OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Behavioral Medicine is 6. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Psychosocial predictors of diabetes self-efficacy in young adults with youth-onset type 2 diabetes	79
Evaluating Objective Metrics of habit strength for taking medications	51
Exploring pain experience and anxiety sensitivity among Latinx adults in a federally qualified health center	46
Injunctive social norms and perceived message tailoring are associated with health information seeking	45
Anxiety moderates the association between severity of food insecurity and sleep duration among young adults in food-insecure households	34
The effect of attribute framing on beliefs and attitudes toward branded and generic medications	31
Mobile apps for diabetes self-management: An updated review of app features and effectiveness	31
Adolescent girls’ cardiovascular responses to peer rejection: exploring the impact of early life stress	26
Factors associated with prior completion of colorectal cancer and hepatitis C virus screenings among community health center patients: a cross-sectional study to inform a multi-behavioral educational	25
Investigating psychological mechanisms of self-controlled decisions for food and leisure activity	25
Correlates of HIV Testing across the lifespan – adolescence through later adulthood – among sexual minority men in the US who are not on PrEP	23
The Effect of Science-Related Populism on Vaccination Attitudes and Decisions	22
Co-occurring mental health and drug use experiences among Black and Hispanic/Latino sexual and gender diverse individuals	22
Rumination mediates associations between microaggressions and sleep quality in Black Americans: the toll of racial microstressors	22
The relationship between mindfulness and enduring somatic threat severity in long-term cardiac arrest survivors	20
Mindfulness is inversely associated with psychological symptoms in long-term cardiac arrest survivors	20
Socio-cognitive facilitators of ART-adherence among predominantly black sexual and gender minoritized persons living with HIV in Atlanta, Georgia: a latent profile analysis	19
Social isolation, coping efficacy, and social well-being over time in patients with lung cancer	19
A feasibility trial of a digital mindfulness-based intervention to improve asthma-related quality of life for primary care patients with asthma	18
Perceived social support and ambulatory blood pressure during daily life: a meta-analysis	17
Persistent, High Levels of Social Jetlag Predict Poor Weight Outcomes in a Weight Gain Prevention Study for Young adults	17
Effects of social support in an academic context on low-grade inflammation in high school students	16
Gender differences in the relationship between social support and strain and mortality among a national sample of adults	16
Do monthly coaching calls influence proximal participant adherence in a behavioral weight loss program?	15
A novel psychometric approach to assessing intersectional hiv stigma: the geometric intersectional stigma scales	15

Beyond political affiliation: an examination of the relationships between social factors and perceptions of and responses to COVID-19	15
Day-to-day associations between sleep and physical activity: a set of person-specific analyses in adults with overweight and obesity	15
Momentary predictors of dietary lapse from a mobile health weight loss intervention	15
Structural equation modeling of microaggressions, religious and racism-related coping, medication adherence, and viral load among Black women living with HIV	14
HPV vaccine delay and refusal among unvaccinated Mexican American young adult women: a qualitative investigation of Mexican-born and US-born HPV vaccine decision narratives	13
Changes in family involvement occasioned by FAMS mobile health intervention mediate changes in glycemic control over 12 months	13
Loneliness and multiple health domains: associations among emerging adults	13
Psychosocial and behavioral correlates of weight loss 12 to 15 years after bariatric surgery	13
Developing skin cancer education materials for darker skin populations: crowdsourced design, message targeting, and acral lentiginous melanoma	13
Arriba por la Vida Estudio: a randomized controlled trial promoting standing behavior to reduce sitting time among postmenopausal Latinas	12
Depression mediates the relationship between exposure to stigma and medication adherence among people living with HIV in low-resource setting: a structural equation modeling approach	12
Results of an African American-targeted norm-based colorectal cancer screening intervention: a pilot study	12
Doubt in store: vaccine hesitancy among grocery workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Dyad and group-based interventions in physical activity, diet, and weight loss: a systematic review of the evidence	11
Which measures of perceived vulnerability predict protective intentions—and when?	11
Associations of somatic depressive symptoms with body mass index, systemic inflammation, and insulin resistance in primary care patients with depression	11
Comparing youth with and without type 1 diabetes on perceived parenting and peer functioning: a propensity weighting approach	11
Understanding medical mistrust and HPV vaccine hesitancy among multiethnic parents in Los Angeles	11
Discrimination and adherence in a cross-sectional study of Latino sexual minority men with HIV: Coping with discrimination as a mediator and coping self-efficacy as a moderator	11
Using network analysis to elucidate the relationships among support systems, trauma and depressive symptoms, self-silencing, and risk of HIV viral non-suppression among black women living with HIV	10
