OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Traumatic Stress is 5. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
2021 Annual Acknowledgment of Reviewers	64
Vision Statement from the new Editor in Chief	43
Issue Information ‐ TOC	42
Bisexual minority stress as a risk factor for sexual violence‐related posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms among bisexual+ women: A multilevel analysis	31
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Harnessing psychedelics for treating posttraumatic stress disorder: Does the science support all the hype?	27
The interplay between cortisol and oxytocin in aggressive adolescents: The role of trauma	26
Effectiveness of psychosocial interventions in mitigating adverse mental health outcomes among disaster‐exposed health care workers: A systematic review	26
Implementation of group cognitive processing therapy in correction centers: Anticipated determinants from formative evaluation	24
Editorial: State of the Journal	23
Longitudinal associations among experiences of sexual assault, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and heavy drinking in young adults	23
Examination of race‐based traumatic stress symptom networks in Black adults in the United States: A network analysis	23
Combining a stellate ganglion block with prolonged exposure therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder: A nonrandomized clinical trial	22
Associations between potentially traumatic events and psychopathology among preadolescents in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study^®	22
Sexual abuse among Mozambican women at risk for HIV/AIDS infection: The temporal stability of self‐report	21
Military sexual trauma in context: Ethnoracial differences in ecological resources among treatment‐seeking veterans	21
Moral injury: State of the Science	20
Impact of veteran‐led peer mentorship on posttraumatic stress disorder	19
Gender differences in medication prescribing patterns for veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder: A 10‐year follow‐up study	19
Posttraumatic stress disorder, Veterans Health Administration use, and care‐seeking among recent‐era U.S. veterans	19
Mental health in traumatically bereaved individuals: The role of loss‐related, personal, interpersonal, and emotion regulation factors	19
Linguistic and affective characteristics of script‐driven imagery for adults with posttraumatic stress order: Associations with clinical outcomes during deep transcranial magnetic stimulation	18
Measurement invariance of the PTSD Checklist for DSM‐5 across eight countries and samples with diverse trauma experiences	18
The impact of substance use on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and treatment discontinuation	18
Children with sexual behavior problems: Ties to child maltreatment, family functioning, and help‐seeking	16

Daily exposure to combat‐related cues and posttraumatic stress symptoms among veterans: Moderating effects of peri‐ and postdeployment experiences	16
Fear of sin and fear of God: Scrupulosity predicts women's daily experiences of mental contamination following sexual trauma	16
Contributing factors to secondary traumatic stress and vicarious posttraumatic growth in therapists	15
Employment status among US military veterans with a history of posttraumatic stress disorder: Results from the National Health and Resilience in Veterans Study	15
Wounds that won't wash away: Disgust and trauma‐related contamination in military veterans seeking treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder	15
Cognition improvement in U.S. veterans undergoing treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder: Secondary analyses from a randomized controlled trial	15
Associations among sleep quality, cognitive processing therapy, and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in a primary care setting	15
Expression of Concern: Posttraumatic Growth After MDMA‐Assisted Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	15
Partner outcomes from an uncontrolled trial of Couple HOPES: A guided online couple intervention for posttraumatic stress disorder and relationship enhancement	14
Persecution and migration experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, and other sexual and gender minority asylum seekers	14
The Middle‐Out Approach to reconceptualizing, assessing, and analyzing traumatic stress reactions	14
Identifying transdiagnostic traumatic stress reactions in U.S. military veterans: A nationally representative study	14
Perceptions of parenthood and child development among parents who experienced child maltreatment	13
Examining the between‐ and within‐person associations among perceived sleep quality and mental health symptoms in emergency medical service clinicians	13
Early and recent military and nonmilitary stressors associated with posttraumatic stress symptoms among military service members and their spouses	13
Issue Information ‐ TOC	13
The prevalence of childhood bullying and violence victimization and subsequent risk of adult revictimization in the Norwegian population: A cross‐sectional study	13
Using Danish national registry data to understand psychopathology following potentially traumatic experiences	12
Context, coping, and mental health in refugees living in protracted displacement	12
Positive emotion in posttraumatic stress disorder: A global or context‐specific problem?	12
Posttraumatic growth related to the COVID‐19 pandemic among individuals with lived experience of psychiatric disorder	12
