OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry is 7. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	76
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	56
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	41
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	31
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	29
Magical contagion beliefs in psychopathology: A review of cognitive mechanisms and maintaining factors	28
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	28
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	27
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	21
Impact of a brief self-compassion intervention on state emotion dysregulation in self-reported generalized anxiety disorder	17
Editorial Board	17
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	16
Semantic similarity among autobiographical memories is associated with rumination	15
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	15
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	15
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	14
Editorial Board	14
Are failures to suppress obsessive-intrusive thoughts associated with working memory?	13
Editorial Board	13
The remediating effect of Attention Bias Modification on aggression in young offenders with antisocial tendency: A randomized controlled trial	13
A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	13
Editorial Board	13
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze	12
Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	12
Compulsive rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – A qualitative exploration of thoughts, feelings and behavioral patterns	12

Reliability of and associations between cognitive bias measures and response inhibition in smoking	12
Measuring attentional bias using the dot-probe task in young women: Psychometric properties and feasibility of response-based computations, dwell time, and the N2pc component	12
Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	12
The effectiveness of two novel approaches to prevent intrusions: A pilot study comparing Tetris_dualtask and imagery rescripting to control	12
Those who (enjoy to) hurt: The influence of dark personality traits on animal- and human directed sadistic pleasure	11
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	11
Effects of an eating club for people with a psychotic disorder on personal recovery: Results of a randomized controlled trial	11
Unprepared: Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content	11
Facing your inner critic: a randomized controlled trial investigating a virtual reality intervention with and without a perspective change for excessive self-criticism	11
Mental contamination among people in China: A replication of a moral manipulation experiment	11
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	11
I C U but I don't care: Callous-unemotional traits and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	11
Using experience sampling methodology (ESM) to improve our understanding of day-to-day intrusion frequency and related distress in survivors of trauma	10
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	10
Special Issue Registered Report: Intentional suppression as a method to boost fear extinction	10
Attentional bias in German Armed Forces veterans with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms – An eye-tracking investigation and group comparison	10
Testing a brief attention training protocol to prevent emotional distress from a fear induction procedure	10
Do patients’ mood and gender affect the way we deliver CBT? An experimental, vignette-based study of the relevance of patient and clinician characteristics	10
Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour	10
Verification report: A critical reanalysis of Vahey et al. (2015) “A meta-analysis of criterion effects for the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) in the clinical domain”	10
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	9
Self-control problems in Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Presentation of an explanatory approach	9
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	9
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	9
The effects of computerised metacognitive cognitive bias modification training on the development of adaptive metacognitive beliefs and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms	9
Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD	9
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	8
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	8
The fear of losing control	8
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	8
Editorial Board	8
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	8
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	8
Editorial Board	8
Hasty decision-making in individuals at higher risk of developing an eating disorder	8
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	8
Editorial Board	8
The efficacy of randomised controlled trials of guided and unguided self-help interventions for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in young people: A systematic review and preliminary me	7
A mixed methods examination of emotional expression and its impact on emotion regulation effectiveness in borderline personality disorder	7
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	7
Validity of the counter-app method in the assessment of intrusions	7
Fear-related associations in children of parents with an anxiety disorder	7
The association between mnemonic discrimination ability and differential fear learning	7
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	7
A decade on: Reflecting on the limitations of the first meta-analysis of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure's (IRAP) criterion validity in the clinical domain	7
Negative cognitive biases in older adults with subthreshold depression	7
Using an ecologically generalizable virtual reality (VR) paradigm for studying state dissociation and etiological models of clinically-significant dissociation	7
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	7
Desired attachment and breakup distress relate to automatic approach of the ex-partner	7
Excessive reassurance seeking versus compulsive checking in OCD: Comparing implicit motivators and mechanisms	7

Different retrieval mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory for positive and negative cues in remitted major depressive disorder