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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
E. Mavis Hetherington (1926–2023).	407
(Un)ethical consequences: How psychology’s cold war defense of military personnel led to enhanced interrogation techniques in the war on terror.	265
Eileen Gavin (1931–2024).	250
Applying rigorous standards is not a ban or censorship: A reply to León (2025) and Connor and Fuerst (2025).	210
Truth and reconciliation for whom? Transitional justice for Indigenous peoples in American psychology.	129
Supplemental Material for Fears About Artificial Intelligence Across 20 Countries and Six Domains of Application	124
Supplemental Material for Step-by-Step to More Creativity: The Number of Steps in Everyday Life Is Related to Creative Ideation Performance	123
International Humanitarian Award: Garth Neufeld.	76
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.	69
An Ocean of Data by Gonzalo Bacigalupe	63
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Shinobu Kitayama.	63
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice: Gayle Y. Iwamasa.	62
A window into youth and family policy: State policymaker views on polarization and research utilization.	60
Supplemental Material for Intergroup Contact Is Reliably Associated With Reduced Prejudice, Even in the Face of Group Threat and Discrimination	60
Norman B. Anderson (1955–2024).	58
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Richard E. Petty.	53
Climate change and health equity: A research agenda for psychological science.	52
Increased functional connectivity between the midbrain and frontal cortex following bright light therapy in subthreshold depression: A randomized clinical trial.	48
Atypical child–parent neural synchrony is linked to negative family emotional climate and children’s psychopathological symptoms.	46
It’s time to replace the personality disorders with the interpersonal disorders.	45
Mental health and environmental factors in adults: A population-based network analysis.	44
Conscious and unconscious processing of ensemble statistics oppositely modulate perceptual decision-making.	42
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dobromir Rahnev.	42
Martin Y. Iguchi (1955–2021).	41
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Brian J. Hall.	41

Rosalind Dymond Cartwright (1922–2021).	39
Award for Distinguished Contributions of Applications of Psychology to Education and Training.	39
Lee D. Ross (1942–2021).	38
Supplemental Material for Dynamic Fit Index Cutoffs for Categorical Factor Analysis With Likert-Type, Ordinal, or Binary Responses	37
Supplemental Material for Resilience of Racial and Ethnic Minority Older Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of a Prior Disability Prevention Intervention	35
James R. Flynn (1934–2020).	35
From “behind the bridge” to the presidency of the American Psychological Association: Lessons learned on an unplanned journey.	34
Amplifying Black excellence in industrial–organizational psychology.	34
Assessing the safety and efficacy of prescribing psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana.	33
Jerry (Jerald) Rudmann (1944–2024).	32
Supplemental Material for Shifting the Gaze From Racism to Healing From Racism: A Systematic Review of Selected Psychology Journals From 1992 to 2022	31
Stanley R. Graham (1926–2023).	31
Anthony J. Marsella (1940–2024).	30
No client left behind: A meta-analysis of premature termination from psychotherapy in U.S. service members and veterans.	30
The American Psychological Association and antisemitism: Toward equity, diversity, and inclusion.	30
Dianne L. Chambless (1948–2023).	28
Social support and psychological adjustment: A quantitative synthesis of 60 meta-analyses.	27
Epistemological oppression and racism—Failure to see the forest from the trees: Reply to Mckay and Koppelman-White (2025) and Strambler (2025).	26
Field social psychology.	25
Distressed yet bonded: A longitudinal investigation of the COVID-19 pandemic’s silver lining effects on life satisfaction.	25
Supplemental Material for The Associations and Mediators Between Visual Disabilities and Anxiety Disorders in Middle-Aged and Older Adults: A Population-Based Study	24
Report of the American Psychological Association’s Board of Scientific Affairs Task Force on Promotion, Tenure, and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology.	24
Interpersonal and personality disorders: Commentary on Wright et al. (2022).	24
Supplemental Material for Integrating Systems of Power and Privilege in the Study of Resilience	24
Supplemental Material for Reflections From the Wading Pool: Detoxifying Racist Psychological Waters While Submerged in Their Waves	23
Award for Distinguished Career Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology: Stephen L. Chew.	23
All Hands In by Yolanda Peña Mazzoni	23
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Jennifer C. Wolff.	22
