OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 10. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fear of the coronavirus (COVID-19): Predictors in an online study conducted in March 2020	754
Development and initial validation of the COVID Stress Scales	707
How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like COVID-19: What all decision-makers, health authorities, and health care professionals need to know	480
Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?	405
Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change	389
Do pre-existing anxiety-related and mood disorders differentially impact COVID-19 stress responses and coping?	313
Incremental validity of coronaphobia: Coronavirus anxiety explains depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety	225
Fear and avoidance of healthcare workers: An important, under-recognized form of stigmatization during the COVID-19 pandemic	203
Media use and acute psychological outcomes during COVID-19 outbreak in China	189
The relationship between perceived stress and emotional distress during the COVID-19 outbreak: Effects of boredom proneness and coping style	141
Facing new fears during the COVID-19 pandemic: The State of America’s mental health	128
Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis	118
Longitudinal changes of anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: The role of pre-existing anxiety, depressive, and other mental disorders	116
COVID-19 and traumatic stress: The role of perceived vulnerability, COVID-19-related worries, and social isolation	95
Anxiety and safety behavior usage during the COVID-19 pandemic: The prospective role of contamination fear	94
Anxiety regarding contracting COVID-19 related to interoceptive anxiety sensations: The moderating role of disgust propensity and sensitivity	91
Understanding and managing pandemic-related panic buying	77
Obsessive-compulsive disorder during COVID-19: Turning a problem into an opportunity?	72
The mental health impacts of climate change: Findings from a Pacific Island atoll nation	72
The prospective influence of COVID-19 affective risk assessments and intolerance of uncertainty on later dimensions of health anxiety	66
Threats to Mental Health and Well-Being Associated with Climate Change	63
A systematic literature review of factor analytic and mixture models of ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD using the International Trauma Questionnaire	57
Anxiety and resilience in the face of natural disasters associated with climate change: A review and methodological critique	56
Life in a post-pandemic world: What to expect of anxiety-related conditions and their treatment	51
Anxiety disorders, climate change, and the challenges ahead: Introduction to the special issue	50

COVID-19 stress and substance use: Current issues and future preparations	50
Coronaphobia revisted: A state-of-the-art on pandemic-related fear, anxiety, and stress	43
The latent and item structure of COVID-19 fear: A comparison of four COVID-19 fear questionnaires using SEM and network analyses	40
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms?	39
Coping with climate change: Three insights for research, intervention, and communication to promote adaptive coping to climate change	39
Fear and anxiety in the face of COVID-19: Negative dispositions towards risk and uncertainty as vulnerability factors	38
Social Anxiety and Empathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	36
Psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a sample of first responders	35
Garbage in, garbage out: The tenuous state of research on PTSD in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic	35
COVID-19 and OCD: Potential impact of exposure and response prevention therapy	34
Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later	34
Pre-pandemic disgust proneness predicts increased coronavirus anxiety and safety behaviors: Evidence for a diathesis-stress model	33
Extending our understanding of the association between posttraumatic stress disorder and positive emotion dysregulation: A network analysis approach	32
Social trauma and its association with posttraumatic stress disorder and social anxiety disorder	32
Efficacy and acceptability of interventions for co-occurring PTSD and SUD: A meta-analysis	32
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	31
Three decades of increase in health anxiety: Systematic review and meta-analysis of birth cohort changes in university student samples from 1985 to 2017	31
Real versus illusory personal growth in response to COVID-19 pandemic stressors	31
A meta-analysis of relapse rates in cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders	30
Psychometric properties of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment of factor structure, measurement properties and clinical utility	30
Intolerance of COVID-19-related uncertainty and depressive and anxiety symptoms during the pandemic: A longitudinal study in Argentina	26
The uptake and outcomes of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for health anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	26
Posttraumatic stress or posttraumatic growth? Using network analysis to explore the relationships between coping styles and trauma outcomes	25
Investigating the impact of masculinity on the relationship between anxiety specific mental health literacy and mental health help-seeking in adolescent males	25
Conducting exposure and response prevention treatment for contamination fears during COVID-19: The behavioral immune system impact on clinician approaches to treatment	25
How does COVID stress vary across the anxiety-related disorders? Assessing factorial invariance and changes in COVID Stress Scale scores during the pandemic	24
Individual differences in emotion regulation prospectively predict early COVID-19 related acute stress	24
Bridging maladaptive social self-beliefs and social anxiety: a network perspective	23
Linking insomnia and OCD symptoms during the coronavirus pandemic: Examination of prospective associations	22
Anxiety disorders, COVID-19 fear, and vaccine hesitancy	22
A network analysis of posttraumatic stress disorder and dissociation in trauma-exposed adolescents	22
Anxiety and depressive symptoms in U.S. Census Bureau assessments of adults: Trends from 2019 to fall 2020 across demographic groups	21
Elements of the therapeutic relationship in CBT for anxiety disorders: A systematic review	21
