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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Evaluating a Values-Based Intervention for Adolescence with High Nonclinical Paranoia: A Schools-Based Randomised Control Trial	29
Social and Adaptive Functioning Deficits in Children with Anxiety Disorders: The Buffering Effects of Effortful Control	27
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	23
The Attention Allocation of Individuals with Problematic Smartphone Use during Different Cognitive Reappraisal Phases	22
Developmental Differences in Cognitive Restructuring Skill Acquisition across the Lifespan: Age Differences between Children, Adults and Older Adults, and the Role of Cognitive Flexibility	20
Self-Reported Worries in Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic	20
Metacognitive Feelings of Epistemic Gain are Central to the Understanding of Psychedelic-Induced Mystical-Type Experiences	18
When Average Isn't Good Enough: Identifying Meaningful Subgroups in Clinical Data	17
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Entrée or Sampler? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Approaches to Single Session Internet-Based Interventions	16
Utility of the Death-Implicit Association Test in a Sample of Suicidal Inpatients	16
Network Analysis of Cognitive-Behavioral Symptom Connectivity in OCD Subtypes: Evaluating SSRI Treatment Response and Resistance	16
The Effects of Attentional Deployment on Reinterpretation in Depressed Adolescents: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Study	15
Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay Between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and Their Dynamic Nature: A Temporal Network Approach	14
The Challenge for Successful Self-Help: Side Effects of Discontinuing an Internet-Based Program for Skin Picking Disorder	13
The Relationship Between Food Categorisation Biases, Restrictive Eating and Dieting Success in Women with a Low to Healthy BMI	13
The Interplay of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies in College Students	13
Efficacy of Internet-based, Therapist-Assisted Treatment Programs for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking: Preliminary Results	13
The Role of Comorbid Mood Disorders in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Social Anxiety	12
Changing Emotion with Emotion: The Best Sequence Depends on the Target Concern	12
Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Children’s Cognitive Behavioral Characteristics Associated with Depressive Symptoms	12
Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure of the Polish Version of the Massachusetts General Hospital Hair Pulling Scale	12
Safety Behaviors Predict Long-Term Treatment Outcome Following Internet-Based Treatment of Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder	11
The Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and PTSD Symptom Severity Among Trauma-Exposed Inpatient Adolescents	11
Beyond Positive Affect: Discrete Positive Emotions Differentiate Major Depression from Social Anxiety Disorder	10

Self-Help to Reduce Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors via Video or Website? A Randomized Controlled Trial	10
Out of My League: Dating Preferences of Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder	10
Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Expectations: Predicting Outcomes in Exposure Treatments for Specific Phobia	10
Perfectionism as Possible Predictor for Treatment Success in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Metacognitive Training as Third-Wave Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	10
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
Understanding Biased Expectation Change in Depression – The Influence of State Affect and Affect Regulation	9
Social anxiety disorder is Associated with Vaccination attitude, stress, and coping responses during COVID-19	9
Modulating the Value of Positive Feedback Does Not Influence Expectation Change in Major depression – What Can be Learned from a Failed Replication?	9
The Properties of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories in Chinese Patients with Depression and Healthy Individuals	8
Repetitive Negative Thinking as a Predictor of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in a Naturalistic Outpatient Treatment	8
The Contributions of Attentional Bias and Expectancy Bias to Fluctuations in State Anxiety	8
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	8
How do close others to those with anxiety feel about treatment? Development and validation of the Treatment Concerns Questionnaire–Close Others	8
Disentangling Attentional Processes in Early Childhood: Response-Based Indicators of Avoidance of and Vigilance to Angry Faces in Relation to Anxiety and Traumatic Stress	7
Body-focused Repetitive Behavior: Towards a Better Understanding of this Prevalent but Undertreated Disorder	7
The Relationships Between Metacognitive Beliefs, Executive Functioning, and Psychological Distress in Early Adolescence	7
Emotion Dysregulation in Patients with Eating Disorders: The Role of Metacognitions and Repetitive Negative Thinking	7
Anxiety and Depression are Associated with More Distorted Thinking on Social Media: A Longitudinal Multi-Method Study	7
Smoking Abstinence Expectancies Among Latinx Smokers: An Initial Test and Evaluation of Individual Difference Factors	7
Associations Between Self-Criticism, Basic Psychological Needs Frustration, and Self-Damaging Behaviors: An Application of Self-Determination Theory	7
Lack of Differential Symptom Change with Cognitive-Behavioral versus Light Therapy for Winter Depression: A Network Intervention Analysis	7
Empirical Evidence of the Metacognitive Model of Rumination and Depression in Clinical and Nonclinical Samples: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	7
The Regulatory Role of Cognitive Reappraisal in the Effect of Neuroticism on Test Anxiety	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
Outcome Expectations in Psychotherapy: Validation of the Therapy Single Category Implicit Association Test (Therapy SC-IAT)	6
Correction to: Understanding Treatment Pathways in Cognitive-Behavioral and Experiential Therapies for Social Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	6
Compulsive Sexual Behavior in Adolescents: The Roles of Personality, Attachment Orientations, Cognitive Mechanisms, and Psychopathology	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
Is a Gradualist Approach to Clinical Training Helpful or Necessary?	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
Emotion Regulation Profiles and Their Association with Psychological Functioning: A Latent Profile Analysis Across Two Age-Differentiated Samples	5