Understanding the Factors Influencing Health Care Provider Recommendations about Adolescent Vaccines: A Proposed Framework	10
Cyclic sighing in the clinic waiting room may decrease pain: results from a pilot randomized controlled trial	10
Wearable device adherence among insufficiently-active young adults is independent of identity and motivation for physical activity	10
Compounding effects of stress on diet, physical activity, and wellbeing among African American parents: a qualitative study to inform the LEADS health promotion trial	10
Binge size and loss of control as correlates of eating behavior and psychopathology among individuals with binge eating disorder and higher weight	10
Differences in anxiety, depression and pain experience among adults with chronic low back pain as a function of nicotine product use	10
Sleep and neighborhood socioeconomic status: a micro longitudinal study of chronic low-back pain and pain-free individuals	10
Social support and telomere length: a meta-analysis	10
Predicting college students’ COVID-19 vaccination behavior: an application of the extended parallel process model	10
Adapting a pain coping skills training intervention for people with chronic pain receiving maintenance hemodialysis for end stage Kidney disease	10
Racialized economic segregation and youth firearm carriage: community violence as a mediator	9
Relations between social comparisons and physical activity among women in midlife with elevated risk for cardiovascular disease: an ecological momentary assessment study	9
Personality and cardiovascular mortality risk: a multi-cohort analysis in individuals with and without pre-existing cardiovascular disease	9
Division of Type 1 Diabetes Responsibility in Latinx and Non-Latinx White Mother-Adolescent Dyads	9
Journal of behavioral medicine high impact updates: an introduction to the special series	8
Physical activity interventions: an update on advancing sedentary time, technology, and dissemination and implementation research	8
The mediating role of scientifical-medical satisfaction between COVID-19 conspiracy beliefs and vaccine confidence: a two-waves structural equation model	8
Anticipatory racism stress, smoking and disease activity: the Black women’s experiences living with lupus (BeWELL) study	8
Smoking among adult congenital heart disease survivors in the United States: Prevalence and relationship with illness perceptions	8
The role of self-evaluated pain sensitivity as a mediator of objectively measured pain tolerance in Native Americans: findings from the Oklahoma Study of Native American Pain Risk (OK-SNAP)	7
Using behavioral theory to understand partisan differences in COVID-19 vaccination and booster intentions	7
Pilot randomized controlled trial of eHealth cognitive-behavioral therapy for insomnia among Spanish-speaking breast cancer survivors	7
Stable and momentary psychosocial correlates of everyday smoking: An application of Temporal Self-Regulation Theory	7
Cultural and neighborhood characteristics associated with activity-specific parenting practices in Hispanic/Latino youth: a secondary analysis of the Hispanic Community Children’s health study/study o	7
Momentary intentions and perceived behavioral control are within-person predictors of sedentary leisure time: preliminary findings from an ecological momentary assessment study in adolescents	7
Anxiety sensitivity and Pain Experience: a prospective investigation among World Trade Center Responders	7
Rural health in behavioral medicine: introduction to the special series	7
When belongingness backfires: experienced discrimination predicts increased cardiometabolic risk among college students high in social belonging	7
Physical activity outcomes from a randomized trial of a theory- and technology-enhanced intervention for Latinas: the Seamos Activas II study	7
Impacts of two behavior change interventions on determinants of medication adherence: process evaluation applying the health action process approach and habit theory alongside a randomized controlled	7

Behavioral and social drivers of COVID-19 vaccination initiation in the US: a longitudinal study March─ October 2021	6
Beliefs about marijuana use during pregnancy and breastfeeding held by residents of a Latino-majority, rural region of California	6
Medical avoidance among marginalized groups: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Socio-behavioral factors related to PrEP non-adherence among gay male PrEP users living in California and New York: A behavioral theory informed approach	6
Fostering physical activity-related health competence after bariatric surgery with a multimodal exercise programme: A randomised controlled trial	6
How acute affect dynamics impact longitudinal changes in physical activity among children	6
Is a cigarette brand with fewer chemicals safer? Public perceptions in two national US experiments	6
Intersectionality does not equal intersectional stigma: reply to Lett (2022)	6
Exploring the impact of genetic beliefs about specific eating behaviors on dietary self-efficacy	6
The three-item patient-reported instrument for retrospective adherence in resource constrained settings: reliability, validity and potential utility	6
Firearm purchasing during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in households with teens: a national study	6
Association between having a regular healthcare provider and pre-exposure prophylaxis use among men who have sex with men: a cross-sectional survey	6
Eliminating children’s tobacco smoke exposure: a pathway to bioverified abstinence among low-income maternal smokers in the Babies Living Safe and Smokefree (BLiSS) trial	6