OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Psychology is 43. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
A mobile phone intervention to reduce heavy drinking: a preliminary analysis of anchoring heuristics	228
Interpersonal Behaviors Questionnaire (IBQ) applied to parenting of emerging adults: dimensional structure and criterion validity	177
The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being	156
Through the lens of patients: a photovoice study exploring inpatients’ sense of safety and well-being in a new Norwegian mental health facility	116
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale	107
Maximizing tendency and meaning in life: a cross-cultural network analysis of Chinese and American samples	100
Experimental paradigm to test the effects of providing social support: study protocol of the PROSPECT trial (Study 2)	99
The effect of hope-based counseling on perceived stress and the quality of life in pregnant women experiencing nausea and vomiting: a randomized control trial	98
The effects of age and delay task duration on attentional boost effect: evidence from behavior and fNIRS	97
The relationship between psychological capital and subjective academic achievement among middle school students: the chain mediating role of adolescent internalizing problems and life attitude	86
Meat-eating justifications in Türkiye: cultural adaptation, validation, and correlates of the MEJ and 4Ns scales	76
Development and validation of a mental hyperactivity questionnaire for the evaluation of chronic stress in higher education	74
The mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy in the relationship between career locus of control and career indecision among Turkish high school students	73
Music, families and interaction (MUFASA): a protocol article for an RCT study	65
Examining the relationship between preferred music types and temperament-character in individuals diagnosed with alcohol and substance use disorders	65
Otherness measuring scale: design and validation for social sciences	63
Empirical validation study and psychometric evaluation of the properties of the populist attitudes scale for the portuguese population	62
Construction process and development stages of pandemic emotions questionnaire in cancer patients (PEQ-CP)	61
Fear of progression among postoperative patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer: a cross-sectional survey in China	60
Could the use of web-based applications assist in neuropsychiatric treatment? An umbrella review	59
Differential associations between distinct facets of empathy, engaged gaming, and problematic gaming behaviours	58
Meta-analytic structural equation modeling with mediation role of problematic mobile phone use between solitude and anxiety and depression	57
How does the online discussion intervention influence learners’ engagement, emotions, and motivation in a blended learning environment? Learners’ need for cognition matters	57
How parental educational anxiety fuels adolescent depression: the mediating chain of moral disengagement and negative coping, and the buffering role of psychological resilience	57
Neuroticism and adolescent depression in China: a chain mediation model of interpersonal sensitivity and loneliness	57

Putting the broken pieces of life together, Baloch family caregivers’ confrontation with schizophrenia: a phenomenological study	56
Exploring the potential of gamified reading: the effects of duolingo on L2 reading, self-efficacy, and learner experiences in a Chinese university EFL context	54
The relationship between physical activity levels and depressive symptoms: a mediation analysis of flow state in university students	54
The dynamic association between depression, psychological flexibility, and meaning in life among medical students: a cross-lagged analysis	52
How the brain memorizes the world from others’ perspectives: investigating allocentric encoding of object features during perspective taking	52
The relationship between heart rate variability and baseline state anxiety during stress and recovery	51
Development and validation of the Student Social Resilience Scale for Disasters (SSRD) among adolescents in disaster-prone areas	50
Internet use, cultural consumption, and subjective well-being: exploring the mediating role in rural China	49
The influence of resource-gaining capacity on mate preferences: an eye tracking study	49
Hikikomori among young adults: examining the protective function of psychological resilience	48
Experiences of Family Adjustment and Adaptation of Children with Acute Leukemia: A Qualitative Study	47
Personality traits and family functioning: insights from middle-aged adults in Iran	47
Comparative risk perceptions of switching to JUUL vs. continued smoking and subsequent switching away from cigarettes: a longitudinal observational study	46
What role do self-liking and self-competence play in the relationships between exercise identity and mental well-being in individuals who exercise regularly?	45
The impact of academic anxiety on smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of self-regulatory fatigue and the moderating role of mindfulness	45
Participative leadership effects on followers’ radical creativity: the role of psychological safety and collaborative relationship	44
Gender differences in causal attributions, self-regulation, achievement motivation, and academic performance following an intervention	44
No evidence for the utility of negative cues in a visual search-based concealed information test	44
The effect of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation on the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale-17 criterion in patients with major depressive disorder without psychotic features: a systematic revi	43