Harm Avoidance and Incompleteness as Motivational Dimensions of OCD: Associations with Clinical and Demographic Traits	5
Mindfulness for Reducing Everyday Suicidal Thoughts (Mind-REST): A Daily Mindfulness Intervention for Adults with Suicidal Ideation	5
Meta-autobiographical Remembering Questionnaire (MARQ): Metacognitive Beliefs About Voluntary and Involuntary Negative and Positive Autobiographical Memories	5
Hope and Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review	5
Treatment Approach and Sequence Effects in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Targeting Emotion Regulation Among Adolescents with Externalizing Problems and Intellectual Disabilities	5
Dynamics of Insight, Emotion Regulation, and Emotional Clarity in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder	5
Sudden Gains in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder	5
Unscrambling the Dynamics of Danger: Scientific Foundations and Evidence for the Looming Vulnerability Model and Looming Cognitive Style in Anxiety	4
Occasional Reinforced Extinction as a Method for Relapse Prevention: A Critical Systematic Review and Future Directions	4
Do Clients Learn Specific Skills from Cognitive Versus Behavioral Interventions for Depression?	4
Investigating the Effectiveness of Digital Cognitive Training at Improving Mental Health and Social Engagement in an ‘at Risk’ Population	4
Associations of Different Emotion Regulation Strategies with Coping-Efficacy, Rumination and Stress	4
Body, Breath, and Mind: Feasibility of an Internet Intervention for Depressive Symptoms Combining Qi Gong and Behavioral Activation	4
Six Month Trajectories of COVID-19 Experiences and Associated Stress, Anxiety, Depression, and Impairment in American Adults	4
Identifying Predictors of Symptom and Cognitive Change Following a Single Session of Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretations	4

The Differential Effects of Posttraumatic Cognitions on Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Sexually Abused Youth	4
Verbal Expression Patterns in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders: A Comparative Study Between Australia and Japan	4
The Relationship Between Working Alliance and Treatment Outcome in an Internet-Based Grief Therapy for People Bereaved by Suicide	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
The Impact of Message Content and Format on Initial Parental Engagement in a Parenting Intervention: An Experimental Study	4
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
Effectiveness of Blended Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Versus Treatment as Usual for Depression in Routine Specialized Mental Healthcare: E-COMPARED Trial in the Netherlands	4
An Experimental Investigation of the Impact of Blame Appraisals and Moral Injury Beliefs on Psychological Outcomes	4
Food Categorization Performance and Strategies in Orthorexia Nervosa	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
Metacognitive Appraisals of Perseverative Cognition: A Prospective Test Across Thought Types	4
Understanding Treatment Pathways in Cognitive-Behavioral and Experiential Therapies for Social Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Potential Predictors of Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy for Fear of Flying: Anxiety Sensitivity, Self-efficacy and the Therapeutic Alliance	4
Examining Cross-Cultural Invariance of Common Mental Disorder Symptom Measures in the United States and Singapore	4
Offline and Online Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Bidirectional Associations or Not?	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	3
Psychometric Properties of Trichotillomania Severity Measures	3
Examining Cognitions in an Anger Episode with and Without Physical Aggression	3
The Roles of Intrusive Visual Imagery and Verbal Thoughts in Pre-Sleep Arousal of Patients with Insomnia Disorder: A Path Model	3
Self-Report Measures of Sensory Phenomena in Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors: A Comparison to Healthy Controls	3
Defining and Measuring Tolerance of Uncontrollability	3
The Indirect Effect of Biased Judgment Processing of Bodies on Eating Disorder Symptomatology Through Eating Disorder-Specific Reflection	3
Emotional Dysregulation in Skin Picking Disorder	3
Homework Assignments, Agenda Setting and the Therapeutic Alliance in Cognitive Therapy with Cluster C Personality Disorders: Synergetic or Antagonistic Ingredients?	3
Believing in Change Matters! The Role of Emotion Malleability Beliefs in Emotion Regulation and Paranoid Ideation	3
Retraction Note: Entrée or Sampler? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Approaches to Single Session Internet-Based Interventions	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
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	3
Frozen with Fear? Attentional Mechanisms in Children with Selective Mutism	3
Efficacy of Remote Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Insomnia in Improving Health Status of Patients with Insomnia Symptoms: A Meta-analysis	3
The Effectiveness of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and the Role of Anxiety in Parent-adolescent Relationships	3
Relapse prevention following guided self-help for common health problems: A Scoping Review	3
The Relationship Between Emotion Malleability Beliefs and Suicidal Ideation or Behaviors	3
Avoidant Automatic Thoughts are Associated with Task Avoidance and Inattention in the Moment	3
A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Stepped Care Cognitive-behavioral Therapy for Internalizing Distress in Adults	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
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
An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Flexibility, Negative Affect and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	3
Longitudinal Associations Between Life Events, Hope, Life Satisfaction, Happiness, and Depressive Symptoms	3
Stress Generation in Social Anxiety: A Longitudinal Study of the Role of Post-Event Processing	3
Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts (PRCAS): Validation and Gender Invariance in Chilean Couples	3
The Relationship of Aversive and Appetitive Appearance-Related Comparisons with Depression, Well-Being, and Self-esteem: A Response Surface Analysis	3
Negative Posttraumatic Cognitions Color the Pathway from Event Centrality to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms	3
Attention Shifting Moderates the Association Between Threat Interpretation Bias and Anxiety in Youth	3
Evaluating the Reliability of the Word-Sentence Association Paradigm (WSAP) as an Interpretation bias Assessment across Ethnoracial Groups	3
Self-discrepancy as a Predictor of Eating Disorder Symptoms: Findings from Two Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies of Adults with Binge Eating	3