OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Therapy and Research is 4. 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Social and Adaptive Functioning Deficits in Children with Anxiety Disorders: The Buffering Effects of Effortful Control	30
Stress-Related Exhaustion, Polygenic Cognitive Potential, and Cognitive Test Performance – A General Population Study	30
Feasibility and Potential Efficacy of an Ecological Momentary Intervention for Training Acceptance and Problem Solving in Young People	27
Developmental Differences in Cognitive Restructuring Skill Acquisition across the Lifespan: Age Differences between Children, Adults and Older Adults, and the Role of Cognitive Flexibility	26
The Attention Allocation of Individuals with Problematic Smartphone Use during Different Cognitive Reappraisal Phases	23
Predicting Anxiety Symptoms Using the Uncertainty and Anticipation Model of Anxiety: A Prospective Longitudinal Study	20
The Psychometric Validity and Clinical Utility of the Short Scale Anxiety Sensitivity Index (SSASI) Among Individuals of Racially and Ethnically Diverse Backgrounds	20
Always Saying the Wrong Thing: Negative Beliefs About Losing Control Cause Symptoms of Social Anxiety	18
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Entrée or Sampler? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Approaches to Single Session Internet-Based Interventions	18
The Effects of Attentional Deployment on Reinterpretation in Depressed Adolescents: Evidence from an Eye-Tracking Study	15
Self-Reported Worries in Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
When Average Isn't Good Enough: Identifying Meaningful Subgroups in Clinical Data	14
Metacognitive Feelings of Epistemic Gain are Central to the Understanding of Psychedelic-Induced Mystical-Type Experiences	14
Efficacy of Internet-based, Therapist-Assisted Treatment Programs for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking: Preliminary Results	14
Utility of the Death-Implicit Association Test in a Sample of Suicidal Inpatients	14
Biased Belief Updating in Relation To Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Two Studies Using Feedback from Real Social Interactions	13
Network Analysis of Cognitive-Behavioral Symptom Connectivity in OCD Subtypes: Evaluating SSRI Treatment Response and Resistance	13
The Relationship Between Food Categorisation Biases, Restrictive Eating and Dieting Success in Women with a Low to Healthy BMI	13
Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay Between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and Their Dynamic Nature: A Temporal Network Approach	13
Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure of the Polish Version of the Massachusetts General Hospital Hair Pulling Scale	13
Changing Emotion with Emotion: The Best Sequence Depends on the Target Concern	12
The Intervention Effects of Blended Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Patients with Depression: A Meta-analysis	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	11
Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Children’s Cognitive Behavioral Characteristics Associated with Depressive Symptoms	11

Safety Behaviors Predict Long-Term Treatment Outcome Following Internet-Based Treatment of Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder	11
Anxiety and Depression are Associated with More Distorted Thinking on Social Media: A Longitudinal Multi-Method Study	10
The Challenge for Successful Self-Help: Side Effects of Discontinuing an Internet-Based Program for Skin Picking Disorder	10
A Validation of an Ambiguous Social Scenario Task for Socially Anxious and Socially Callous Interpretations	10
The Interplay of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies in College Students	10
Disentangling Attentional Processes in Early Childhood: Response-Based Indicators of Avoidance of and Vigilance to Angry Faces in Relation to Anxiety and Traumatic Stress	10
The Role of Comorbid Mood Disorders in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Childhood Social Anxiety	10
Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Expectations: Predicting Outcomes in Exposure Treatments for Specific Phobia	9
The Contributions of Attentional Bias and Expectancy Bias to Fluctuations in State Anxiety	9
How do close others to those with anxiety feel about treatment? Development and validation of the Treatment Concerns Questionnaire–Close Others	9
Repetitive Negative Thinking as a Predictor of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in a Naturalistic Outpatient Treatment	9
Out of My League: Dating Preferences of Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder	9
Is Future Mental Imagery Associated with Reduced Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Negative Affect and Anhedonic Symptoms in Young People?	9
Emotion Dysregulation in Patients with Eating Disorders: The Role of Metacognitions and Repetitive Negative Thinking	8
Social anxiety disorder is Associated with Vaccination attitude, stress, and coping responses during COVID-19	8
Self-Help to Reduce Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors via Video or Website? A Randomized Controlled Trial	8
Perfectionism as Possible Predictor for Treatment Success in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Metacognitive Training as Third-Wave Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	8
Understanding Biased Expectation Change in Depression – The Influence of State Affect and Affect Regulation	7
Outcome Expectations in Psychotherapy: Validation of the Therapy Single Category Implicit Association Test (Therapy SC-IAT)	7
