OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Therapy and Research is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating a Values-Based Intervention for Adolescence with High Nonclinical Paranoia: A Schools-Based Randomised Control Trial	30
Social and Adaptive Functioning Deficits in Children with Anxiety Disorders: The Buffering Effects of Effortful Control	29
Stress-Related Exhaustion, Polygenic Cognitive Potential, and Cognitive Test Performance – A General Population Study	26
Always Saying the Wrong Thing: Negative Beliefs About Losing Control Cause Symptoms of Social Anxiety	25
Feasibility and Potential Efficacy of an Ecological Momentary Intervention for Training Acceptance and Problem Solving in Young People	22
The Psychometric Validity and Clinical Utility of the Short Scale Anxiety Sensitivity Index (SSASI) Among Individuals of Racially and Ethnically Diverse Backgrounds	20
Developmental Differences in Cognitive Restructuring Skill Acquisition across the Lifespan: Age Differences between Children, Adults and Older Adults, and the Role of Cognitive Flexibility	19
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Entrée or Sampler? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Approaches to Single Session Internet-Based Interventions	17
The Attention Allocation of Individuals with Problematic Smartphone Use during Different Cognitive Reappraisal Phases	17
Network Analysis of Cognitive-Behavioral Symptom Connectivity in OCD Subtypes: Evaluating SSRI Treatment Response and Resistance	15
Efficacy of Internet-based, Therapist-Assisted Treatment Programs for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking: Preliminary Results	14
The Effects of Attentional Deployment on Reinterpretation in Depressed Adolescents: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Study	14
Biased Belief Updating in Relation To Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Two Studies Using Feedback from Real Social Interactions	14
Self-Reported Worries in Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic	14
Metacognitive Feelings of Epistemic Gain are Central to the Understanding of Psychedelic-Induced Mystical-Type Experiences	13
Utility of the Death-Implicit Association Test in a Sample of Suicidal Inpatients	13
When Average Isn't Good Enough: Identifying Meaningful Subgroups in Clinical Data	13
The Relationship Between Food Categorisation Biases, Restrictive Eating and Dieting Success in Women with a Low to Healthy BMI	12
Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay Between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and Their Dynamic Nature: A Temporal Network Approach	12
Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure of the Polish Version of the Massachusetts General Hospital Hair Pulling Scale	12
The Challenge for Successful Self-Help: Side Effects of Discontinuing an Internet-Based Program for Skin Picking Disorder	12
The Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and PTSD Symptom Severity Among Trauma-Exposed Inpatient Adolescents	11
Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Children’s Cognitive Behavioral Characteristics Associated with Depressive Symptoms	11
The Role of Comorbid Mood Disorders in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Social Anxiety	11
Safety Behaviors Predict Long-Term Treatment Outcome Following Internet-Based Treatment of Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder	10

Beyond Positive Affect: Discrete Positive Emotions Differentiate Major Depression from Social Anxiety Disorder	10
The Interplay of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies in College Students	10
Anxiety and Depression are Associated with More Distorted Thinking on Social Media: A Longitudinal Multi-Method Study	10
Changing Emotion with Emotion: The Best Sequence Depends on the Target Concern	10
The Intervention Effects of Blended Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Patients with Depression: A Meta-analysis	10
Repetitive Negative Thinking as a Predictor of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in a Naturalistic Outpatient Treatment	9
How do close others to those with anxiety feel about treatment? Development and validation of the Treatment Concerns Questionnaire–Close Others	9
A Validation of an Ambiguous Social Scenario Task for Socially Anxious and Socially Callous Interpretations	9
Is Future Mental Imagery Associated with Reduced Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Negative Affect and Anhedonic Symptoms in Young People?	9
The Properties of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories in Chinese Patients with Depression and Healthy Individuals	9
Disentangling Attentional Processes in Early Childhood: Response-Based Indicators of Avoidance of and Vigilance to Angry Faces in Relation to Anxiety and Traumatic Stress	9
The Contributions of Attentional Bias and Expectancy Bias to Fluctuations in State Anxiety	9
Emotion Dysregulation in Patients with Eating Disorders: The Role of Metacognitions and Repetitive Negative Thinking	8
Modulating the Value of Positive Feedback Does Not Influence Expectation Change in Major depression – What Can be Learned from a Failed Replication?	8
Out of My League: Dating Preferences of Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder	8
Self-Help to Reduce Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors via Video or Website? A Randomized Controlled Trial	8
Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Expectations: Predicting Outcomes in Exposure Treatments for Specific Phobia	8
Outcome Expectations in Psychotherapy: Validation of the Therapy Single Category Implicit Association Test (Therapy SC-IAT)	7
Smoking Abstinence Expectancies Among Latinx Smokers: An Initial Test and Evaluation of Individual Difference Factors	7