Awards for Distinguished Scientific Contributions.	22
A network analysis of high school and college students’ COVID-19-related concerns, self-regulatory skills, and affect.	21
Alfred B. Heilbrun, Jr. (1924–2022).	21
Michael E. Connor (1942–2023).	21
Gary B. Melton (1952–2020).	21
Process-focused psychotherapy training is evidence-based psychotherapy training: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).	21
Carol McDonald Connor (1953–2020).	21
Cotton Candy Sunset by Randy Bott	20
Supplemental Material for How Elections Shape Perceptions of Ideal Leadership	20
Scholarship, not politics: Reply to Eidelson (2025).	20
Supplemental Material for Responses to Political Partisans Are Shaped by a COVID-19-Sensitive Disease Avoidance Psychology: A Longitudinal Investigation of Functional Flexibility	20
Scaling up psychological treatments: Lessons learned from global mental health.	20
Mental health care equity and access: A group therapy solution.	19
Promoting institutional change to support public psychology: Innovations and challenges at the University of California.	19
A randomized wait-list controlled trial of Men in Mind: Enhancing mental health practitioners’ self-rated clinical competencies to work with men.	19
Intelligence … moving beyond the lowest common denominator.	19
Summary report of journal operations, 2023.	18
Language brokering and immigrant-origin youth’s well-being: A meta-analytic review.	18
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Cynthia J. Najdowski.	17
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Vonnie C. McLoyd.	17
Supplemental Material for How Subjective Idea Valuation Energizes and Guides Creative Idea Generation	17
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.	17

Robin J. Hailstorks (1954–2023).	17
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Megan R. Gunnar.	17
AA1133 (Rothko) by Alan D. Entin	17
A stigma-conscious framework for resilience and posttraumatic change.	16
Supplemental Material for Psychological Predictors of Socioeconomic Resilience Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence From Machine Learning	16
A quasi-experimental study examining the efficacy of multimodal bot screening tools and recommendations to preserve data integrity in online psychological research.	16
Is psychological research producing the kind of knowledge clinicians find useful?	16
A refreshing and necessary start: Commentary on Westra and Di Bartolomeo (2024).	16
Supplemental Material for Exponential Authorship Inflation in Neuroscience and Psychology From the 1950s to the 2020s	16
Expert predictions of societal change: Insights from the world after COVID project.	16
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Shawntell Nicole Pace.	16
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research: Pim Cuijpers.	15
Supplemental Material for To Read or Not to Read? Motives for Reading Negative COVID-19 News	15
Public psychology: Introduction to the special issue.	15
Supplemental Material for I Forgot That You Existed: Role of Memory Accessibility in the Gender Citation Gap	15
Asuncion (Siony) Miteria Austria (1932–2020).	15
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.	15
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	15
Supplemental Material for Citation Accuracy in American Psychological Association Amicus Curiae Briefs	15
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology.	14
Vineland Near Ventura, Right Bank Looking East by Randye N. Sandel	14
Duane F. Alexander (1940–2020).	13
Susan M. Johnson (1947–2024).	13
Edison J. Trickett (1941–2022).	13
The role of data in facilitating discussion: Reply to Jackson (2021).	13
Evolving evolutionary psychology.	12
Supplemental Material for Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression: A Historical and Meta-Analytic Overview	12
Standing on the shoulders of a giant: The legacy of Robert M. Sellers.	12
Beyond “heartfelt condolences”: A critical take on mainstream psychology’s responses to anti-Black police brutality.	12
Building a dynamic adaptational process theory of resilience (ADAPTOR): Stress exposure, reserve capacity, adaptation, and consequence.	12
Toward a better understanding of cultural change: Reply to Bao et al. (2022).	12
Aaron T. Beck (1921–2021).	11
Supplemental Material for Racial Uplifts and the Asian American Experience	11
Supplemental Material for Language Brokering and Immigrant-Origin Youth’s Well-Being: A Meta-Analytic Review	11
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Institutional Practice.	11
Psi Chi/APA Edwin B. Newman Graduate Research Award.	11
Supplemental Material for Navigating Ethical Challenges in Psychological Research Involving Digital Remote Technologies and People Who Use Alcohol or Drugs	11
Resilience of racial and ethnic minority older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic: The role of a prior disability prevention intervention.	10
