OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 27. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	56
Fear of pain as a predictor of concurrent and downstream PTSD symptoms	55
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	52
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	50
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	49
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	49
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	47
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	46
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a brief computerized anxiety sensitivity reduction intervention for health anxiety	46
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	42
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	38
Editorial Board	37
Editorial Board	36
Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making	36
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	35
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	35
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	33
Excessive avoidance bias towards uncertain faces in non-clinical social anxiety individuals	31
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting	31
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	31
The roles of disgust sensitivity and anxiety sensitivity in attentional bias in dental anxiety	31
Is it worth it to personalize the treatment of PTSD? – A variance-ratio meta-analysis and estimation of treatment effect heterogeneity in RCTs of PTSD	31
The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study	31
Man vs. machine: A comparison of human and computer assessment of nonverbal behavior in social anxiety disorder	29

Relationship between anxiety sensitivity and post-traumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed adults: A meta-analysis	28
Are psychological interventions for adult PTSD more efficacious and acceptable when treatment is delivered in higher frequency? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	27