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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Racial Microaggressions: Critical Questions, State of the Science, and New Directions	272
Psychological Selfishness	249
The Willpower Paradox: Possible and Impossible Conceptions of Self-Control	207
A Review of Multisite Replication Projects in Social Psychology: Is It Viable to Sustain Any Confidence in Social Psychology’s Knowledge Base?	121
The Rise, Demise, and Reprise of the Increasingly Protracted APA Journal Article?	99
Moral Judgment as Categorization (MJAC)	83
The Effects of Editorial-Board Diversity on Race Scholars and Their Scholarship: A Field Experiment	80
Neoliberalism and the Ideological Construction of Equity Beliefs	79
Wrecked by Success? Not to Worry	77
Internally Triggered Experiences of Hedonic Valence in Nonhuman Animals: Cognitive and Welfare Considerations	76
Improving Graduate-School Admissions by Expanding Rather Than Eliminating Predictors	74
The View From a Social Constructivist Framework: Comparing Explicit Conversations About Mental States and Explicit Conversations About Norms	73
An Active-Inference Approach to Second-Person Neuroscience	72
Applying the Science of Habit Formation to Evidence-Based Psychological Treatments for Mental Illness	71
A Strange Kind of Wave: Response to Payne, Vuletich, and Lundberg (2022)	71
The Emerging Science of Interacting Minds	67
Why Antibias Interventions (Need Not) Fail	67
Explaining Social Normativity: Introduction to the Discussion Forum on Cecilia Heyes’s “Rethinking Norm Psychology”	67
For Whom (and When) the Time Bell Tolls: Chronotypes and the Synchrony Effect	66
Recommendations for Investigating the Cross-Category Effect Among Hispanic and Latino Populations	65
Where’s My Consciousness-Ometer? How to Test for the Presence and Complexity of Consciousness	64
Broadening the Scope and Dropping Dead Weight: Toward a Better Understanding of the Full Life Cycle of Norms	61
“When” Versus “Whether” Gender/Sex Differences: Insights From Psychological Research on Negotiation, Risk-Taking, and Leadership	60
Communities of Knowledge in Trouble	59
Research-Problem Validity in Primary Research: Precision and Transparency in Characterizing Past Knowledge	58

Disentangling Perceptual and Process-Related Sources of Behavioral Variability in Categorization	56
A Novel, Network-Based Approach to Assessing Romantic-Relationship Quality	52
Normative Expectations in Human and Nonhuman Animals	52
Polarization and the Psychology of Collectives	51
Unstandard Deviation: The Untapped Value of Positive Deviance for Reducing Inequalities	49
“It’s Not in Your Head”: Gaslighting, ‘Splaining, Victim Blaming, and Other Harmful Reactions to Microaggressions	49
Learning in Individual Organisms, Genes, Machines, and Groups: A New Way of Defining and Relating Learning in Different Systems	46
A New Way to Think About Internal and External Validity	45
The Sound of Emotional Prosody: Nearly 3 Decades of Research and Future Directions	45
New Forms of Collaboration Between the Social and Natural Sciences Could Become Necessary for Understanding Rapid Collective Transitions in Social Systems	45
What Happens When Payments End? Fostering Long-Term Behavior Change With Financial Incentives	42
The Diversity Gap: When Diversity Matters for Knowledge	42
The Burden for High-Quality Online Data Collection Lies With Researchers, Not Recruitment Platforms	40
What Is Digital Parenting? A Systematic Review of Past Measurement and Blueprint for the Future	39
The Sweet Spot: When Children’s Developing Abilities, Brains, and Knowledge Make Them Better Learners Than Adults	39
Enriching Psychology by Zooming Out to General Mindsets and Practices in Natural Habitats	39