OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 31. 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
How Mindsets Can Mitigate or Sustain Prejudice	155
Emotion as Information in Early Social Learning	129
Emerging Insights on the Role of Social Networks in Intergroup Friendship	115
Understanding Trajectories to Anxiety and Depression: Neural Responses to Errors and Rewards as Indices of Susceptibility to Stressful Life Events	100
Learning and Transfer: A Perspective From Action Video Game Play	88
Geometry and Force Dynamics in Simple Spatial Terms: Two Theories, One Resolution	87
Revising a Self-Regulation Phenotype for Depression Through Individual Differences in Macroscale Brain Organization	87
The Role of Real-World Statistical Regularities in Visual Perception	74
Music, Memory, and Imagination	63
Cognitive Modeling With Representations From Large-Scale Digital Data	61
Color Semantics in Human Cognition	59
How Can Deep Neural Networks Inform Theory in Psychological Science?	58
Debunking Three Myths About Misinformation	56
Gender Prototypes Shape Perceptions of and Responses to Sexual Harassment	52
Embedding Cognition: Judgment and Choice in an Interdependent and Dynamic World	51
Constructing Craving: Applying the Theory of Constructed Emotion to Urge States	49
Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective	47
The Development of Values in Middle Childhood: Five Maturation Criteria	47
Popular Psychology Through a Scientific Lens: Evaluating Love Languages From a Relationship Science Perspective	46
A Competitiveness-Based Theoretical Framework on the Psychology of Income Inequality	45
Psychological Momentum	45
Names Matter: Implications of Name “Whitening” for Ethnic Minority Discrimination and Well-Being	39
Models of Identity Signaling	37
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: The Underlying Role of Diminished Access to Internal States	37
The Psychology of Poverty: Current and Future Directions	35

The Golden Rule as a Paradigm for Fostering Prosocial Behavior With Virtual Reality	35
Anxiety and Mentalizing: Uncertainty as a Driver of Egocentrism	35
The Scams Among Us: Who Falls Prey and Why	33
The Representation of Giving Actions: Event Construction in the Service of Monitoring Social Relationships	32
Everybody Hurts: Intersecting and Colliding Epidemics and the Need for Integrated Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Pain and Substance Use	32
Ancestral Diversity: A Socioecological Account of Emotion Culture	32
Filial Piety Across Sociocultural Context and the Life Span	31