OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of American Psychologist is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
E. Mavis Hetherington (1926–2023).	181
International Humanitarian Award: Garth Neufeld.	176
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.	98
An Ocean of Data by Gonzalo Bacigalupe	96
Eileen Gavin (1931–2024).	90
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Gayle Y. Iwamasa.	85
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Shinobu Kitayama.	85
Supplemental Material for Intergroup Contact Is Reliably Associated With Reduced Prejudice, Even in the Face of Group Threat and Discrimination	61
Applying rigorous standards is not a ban or censorship: A reply to León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025).	61
Supplemental Material for Step-by-Step to More Creativity: The Number of Steps in Everyday Life Is Related to Creative Ideation Performance	61
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Richard E. Petty.	58
Award for Distinguished Scientific Applications of Psychology.	51
Supplemental Material for Fears About Artificial Intelligence Across 20 Countries and Six Domains of Application	51
David A. Washburn (1961–2025).	49
From policy to practice: A framework for promoting scientific integrity in psychology.	48
Norman B. Anderson (1955–2024).	47
Translating neurophysiological biomarkers into clinical tools: A psychometric blueprint illustrated with the error-related negativity.	46
Justifying antisemitism: Political liberalism and perceptions of prejudices.	46
Conscious and unconscious processing of ensemble statistics oppositely modulate perceptual decision-making.	45
Atypical child–parent neural synchrony is linked to negative family emotional climate and children’s psychopathological symptoms.	44
Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.	43
Increased functional connectivity between the midbrain and frontal cortex following bright light therapy in subthreshold depression: A randomized clinical trial.	40
Truth and reconciliation for whom? Transitional justice for Indigenous peoples in American psychology.	40
Antisemitism, conspiracy beliefs, and anti-Israel attitudes.	40
Mental health and environmental factors in adults: A population-based network analysis.	38

It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders.	36
Martin Y. Iguchi (1955–2021).	35
Supplemental Material for Resilience of Racial and Ethnic Minority Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of a Prior Disability Prevention Intervention	34
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Categorical Factor Analysis With Likert-Type, Ordinal, or Binary Responses	33
Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction.	32
From “behind the bridge” to the presidency of the American Psychological Association: Lessons learned on an unplanned journey.	31
Jerry (Jerald) Rudmann (1944–2024).	31
Assessing the safety and efficacy of prescribing psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana.	30
Stanley R. Graham (1926–2023).	30
Anthony J. Marsella (1940–2024).	29
Supplemental Material for Shifting the Gaze From Racism to Healing From Racism: A Systematic Review of Selected Psychology Journals From 1992 to 2022	29
Epistemological oppression and racism—Failure to see the forest from the trees: Reply to Mckay and Koppelman-White (2025) and Strambler (2025).	29
Relational and situated agency in communal women in Peru.	28
Amplifying Black excellence in industrial–organizational psychology.	28
Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers	28
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Amie Michelle Gordon.	28
John H. Flavell (1928–2025).	28
Supplemental Material for From Policy to Practice: A Framework for Promoting Scientific Integrity in Psychology	27
No client left behind: A meta-analysis of premature termination from psychotherapy in U.S. service members and veterans.	26
Waiting for Dawn by Annette La Greca	26
Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023).	26
The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.	25
Supplemental Material for Integrating Systems of Power and Privilege in the Study of Resilience	25
Social support and psychological adjustment: A quantitative synthesis of 60 meta-analyses.	25
Field social psychology.	25
Report of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs Task Force on Promotion, Tenure, and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology.	25
All Hands In by Yolanda Peña Mazzoni	24
Supplemental Material for The Associations and Mediators Between Visual Disabilities and Anxiety Disorders in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Population-Based Study	24
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.	23
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Jennifer C. Wolff.	23
Scholarship, not politics: Reply to Eidelson (2025).	23
Michael E. Connor (1942–2023).	23
Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology: Stephen L. Chew.	23
Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. (1924–2022).	23
Supplemental Material for Reflections From the Wading Pool: Detoxifying Racist Psychological Waters While Submerged in Their Waves	22
Tales from the trenches: The barriers to and facilitators of decolonizing doctoral research in psychology departments of Aotearoa.	22
Cotton Candy Sunset by Randy Bott	22
Supplemental Material for How Elections Shape Perceptions of Ideal Leadership	22
Supplemental Material for Responses to Political Partisans Are Shaped by a COVID-19-Sensitive Disease Avoidance Psychology: A Longitudinal Investigation of Functional Flexibility	22
A randomized wait-list controlled trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with men.	21
Inconvenience and generalization in building a better psychology: Commentary on Sherman (2025).	21
Amboseli Awakening by Amanda Thompson	21
Supplemental Material for Cultural Tightness Reduces Humor Production: Evidence From Multiple Countries	21
James H. Korn (1938–2025).	21
Mental health care equity and access: A group therapy solution.	20
Process-focused psychotherapy training is evidence-based psychotherapy training: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).	20
A network analysis of high school and college students’ COVID-19-related concerns, self-regulatory skills, and affect.	20
Interpersonal and personality disorders: Commentary on Wright et al. (2022).	19
Intelligence … moving beyond the lowest common denominator.	19
Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth’s well-being: A meta-analytic review.	19

Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.	19
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Cynthia J. Najdowski.	19
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Vonnie C. McLoyd.	19
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Shawntell Nicole Pace.	18
Supplemental Material for Exponential Authorship Inflation in Neuroscience and Psychology From the 1950s to the 2020s	18
Supplemental Material for Psychological Predictors of Socioeconomic Resilience Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Machine Learning	18
Supplemental Material for How Subjective Idea Valuation Energizes and Guides Creative Idea Generation	18
Supplemental Material for Citation Accuracy in American Psychological Association Amicus Curiae Briefs	17
Robin J. Hailstorks (1954–2023).	17
Untitled by KwangHo Shin	17
AA1133 (Rothko) by Alan D. Entin	17
Supplemental Material for The Impact of Self-Affirmation Interventions on Well-Being: A Meta-Analysis	16
Vagueness as imprecision is a bug to be mitigated: Commentary on Hutmacher and Franz (2025).	16
Decolonial research practices from an indigenous psychology perspective: Critical contributions to knowledge.	16
A quasi-experimental study examining the efficacy of multimodal bot screening tools and recommendations to preserve data integrity in online psychological research.	15
Summary report of journal operations, 2023.	15
Is psychological research producing the kind of knowledge clinicians find useful?	15
“Don't hold back”: Swearing improves strength through state disinhibition.	15
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Riana Elyse Anderson.	15
A stigma-conscious framework for resilience and posttraumatic change.	15
Cultural tightness reduces humor production: Evidence from multiple countries.	15
The evolution of social paradoxes.	15
Still WEIRD, still underreported: An updated benchmark for psychological science.	14
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.	14
A refreshing and necessary start: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).	14
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Pim Cuijpers.	14
Supplemental Material for “More Is Better” or “Better Near the Middle”? A U.S.-Based Individual Participant Data Meta-Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Symptoms	13
Supplemental Material for To Read or Not to Read? Motives for Reading Negative COVID-19 News	13
Edison J. Trickett (1941–2022).	13
Supplemental Material for I Forgot That You Existed: Role of Memory Accessibility in the Gender Citation Gap	13
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.	13
Toward a better understanding of cultural change: Reply to Bao et al. (2022).	13
Vineland Near Ventura, Right Bank Looking East by Randye N. Sandel	13
Susan M. Johnson (1947–2024).	13
Standing on the shoulders of a giant: The legacy of Robert M. Sellers.	13
Practice guidelines regarding psychologists’ involvement in pharmacological issues.	12
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Karen Chan Osilla.	12
Building a dynamic adaptational process theory of resilience (ADAPTOR): Stress exposure, reserve capacity, adaptation, and consequence.	12
Supplemental Material for Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression: A Historical and Meta-Analytic Overview	12
Race versus the human.	12
