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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	59
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a brief computerized anxiety sensitivity reduction intervention for health anxiety	57
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	55
Fear of pain as a predictor of concurrent and downstream PTSD symptoms	52
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	49
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	48
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	47
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	37
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	37
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	37
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	37
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Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making	35
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	34
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	33
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	32
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	32
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	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
Who defines improvement? Patients' global reports of improvement compared to standardized measures of improvement in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	31
The roles of disgust sensitivity and anxiety sensitivity in attentional bias in dental anxiety	29
Excessive avoidance bias towards uncertain faces in non-clinical social anxiety individuals	29
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting	28
Man vs. machine: A comparison of human and computer assessment of nonverbal behavior in social anxiety disorder	28

Anxiety and depressive symptoms in U.S. Census Bureau assessments of adults: Trends from 2019 to fall 2020 across demographic groups	27
The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study	27
Are psychological interventions for adult PTSD more efficacious and acceptable when treatment is delivered in higher frequency? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	26
Relationship between anxiety sensitivity and post-traumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed adults: A meta-analysis	25
Intensive treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	25
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Intolerance of uncertainty, posttraumatic stress, depression, and fears for the future among displaced refugees	24
Treating child anxiety using family-based internet delivered cognitive behavior therapy with brief therapist guidance: A randomized controlled trial	24
Identifying trajectories of symptom change in adults with obsessive compulsive disorder receiving exposure and response prevention therapy	23
Computationally derived parent-child interaction patterns and oxytocin in children with and without OCD	23
Longitudinal trajectory and predictors of change in family accommodation during exposure therapy for pediatric OCD	22
Intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity, and health anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring temporal relationships using cross-lag analysis	22
Limited consensus on what climate anxiety is: Insights from content overlap analysis on 12 questionnaires	22
Treating specific phobia in youth: A randomized controlled microtrial comparing gradual exposure in large steps to exposure in small steps	21
Climate change anxiety positively predicts antenatal distress in expectant female parents	21
Conditional probability of posttraumatic stress disorder in the Canadian Armed Forces: A longitudinal study	21
Parental cognitions and child anxiety: A systematic review	21
Acute stress and PTSD among trauma-exposed children and adolescents: Computational prediction and interpretation	20
Longitudinal changes in the PTSD symptom network following trauma-focused treatment in military populations: Identifying central symptoms and the role of military sexual trauma	20
Comparing symptom networks of daytime and nocturnal panic attacks in a community-based sample	20
Group schema therapy versus group cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with social anxiety disorder and comorbid avoidant personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial	20
Disgust in anxiety-related psychopathology	19
Contrast avoidance prospectively mediates effects of fear of emotional responding, negative problem orientation, and sensitivity to low perceived control on generalized anxiety disorder symptoms	19
Psychophysiological assessment of stress reactivity and recovery in anxiety disorders	19
Latent stability and change in subgroups of social anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescence: A latent profile and transitional analysis	19
Affective forecasting during a horror attraction: Insights into Intolerance of Uncertainty	19
Disentangling the mediating role of modifying interpretation bias on emotional distress using a novel cognitive bias modification program	19
Cannabis use and social anxiety disorder in emerging adulthood: Results from a nationally representative sample	18
Investigating the under-recognition of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder among the public and mental health professionals	18
An Intensive time series investigation of the relationships across eating disorder-specific fear responses and behavior urges in partially remitted anorexia nervosa	17
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Values- versus monetary reward-enhanced exposure therapy for the treatment of social anxiety in emerging adulthood	16
Emotion regulation difficulties in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A multi-informant and multi-method study	16
When a nightmare comes true: Change in obsessive-compulsive disorder over the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic	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
The efficacy of psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder, a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Unpacking parental accommodation: Relationship to parent distress tolerance and cognitive styles	15
Internet-delivered cognitive-behaviour therapy (ICBT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder when delivered as routine clinical care: A phase IV clinical trial	15
Eye-tracking indices of attention allocation and attention bias variability are differently related to trauma exposure and PTSD	15
Savoring, worry, and positive emotion duration in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment and interventional experiment	15
Mindfulness- and acceptance-based programmes for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
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Is cyberchondria specific to hypochondriasis?	13
Personalized stress optimization intervention to reduce adolescents’ anxiety: A randomized controlled trial leveraging machine learning	13
Longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 preventative behaviors and perceived vulnerability to disease	13
Pediatric anxiety associated with altered facial emotion recognition	13
The uptake and outcomes of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for health anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
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Psychometric properties of the state Probability and Consequences Questionnaire for social anxiety disorder	13
The effects of intelligence on exposure to combat and posttraumatic stress disorder across multiple deployments	13
How does COVID stress vary across the anxiety-related disorders? Assessing factorial invariance and changes in COVID Stress Scale scores during the pandemic	12
Positive emotion dysregulation and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: Investigating the role of anxiety sensitivity	12
"And then one day you find ten years have got behind you": Reflections on a Decade as Editor-in-Chief	12
Epidemiology of DSM-5 PTSD and ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in the Netherlands	12
Predicting COVID-19-related anxiety: The role of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions, anxiety sensitivity, and body vigilance	12
Catching a (sine) wave: Temporal dynamics of nonverbal synchrony in social anxiety disorder	12
A meta-analytic review of cognitive processing therapy with and without the written account	12
A meta-analysis of mentalizing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor related disorders	11
Risky business: Considerations of emotion regulation and high-risk behaviors in anxious adolescents	11
Disgust and fear reactions uniquely affect intrusions and posttraumatic stress symptoms	11
The relationship of posttraumatic stress disorder and developmental trauma disorder with childhood psychopathology: A network analysis	11
Name avoidance in social anxiety: Understanding alexinomia	11
Hair pulling disorder and skin picking disorder have relatively limited associations with negative emotionality: A meta-analytic comparison across obsessive-compulsive and related disorders	11
Adverse childhood experiences, adult anxiety and social capital among women in rural Kenya	11
A novel probe of attentional bias for threat in specific phobia: Application of the “MouseView.js” approach	10
Corrigendum to “Reward processes in extinction learning and applications to exposure therapy” [Journal of Anxiety Disorders 106 (2024) 102911]	10
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	10
COVID stress in older adults: Considerations during the Omicron wave and beyond	10
Reducing contrast avoidance in GAD by savoring positive emotions: Outcome and mediation in a randomized controlled trial	10
Psychological interventions for adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of published meta-analyses	10
Incorporating community-level risk factors into traumatic stress research: Adopting a public health lens	10
Predicting treatment outcomes in patients with panic disorder: Cross-sectional and two-year longitudinal structural connectome analysis using machine learning methods	10
An Initial examination of fear of negative and positive evaluation in youth	9
Cannabis use and trauma-focused treatment for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of individual patient data	9
Race moderates the impact of intolerance of uncertainty on mental health symptoms in Black and White community adults	9
Circulating endocannabinoids and psychological outcomes in women with PTSD	9
Does a unique co-occurring OCD and PTSD factor structure exist?: Examination of overlapping OCD and PTSD symptom clusters	9
Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the network approach to psychopathology: Analysis of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort over a 12-year ti	9
Anxious youth and adults share threat-biased interpretations of linguistic and visual ambiguity: A proof of concept study	9
Anxiety disorders among adolescents and young adults: Prevalence and mental health care service utilization in a regional epidemiological study in Germany	9
Daily-life reactivity and emotion regulation in children with social anxiety disorder	9
School-based supports and accommodations among anxious youth in treatment	9
Tri-level anxiety and depression symptom trajectory in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation diversity	9
Ecological anxiety and pro-environmental behaviour: The role of attention	9