Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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
Reciprocal association and bridge symptoms in the comorbidity between social anxiety and problematic internet use: A four-wave longitudinal study	51
Antisaccade performance in spider phobia and its association with multimodal correlates of fear	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
A network analysis of disgust proneness in a clinical, adolescent sample: Implications for the treatment of OCD	32
Who defines improvement? Patients' global reports of improvement compared to standardized measures of improvement in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	32
A brief ecological momentary intervention for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial of the worry outcome monitoring app	30
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
Conditional probability of posttraumatic stress disorder in the Canadian Armed Forces: A longitudinal study	29
The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study	29
Editorial Board	28
Social anxiety in the context of the alternative DSM-5 model of personality disorder	28
Computationally derived parent-child interaction patterns and oxytocin in children with and without OCD	28
Longitudinal changes in the PTSD symptom network following trauma-focused treatment in military populations: Identifying central symptoms and the role of military sexual trauma	26
Intensive treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
Group schema therapy versus group cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with social anxiety disorder and comorbid avoidant personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial	24
Identifying trajectories of symptom change in adults with obsessive compulsive disorder receiving exposure and response prevention therapy	24
Treating specific phobia in youth: A randomized controlled microtrial comparing gradual exposure in large steps to exposure in small steps	24
Intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity, and health anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring temporal relationships using cross-lag analysis	23
Intolerance of uncertainty, posttraumatic stress, depression, and fears for the future among displaced refugees	23
Treating child anxiety using family-based internet delivered cognitive behavior therapy with brief therapist guidance: A randomized controlled trial	22
Parental cognitions and child anxiety: A systematic review	21
Limited consensus on what climate anxiety is: Insights from content overlap analysis on 12 questionnaires	19
Cannabis use and social anxiety disorder in emerging adulthood: Results from a nationally representative sample	19
Corrigendum to “Efficacy of imagery rescripting in treating mental disorders associated with aversive memories – An updated meta-analysis” [Journal of Anxiety Disorders 99 (2023) 102772]	19
Investigating the under-recognition of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder among the public and mental health professionals	19
Affective forecasting during a horror attraction: Insights into Intolerance of Uncertainty	19
Climate change anxiety positively predicts antenatal distress in expectant female parents	19
Assessing the reliability and validity of the International Trauma Interview in a sample of Ukrainian soldiers	19
Editorial Board	18
Challenging heights: Findings from a proof-of-principle randomized controlled trial testing interpretation bias modification as an adjunct to exposure therapy for acrophobic patients	18
Contrast avoidance prospectively mediates effects of fear of emotional responding, negative problem orientation, and sensitivity to low perceived control on generalized anxiety disorder symptoms	18
Acute stress and PTSD among trauma-exposed children and adolescents: Computational prediction and interpretation	18
Emotion regulation difficulties in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A multi-informant and multi-method study	17
Editorial Board	17
Values- versus monetary reward-enhanced exposure therapy for the treatment of social anxiety in emerging adulthood	17
Editorial Board	17
Savoring, worry, and positive emotion duration in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment and interventional experiment	17
Eye-tracking indices of attention allocation and attention bias variability are differently related to trauma exposure and PTSD	16
The efficacy of psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder, a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
An Intensive time series investigation of the relationships across eating disorder-specific fear responses and behavior urges in partially remitted anorexia nervosa	16
The query is the theory: Why “exact-term” bibliometrics can conflate climate anxiety with broader eco-emotions	16
Mindfulness- and acceptance-based programmes for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Editorial Board	16
Unpacking parental accommodation: Relationship to parent distress tolerance and cognitive styles	16
FOMO’s apprehension of missing out and constant connection desire dimensions differentially correlate with problematic smartphone and social media use, but not with depression or generalized anxiety	16
Psychometric properties of the state Probability and Consequences Questionnaire for social anxiety disorder	15
