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

Article	Citations
The effects of psychopathology and shame on social representations of health and lifestyle behaviours via free association: a graph analysis approach	162
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	86
Comparison of dysfunctional attitudes, cognitive vulnerability to depression, before and during the COVID-19 pandemic in healthy participants	82
Coping strategies of school-going adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate vulnerable Manafwa watershed, Uganda	67
The effect of illness perception on psychosocial adjustment of patients with breast cancer and their spouses: actor–partner independence model	66
The influence of maternal reflective functioning and parenting behavior on infant development in the context of perinatal intimate partner violence: a study protocol	64
Quality of life among healthcare workers in the hospitals and primary healthcare centers in Gaza Strip: a cross-sectional study	64
Enhancing creative process engagement in university students: the mediating role of trust and empowerment and the moderating effect of proactive personality in humble teacher leadership	64
The relationship between relative deprivation and fear of missing out in college students: the role of self-regulatory fatigue and personal belief in a just world	62
The relationship of future anxiety with a multidimensional framework of well-being among undergraduate students: optimism and pessimism as mediators	55
Experimental paradigm to test the effects of providing social support: study protocol of the PROSPECT trial (Study 2)	54
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the body image life disengagement questionnaire in a sample of adolescents	53
Can responsible leaders transmute sustainability & OCBE among manufacturers in developing economy? A mediated moderated approach for organizational sustainability	52
Progress in mentalizing ability among people with psychosis through dialogic literary gatherings	50
What predicts mental health profiles in first-generation college freshmen?: the role of proactive personality and university environment	45
Effect of depression combined with cognitive impairment on dependency risk in rural older adults: analysis of data from the China health and retirement longitudinal study (CHARLS 2020)	44
Physical activity levels and influencing factors among colorectal cancer patients: A cross-sectional study	43
The effects of response time on older and young adults’ interaction experience with Chatbot	42
Do achievers tend to share goodness with the world? The effect of subjective social status on prosocial risky behavior	42
The effect of relative deprivation on aggressive behavior of college students: a moderated mediation model of belief in a just world and moral disengagement	39
The effect of work-family conflict on employee well-being among physicians: the mediating role of job satisfaction and work engagement	39
Predictors of genital self–image in Iranian women: a cross–sectional study	38
The role of emotion regulation in perinatal depression and anxiety: a systematic review	38
Is cognitive control of perception and action via attentional focus moderated by motor imagery?	37
Cross-modal co-occurrence analysis of nonverbal behavior and content words, vocal emotion and prosody in individuals with subclinical depression	35

Mental health first aid training and assessment for healthcare professionals and medical nursing students: a systematic review	34
“After torture, everything changed”: the unpacking of trauma from torture with interpretative phenomenological analysis and Merleau-Ponty’s theory of the lived body	34
The impact of the student perception of teacher talk on student language learning attainment	34
Impact of green advertisement and environmental knowledge on intention of consumers to buy green products	32
Validation of the English version of the TOY8 developmental screening tool: examining measurement invariance across languages, gender and income groups	32
Breaking the silence: How male and female bystanders influence victims of gender prejudice	31
Dampening of positive affect partially accounts for the association between women’s history of child maltreatment and current depressive symptoms	31