Lack of Differential Symptom Change with Cognitive-Behavioral versus Light Therapy for Winter Depression: A Network Intervention Analysis	7
Social anxiety disorder is Associated with Vaccination attitude, stress, and coping responses during COVID-19	7
Correction to: Understanding Treatment Pathways in Cognitive-Behavioral and Experiential Therapies for Social Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	7
Effectiveness of School-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Alleviating Anxiety and Depression Among High-Risk Child and Young People: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis with Meta-Regression	7
Mechanisms and Effectiveness of Imagery Strategies in Reducing Disgust in Contamination-Related Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Comparing Imagery Rescripting, Imagery Self-compassion and Mood-Focused I	7
Understanding Biased Expectation Change in Depression – The Influence of State Affect and Affect Regulation	7
The Relationships Between Metacognitive Beliefs, Executive Functioning, and Psychological Distress in Early Adolescence	7
Body-focused Repetitive Behavior: Towards a Better Understanding of this Prevalent but Undertreated Disorder	7
Perfectionism as Possible Predictor for Treatment Success in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Metacognitive Training as Third-Wave Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	7
Being Physically Active is Associated with More Positive Autobiographical Memories and Better Mood States in Daily Life	6
Changes in Perspective-Taking During Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a Partial Hospital Setting	6
Association Between Judgment Biases During Facial Processing and Body Dysmorphic Symptomatology	6
Ruminative Variability Predicts Increases in Depression and Social Anxiety	6
An Examination of the Role of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation on the Link Between Social Anxiety and Well-Being	6
Harm Avoidance and Incompleteness as Motivational Dimensions of OCD: Associations with Clinical and Demographic Traits	6
Dynamics of Insight, Emotion Regulation, and Emotional Clarity in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder	5
Unscrambling the Dynamics of Danger: Scientific Foundations and Evidence for the Looming Vulnerability Model and Looming Cognitive Style in Anxiety	5
Associations Between Self-Criticism, Basic Psychological Needs Frustration, and Self-Damaging Behaviors: An Application of Self-Determination Theory	5
Mindfulness for Reducing Everyday Suicidal Thoughts (Mind-REST): A Daily Mindfulness Intervention for Adults with Suicidal Ideation	5
Emotion Regulation Profiles and Their Association with Psychological Functioning: A Latent Profile Analysis Across Two Age-Differentiated Samples	5
The Differential Effects of Posttraumatic Cognitions on Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Sexually Abused Youth	5
Clinical Characteristics, Sleep, and Temperament in Infants and Young Children with Problematic Hair Pulling and Skin Picking	5
Goal-Directed Learning Deficits in Patients with OCD: A Bayesian Analysis	5
The Regulatory Role of Cognitive Reappraisal in the Effect of Neuroticism on Test Anxiety	5
Is a Gradualist Approach to Clinical Training Helpful or Necessary?	5
Sudden Gains in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder	5
Effectiveness of Blended Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Versus Treatment as Usual for Depression in Routine Specialized Mental Healthcare: E-COMPARED Trial in the Netherlands	5
Meta-autobiographical Remembering Questionnaire (MARQ): Metacognitive Beliefs About Voluntary and Involuntary Negative and Positive Autobiographical Memories	5
Compulsive Sexual Behavior in Adolescents: The Roles of Personality, Attachment Orientations, Cognitive Mechanisms, and Psychopathology	5
Verbal Expression Patterns in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders: A Comparative Study Between Australia and Japan	5
Hope and Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review	5

Tolerance of Uncontrollability and Psychopathology: The Role of Maladaptive Emotion Regulation	4
Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Trauma-Exposed Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis	4
Investigating the Effectiveness of Digital Cognitive Training at Improving Mental Health and Social Engagement in an ‘at Risk’ Population	4
Offline and Online Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Bidirectional Associations or Not?	4
Metacognitive Appraisals of Perseverative Cognition: A Prospective Test Across Thought Types	4
Examining Cross-Cultural Invariance of Common Mental Disorder Symptom Measures in the United States and Singapore	4
Body, Breath, and Mind: Feasibility of an Internet Intervention for Depressive Symptoms Combining Qi Gong and Behavioral Activation	4
Biased Perceptions of Physiological Arousal in Social Anxiety: Understanding the Role of Objective and Subjective Physiological Arousal in the Discrepancy Between Self and Observer Perceptions of Soci	4
Do Clients Learn Specific Skills from Cognitive Versus Behavioral Interventions for Depression?	4
The Relationship Between Working Alliance and Treatment Outcome in an Internet-Based Grief Therapy for People Bereaved by Suicide	4
Efficacy of the App esTOCma Throughout Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Contents: A post hoc Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	4
The Impact of Message Content and Format on Initial Parental Engagement in a Parenting Intervention: An Experimental Study	4
Experiential Avoidance Has a Sex-Specific Relationship with Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Bipolar Disorder	4