Pilot study of an anxiety induction method applying generative artificial intelligence and mixed reality	15
The effects of intelligence on exposure to combat and posttraumatic stress disorder across multiple deployments	15
Relationships between symptom profiles and memory in posttraumatic stress disorder	15
A review of the relationship between changes in trauma-related cognitions and PTSD outcome in response to trauma-focused psychotherapy: A three-level meta-analysis	14
Personalized stress optimization intervention to reduce adolescents’ anxiety: A randomized controlled trial leveraging machine learning	14
A meta-analysis of mentalizing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor related disorders	13
Disgust and fear reactions uniquely affect intrusions and posttraumatic stress symptoms	13
Epidemiology of DSM-5 PTSD and ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in the Netherlands	13
Catching a (sine) wave: Temporal dynamics of nonverbal synchrony in social anxiety disorder	13
Hair pulling disorder and skin picking disorder have relatively limited associations with negative emotionality: A meta-analytic comparison across obsessive-compulsive and related disorders	13

"And then one day you find ten years have got behind you": Reflections on a Decade as Editor-in-Chief	13
Name avoidance in social anxiety: Understanding alexinomia	13
A meta-analytic review of cognitive processing therapy with and without the written account	13
Is cyberchondria specific to hypochondriasis?	13
The relationship of posttraumatic stress disorder and developmental trauma disorder with childhood psychopathology: A network analysis	12
Social anxiety in online social interactions: Examining the effects of self and audience images on anxiety, self-awareness and performance evaluations	12
Predicting treatment outcomes in patients with panic disorder: Cross-sectional and two-year longitudinal structural connectome analysis using machine learning methods	12
A novel probe of attentional bias for threat in specific phobia: Application of the “MouseView.js” approach	12
Risky business: Considerations of emotion regulation and high-risk behaviors in anxious adolescents	12
Psychological interventions for adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of published meta-analyses	12
Assessing executive functioning in individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) across the lifespan: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	12
Prevalence, correlates, and treatment gap of generalized anxiety disorder among adults in Bangladesh: Results from a nationally representative survey	12
Adverse childhood experiences, adult anxiety and social capital among women in rural Kenya	12
Editorial Board	11
An Initial examination of fear of negative and positive evaluation in youth	11
Anxious youth and adults share threat-biased interpretations of linguistic and visual ambiguity: A proof of concept study	11
Circulating endocannabinoids and psychological outcomes in women with PTSD	11
Corrigendum to “Reward processes in extinction learning and applications to exposure therapy” [Journal of Anxiety Disorders 106 (2024) 102911]	11
Dyadic analyses on the prospective association between birth experience and parent-child-bonding: The role of postpartum depression, anxiety, and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder	11
Cannabis use and trauma-focused treatment for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of individual patient data	11
Daily-life reactivity and emotion regulation in children with social anxiety disorder	11
Reducing contrast avoidance in GAD by savoring positive emotions: Outcome and mediation in a randomized controlled trial	11
Prospective predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms following two “armed and dangerous person” campus lockdowns	11
Actigraphy and subjective sleep predictors of nine-year generalized anxiety disorder	11
School-based supports and accommodations among anxious youth in treatment	11
Editorial Board	10
Savoring meditation for emotional disorders: Targeting positive emotion regulation deficits	10
Symptom distress and psychosocial functioning improve bidirectionally during cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders	10
Editorial Board	10
When All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks like a Nail: The Limitations of Viewing all PTSD Treatments Through the Exposure Lens Commentary on Rubenstein et al. (2026)	10
Intensive 7-day internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial	10
Race moderates the impact of intolerance of uncertainty on mental health symptoms in Black and White community adults	10
Impact of youth and caregiver worries about treatment on therapeutic process factors and posttreatment outcomes	10
The meta-inner humor therapy: Insights from a three-arm randomized controlled trial for comorbid emotional disorders	10
Ecological anxiety and pro-environmental behaviour: The role of attention	10
A meta-analytic review of randomized clinical trials of online treatments for anxiety: Inclusion/exclusion criteria, uptake, adherence, dropout, and clinical outcomes	10
Tri-level anxiety and depression symptom trajectory in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation diversity	10
Comparing phase-based treatment, prolonged exposure, and skills-training for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A randomized controlled trial	9
Efficacy and safety of etifoxine versus alprazolam in generalized anxiety disorders with somatic symptoms: A randomized, double-blind, comparative study	9
Fear generalization predicts post-traumatic stress symptoms: A two-year follow-up study in Dutch fire fighters	9
CBT-based self-help guided by a lay provider for generalized anxiety in older adults: A randomized controlled trial	9
Can mindfulness-based interventions reduce PTSD symptoms? An umbrella review	9
Editorial Board	9
Safety behavior fading for social anxiety: A randomized controlled trial of a self-monitoring intervention	9
Dynamic changes in metacognitive mechanisms and symptoms during the attention training technique: Insights from ecological momentary assessment	9
The screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders scale: A longitudinal validation study based on Chinese children and adolescents	9
When is the best time to screen for perinatal anxiety? A longitudinal cohort study	9
Perinatal PTSD and the mother-infant bond: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Disrupting posttrauma networks: Identifying candidate intervention targets to improve military veterans’ mental health and well-being	9
Intensive longitudinal assessment following index trauma to predict development of PTSD using machine learning	9
Group metacognitive therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety and depression: A preliminary trial and test of proposed mechanisms	9
More than just fear: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Spider Distress Scale to assess spider fear and spider-related disgust	9
Editorial Board	9
Streamlined pediatric anxiety program for school mental health services	8
Using network models to explore the associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and subjective cognitive functioning	8
Just do something: An experimental investigation of brief interventions for reducing the negative impact of post-event processing in social anxiety disorder	8
Emotional body odors alter autonomic nervous activity during mindfulness training in social anxiety	8
Brief imaginal exposure exercises for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial of a self-help momentary intervention app	8
The self through the social mirror: Negative updating of self beliefs in social anxiety disorder	8
Meta-analyses of the associations of mentalization and proxy variables with anxiety and internalizing problems	8
Fear of negative and positive evaluation as mediators and moderators of treatment outcome in social anxiety disorder	8
The role of tonic immobility during re-experiencing trauma in PTSD treatment	8
Is a brief mindfulness ecological momentary intervention more efficacious than a self-monitoring app for social anxiety disorder? A randomized controlled trial	8
Anxiety among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Editorial Board	7
The contribution of guilt sensitivity in the prediction of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom dimensions: Replication and extension	7
Intolerance of uncertainty, aging, and anxiety and mental health concerns: A scoping review and meta-analysis	7
The free-viewing matrix task: A reliable measure of attention allocation in psychopathology	7
Love is a losing game: The experience of romantic love in social anxiety disorder	7
Worry and rumination enhance a positive emotional contrast based on the framework of the Contrast Avoidance Model	7
Editorial Board	7
Exposure therapy consortium: Outcomes of the proof-of-principle study	7
Development of a machine learning-based multivariable prediction model for the naturalistic course of generalized anxiety disorder	7
Predicting anxiety symptoms through gaze-directed attention: A mobile eye-tracking study of adolescents during a real-world speech task	7
Editorial: From algorithms to clinical reality: The next frontier in mental health AI	6
The effect of positive and negative evaluation on state anxiety and repetitive negative thinking in social evaluative situations: An experimental study	6
Metacognitive therapy versus exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder – A non-inferiority randomized controlled trial	6
A meta-analytic review of the relations between anxiety and empathy	6
Reciprocal changes in functioning and PTSD symptoms over the course of psychotherapy	6
A pragmatic randomized trial of brief clinician- and web-administered skills training in affective and interpersonal regulation (STAIR) for posttraumatic stress disorder in safety net primary care	6

What caregivers like the most (and least) about cognitive behavioral therapy for youth anxiety: A mixed methods approach	6
Bidirectional associations between PTSD symptoms and pain in daily life among women survivors of sexual assault	6
Understanding climate anxiety: What decision-makers, health care providers, and the mental health community need to know to promote adaptative coping	6
We need to start thinking about thinking: The impact of rumination on OCD symptom improvement in exposure and response prevention	6
Unveiling temporal dynamics of PTSD and its functional impairments: A longitudinal study in UK healthcare workers	6
Negative emotion differentiation buffers against intergenerational risk for social anxiety in at-risk adolescent girls	6
Work-Related Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for racially and economically diverse unemployed persons with social anxiety: A randomized clinical trial	6
Altered resting-state amygdala-cerebellar functional connectivity is associated with intolerance of uncertainty in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A longitudinal study	6
Editorial Board	6
PTSD and cognition in older adults: A systematic literature review	6
The transdiagnostic use of worry and rumination to avoid negative emotional contrasts following negative events: A momentary assessment study	6
Development and validation of the positive evaluation core beliefs scale for social anxiety	6
A comparison of virtual reality and verbal imaginal exposure for childhood anxiety disorders	6
Can positive affect buffer PTSD?: A comparison of dynamic networks during active conflict versus relative calm in war-exposed civilians	6
Interplay of serum BDNF levels and childhood adversity in predicting earlier-onset post-traumatic stress disorder: A two-year longitudinal study	6
Validity and factor structure of the Czech GAD-7 across twenty samples and four independent translations	5
The role of base-rate neglect in cyberchondria and health anxiety	5
Where is the ‘Anxious’ in climate anxiety? Evidence from Chinese social media big data	5
A novel independence intervention to treat child anxiety: A nonconcurrent multiple baseline evaluation	5
Re-assessing the assessment of fears of positive and negative evaluation: Scale development and psychometric evaluation of the Bivalent Fear of Evaluation Scale (BFOES)	5
Four profiles of symptom change in residential Cognitive Processing Therapy	5
Editorial Board	5
Daily stress and emotions in relation to fear of negative and positive evaluation	5
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of an internet-based cognitive-behavioral program on anxiety symptoms in a community-based sample of adolescents	5
Cross-cultural network structures of social anxiety, body dysmorphic, and major depressive disorder symptoms in individualistic vs. collectivistic societies: A comparison between American, German, and	5
Linking repetitive negative thinking and insomnia symptoms: A longitudinal trait-state model	5
Trajectories of grief-related psychopathology: A decade after the MH17 plane disaster	5
Is intolerance of uncertainty a necessary condition for anxiety symptoms in adolescents? A necessary condition analysis study	5
Anxiety symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal examination of Canadian young adults	5
Prospective prediction of first-onset generalized and social anxiety disorders in adolescent girls	4
Emotion regulation in children with social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Longitudinal trajectories of coronavirus anxiety and health behavior use before and after the U.S. 2020 presidential election: The effects of political orientation	4
Physical activity moderates the relationship between PTSD symptom severity and approach-avoidance conflict decision-making	4
Does intolerance of uncertainty predict child generalised anxiety? A longitudinal study	4
Neuromodulation treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and network meta-analysis covering efficacy, acceptability, and follow-up effects	4
Comparing structural models for internalizing pathology: Latent dimensions, classes, or a mix of both?	4
Advancing health equity by understanding race disparities and other factors associated with PTSD symptom improvement following evidence-based psychotherapy	4
Altered interoceptive–exteroceptive profile in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Evidence from bayesian psychophysics and metacognitive modeling	4
Sleep disturbances predict nine-year panic disorder chronicity: The sleep-panic nexus theory with machine learning insights	4
Moral injury events and behavioral health outcomes among American veterans	4
Exposure traced in daily life: improvements in ecologically assessed social and physical activity following exposure-based psychotherapy for anxiety disorders	4
Trends and determinants of childhood anxiety disorders burden in Asia, 1990–2023	4
Why Sleep is Key: Poor Sleep Quality is a Mechanism for the Bidirectional Relationship between Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Across 18 Years	4
Posttraumatic stress disorder, sleep and medical cannabis treatment: A daily diary study	4
Editorial Board	4
A continuum is not a hammer: Response to Lowell and Markowitz (2026) on the exposure continuum model	4
Temporal dynamics of costly avoidance in naturalistic fears: Evidence for sequential-sampling of fear and reward information	4
Fear of positive evaluation and the bivalent fear of evaluation model of social anxiety: An Integration	4
Concise multi-class anxiety disorder risk assessment: A novel advanced machine learning approach	4
A prospective examination of the role of psychological (in)flexibility in posttraumatic stress: A cross-lagged panel design	4
High sensitivity, low specificity: Validation and diagnostic accuracy study of the PCL-5 in an Arabic-speaking treatment-seeking sample	4
Is symptom improvement similar during PTSD psychotherapy delivered by video telehealth and in-person in routine veterans health administration care?	4
Prospective network of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms across adolescent survivors with distinct trajectories of PTSD: A cohort study of the Wenchuan earthquake	4