OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 30. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?	139
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	124
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study	112
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals	92
Predicting positive outcomes and successful completion in an online parenting program for parents of children with disruptive behavior: An integrated data analysis	89
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events	56
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect	55
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety	54
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	51
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	51
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
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety	48
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance	44
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	43
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder	38
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic	38
Examining weight suppression as a predictor and moderator of intervention outcomes in an eating disorder and obesity prevention trial: A replication and extension study	36
Editorial Board	36
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity	35
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy	34
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder	33
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	32
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style	31
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping	31

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	31
Variable-length Cognitive Processing Therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in active duty military: Outcomes and predictors	31
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures	31
The relative efficacy and efficiency of single- and multi-session exposure therapies for specific phobia: A meta-analysis	30
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility	30
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis	30
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories	30
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support	30