Correction to: Understanding Treatment Pathways in Cognitive-Behavioral and Experiential Therapies for Social Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	7
Lack of Differential Symptom Change with Cognitive-Behavioral versus Light Therapy for Winter Depression: A Network Intervention Analysis	7
Modulating the Value of Positive Feedback Does Not Influence Expectation Change in Major depression – What Can be Learned from a Failed Replication?	7
Smoking Abstinence Expectancies Among Latinx Smokers: An Initial Test and Evaluation of Individual Difference Factors	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
The Properties of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories in Chinese Patients with Depression and Healthy Individuals	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
Being Physically Active is Associated with More Positive Autobiographical Memories and Better Mood States in Daily Life	6
Harm Avoidance and Incompleteness as Motivational Dimensions of OCD: Associations with Clinical and Demographic Traits	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
Compulsive Sexual Behavior in Adolescents: The Roles of Personality, Attachment Orientations, Cognitive Mechanisms, and Psychopathology	6
An Examination of the Role of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation on the Link Between Social Anxiety and Well-Being	6
Multilevel Structure of Emotion Regulation Strategies and Daily Associations with Treatment Outcomes During Virtual Psychotherapy for Depression: An Experience Sampling Study	6
Hope and Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review	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
Dynamics of Insight, Emotion Regulation, and Emotional Clarity in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder	5
Verbal Expression Patterns in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders: A Comparative Study Between Australia and Japan	5
Goal-Directed Learning Deficits in Patients with OCD: A Bayesian Analysis	5
Clinical Characteristics, Sleep, and Temperament in Infants and Young Children with Problematic Hair Pulling and Skin Picking	5
Sudden Gains in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder	5
Experiential Avoidance Has a Sex-Specific Relationship with Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Bipolar Disorder	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
The Differential Effects of Posttraumatic Cognitions on Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Sexually Abused Youth	5
Unscrambling the Dynamics of Danger: Scientific Foundations and Evidence for the Looming Vulnerability Model and Looming Cognitive Style in Anxiety	5
Meta-autobiographical Remembering Questionnaire (MARQ): Metacognitive Beliefs About Voluntary and Involuntary Negative and Positive Autobiographical Memories	5
Emotion Regulation Profiles and Their Association with Psychological Functioning: A Latent Profile Analysis Across Two Age-Differentiated Samples	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

Ruminative Variability Predicts Increases in Depression and Social Anxiety	5
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
Investigating the Effectiveness of Digital Cognitive Training at Improving Mental Health and Social Engagement in an ‘at Risk’ Population	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
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
The Impact of Message Content and Format on Initial Parental Engagement in a Parenting Intervention: An Experimental Study	4
Efficacy of the App esTOCma Throughout Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Contents: A post hoc Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Understanding Treatment Pathways in Cognitive-Behavioral and Experiential Therapies for Social Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Comparative Efficacy and Acceptability for Psychological Interventions on Body Dysmorphic Disorders: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials	4
Tolerance of Uncontrollability and Psychopathology: The Role of Maladaptive Emotion Regulation	4
Exploring the Associations of Emotion Regulation and Trait Resilience with the Efficacy of Cognitive Processing Therapy for Active Duty Military Personnel with PTSD	4
Food Categorization Performance and Strategies in Orthorexia Nervosa	4
An Experimental Investigation of the Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Flexibility, Negative Affect and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	4
Occasional Reinforced Extinction as a Method for Relapse Prevention: A Critical Systematic Review and Future Directions	4
Metacognitive Appraisals of Perseverative Cognition: A Prospective Test Across Thought Types	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
Body, Breath, and Mind: Feasibility of an Internet Intervention for Depressive Symptoms Combining Qi Gong and Behavioral Activation	4
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	4
The Relationship Between Working Alliance and Treatment Outcome in an Internet-Based Grief Therapy for People Bereaved by Suicide	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
Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Trauma-Exposed Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis	4
Associations of Different Emotion Regulation Strategies with Coping-Efficacy, Rumination and Stress	4
Identifying Predictors of Symptom and Cognitive Change Following a Single Session of Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretations	4
Network Intervention Analysis of a Web-Based Training to Improve Clinical Psychologist’s Transcultural Competence	4
Offline and Online Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Bidirectional Associations or Not?	4