International Humanitarian Award.	10
The far reach of personality traits in relationship functioning and COVID-19: Comment on Pietromonaco and Overall (2020).	10
Neural specialization with generalizable representations underlies children’s cognitive development of attention.	10
Rocky Mountain Sunflowers by Jan Bushart	10
There is much more to tolerance than social categorization: Commentary on Simon (2023).	10
A tale of two perspectives: Reply to Schneider (2022).	10
Donald K. Routh (1937–2021).	10
Broadening the evidentiary basis for clinical practice guidelines: Recommendations from qualitative psychotherapy researchers.	10
Möbius Rising by Allison Zuckerman	10
Intergenerational transmission of depression risk and the developing brain.	10
Award for Distinguished Senior Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kimberly G. Noble.	10
Moving human rights to the forefront of psychology: Summary of the final report of the APA task force on human rights.	10
Exponential authorship inflation in neuroscience and psychology from the 1950s to the 2020s.	9
Irwin Pollack (1925–2021).	9
Professional practice guidelines for operational psychology: An executive summary.	9
Jerome Kagan (1929–2021).	9
Addressing racial equity in health psychology research: An application of the multicultural orientation framework.	9
Responsible data sharing: Identifying and remedying possible re-identification of human participants.	9
Lewis Paeff Lipsitt (1929–2021).	9
Frans B. M. de Waal (1948–2024).	9
To reduce editor bias and increase diversity and transparency, editors must be motivated: Commentary on Sharpe (2024).	9
Leveraging psychological fit to encourage saving behavior.	9
A nuanced view of the extent to which samples from narrow populations are scientifically problematic.	9
Award for Distinguished Early Career Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest: Kathryn J. Holland.	9
Daniel Kahneman (1934–2024).	9
APF Charles l. Brewer Award for Distinguished Teaching of Psychology: Jeffrey S. Nevid.	8
Now is the time to assess the effects of open science practiceswith randomized control trials.	8
Supplemental Material for Publication Trends for Qualitative Inquiry in American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science Journals	8
International Humanitarian Award.	8
Psychology and whiteness itself.	8
The detection of automatic behavior in other people.	8
White fragility: An emotion regulation perspective.	8
Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Applied Research.	8
Pathways to queer thriving in an LGBTQ+ intergenerational community.	8
On the accuracy, media representation, and public perception of psychological scientists’ judgments of societal change.	8
Interventions in everyday life to improve mental health and reduce symptoms of psychiatric disorders.	8
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.	8
Award for Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training in Psychology.	8
What is awe? On an uncontested definition, conceptual ambiguities, and cultural limitations.	7
Idea ex Plenum by Philip Zelazo	7
International Humanitarian Award: Bhava Nath Poudyal.	7
Supplemental Material for What Is Unique About Acceptance and Correction of Misinformation? Insights From Work on Attitudes, Persuasion, and Beyond	7

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.	7
Online racial discrimination and the role of white bystanders.	7
Reducing racial bias in scientific communication: Journal policies and their influence on reporting racial demographics.	7
Developing practices for hospital-based violence intervention programs to address anti-Black racism and historical trauma.	7
International Humanitarian Award.	7
Awards for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.	7
Effectiveness of youth psychotherapy delivered remotely: A meta-analysis.	7
James S. Jackson and the program for research on Black Americans: Contributions to psychology and the social sciences.	7
Supplemental Material for A Review of General Cognitive-Behavioral Programs in English and Welsh Prisons and Probation Services: Three Decades of Quasi-Experimental Evaluations	7
Fears about artificial intelligence across 20 countries and six domains of application.	7
Harvey Schlossberg (1936–2021).	7
APA/APAGS Award for Distinguished Graduate Student in Professional Psychology: Sarah C. Leighton.	7
Expanding the role of justice in secondary research using digital psychological data.	6
Psychologists return to the first question of Western philosophy.	6
Collaboratively maximizing the impact of human-centered design in psychological and implementation science: Reply to Proctor et al. (2021).	6
Loneliness before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A systematic review with meta-analysis.	6
La Luna Como un Garbanzo (The Moon as a Chickpea) by Marcia Salas	6
