OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 29. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study	159
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals	138
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety	122
Does raising heart rate prior to a behavioural test enhance learning in cognitive therapy for anxiety? An experimental test for the treatment of fear of heights using virtual reality	103
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	95
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events	67
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect	65
Predicting positive outcomes and successful completion in an online parenting program for parents of children with disruptive behavior: An integrated data analysis	62
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	53
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety	53
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals	50
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students	49
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?	48
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance	47
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder	43
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti	40
Editorial Board	39
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity	38
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories	36
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	35
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic	34
Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity	34
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping	33
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy	33
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style	33

Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility	32
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder	32
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures	31
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support	31
No-think, No drink? Assessing the ability of reconsolidation interference by intentional forgetting to suppress alcohol memories in hazardous drinkers	29
Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene	29
Psychological mechanisms of change in reducing co-occurring social anxiety and alcohol use: A causal mediation analysis of the online Inroads intervention	29
The causes and consequences of shame in obsessive-compulsive disorder	29
Is internet-based parent training for everyone? Predictors and moderators of outcomes in group vs. internet-based parent training for children with disruptive behavior problems	29