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Arie W. Kruglanski.	12
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.	11
International Humanitarian Award.	11
Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.	11
Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Sarah Feldstein Ewing.	11
Aaron T. Beck (1921–2021).	11
Möbius Rising by Allison Zuckerman	11
Supplemental Material for Racial Uplifts and the Asian American Experience	11
Supplemental Material for Navigating Ethical Challenges in Psychological Research Involving Digital Remote Technologies and People Who Use Alcohol or Drugs	11
Rocky Mountain Sunflowers by Jan Bushart	11
“We are not alone in the world”: Creating possibilities for transnational radical relationality, epistemic justice, and expanded ecologies of knowledge through the Indaba podcast.	10
Exponential authorship inflation in neuroscience and psychology from the 1950s to the 2020s.	10
Resilience of racial and ethnic minority older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of a prior disability prevention intervention.	10
Neural specialization with generalizable representations underlies children’s cognitive development of attention.	10
Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain.	10
Supplemental Material for Two Dimensions of Access: Availability and Affordability of Mental Health Care Across the United States	10
Responsible data sharing: Identifying and remedying possible re-identification of human participants.	10
Leveraging psychological fit to encourage saving behavior.	10
There is much more to tolerance than social categorization: Commentary on Simon (2023).	10
Broadening the evidentiary basis for clinical practice guidelines: Recommendations from qualitative psychotherapy researchers.	10
A nuanced view of the extent to which samples from narrow populations are scientifically problematic.	10
Components of evolutionary psychology are falsifiable, but does that make it a good theory? Commentary on Costello et al. (2026).	10
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kathryn J. Holland.	9
Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary.	9
Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024).	9
Idea ex Plenum by Philip Zelazo	9
On the accuracy, media representation, and public perception of psychological scientists’ judgments of societal change.	9
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.	9
Psychologist undercover: George Kelly and the Central Intelligence Agency.	9
The detection of automatic behavior in other people.	9
Supplemental Material for Publication Trends for Qualitative Inquiry in American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science Journals	9
Decolonizing psychology education in Australia through the Australian Indigenous Psychology Education Project.	9
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.	9
International Humanitarian Award.	9
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Brigitte Khoury.	9
Supplemental Material for A Review of General Cognitive-Behavioral Programs in English and Welsh Prisons and Probation Services: Three Decades of Quasi-Experimental Evaluations	9
Supplemental Material for Personality Portrait of Psychologists in 170 Years of English Books	9
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024).	9
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.	8
To reduce editor bias and increase diversity and transparency, editors must be motivated: Commentary on Sharpe (2024).	8

Psychology and whiteness itself.	8
Pathways to queer thriving in an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community.	8
What is awe? On an uncontested definition, conceptual ambiguities, and cultural limitations.	8
Collective emotion regulation.	8
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application.	8
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.	8
Developing practices for hospital-based violence intervention programs to address anti-Black racism and historical trauma.	8
James S. Jackson and the program for research on Black Americans: Contributions to psychology and the social sciences.	8
Reducing racial bias in scientific communication: Journal policies and their influence on reporting racial demographics.	8
Provenance by Lyle Rushing	7
Supplemental Material for What Is Unique About Acceptance and Correction of Misinformation? Insights From Work on Attitudes, Persuasion, and Beyond	7
Psychologists return to the first question of Western philosophy.	7
“And they are still the guardians of these sacred waters …”: Land as a process of reconciliation.	7
Supplemental Material for Atypical Child–Parent Neural Synchrony Is Linked to Negative Family Emotional Climate and Children’s Psychopathological Symptoms	7
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Susan Goldin-Meadow.	7
The social determinants of resilience: A conceptual framework to integrate psychological and policy research.	7
