OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Clinical Psychology Review is 12. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The gut microbiota in anxiety and depression – A systematic review	387
Intergenerational transmission and prevention of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs)	146
Camouflaging in autism: A systematic review	145
Global prevalence of digital addiction in general population: A systematic review and meta-analysis	143
Therapeutic alliance as a mediator of change: A systematic review and evaluation of research	143
Using progress feedback to improve outcomes and reduce drop-out, treatment duration, and deterioration: A multilevel meta-analysis	143
Socioeconomic status and child psychopathology in the United States: A meta-analysis of population-based studies	139
Specificity of trait anxiety in anxiety and depression: Meta-analysis of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory	136
Sexual addiction 25 years on: A systematic and methodological review of empirical literature and an agenda for future research	123
Intergenerational effects of childhood maltreatment: A systematic review of the parenting practices of adult survivors of childhood abuse, neglect, and violence	120
Is self-compassion relevant to the pathology and treatment of eating and body image concerns? A systematic review and meta-analysis	115
Addressing the mental health impact of COVID-19 through population health	115
Prevalence and associated factors of antenatal depression: Systematic reviews and meta-analyses	113
Linking RDoC and HiTOP: A new interface for advancing psychiatric nosology and neuroscience	106
Social support and posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	98
A process-based approach to psychological diagnosis and treatment:The conceptual and treatment utility of an extended evolutionary meta model	98
Defining and measuring “psychological flexibility”: A narrative scoping review of diverse flexibility and rigidity constructs and perspectives	95
Sleep and suicide: A systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	92
A systematic review of socio-ecological factors contributing to risk and protection of the mental health of refugee children and adolescents	89
On the efficacy of the unified protocol for transdiagnostic treatment of emotional disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	86
The C Factor: Cognitive dysfunction as a transdiagnostic dimension in psychopathology	85
School-based depression and anxiety prevention programs: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	84
Comprehensive meta-analysis of resilience interventions	82
Are videoconferenced mental and behavioral health services just as good as in-person? A meta-analysis of a fast-growing practice	81
The relationship between screen time and mental health in young people: A systematic review of longitudinal studies	80

The effectiveness of psychological interventions for loneliness: A systematic review and meta-analysis	80
A systematic review of Unified Protocol applications with adult populations: Facilitating widespread dissemination via adaptability	80
A meta-analysis on interparental conflict, parenting, and child adjustment in divorced families: Examining mediation using meta-analytic structural equation models	78
Exposure therapy for eating disorders: A systematic review	77
The bidirectional relationships between peer victimization and internalizing problems in school-aged children: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis	76
Associations between minority stress, depression, and suicidal ideation and attempts in transgender and gender diverse (TGD) individuals: Systematic review and meta-analysis	75
Networks of major depressive disorder: A systematic review	72
A systematic review of transdiagnostic risk and protective factors for general and specific psychopathology in young people	70
Cognitive flexibility in acute anorexia nervosa and after recovery: A systematic review	67
Anxiety disorders and healthcare utilization: A systematic review	65
The efficacy of cognitive and behavior therapies for insomnia on daytime symptoms: A systematic review and network meta-analysis	63
Psychological interventions to prevent the onset of depressive disorders: A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	63
Exposure therapy for PTSD: A meta-analysis	63
Measuring bonding or attachment in the parent-infant-relationship: A systematic review of parent-report assessment measures, their psychometric properties and clinical utility	62
More treatment but no less depression: The treatment-prevalence paradox	60
The phenomenology of gender dysphoria in adults: A systematic review and meta-synthesis	59
Rumination in posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review	57
Preventive interventions for individuals at ultra high risk for psychosis: An updated and extended meta-analysis	56
A systematic review of daily life studies on non-suicidal self-injury based on the four-function model	55
Conceptualizing eating disorder psychopathology using an anxiety disorders framework: Evidence and implications for exposure-based clinical research	52