Supplemental Material for Atypical Child–Parent Neural Synchrony Is Linked to Negative Family Emotional Climate and Children’s Psychopathological Symptoms	6
A Grand Welcome for the Outsider by Grace Lynne Haynes	6
Some closure on exposure—Realigning the perspective on trauma treatment and finding a pathway forward: Reply to Brown (2024) and Najavits (2024).	6
The Faceless by Jane Zich	6
Emotion regulation strategies and psychological health across cultures.	6
Does risk perception motivate preventive behavior during a pandemic? A longitudinal study in the United States and China.	6
Division 21 has been devoted to human-centered design since the 1950s: Comment on Lyon, Brewer, and Areán (2020).	6
The social determinants of resilience: A conceptual framework to integrate psychological and policy research.	6
Island Sovereign by Theodore Walker Robinson	6
Supplemental Material for Effectiveness of Youth Psychotherapy Delivered Remotely: A Meta-Analysis	6
Ethical applications of digital community-based research with Black immigrant and refugee youth and families.	6
The Long Wait by Lisa Jacobs	6
Frank L. Schmidt (1944–2021).	6
Knowledge and intelligence: Reply to Oswald et al. (2023) and Sternberg (2023).	6
Racism exposure and trauma accumulation perpetuate pain inequities—advocating for change (RESTORATIVE): A conceptual model.	6
“And they are still the guardians of these sacred waters …”: Land as a process of reconciliation.	6
Provenance by Lyle Rushing	6
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Judith L. Gibbons.	5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Dylan G. Gee.	5
Robert Sommer (1929–2021).	5
Demographics and clinical characteristics of patients of prescribing psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians.	5
A historic apology: The American Psychological Association’s commitment to dismantling systemic racism and advancing racial equity in psychology.	5
On definition and description in psychopathology: Reply to Widiger et al. (2023).	5
A cultural script for suicide among White men in the Mountain West Region of the United States.	5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Lisa Feldman Barrett.	5
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Mark L. Hatzenbuehler.	5
Intersectionality is not a footnote: Commentary on Roberts and Rizzo (2021).	5
Internalization of weight bias and stigma: Scientific challenges and opportunities.	5
The meditation app revolution.	5
Responses to political partisans are shaped by a COVID-19-sensitive disease avoidance psychology: A longitudinal investigation of functional flexibility.	5
APF Gold Medal Award for Impact in Psychology: Robert D. Enright.	5
Award for Distinguished Scientific Early Career Contributions to Psychology: Keely A. Muscatell.	5
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	5
A review of general cognitive-behavioral programs in English and Welsh prisons and probation services: Three decades of quasi-experimental evaluations.	5
Supplemental Material for Gender Disparities in Authorship of Invited Submissions in High-Impact Psychology Journals	5
The (post)colonial predicament in community mental health services for American Indians: Explorations in alter-Native psy-ence.	5
How to live in peace? Mapping the science of sustaining peace: A progress report.	4
Supplemental Material for Assessing the Safety and Efficacy of Prescribing Psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana	4
Supplemental Material for Active Exploration of Faces in Police Lineups Increases Discrimination Accuracy	4
Award for Distinguished Contributions to the International Advancement of Psychology: Kathleen M. Pike.	4
Marcia Worrell (1966–2020).	4
It remains meaningful to distinguish optimism from pessimism: Reply to VanderWeele and Kubzansky (2021).	4
Herbert J. Greenwald (1929–2024).	4
A generalizable framework for assessing the role of emotion during choice.	4
Ron E. Franco Durán (1963–2022).	4
Jean Maria Arrigo (1944–2024).	4
Supplemental Material for Replicating and Extending Sengupta et al. (2023): Contact Predicts No Within-Person Longitudinal Outgroup-Bias Change	4
Duane Schultz (1934–2023).	4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: BJ Casey.	4
Socioeconomic disparities and neuroplasticity: Moving toward adaptation, intersectionality, and inclusion.	4
Guidelines for psychological practice for people with low-income and economic marginalization: Executive summary.	4
Philip G. Zimbardo (1933–2024).	4
Dismantling racism through partnership with resettled refugee communities.	4
Supplemental Material for The Misperception of Organizational Racial Progress Toward Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	4
Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions: Michael S. Fanselow.	4
Opening editorial 2022.	4
Supplemental Material for No Client Left Behind: A Meta-Analysis of Premature Termination From Psychotherapy in U.S. Service Members and Veterans	4