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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals	196
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students	164
Editorial Board	97
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder	93
Components of cognitive-behavioral interventions to prevent the onset of depression among the high-risk population: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis	82
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect	73
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study	67
Exposure to images of post-bushfire disaster impacts fear learning and extinction	64
Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive-compulsive participants	60
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?	58
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	57
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	57
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events	45
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety	45
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	44
Editorial Board	41
Overgeneral autobiographical memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the differential roles of executive function subcomponents and the impact on symptom severity	41
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style	41
Editorial Board	37
Prior conceptual structure in shaping fear generalization: The impact of co-occurrence frequency and retrieval context	37
Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty	36
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity	36
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic	35
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	34
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility	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	32
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories	32
Repetitive negative thinking in daily life predicts psychopathology: Further validation of an ecological momentary assessment paradigm	31
Dismantling the mechanism of VR self-compassion training: A two-session controlled trial with active controls	29
Remote mental health care interventions during the COVID-19 pandemic: An umbrella review	29
Downstream effects of observational threat learning: Generalization and reversal learning across development	29