24	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	42.1	14.4%	1.8×	13	-9.8%
25	Leiden UniversityNetherlands	41.7	22.0%	3.4×	9	-52.6%
26	University of MichiganUnited States	41.6	9.2%	3.0×	22	-29.9%
27	Heidelberg UniversityGermany	41.6	13.1%	4.3×	16	-31.1%
28	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	41.3	6.4%	4.2×	18	+6.4%
29	University of California San DiegoUnited States	41.2	15.2%	3.3×	15	-8.3%
30	University of RegensburgGermany	41.2	11.8%	9.2×	11	-26.2%
31	University of LethbridgeCanada	40.8	15.1%	39.0×	10	+1.1%
32	University of North Carolina at Chapel HillUnited States	40.6	4.1%	4.1×	34	-36.9%
33	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	40.5	8.5%	5.6×	22	-10.1%
34	Utrecht UniversityNetherlands	39.7	16.8%	3.5×	12	-22.1%
35	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	39.5	12.9%	4.5×	12	-30.0%
36	University of Illinois ChicagoUnited States	39.2	10.5%	4.6×	11	+51.1%
37	Hebrew University of JerusalemIsrael	39.1	8.9%	4.6×	11	+51.1%
38	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	38.9	8.4%	2.4×	13	-44.6%
39	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	37.9	8.1%	2.5×	11	+17.3%
40	University of MinnesotaUnited States	37.6	10.6%	3.8×	13	-8.5%
41	University of OtagoNew Zealand	37.1	12.5%	9.2×	13	-44.5%
42	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	35.7	7.9%	4.5×	13	-35.4%
43	Universidade de São PauloBrazil	33.0	4.5%	2.8×	27	-8.9%
44	University of OsloNorway	32.7	11.2%	3.1×	9	+0.9%
45	Kanazawa UniversityJapan	31.2	11.6%	12.6×	11	-9.0%
46	Kent State UniversityUnited States	29.9	6.0%	14.0×	8	+48.7%
47	University of GroningenNetherlands	29.2	10.5%	2.7×	9	-42.2%
48	Oregon Health & Science UniversityUnited States	27.0	8.0%	7.8×	12	-31.8%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, country by country

Is Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2008.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.021% in 2024.

Fractional works of Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior?

What are the most cited papers in Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior?

Where is Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where is the best place to study Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior?

Is Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion