OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 9. 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
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Psychometric properties of the state Probability and Consequences Questionnaire for social anxiety disorder	46
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	45
Reimaging context within exposure-based treatments for adolescent social anxiety disorder: It all begins with optimizing the context-sensitivity of our clinical assessments	44
Editorial Board	43
The diagnostic utility of the PCL-5 in a traumatically injured black population	43
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Personalized stress optimization intervention to reduce adolescents’ anxiety: A randomized controlled trial leveraging machine learning	40
Emotional growth mindsets and stress controllability buffer the link between stress intensity and anxiety symptoms: An ecological momentary assessment study	36
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	36
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	35
The efficacy of interventions for behaviourally inhibited preschool-aged children: A meta-analysis	33
The combined cognitive bias hypothesis in anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	32
Metacognition, cognition and social anxiety: A test of temporal and reciprocal relationships	31
Meta-analyses of the associations of mentalization and proxy variables with anxiety and internalizing problems	31
Attention bias vs. attention control modification for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial	30
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	30
The first steps in facing your fears: The acceptability of virtual reality and in vivo exposure treatment for specific fears	30
Epidemiology of DSM-5 PTSD and ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in the Netherlands	30
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	30
Remote cognitive behaviour therapy for social anxiety disorder: A meta-analysis	30

Cognitive behavioral group therapy for social anxiety disorder – A critical review of methodological designs	29
Group metacognitive therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety and depression: A preliminary trial and test of proposed mechanisms	28
Is cyberchondria specific to hypochondriasis?	26
The uptake and outcomes of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for health anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Remote cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder: A meta-analysis	25
Is a brief mindfulness ecological momentary intervention more efficacious than a self-monitoring app for social anxiety disorder? A randomized controlled trial	25
Nonverbal synchrony in diagnostic interviews of individuals with social anxiety disorder	24
Increasing cognitive load attenuates the moderating effect of attentional inhibition on the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and threat-related attention bias variability	23
Just do something: An experimental investigation of brief interventions for reducing the negative impact of post-event processing in social anxiety disorder	22
The development and preliminary validation of a brief scale of emotional distress in young people using combined classical test theory and item response theory approaches: The Brief Emotional Distress	22
The comorbidity structure of fear, distress and compulsive disorders in an acute psychiatric sample	21
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	20
When is the best time to screen for perinatal anxiety? A longitudinal cohort study	20
Distinct patterns of monocular advantage for facial emotions in social anxiety	20
Increased self-reported reward responsiveness predicts better response to cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety	19
Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later	19
Network analyses of ecological momentary emotion and avoidance assessments before and after cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders	19
Pediatric anxiety associated with altered facial emotion recognition	18
The impact of prepartum pandemic-related perceived stress on anxiety symptoms in the postpartum: The role of perceived childbirth experiences	18
Optimized short-forms of the Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire	18
Fear of negative and positive evaluation as mediators and moderators of treatment outcome in social anxiety disorder	18
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	18
Moral injury events and behavioral health outcomes among American veterans	18
The effects of intelligence on exposure to combat and posttraumatic stress disorder across multiple deployments	18
A transdiagnostic evaluation of contrast avoidance across generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and social anxiety disorder	18
Fear of pain as a predictor of concurrent and downstream PTSD symptoms	17
CyberStatus: Responses to status manipulation and fears of positive and negative evaluations	17
Dynamics of affect, cognition and behavior in a general population sample of adolescents and young adults with current and remitted anxiety disorders: An Ecological Momentary Assessment study	16
More than just fear: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Spider Distress Scale to assess spider fear and spider-related disgust	16
Progression of externalizing disorders into anxiety disorders: Longitudinal transitions in the first three decades of life	16
Anxiety among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
The naturalistic reinforcement of worry from positive and negative emotional contrasts: Results from a momentary assessment study within social interactions	15
Longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 preventative behaviors and perceived vulnerability to disease	15
Longitudinal changes in intolerance of uncertainty and worry severity during CBT for generalized anxiety disorder	15
Pride in social anxiety disorder	15
Effectiveness of a smartphone-based, augmented reality exposure app to reduce fear of spiders in real-life: A randomized controlled trial	15
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	15
Positive emotion dysregulation and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: Investigating the role of anxiety sensitivity	14
Attending to the Attentional Control Scale for Children: Confirming its factor structure and measurement invariance	14
Examining the psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a black community sample using item response theory	14
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a brief computerized anxiety sensitivity reduction intervention for health anxiety	14
Catching a (sine) wave: Temporal dynamics of nonverbal synchrony in social anxiety disorder	14
Can mindfulness-based interventions reduce PTSD symptoms? An umbrella review	14
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	14
From negative feelings to impairments: A longitudinal study on the development of climate change anxiety	14
How does COVID stress vary across the anxiety-related disorders? Assessing factorial invariance and changes in COVID Stress Scale scores during the pandemic	14
Functional outcomes from psychotherapy for people with posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis	13
Problematic anger in military and veteran populations with and without PTSD: The elephant in the room	13
Disgust and fear reactions uniquely affect intrusions and posttraumatic stress symptoms	13
Mind’s eye: The impact of spider presence and cognitive therapy on size estimation biases in spider phobia	13

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Streamlined pediatric anxiety program for school mental health services	12
Interpersonal contrast avoidance as a mechanism for the maintenance of worry	12
PTSD symptom heterogeneity and alcohol-related outcomes in U.S. military veterans: Indirect associations with coping strategies	12
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Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	11
Do positive and negative emotional reactions during war predict subsequent symptomatology? A prospective experience sampling study	11
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	11
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	11
A within-person test of the metacognitive model: Daily dynamics between metacognitive beliefs, metacognitive strategies, and negative affect	11
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	11
A randomized clinical trial investigating the clinical impact of a game-based digital therapeutic for social anxiety disorder	11
Do anxiety sensitivity cognitive concerns and/or depression symptoms independently explain sleep disturbances in a high anxiety sensitive treatment-seeking sample?	10
Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making	10
Incidences of anxiety disorders among active duty service members between 1999 and 2018	10
A randomized clinical trial comparing Interpersonal Psychotherapy with Prolonged Exposure for the treatment of PTSD in veterans	10
A temporal investigation of the relationship between difficulty concentrating and perseverative thought	10
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	10
Avoidance of mild threat observed in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) using eye tracking	9
Using machine learning to predict sudden gains in intensive treatment for PTSD	9
Novel approaches for the prevention of emotional problems in young people	9
When eco-anger (but not eco-anxiety nor eco-sadness) makes you change! A temporal network approach to the emotional experience of climate change	9
Exposure therapy consortium: Outcomes of the proof-of-principle study	9
The contribution of guilt sensitivity in the prediction of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom dimensions: Replication and extension	9
Using network models to explore the associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and subjective cognitive functioning	9
The Patient‐Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) pediatric and parent-proxy short forms for anxiety: Psychometric properties in the Kids FACE FEARS sample	9
Incremental validity of the contrast avoidance model: A comparison with intolerance of uncertainty and negative problem orientation	9