OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 28. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	79
Investigating the Use of Large Language Models for the Detection of Trauma-Related Symptoms: An Exploratory Study Using Trauma Narratives	76
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	68
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	66
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	65
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	64
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	61
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	56
Antisaccade performance in spider phobia and its association with multimodal correlates of fear	51
Reciprocal association and bridge symptoms in the comorbidity between social anxiety and problematic internet use: A four-wave longitudinal study	51
Editorial Board	50
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	46
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	45
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	42
Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making	41
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	40
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	35
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting	34
Exploring the symptomatology and assessment of emetophobia: A comprehensive scoping review	33
Excessive avoidance bias towards uncertain faces in non-clinical social anxiety individuals	33
Who defines improvement? Patients' global reports of improvement compared to standardized measures of improvement in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	32
A network analysis of disgust proneness in a clinical, adolescent sample: Implications for the treatment of OCD	32
Relationship between anxiety sensitivity and post-traumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed adults: A meta-analysis	30
Are psychological interventions for adult PTSD more efficacious and acceptable when treatment is delivered in higher frequency? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	30

A brief ecological momentary intervention for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial of the worry outcome monitoring app	30
The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study	29
Conditional probability of posttraumatic stress disorder in the Canadian Armed Forces: A longitudinal study	29
Computationally derived parent-child interaction patterns and oxytocin in children with and without OCD	28
Editorial Board	28
Social anxiety in the context of the alternative DSM-5 model of personality disorder	28