OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory & Psychology is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	63
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	37
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	32
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	15
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	14
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	13
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	13
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	12
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	11
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	10
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	9
Imagination in perception and art	9
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	9
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	9
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	8
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	8
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	7
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	7
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	7
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	7
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	7
Existential origins of endogenous and exogenous psychosis: A phenomenological inquiry into uncanny and twilight atmospheres	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	6

Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness	6
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	5
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	5
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	5
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	4
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	4
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
Lacan after Heidegger	4
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	4
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	4
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	4
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	3
Wise thoughts on phronesis	3
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	3
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	3
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	3
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
Social technologies in and out of psychology	3
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	3
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	3
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	3
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	3
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	3
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	3