Prevalence and risk factors of birth-related posttraumatic stress among parents: A comparative systematic review and meta-analysis	50
Developmental programming of oxytocin through variation in early-life stress: Four meta-analyses and a theoretical reinterpretation	49
Validation strategies for subtypes in psychiatry: A systematic review of research on autism spectrum disorder	48
Race bias and gender bias in the diagnosis of psychological disorders	47
Mediators and mechanisms of change in internet- and mobile-based interventions for depression: A systematic review	46
Social media use and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: A systematic review and meta-analysis	46
The effectiveness of interventions to prevent recidivism in perpetrators of intimate partner violence: A systematic review and meta-analysis	46
A meta-analytic review of trials that tested whether eating disorder prevention programs prevent eating disorder onset	45
A systematic review evaluating the implementation of technologies to assess, monitor and treat neurodevelopmental disorders: A map of the current evidence	45
Does mindfulness-based intervention improve cognitive function?: A meta-analysis of controlled studies	45
Cognitive behavior therapy for internalizing disorders in children and adolescents in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis	44
Emotional processes in binge drinking: A systematic review and perspective	44
Can a little bit of mindfulness do you good? A systematic review and meta-analyses of unguided mindfulness-based self-help interventions	43
Depression presentations, stigma, and mental health literacy: A critical review and YouTube content analysis	42
Emotion regulation as mediator between childhood adversity and psychopathology: A meta-analysis	41
Association between gambling disorder and emotion (dys)regulation: A systematic review and meta-analysis	40
Examining the disclosure of nonsuicidal self-injury to informal and formal sources: A review of the literature	40
Effectiveness of online psychological and psychoeducational interventions to prevent depression: Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	39
New directions in behavioral activation: Using findings from basic science and translational neuroscience to inform the exploration of potential mechanisms of change	39
The effectiveness of adapted psychological interventions for people from ethnic minority groups: A systematic review and conceptual typology	38
Child executive function and future externalizing and internalizing problems: A meta-analysis of prospective longitudinal studies	38
Meta-analytic review on the differential effects of self-compassion components on well-being and psychological distress: The moderating role of dialecticism on self-compassion	38
Internalization process of stigma of people with mental illness across cultures: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach	36
Body dissatisfaction and sexual orientations: A quantitative synthesis of 30 years research findings	35
Efficacy of psychological interventions targeting cognitive biases in schizophrenia: A systematic review and meta-analysis	35
“We Have to Try to Find a Way, a Clinical Bridge” - autistic adults' experience of accessing and receiving support for mental health difficulties: A systematic review and thematic meta-synthesis	35
Moving towards specificity: A systematic review of cue features associated with reward and punishment in anorexia nervosa	34
Expanding the continuum of substance use disorder treatment: Nonabstinence approaches	33
Is perfectionism a vulnerability factor for depressive symptoms, a complication of depressive symptoms, or both? A meta-analytic test of 67 longitudinal studies	33
Virtual reality in the diagnostic and therapy for mental disorders: A systematic review	33

Association of opioid misuse with anxiety and depression: A systematic review of the literature	32
The Needs-to-Goals Gap: How informant discrepancies in youth mental health assessments impact service delivery	32
Understanding the aetiology of fear of falling from the perspective of a fear-avoidance model – A narrative review	31
The destructiveness and public health significance of socially prescribed perfectionism: A review, analysis, and conceptual extension	31
Eye tracking evidence of threat-related attentional bias in anxiety- and fear-related disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Suicidality in autistic youth: A systematic review and meta-analysis	31
Long term mental health trajectories after disasters and pandemics: A multilingual systematic review of prevalence, risk and protective factors	31
Effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy for perinatal maternal depression, anxiety and stress: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	30
Risk factors for self-harm repetition in adolescents: A systematic review	30
Mediators of acceptance and mindfulness-based therapies for anxiety and depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Early response to psychological treatment for eating disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
