OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Psychology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Mental health and self-determination profiles of the diverse population of medical students in Malaysia during the COVID-19 pandemic	118
Investigation and analysis of magnetic resonance imaging experience and psychological status of patients	108
What if parental love is conditional …? Children’s self-esteem profiles and their relationship with parental conditional regard and self-kindness	96
Interpersonal Behaviors Questionnaire (IBQ) applied to parenting of emerging adults: dimensional structure and criterion validity	74
Comparing emotional working memory in adolescents and young adults with and without depressive symptoms: developmental and psychopathological differences	72
The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being	62
Comparative risk perceptions of switching to JUUL vs. continued smoking and subsequent switching away from cigarettes: a longitudinal observational study	59
Could the use of web-based applications assist in neuropsychiatric treatment? An umbrella review	57
A mobile phone intervention to reduce heavy drinking: a preliminary analysis of anchoring heuristics	55
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the body image life disengagement questionnaire in a sample of adolescents	53
Marital dissolution and associated factors in Hosanna, Southwest Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study	52
Putting the broken pieces of life together, Baloch family caregivers’ confrontation with schizophrenia: a phenomenological study	51
Current status of nonsuicidal injuries and associated factors among junior high school students in Hainan Province, China: a cross-sectional study	49
How childhood maltreatment links to labor values? The mediating role of moral competence and prosocial normative tendency	49
The predicting factors of chronic pain among nursing students: a national study in Iran	45
Developing a model for predicting safety performance of nurses based on psychosocial safety climate and role of job demands and resources, job satisfaction, and emotional exhaustion as mediators	43
Can substance abuse media literacy increase prediction of drug use in students?	41
Correction: The relationship between specific problematic internet use and hope: academic exhaustion as mediator and mattering as moderator among Chinese university students	40
The impact of maternal parenting stress on early childhood development: the mediating role of maternal depression and the moderating effect of family resilience	40
The impact of academic anxiety on smartphone addiction among college students: the mediating role of self-regulatory fatigue and the moderating role of mindfulness	39
Construction process and development stages of pandemic emotions questionnaire in cancer patients (PEQ-CP)	38
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale	38
Counselor type (Human/AI) and consultation intention: a moderated mediation model of trust and psychological counseling scenarios	37
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	36
Empirical validation study and psychometric evaluation of the properties of the populist attitudes scale for the portuguese population	36

How does entrepreneurial curiosity stimulate new venture ideas among Chinese undergraduates? The mediating role of promotion focus and the moderating role of entrepreneurial education	34
Kindness is lesser preferable than happiness: investigating interest in different effects of the loving-kindness and compassion meditations	34
Classification of unintentional injury prevention practices for infants and young children at home: developmental process and associations with other variables in Japanese families	33
Experimental paradigm to test the effects of providing social support: study protocol of the PROSPECT trial (Study 2)	32
Participative leadership effects on followers’ radical creativity: the role of psychological safety and collaborative relationship	31
The effect of responsible leadership on organizational citizenship behavior: double mediation of gratitude and organizational identification	31
The relationship between meaning in life and self-regulated learning among college students: the mediating effect of psychological capital and the moderating effect of phubbing	31