OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Psychology is 34. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
What if parental love is conditional …? Children’s self-esteem profiles and their relationship with parental conditional regard and self-kindness	153
Could the use of web-based applications assist in neuropsychiatric treatment? An umbrella review	132
A mobile phone intervention to reduce heavy drinking: a preliminary analysis of anchoring heuristics	102
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the body image life disengagement questionnaire in a sample of adolescents	87
Interpersonal Behaviors Questionnaire (IBQ) applied to parenting of emerging adults: dimensional structure and criterion validity	85
The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being	84
Comparative risk perceptions of switching to JUUL vs. continued smoking and subsequent switching away from cigarettes: a longitudinal observational study	79
The effects of age and delay task duration on attentional boost effect: evidence from behavior and fNIRS	73
How does the online discussion intervention influence learners’ engagement, emotions, and motivation in a blended learning environment? Learners’ need for cognition matters	62
The relationship between psychological capital and subjective academic achievement among middle school students: the chain mediating role of adolescent internalizing problems and life attitude	61
Meat-eating justifications in Türkiye: cultural adaptation, validation, and correlates of the MEJ and 4Ns scales	59
Development and validation of a mental hyperactivity questionnaire for the evaluation of chronic stress in higher education	55
Comparing emotional working memory in adolescents and young adults with and without depressive symptoms: developmental and psychopathological differences	52
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	51
The relationship between higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills development among pre-service teachers using generative AI: an analysis based on moderated mediation	51
How the brain memorizes the world from others’ perspectives: investigating allocentric encoding of object features during perspective taking	49
Semantic memory and creative evaluation	46
Phenomenological investigation of negative attitudes towards marriage in female students	45
Dynamic stages of personality adjustment: language switching and acculturation in first-generation Chinese immigrants	45
Through the lens of patients: a photovoice study exploring inpatients’ sense of safety and well-being in a new Norwegian mental health facility	44
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale	44
Maximizing tendency and meaning in life: a cross-cultural network analysis of Chinese and American samples	43
Internet use, cultural consumption, and subjective well-being: exploring the mediating role in rural China	43
Childhood maltreatment and psychopathy in Chinese juvenile offenders: person-centered perspective	43
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	43

The effect of responsible leadership on organizational citizenship behavior: double mediation of gratitude and organizational identification	42
Adverse childhood experiences and their influence on psychological well-being and emotional intelligence among university students	42
The relationship between physical activity levels and depressive symptoms: a mediation analysis of flow state in university students	37
Exploring the potential of gamified reading: the effects of duolingo on L2 reading, self-efficacy, and learner experiences in a Chinese university EFL context	37
Want-to, have-to, amotivation, grit, self-control, and tolerance ambiguity among university students: latent profile analysis	37
Music, families and interaction (MUFASA): a protocol article for an RCT study	36
Correction: The relationship between specific problematic internet use and hope: academic exhaustion as mediator and mattering as moderator among Chinese university students	36
Otherness measuring scale: design and validation for social sciences	36
Empirical validation study and psychometric evaluation of the properties of the populist attitudes scale for the portuguese population	34
Experimental paradigm to test the effects of providing social support: study protocol of the PROSPECT trial (Study 2)	34
Construction process and development stages of pandemic emotions questionnaire in cancer patients (PEQ-CP)	34