The relationship between stigma and subjective quality of life in psychosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Personality disorders as predictors of intimate partner violence: A meta-analysis	29
Social rejection, popularity, peer victimization, and self-injurious thoughts and behaviors among adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
Cognitive behavior therapy for externalizing disorders in children and adolescents in routine clinical care: A systematic review and meta-analysis	29
How does cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia work? A systematic review and meta-analysis of mediators of change	28
Refining the link between psychopathy, antisocial behavior, and empathy: A meta-analytical approach across different conceptual frameworks	27
What do people mean when they talk about mindfulness?	27
Preventing the onset of post traumatic stress disorder	27
The emerging role of euthymia in psychotherapy research and practice	27
A meta-analysis of the effects of training clinicians in exposure therapy on knowledge, attitudes, intentions, and behavior	26
Cognitive strengths-based assessment and intervention in first-episode psychosis: A complementary approach to addressing functional recovery?	26
Man vs. machine: A meta-analysis on the added value of human support in text-based internet treatments (“e-therapy”) for mental disorders	26
Psychosocial adjustment to multiple sclerosis diagnosis: A meta-review of systematic reviews	25
The efficacy of adding short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy to antidepressants in the treatment of depression: A systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data	25
Same room - different windows? A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between self-report and neuropsychological tests of cognitive flexibility in healthy adults	25
Mindsets in the clinic: Applying mindset theory to clinical psychology	24
Linguistic features of suicidal thoughts and behaviors: A systematic review	23
Resilience among health care workers while working during a pandemic: A systematic review and meta synthesis of qualitative studies	23
Self-reported cognitive biases in depression: A meta-analysis	23
Why we heal: The evolution of psychological healing and implications for global mental health	23
Diagnostic inflation in the DSM: A meta-analysis of changes in the stringency of psychiatric diagnosis from DSM-III to DSM-5	22
How do psychologically based interventions for chronic musculoskeletal pain work? A systematic review and meta-analysis of specific moderators and mediators of treatment	22
Efficacy of Hypnosis in Adults Undergoing Surgical Procedures: A meta-analytic update	22
Depression and the willingness to expend cognitive and physical effort for rewards: A systematic review	21
The effect of mindfulness-based interventions on immunity-related biomarkers: a comprehensive meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	21
Scaling up and scaling out: Consilience and the evolution of more nurturing societies	21
Examining the relationship between shame and social anxiety disorder: A systematic review	21
Some critical considerations in applying the construct of psychopathy to research and classification of childhood disruptive behavior disorders	21
Toward a unifying theory of dysregulated behaviors	20
Cannabis use among military veterans: A great deal to gain or lose?	20
Differentiation of self: A scoping review of Bowen Family Systems Theory’s core construct	20
A systematic review of addiction substitution in recovery: Clinical lore or empirically-based?	20
Cultural concepts of distress and complex PTSD: Future directions for research and treatment	20
Cognitive-behavioural interventions for prevention and treatment of anxiety in young children: A systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Motivational interviewing quality assurance: A systematic review of assessment tools across research contexts	19
Narrative identity in the psychosis spectrum: A systematic review and developmental model	19
Clinical psychology is an applied evolutionary science	18
Correlates of therapist drift in psychological practice: A systematic review of therapist characteristics	18
Is high-quality of trials associated with lower treatment efficacy? A meta-analysis on the association between study quality and effect sizes of psychological interventions for pediatric PTSD	17
Machine learning for suicidology: A practical review of exploratory and hypothesis-driven approaches	17
A critical review of mechanisms of adaptation to trauma: Implications for early interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder	17
Interpersonal attachment, early family environment, and trauma in hoarding: A systematic review	17
How can adolescent aggression be reduced? A multi-level meta-analysis	17
Autobiographical and episodic memory deficits in schizophrenia: A narrative review and proposed agenda for research	17
Respiratory therapy for the treatment of anxiety: Meta-analytic review and regression	17
