OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Psychology is 32. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
What if parental love is conditional …? Children’s self-esteem profiles and their relationship with parental conditional regard and self-kindness	135
Could the use of web-based applications assist in neuropsychiatric treatment? An umbrella review	128
A mobile phone intervention to reduce heavy drinking: a preliminary analysis of anchoring heuristics	79
The effect of responsible leadership on organizational citizenship behavior: double mediation of gratitude and organizational identification	78
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the body image life disengagement questionnaire in a sample of adolescents	78
Interpersonal Behaviors Questionnaire (IBQ) applied to parenting of emerging adults: dimensional structure and criterion validity	71
The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being	69
Comparative risk perceptions of switching to JUUL vs. continued smoking and subsequent switching away from cigarettes: a longitudinal observational study	64
Mental health and self-determination profiles of the diverse population of medical students in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic	57
Current status of nonsuicidal injuries and associated factors among junior high school students in Hainan Province, China: a cross-sectional study	56
Childhood maltreatment and psychopathy in Chinese juvenile offenders: person-centered perspective	55
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	54
Exploring the intersections between digital competence with job motivation and job efficacy in EFL teachers: insights from achievement goal theory	51
Marital dissolution and associated factors in Hosanna, Southwest Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study	51
The mediating role of medical coping modes between anxiety and fear of progression in patients with cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3: a cross-sectional survey	46
Academic grit scale for Chinese middle- and upper-grade primary school students: testing its factor structure and measurement invariance	45
The relationship between higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills development among pre-service teachers using generative AI: an analysis based on moderated mediation	43
Comparing emotional working memory in adolescents and young adults with and without depressive symptoms: developmental and psychopathological differences	42
Interactivity, humanness, and trust: a psychological approach to AI chatbot adoption in e-commerce	42
Psychological impacts of the Gaza war on Palestinian young adults: a cross-sectional study of depression, anxiety, stress, and PTSD symptoms	41
Fostering resilience and well-being in emerging adults with adverse childhood experiences: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial to evaluate the FACE self-help app	41
COVID-19 and psychosis, depression, obsession and quality of life in Lebanese patients with schizophrenia: Any changes after 5 months of quarantine?	40
Development and application of emotion recognition technology — a systematic literature review	40
Research on the influence path of red tourism experience on tourists’ well-being: based on the chain mediating role of tourists’ emotion and national identity	40
Fear of progression among postoperative patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer: a cross-sectional survey in China	39

Academic resilience as a mediator between meaning in life and subjective happiness among undergraduate students at the university of education, Winneba	36
How the brain memorizes the world from others’ perspectives: investigating allocentric encoding of object features during perspective taking	36
Semantic memory and creative evaluation	35
Phenomenological investigation of negative attitudes towards marriage in female students	33
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	33
Dynamic stages of personality adjustment: language switching and acculturation in first-generation Chinese immigrants	33
Through the lens of patients: a photovoice study exploring inpatients’ sense of safety and well-being in a new Norwegian mental health facility	33