OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Opinion in Psychology is 50. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	362
Balancing listening and action is key to supportive parenting	311
Impacts of COVID-19 on the school experience of children and adolescents with special educational needs and disabilities	245
Looking back, forging ahead: Fifteen years of Strength and Vulnerability Integration (SAVI)	212
Generation COVID: Coming of age amid the pandemic	182
Direct and indirect reciprocity among individuals and groups	182
The butt of the joke: Understanding the social evaluations of leader humor targets	162
The hope theory and specific learning disorders and/or attention deficit disorders (SLD/ADHD): Developmental perspectives	160
The disconnected couple: intimate relationships in the context of social isolation	145
Speaking your language: The psychological impact of dialect integration in artificial intelligence systems	142
How small-scale societies achieve large-scale cooperation	117
The Venezuelan diaspora: Migration-related experiences and mental health	117
Emotions and ethics: How emotions sensitize perceptions of the consequences for self and others to motivate unethical behavior	113
Social media multitasking (SMM) and well-being: Existing evidence and future directions	112
Impression (mis)management: When what you say is not what they hear	106
Social isolation: An underappreciated determinant of physical health	104
Social media use, social displacement, and well-being	103
How language framing shapes the perception of social norms	102
Towards a psychology of religion and the environment	101
Corrigendum to “Rampage shootings: An historical, empirical, and theoretical overview” [Curr Opin Psychol 19 (2018) 28–33]	90
Misplaced certainty in the context of conspiracy theories	87
Processes of persuasion and social influence in conspiracy beliefs	85
Self-control ≠ temporal discounting	84
Perceived diversity in teams: Conceptualizations, effects, and new research avenues	83
What blood and organ donation can tell us about cooperation?	81

Interdependent culture and older adults’ well-being: Health and psychological happiness in Japanese communities	79
Attachment, loss, and related challenges in migration	79
Computational modeling of social decision-making	72
The proust effect: Scents, food, and nostalgia	72
Reading emotions, reading people: Emotion perception and inferences drawn from perceived emotions	72
Nostalgia and acculturation	66
Dimensions of religiousness and their connection to racial, ethnic, and atheist prejudices	66
Behaviour change to address climate change	65
Drug, demon, or donut? Theorizing the relationship between social media use, digital well-being and digital disconnection	65
The multi-dimensional stigma of chronic pain: A narrative review	64
Measuring dishonest behavior: Hidden dimensions that matter	63
Self-perceptions of aging: A conceptual and empirical overview	63
Children's developing understanding of social norms	62
The importance of friendships in reducing brain responses to stress in adolescents exposed to childhood adversity: a preregistered systematic review	60
The instigating effects of isolation on substance-related intimate partner violence: A review	58
False polarization: Cognitive mechanisms and potential solutions	58
Cultural dyes: Cultural norms color person perception	57
Entertainment media as a source of relationship misinformation	56
Nostalgia, and what it used to be	55
Artificial intelligence, workers, and future of work skills	53
Fighting misinformation among the most vulnerable users	53
Ostracism and social exclusion: Implications for separation, social isolation, and loss	52
Cause and effect: On the antecedents and consequences of conspiracy theory beliefs	51
Shining a spotlight on the dangerous consequences of conspiracy theories	50
Peer network studies and interventions in adolescence	50