The prevalence of PTSS under the influence of public health emergencies in last two decades: A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Romantic relationships and sexual minority health: A review and description of the Dyadic Health Model	16
A meta-analysis of associations between weight bias internalization and conceptually-related correlates: A step towards improving construct validity	16
Cognitive biases in perceptions of posttraumatic growth: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Psychological interventions for acute psychiatric inpatients with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Scrambled but valid? The scrambled sentences task as a measure of interpretation biases in psychopathology: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Trauma-focused cognitive-behavioral therapies for posttraumatic stress disorder under ongoing threat: A systematic review	15
The relationship between cannabis use and patient outcomes in medication-based treatment of opioid use disorder: A systematic review	15
The role of parental emotion reactivity and regulation in child maltreatment and maltreatment risk: A meta-analytic review	15
Engagement in technology-enhanced interventions for children and adolescents: Current status and recommendations for moving forward	15
Practices for monitoring and responding to incoming data on self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in intensive longitudinal studies: A systematic review	15
Trauma exposure and mental health of prisoners and ex-prisoners: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
Application of a diathesis-stress model to the interplay of cortical structural development and emerging depression in youth	14
Empirically supported affirmative psychological interventions for transgender and non-binary youth and adults: A systematic review	14
Disclosure of suicidal ideation and behaviours: A systematic review and meta-analysis of prevalence	14
Emotion-related impulsivity and risky decision-making: A systematic review and meta-regression	14
The emotion regulation process in somatic symptom disorders and related conditions - A systematic narrative review	14
Nonattachment mediates the associations between mindfulness, well-being, and psychological distress: A meta-analytic structural equation modeling approach	14
Pain-related attentional processes: A systematic review of eye-tracking research	14
Some critical comments on the paper titled “Some critical considerations in applying the construct of psychopathy to research and classification of childhood disruptive behavior disorders”	14
Emotion regulation and intimate partner violence perpetration: A meta-analysis	13
Safety behaviours or safety precautions? The role of subtle avoidance in anxiety disorders in the context of chronic physical illness	13
Prevalence and risk factors for suicide attempts in prison	13
Can we predict who will benefit from cognitive-behavioural therapy? A systematic review and meta-analysis of machine learning studies	13

Using expectation violation models to improve the outcome of psychological treatments	13
Neural reward circuit dysfunction as a risk factor for bipolar spectrum disorders and substance use disorders: A review and integration	13
Beyond “being open about it”: A systematic review on cancer related communication within couples	13
Comparing the efficacy of mindfulness-based therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression in head-to-head randomized controlled trials: A systematic review and meta-analysis of equivalence	13
Paranoia and negative schema about the self and others: A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
The borderline interpersonal-affective systems (BIAS) model: Extending understanding of the interpersonal context of borderline personality disorder	13
Parental eating disorders: A systematic review of parenting attitudes, behaviours, and parent-child interactions	12
Predicting youth aggression with empathy and callous unemotional traits: A Meta-analytic review	12
A systematic review of predictors of suicidal thoughts and behaviors among autistic adults: Making the case for the role of social connection as a protective factor	12
Pathways to mental health care in active military populations across the Five-Eyes nations: An integrated perspective	12
A review and integrated theoretical model of the development of body image and eating disorders among midlife and aging men	12
Nightmares and psychiatric symptoms: A systematic review of longitudinal, experimental, and clinical trial studies	12
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the association between expressive suppression and positive affect	12
Temperament in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A systematic review	12
Atypical social reward anticipation as a transdiagnostic characteristic of psychopathology: A meta-analytic review and critical evaluation of current evidence	12
A review of risky decision-making in psychosis-spectrum disorders	12
Psychopathy and dangerousness: An umbrella review and meta-analysis	12
The influence of romantic relationships on mental wellbeing for people who experience psychosis: A systematic review	12