Some closure on exposure—Realigning the perspective on trauma treatment and finding a pathway forward: Reply to Brown (2024) and Najavits (2024).	7
A new model explaining number-line estimation performance across development: An adversarial collaboration.	7
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Sarah C. Leighton.	7
The Long Wait by Lisa Jacobs	7
Ethical applications of digital community-based research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families.	7
Expanding the role of justice in secondary research using digital psychological data.	7
The Faceless by Jane Zich	6
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures.	6
Frank L. Schmidt (1944–2021).	6
Supplemental Material for A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing Mental Health Practitioners’ Self-Rated Clinical Competencies to Work With Men	6
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Mark L. Hatzenbuehler.	6
Racism exposure and trauma accumulation perpetuate pain inequities—advocating for change (RESTORATIVE): A conceptual model.	6
La Luna Como un Garbanzo (The Moon as a Chickpea) by Marcia Salas	6
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dylan G. Gee.	6
Supplemental Material for Gender Disparities in Authorship of Invited Submissions in High-Impact Psychology Journals	6
Acceptance and commitment therapy versus trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy: A comparative study of the effects on the posttraumatic stress symptoms of female Afghan adolescents.	6
Knowledge and intelligence: Reply to Oswald et al. (2023) and Sternberg (2023).	6
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Judith L. Gibbons.	6
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Keely A. Muscatell.	6
Vineyard at Volpaia by Catherine Renzi	5
Universal pluralism: Appreciating and exploring both similarity and difference across people and cultures.	5
The meditation app revolution.	5
Supplemental Material for The Misperception of Organizational Racial Progress Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Michael S. Fanselow.	5
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility.	5
On definition and description in psychopathology: Reply to Widiger et al. (2023).	5
The perils of perceived power: The dual-threat model of antisemitism.	5
A historic apology: The American Psychological Association’s commitment to dismantling systemic racism and advancing racial equity in psychology.	5
Supplemental Material for Replicating and Extending Sengupta et al. (2023): Contact Predicts No Within-Person Longitudinal Outgroup-Bias Change	5
Ron E. Franco Durán (1963–2022).	5
Internalization of weight bias and stigma: Scientific challenges and opportunities.	5
Misinformation is a symptom: Commentary on Ecker et al. (2025).	5
A review of general cognitive-behavioral programs in English and Welsh prisons and probation services: Three decades of quasi-experimental evaluations.	5
Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients of prescribing psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians.	5
Decolonizing mental health in the polycrisis: Pathways toward neuro-decolonization.	5
Using psychological science to understand and fight health misinformation: An APA consensus statement.	5
Dismantling racism through partnership with resettled refugee communities.	5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: BJ Casey.	5
Duane Schultz (1934–2023).	5
Irwin G. Sarason (1929–2025).	5
A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.	5
Supplemental Material for Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of Prescribing Psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana	4
Supplemental Material for No Client Left Behind: A Meta-Analysis of Premature Termination From Psychotherapy in U.S. Service Members and Veterans	4
Sanctuary mindset: An action framework to affirm immigrant mental health in distressing periods.	4
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology.	4
Supplemental Material for A Person-Centered Approach to Capture Health Disparities and Multidimensional Impact of COVID-Related Stressors	4
James “Jim” C. Coyne (1947–2024).	4
Jean Maria Arrigo (1944–2024).	4
Biological and cultural influences on the expression of sex differences: Commentary on Costello et al. (2026).	4
A generalizable framework for assessing the role of emotion during choice.	4
Supplemental Material for Antisemitism, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Anti-Israel Attitudes	4
Sankofa by Mahmood Ayobami Babalola	4
Franz R. Epting (1937–2023).	4
Philip G. Zimbardo (1933–2024).	4
Herbert J. Greenwald (1929–2024).	4
What divides and unites our memories: Multifactor trial-wise predictions of memory across 6+ million trials.	4
Why citation accuracy matters in psychological science: A commentary on Marcus et al. (2025) and call to the field.	4
Supplemental Material for Purpose in Life: A Resolution on the Definition, Conceptual Model, and Optimal Measurement	4
Robert (Bob) Anthony Altemeyer (1940–2024).	4