OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 39. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	226
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	170
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	165
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	161
Socializing While Alone: Loss of Impact and Engagement When Interacting Remotely via Technology	158
The Future of Decisions From Experience: Connecting Real-World Decision Problems to Cognitive Processes	134
A Systematic Review of Black People Coping With Racism: Approaches, Analysis, and Empowerment	128
A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding	123
Cognitive Training: A Field in Search of a Phenomenon	123
Interparental Positivity Spillover Theory: How Parents’ Positive Relational Interactions Influence Children	121
People’s Responses to Nuclear Weapons: Mapping Post-Cold War Research	118
Examination of the COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Mental Health From Three Perspectives: Global, Social, and Individual	114
The Impact of Minority-Race Status on the Cross-Race Effect: A Critical Review	113
Threshold Resistance: Adding a Historical Perspective to Hodson’s (2021) Observations on the “Microaggressions Pushback”	93
The Cognitive Architecture of Infant Attachment	85
Why It May Be Useful to Integrate the Stereotype Content Model and the Interpersonal Perspective	81
A Critical Perspective on Neural Mechanisms in Cognitive Neuroscience: Towards Unification	79
Challenging the White = Neutral Framework in Psychology	77
Taboos and Self-Censorship Among U.S. Psychology Professors	74
The Colonial History of Systemic Racism: Insights for Psychological Science	73
Learning Landscape in Gamification: The Need for a Methodological Protocol in Research Applications	70
Repositioning Construct Validity Theory: From Nomological Networks to Pragmatic Theories and Their Evaluation by Explanatory Means	69
The Need for Understanding and Addressing Microaggressions in the Workplace	57
Why DON’T We “Say Her Name”? An Intersectional Model of the Invisibility of Police Violence Against Black Women and Girls	57
Norm Psychology in the Digital Age: How Social Media Shapes the Cultural Evolution of Normativity	56

Contextualizing Gender Disparity in Editorship in Psychological Science	55
Motivation Science Can Improve Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Trainings	54
Toward Parsimony in Bias Research: A Proposed Common Framework of Belief-Consistent Information Processing for a Set of Biases	52
Neurocognitive Model of Schema-Congruent and -Incongruent Learning in Clinical Disorders: Application to Social Anxiety and Beyond	50
Don’t Neglect the Middle Ground, Inspector Gadget! There Is Ample Space Between Big Special and Small Ordinary Norm Psychology	49
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	49
Is Open Science Neoliberal?	49
Why We Gather: A New Look, Empirically Documented, at Émile Durkheim’s Theory of Collective Assemblies and Collective Effervescence	46
Joint Consideration of Means and Variances Might Change the Understanding of Etiology	46
AI Psychometrics: Assessing the Psychological Profiles of Large Language Models Through Psychometric Inventories	44
Studying Socioeconomic Status: Conceptual Problems and an Alternative Path Forward	44
From Threat to Challenge: Understanding the Impact of Historical Collective Trauma on Contemporary Intergroup Conflict	41
Transmission Versus Truth, Imitation Versus Innovation: What Children Can Do That Large Language and Language-and-Vision Models Cannot (Yet)	41
Beyond Infant’s Looking: The Neural Basis for Infant Prediction Errors	40