OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry is 5. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	38
Editorial Board	34
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	29
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	21
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	20
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	19
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	18
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	16
Editorial Board	15
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	14
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	14
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	14
Editorial Board	11
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	11
Editorial Board	11
Impact of abstract vs. concrete processing on state rumination: An exploration of the role of cognitive flexibility	11
Does valence contribute to the effects of dual tasking in aversive autobiographical memory? Some unexpected findings	11
The remediating effect of Attention Bias Modification on aggression in young offenders with antisocial tendency: A randomized controlled trial	10
Effects of an eating club for people with a psychotic disorder on personal recovery: Results of a randomized controlled trial	10
People with schizophrenia use less information to interpret ambiguous social situations	9
Correlation between laboratory-based vicarious threat learning and emotional disorder symptom dimensions	9
Addressing the punitive parent mode in schema therapy for borderline personality disorder: Short-term effects of the empty chair technique as compared to cognitive challenging.	8
A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	8
The effectiveness of two novel approaches to prevent intrusions: A pilot study comparing Tetris_dualtask and imagery rescripting to control	8
Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	8

Compulsive rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – A qualitative exploration of thoughts, feelings and behavioral patterns	8
Reliability of and associations between cognitive bias measures and response inhibition in smoking	8
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze	8
Are failures to suppress obsessive-intrusive thoughts associated with working memory?	7
Contextual goal-dependent attention flexibility or rule-based learning? An investigation of a new attention flexibility paradigm	7
Smiling won't necessarily make you feel better: Response-focused emotion regulation strategies have little impact on cognitive, behavioural, physiological, and subjective outcomes	7
Mental contamination among people in China: A replication of a moral manipulation experiment	7
High trait anxiety enhances optimal integration of auditory and visual threat cues	7
Those who (enjoy to) hurt: The influence of dark personality traits on animal- and human directed sadistic pleasure	7
Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	7
Unprepared: Thinking of a trigger warning does not prompt preparation for trauma-related content	7
I C U but I don't care: Callous-unemotional traits and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	7
Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD	6
Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour	6
The efficacy of incorporating mental imagery in cognitive restructuring techniques on reducing hostility: A randomized controlled trial	6
“Was I asking for it?”: An experimental investigation of perceived responsibility, mental contamination and workplace sexual harassment	6
Do patients’ mood and gender affect the way we deliver CBT? An experimental, vignette-based study of the relevance of patient and clinician characteristics	6
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	6
Relaxation training with and without Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics for Tourette's disorder: A multiple baseline across participants consecutive case series	6
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	6
Using experience sampling methodology (ESM) to improve our understanding of day-to-day intrusion frequency and related distress in survivors of trauma	6
Testing a brief attention training protocol to prevent emotional distress from a fear induction procedure	6
Self-control problems in Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Presentation of an explanatory approach	6
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	6
Lifetime adversity interacts with peritraumatic data-driven processing to predict intrusive memories	6
The effects of computerised metacognitive cognitive bias modification training on the development of adaptive metacognitive beliefs and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms	6
A brief cognitive-behavioural treatment approach for PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder, a case report	6
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	6
Attentional bias in German Armed Forces veterans with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms – An eye-tracking investigation and group comparison	6
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	6
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	6
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	6
The impact of modifying obsessive-compulsive beliefs about perfectionism	6
Hasty decision-making in individuals at higher risk of developing an eating disorder	5
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	5
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	5
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	5
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	5
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	5
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	5
Desired attachment and breakup distress relate to automatic approach of the ex-partner	5
The link between dissociative tendencies and hyperassociativity	5
The fear of losing control	5
Attentional biases towards food and body stimuli among individuals with disordered eating versus food allergies	5
Editorial Board	5
The efficacy of randomised controlled trials of guided and unguided self-help interventions for the prevention and treatment of eating disorders in young people: A systematic review and preliminary me	5
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	5