Posttraumatic growth during the COVID‐19 lockdown: A large‐scale population‐based study among Norwegian adolescents	12
Diagnostic accuracy and psychometric performance of two self‐report measures of posttraumatic stress disorder in older veterans	12
Issue Information ‐ TOC	11
Conceptualizing impulsivity as a construct in relation to posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity among women	11
Paraprofessional delivery of online narrative exposure therapy for firefighters	11
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Psychological distress across 2 years of the COVID‐19 pandemic differs by age and by race/ethnicity	11
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Sociocultural determinants of mental health among male sexual trauma survivors	11
Clarifying the association between adverse childhood experiences and postdeployment posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity: A meta‐analysis and large‐sample investigation	10
Comparing diagnostic criteria for posttraumatic stress disorder in a diverse sample of trauma‐exposed youth	10
Royal Canadian Mounted Police cadets’ exposure to potentially psychologically traumatic events during the Cadet Training Program	10
Exploring the association between moral injury and posttraumatic stress symptoms among Canadian public safety personnel	10
Associations between higher exposure to potentially morally injurious events and negative posttraumatic cognition trajectories throughout cognitive processing therapy	10
What I was thinking/what I would do differently: Clinical research	10
Posttraumatic stress disorder–related anhedonia as a predictor of psychosocial functional impairment among United States veterans	10
Social interactions in trauma disclosure: A multi‐informant and multiconstruct investigation	10
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Centrality of Event Scale across multiple trauma‐exposed Taiwanese samples	9
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Adverse childhood experiences, posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, and compulsive behaviors among adults in substance use treatment: A latent class analysis	9
Gender differences in mental health outcomes among Afghanistan veterans exposed to war zone trauma	9
Examining written exposure therapy for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder in Azerbaijan: A pilot study	9
Indirect effects of Seeking Safety plus sertraline on alcohol use: The mediating role of reductions in posttraumatic stress disorder symptom severity	9
Military exposures and Gulf War illness in veterans with and without posttraumatic stress disorder	9
Psychometric properties of the Spanish Child PTSD Symptom Scale for DSM‐5–Self‐Report in El Salvador	9
Therapist perceptions of treating posttraumatic stress disorder in pregnancy: The VIP Study	9
Rethinking trauma‐related psychopathology in the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP)	9
Associations among posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms, life satisfaction, and well‐being comparisons: A longitudinal investigation	9
Childhood and adulthood trauma exposure: Associations with perinatal mental health and psychotherapy response	8

The bumpy road of trauma‐focused treatment: Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom exacerbation in people with psychosis	8
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Understanding the role of COVID‐19–related workplace stress and institutional betrayal on mental health in nurses: Some heroes wear scrubs	8
Differential impact of type of killing on posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms in U.S. Army soldiers deployed to Afghanistan	8
A 1‐year follow‐up of the My Grief app for prolonged grief	8
The impact of immigration detention on the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers	8
An examination of relationship satisfaction as a predictor of outcomes of brief couple therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	8
Long‐term negative mental health outcomes in mothers exposed to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico during the pre‐ and perinatal periods	8
Problematic anger in a treatment‐seeking Canadian veteran population: Prevalence, assessment, and treatment implications	8
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Introduction to the Special Issue on the 39th Annual Meeting of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies: Scalable strategies to address the impact of trauma worldwide	8
Correction to “Predicting posttraumatic stress disorder caseness using the PTSD Checklist for DSM‐5 among patients receiving care for HIV”	8
Posttraumatic stress symptom severity is associated with impaired processing of emotional faces in a large international sample	7
Using the Moral Injury and Distress Scale to identify clinically meaningful moral injury	7
Evidence‐based posttraumatic stress disorder treatment in a community sample: Military‐affiliated versus civilian patient outcomes	7
Child posttraumatic stress symptoms in an acute injury sample: Patterns of associations among child report, parent report, and child heart rate parameters	7
The mental health of forcibly displaced couples	7
Social support as a predictor of outcomes of cognitive behavioral therapy with a trauma focus delivered face‐to‐face and via guided internet‐based self‐help	7
The nosographic structure of posttraumatic stress symptoms across trauma types: An exploratory network analysis approach	7