A randomized clinical trial of in-person vs. home-based telemedicine delivery of Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in military sexual trauma survivors	20
Intolerance of uncertainty and obsessive-compulsive disorder dimensions	20
Responding to uncertain threat: A potential mediator for the effect of mindfulness on anxiety	20
Shame, guilt, and posttraumatic stress symptoms: A three-level meta-analysis	20
What is the internal structure of intolerance of uncertainty? A network analysis approach	19
Generalized anxiety disorder: Prevalence, predictors, and comorbidity in children and adolescents	19
Comparison of symptom-based versus self-reported diagnostic measures of anxiety and depression disorders in the GLAD and COPING cohorts	19
Does complex PTSD predict or moderate treatment outcomes of three variants of exposure therapy?	18
The utility of college student samples in research on trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder: A critical review	17
Interpersonal problems in social anxiety disorder across different relational contexts	17
Effectiveness of a smartphone-based, augmented reality exposure app to reduce fear of spiders in real-life: A randomized controlled trial	17
Exposure therapy in a virtual environment: Validation in obsessive compulsive disorder	16
Working out the worries: A randomized controlled trial of high intensity interval training in generalized anxiety disorder	16
Intolerance of uncertainty in youth: Psychometrics of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Index-A for Children	16
Predicting COVID-19-related anxiety: The role of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions, anxiety sensitivity, and body vigilance	15
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	15
Clinical predictors of treatment response towards exposure therapy in virtuo in spider phobia: A machine learning and external cross-validation approach	15

Overcontrol and neural response to errors in pediatric anxiety disorders	14
A network approach to climate change anxiety and its key related features	14
Interpersonal dysfunction and treatment outcome in GAD: A systematic review	14
COVID stress in older adults: Considerations during the Omicron wave and beyond	14
tDCS-Augmented in vivo exposure therapy for specific fears: A randomized clinical trial	14
Immunization stress-related responses: Implications for vaccination hesitancy and vaccination processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
The impact of sleep quality on the incidence of PTSD: Results from a 7-Year, Nationally Representative, Prospective Cohort of U.S. Military Veterans	13
A transdiagnostic evaluation of contrast avoidance across generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and social anxiety disorder	13
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	13
Latent class growth analyses reveal overrepresentation of dysfunctional fear conditioning trajectories in patients with anxiety-related disorders compared to controls	13
The naturalistic reinforcement of worry from positive and negative emotional contrasts: Results from a momentary assessment study within social interactions	13
Training with tarantulas: A randomized feasibility and acceptability study using experiential learning to enhance exposure therapy training	13
Understanding climate anxiety: What decision-makers, health care providers, and the mental health community need to know to promote adaptative coping	13
Are people with social anxiety disorder happier alone?	12
Does pre-event lack of emotional support increase the risk of post-event PTSD, anxiety, depression symptoms and lack of support? A comparative population-based study among victims of threat and violen	12
Remote cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder: A meta-analysis	12
Long-term outcomes of cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	12
Examining the link between positive affectivity and anxiety reactivity to social stress in individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	11
Transdiagnostic emotion regulation processes explain how emotion-related factors affect co-occurring PTSD and MDD in relation to trauma	11
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	11
Delayed reward discounting and increased risk for suicide attempts among U.S. adults with probable PTSD	11
Patterns of exposure to potentially morally injurious events among Israeli combat veterans: A latent class analysis approach	11
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Outcomes From a Multi-State, Multi-Site Primary Care Practice	11
Examining the associations between PTSD symptoms and aspects of emotion dysregulation through network analysis	11
Reductions in social anxiety during treatment predict lower levels of loneliness during follow-up among individuals with social anxiety disorder	11
Dimensionality of DSM-5 PTSD symptoms: Validation of the Chinese version of the posttraumatic diagnostic scale for DSM-5 across multiple trauma samples	11
An experience sampling investigation of emotion and worry in people with generalized anxiety disorder	11
Psychophysiological assessment of stress reactivity and recovery in anxiety disorders	10
Event centrality and secondary traumatization among Holocaust survivors' offspring and grandchildren: A three-generation study	10
The OCI-4: An ultra-brief screening scale for obsessive-compulsive disorder	10
Examining the psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a black community sample using item response theory	10
Anxiety disorders among adolescents and young adults: Prevalence and mental health care service utilization in a regional epidemiological study in Germany	10
Mental contamination, disgust, and other negative emotions among survivors of sexual trauma: Results from a daily monitoring study	10
Adherence to exposure and response prevention as a predictor of improvement in obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions	10
But first, coffee: The roles of arousal and inhibition in the resistance of compulsive cleansing in individuals with high contamination fears	10
Aerobic exercise in the treatment of PTSD: An examination of preclinical and clinical laboratory findings, potential mechanisms, clinical implications, and future directions	10
A meta-analysis of mentalizing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor related disorders	10
Anxiety among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	10