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

Article	Citations
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study	188
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals	161
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	138
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect	117
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	105
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals	77
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?	73
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	71
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety	60
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events	58
Exposure to images of post-bushfire disaster impacts fear learning and extinction	54
Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive-compulsive participants	47
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	47
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students	47
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety	43
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	41
Editorial Board	41
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy	37
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style	37
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder	36
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity	35
Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty	35
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility	34
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories	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	33
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures	32
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic	31
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support	31
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping	31
Induced awareness of stimulus differences impedes the generalization of extinction learning with various, highly similar stimuli	30
Corrigendum to “Intolerance of uncertainty enhances adolescent fear generalization in both perceptual-based and category-based tasks: fNIRS studies” [Behaviour Research and Therapy 183 (2024) 104650]	30
Systematically investigating the role of context on effect replicability in reinstatement of fear in humans	30
Heart-Mind-Behavior Parent Training: Randomized controlled trial for Chinese parents of young children with ASD	30
Cognitive behavior therapy for adult post-traumatic stress disorder in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis	30