Predictive Validity and Treatment Sensitivity of the Death-Implicit Association Test (D-IAT) During Inpatient Treatment and Across a 6-Month Follow-Up Period	4
Identifying Predictors of Symptom and Cognitive Change Following a Single Session of Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretations	4
Associations of Different Emotion Regulation Strategies with Coping-Efficacy, Rumination and Stress	4
Food Categorization Performance and Strategies in Orthorexia Nervosa	4
COVID-19 Related Loss is Reliably Associated with Attentional Capture and Facilitation by COVID Related Stimuli: Evidence from the Emotional Stroop Dilution Task	4
Occasional Reinforced Extinction as a Method for Relapse Prevention: A Critical Systematic Review and Future Directions	4
The Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Applications of Competitive Memory Training (COMET) on Low Self-Esteem and Comorbid Depression: A Meta-analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	4
Six Month Trajectories of COVID-19 Experiences and Associated Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Impairment in American Adults	4
Potential Predictors of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Fear of Flying: Anxiety Sensitivity, Self-efficacy and the Therapeutic Alliance	4
Understanding Treatment Pathways in Cognitive-Behavioral and Experiential Therapies for Social Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	4
The Impact of Social Anxiety Disorder on Emotional Expression Recognition: A Meta-analysis	3
The Relationship of Aversive and Appetitive Appearance-Related Comparisons with Depression, Well-Being, and Self-esteem: A Response Surface Analysis	3
Stress Generation in Social Anxiety: A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Post-Event Processing	3
Hoping for the Best but Expecting the Worst: The Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty and Trait Anxiety in Threat Expectancy and Decision Making	3
Evaluating the Reliability of the Word-Sentence Association Paradigm (WSAP) as an Interpretation bias Assessment across Ethnoracial Groups	3
Comparative Efficacy and Acceptability for Psychological Interventions on Body Dysmorphic Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	3
Exploring the Associations of Emotion Regulation and Trait Resilience with the Efficacy of Cognitive Processing Therapy for Active Duty Military Personnel with PTSD	3
Development and Validation of the Revised Chinese Version of Intolerance of Uncertainty Index-A for Children: A Large-Scale Study Among Chinese Adolescents	3
Self-discrepancy as a Predictor of Eating Disorder Symptoms: Findings from Two Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies of Adults with Binge Eating	3
Relapse prevention following guided self-help for common health problems: A Scoping Review	3
Evaluating Theories of Repetitive Negative Thinking: Replication and Extension	3
The Roles of Intrusive Visual Imagery and Verbal Thoughts in Pre-Sleep Arousal of Patients with Insomnia Disorder: A Path Model	3
The Role of Information Processing as an Underlying Mechanism in the Experience of Anxiety Reactivity and Anxiety Perseveration, Two Dissociable Dimensions of Trait Anxiety	3
Attention Shifting Moderates the Association Between Threat Interpretation Bias and Anxiety in Youth	3
The Relationship Between Emotion Malleability Beliefs and Suicidal Ideation or Behaviors	3
Believing in Change Matters! The Role of Emotion Malleability Beliefs in Emotion Regulation and Paranoid Ideation	3
The Contextualized Emotion Regulation Survey for Adolescents: Linking Emotion-Specific Regulation to Psychopathology and Dysfunction	3
Retraction Note: Entrée or Sampler? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Approaches to Single Session Internet-Based Interventions	3
An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Flexibility, Negative Affect and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	3
The Power of Negative Autobiographical Memories: Regulating Affect Through Intensive Mindfulness and Compassion Interventions in a Crossover Design	3
The Indirect Effect of Biased Judgment Processing of Bodies on Eating Disorder Symptomatology Through Eating Disorder-Specific Reflection	3
A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Stepped Care Cognitive-behavioral Therapy for Internalizing Distress in Adults	3
Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts (PRCAS): Validation and Gender Invariance in Chilean Couples	3
Self-Report Measures of Sensory Phenomena in Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Comparison to Healthy Controls	3
The Development and Validation of the Stoic Attitudes and Behaviours Scale	3
Frozen with Fear? Attentional Mechanisms in Children with Selective Mutism	3
Avoidant Automatic Thoughts are Associated with Task Avoidance and Inattention in the Moment	3
Intergenerational Transmission of Social Anxiety: The Role of Parents’ Fear of Negative Child Evaluation and Their Self-Referent and Child-Referent Interpretation Biases	3
Emotional Dysregulation in Skin Picking Disorder	3
An Intervention for Applying Learning to Self and Others (I-ALSO): A Multi-Arm Randomized Experiment of Learning for Others in a College Student Mental Health Intervention	3
Psychometric Properties of Trichotillomania Severity Measures	3
Examining Cognitions in an Anger Episode with and Without Physical Aggression	3
The Effectiveness of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and the Role of Anxiety in Parent-adolescent Relationships	3
The Effects of Cognitive Bias Modification on Hostile Interpretation Bias and Aggressive Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	3
Longitudinal Associations Between Life Events, Hope, Life Satisfaction, Happiness, and Depressive Symptoms	3