Posttraumatic stress disorder symptom change in youth after trauma‐focused cognitive behavioral therapy: Insights from cross‐sectional and cross‐lagged panel network analysis	7
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Childhood trauma and drinking motives as predictors of sexual assault in college students	7
Investigating the effects of suicide exposure among a clinical sample of active duty service members	7
Roles, challenges, and possibilities of traumatic stress professional societies around the world	7
Early predictors of chronic posttraumatic stress disorder symptom trajectories in U.S. Army soldiers deployed to the Iraq war zone	7
State of the Science: Prolonged exposure therapy for the treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder	7
The network structure of psychopathological and resilient responses to the pandemic: A multicountry general population study of depression and anxiety	7
Issue Information ‐ TOC	7
Conflict, trauma, and coping: The experiences of internally displaced people in northern Ethiopia	7
What I was thinking/what I would do differently: Biological markers and mechanisms of mental health	7
Negative affect provides a context for increased distrust in the daily lives of individuals with a history of childhood maltreatment	6
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The role of symptom accommodation in trauma‐focused treatment engagement and response	6
Issue Information ‐ TOC	6
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Recalled protective childhood experiences are associated with positive emotional expression in active‐duty firefighters	6
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Am I safe around you? Attachment figure activation increases perceived security but does not reduce negative interpretations of neutral expressions	6
Cumulative trauma, adversity, and loss among juvenile justice–involved girls: Implications for health disparities	6
Body‐and movement‐oriented interventions for posttraumatic stress disorder: An updated systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
Imaginal exposure processing during Concurrent Treatment of PTSD and Substance Use Disorders using Prolonged Exposure (COPE) therapy: Examination of linguistic markers of cohesiveness	6
Posttraumatic stress disorder and hypertension in older adult Vietnam Era male and female veterans	6
Predictors of treatment completion in group psychotherapy for male veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder	5
Erratum for “Asylee perspectives on psychotherapies for posttraumatic stress”	5
Trajectories of posttraumatic stress symptoms following collective violence: A systematic review and meta‐analyses	5
A summary of the 38th Annual International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies Presidential Panel: How the traumatic stress community can assist individuals affected by the war in Ukraine	5
Cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in first responders and veterans: Flexing the approach with explicit case formulation	5
Estimating posttraumatic stress disorder severity in the presence of differential item functioning across populations, comorbidities, and interview measures: Introduction to Project Harmony	5
Medical board transparency regarding physician sexual misconduct: Two years post–policy updates	5
Expanding the framework of attention in posttraumatic stress disorder: Commentary on Clauss et al. (2025)	5
A prospective examination of health care costs associated with posttraumatic stress disorder diagnostic status and symptom severity among veterans	5
Expression of Concern: Sleep Quality Improvements After MDMA‐Assisted Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	5
Adverse childhood experiences, individual‐level risk and protective factors, and recent drug use in a community sample of Nigerian women	5
Improving access to evidence‐based interventions for trauma‐exposed adults in low‐ and middle‐income countries	5
Age differences in long‐term mortality among male nonveterans, noncombat veterans, and combat veterans	5
“You're going to look at me differently”: A qualitative study of disclosure experiences among survivors of military sexual assault	5
A mixed‐methods investigation of a digital mental health tool to manage posttrauma anger	5
The associations between posttraumatic stress disorder and delay discounting, future orientation, and reward availability: A behavioral economic model	5
A unique combination of horror and longing: Traumatic grief in post–October 7, 2023, Israel	5
Perceived betrayal moderates the effects of battlefield experiences on suicidal ideation and help‐seeking	5
Correction to Posttraumatic Growth fter MDMA‐Assisted Psychotherapy for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	5
The impact of item order on the factor structure of the PTSD Checklist for DSM‐5	5
Walking the line between fidelity and flexibility: A conceptual review of personalized approaches to manualized treatments for posttraumatic stress disorder	5
Prevalence and correlates of self‐reported cognitive difficulties in deployment‐injured U.S. military personnel	5
Therapists’ experience of the lifeline in narrative exposure therapy	5
Perceived posttraumatic growth in cardiac patients: A systematic scoping review	5
Early life stress and autonomic response to acute mental stress in individuals with coronary heart disease	5
Reducing response bias in reports of trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder: An application of the nonverbal response card in a survey of youth in Burkina Faso	5