OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory & Psychology is 2. 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
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	56
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	24
Psychology and the question of radical democracy	21
“There is nothing as practical as a good theory”: Theorising relationality in clinical practice	17
Aesthetic motifs and the materiality of motives	15
Depression and melancholia revisited via Lacan	12
Whose metaphor? Rethinking conceptual metaphor in Lacanian terms	11
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	9
Why force a square peg into a round hole? The ongoing (pseudo-)problem of psychological measurement	9
On knowledge in action	9
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	9
Problematic research practices in psychology: Misconceptions about data collection entail serious fallacies in data analysis	8
“Professor Spearman has drawn over-hasty conclusions”: Unravelling psychometrics’ “Copernican Revolution”	8
Why isn’t flow flowing? Metatheoretical issues in explanations of flow	8
When foundations falter: The emergence of defensive narratives from insecure attachment dynamics	8
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	7
Worth-Conscious theory: Understanding the role of birthright self-worth and application to clinical practice	7
Cross purposes and crossed wires: A reply to	7
Maintaining subjectivity under coercion: Former patients’ experiences of being transformed into an object in psychiatric care	7
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	7
Eco-martyrdom: Positive elements of self-sacrifice	6
Varieties of realism and their bearing on psychology	6
Theorising embodied interaction in coaching: A Merleau-Pontian perspective on embodied practice	6
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	6
Evaluating the complex systems approach to persisting post-concussion symptoms	6

Indigenous psychology: Difficult engagements with culture and power	5
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	5
Narrating the zone of proximal goodness	5
Why does the pathologization of grief cause such a stir? A comment on Bergsmark and Ramsing	5
The rhetorical use of B. F. Skinner in evolutionary psychology	5
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	5
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	5
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	5
Theoretical proposal for the relationship between epistemology and ethics in psychology	4
Retiring Popper: Critical realism, falsificationism, and the crisis of replication	4
Replicating is difficult but necessary, and methodology can help	4
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	4
Embracing variability and complexity and the explanatory reductionism of scientific realism	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	4
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	4
Lacan after Heidegger	3
Subjectivity and method: Why psychology needs more armchair scholarship	3
Sense and nonsense in psychological measurement: A case of problem and method passing one another by	3
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	3
Theory as behaviour: Why empathy research needs horizontal, mutualistic habits of seeing	3
Moral affordance, moral expertise, and virtue	3
Phenomenology and natural science: What kind of a discipline is psychology?	3
Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes	3
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	3
The dialectics of digitalization and learning in a crisis-ridden world	2
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	2
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	2
Phronesis, affordance, and executive function: Situating values within moral psychology	2
Qualitative psychology of the Brentano school and its inspirations (another look at empirical qualitative research)	2
Thirty years of focus on individual variability and the dynamics of processes	2
The joint construction of goals and means as a solution for the problem of variability in behavior	2
Tensions, articulations, and novelty in the ontogenetic development of historical thinking: Contributions of cultural–historical psychology	2
Dehumanization and a psychology of deglobalization: Double binds and movements beyond radicalization and racialized mis-interpellation	2
Sexuality in the digital world: Treatment of a case of dating app addiction	2
Realism and symbolic systems in the practice of scientific psychology	2
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	2
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	2
Looking for places to be alone: Lived space in social anxiety disorder	2
On the conceptual grounds of subjective rectification: Responsibility, choice, and freedom in Lacanian psychoanalysis	2
The methods and principles of the natural sciences are not a diet we need to follow: A close look at the terms of the question	2
Psychological resilience: Connecting contemporary psychology to ancient practical philosophy	2
Between essence and diversity: Challenges for phenomenological Autism research	2
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	2
The multiple turns in the psychology of emotion	2
In the aftermath of globalization: Antiglobalizing and deglobalizing forms of subjectivity	2
Emergence, convergence, and theory of mind	2
A case for using methods from natural science in advancing the field of cognitive neuroscience	2
On making stones speak: Concerning empathy and historical knowledge	2
Authenticization: Consuming commodified authenticity to become “authentic” subjects	2