OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry is 7. 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
Editorial Board	81
Implicit aggressive self-concept in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: Results from an approach-avoidance task	57
The effect of uncertainty on attentional bias in subclinical worriers: Evidence from reaction time and eye-tracking	45
Using an ecological momentary assessment protocol to understand problem anger in veterans	33
The effect of imagery rescripting on prospective mental imagery of a feared social situation	31
Magical contagion beliefs in psychopathology: A review of cognitive mechanisms and maintaining factors	29
Computerized treatment of perfectionism through mistake making: A preliminary study	28
College students with depression symptom are more sensitive to task difficulty in reinforcement learning	21
Let's play pretend: Towards effective modelling in experimental psycho(patho)logy	18
Impact of a brief self-compassion intervention on state emotion dysregulation in self-reported generalized anxiety disorder	16
Editorial Board	16
The effect of brief mindfulness training on the micro-structure of human free-operant responding: Mindfulness affects stimulus-driven responding	15
Semantic similarity among autobiographical memories is associated with rumination	15
Predictors of polyregulation and its effectiveness following exposure to One's most personally distressing intrusive thought	15
Externally orienting cues improve cognitive control in OCD	15
Editorial Board	14
Editorial Board	14
Are failures to suppress obsessive-intrusive thoughts associated with working memory?	14
The current status of mental contamination in obsessive compulsive disorder: A systematic review	14
Editorial Board	14
A pilot randomised controlled trial of guided self-help cognitive behaviour therapy for perfectionism: Impact on diagnostic status and comorbidity	13
The effectiveness of two novel approaches to prevent intrusions: A pilot study comparing Tetris_dualtask and imagery rescripting to control	13
Effects of an eating club for people with a psychotic disorder on personal recovery: Results of a randomized controlled trial	12
Reliability of and associations between cognitive bias measures and response inhibition in smoking	12
Measuring attentional bias using the dot-probe task in young women: Psychometric properties and feasibility of response-based computations, dwell time, and the N2pc component	12

Does fear reduction predict treatment response to exposure for social anxiety disorder?	12
Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer	12
The effect of self-focused attention during mirror gazing on body image evaluations, appearance-related imagery, and urges to mirror gaze	12
Facing your inner critic: a randomized controlled trial investigating a virtual reality intervention with and without a perspective change for excessive self-criticism	11
Enhancing future-directed thinking in people with first-episode psychosis using a guided imagery intervention	11
Mental contamination among people in China: A replication of a moral manipulation experiment	11
I C U but I don't care: Callous-unemotional traits and approach-avoidance behaviour in conduct disorder	11
Special Issue Registered Report: Intentional suppression as a method to boost fear extinction	11
Those who (enjoy to) hurt: The influence of dark personality traits on animal- and human directed sadistic pleasure	11
Guided reactivation of personal phobic memories prior to exposure exercises prevents the renewal of fear responses in subjects with claustrophobic fears	11
Compulsive rituals in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder – A qualitative exploration of thoughts, feelings and behavioral patterns	11
Testing a brief attention training protocol to prevent emotional distress from a fear induction procedure	11
If the discrepancy between expectations and actual information is too large, expectation change decreases – A replication study	11
Reliability (or lack thereof) of smartphone ecological momentary assessment of visual dot probe attention bias toward threat indices	10
Verification report: A critical reanalysis of Vahey et al. (2015) “A meta-analysis of criterion effects for the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure (IRAP) in the clinical domain”	10
Development of the scrupulosity inventory: A factor analysis and construct validity study	10
Using experience sampling methodology (ESM) to improve our understanding of day-to-day intrusion frequency and related distress in survivors of trauma	10
Different cognitive behavioural processes underpinning reassurance seeking in depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder	10
Attentional bias in German Armed Forces veterans with and without posttraumatic stress symptoms – An eye-tracking investigation and group comparison	10
Putting things right: An experimental investigation of memory biases related to symmetry, ordering and arranging behaviour	10
Self-control problems in Intermittent Explosive Disorder: Presentation of an explanatory approach	9
Fighting OCD together: An experimental study of the effectiveness and acceptability of seeking and receiving emotional support for OCD	9
Inhibition moderates the effect of attentional bias modification for reducing residual depressive symptoms: A randomized sham-controlled clinical trial	9
Negative mood and optimism bias: An experimental investigation of sadness and belief updating	9
The impact of self-referential processing on depression-linked negative interpretive bias	9
Reducing the stickiness of negative memory retrieval through positive memory training in adolescents	9
Examining the causal effects of social exclusion on shame and dissociative detachment	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
Editorial Board	8
The fear of losing control	8
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	8
A brief CBT intervention for depersonalisation-derealisation disorder in psychosis: Results from a feasibility randomised controlled trial	8
Different retrieval mechanisms of overgeneral autobiographical memory for positive and negative cues in remitted major depressive disorder	7
Hoarding mysteries Jack would appreciate	7
Can a virtual reality exposure therapy app improve symptoms of Emetophobia? A single-subject Experimental design study	7
Using an ecologically generalizable virtual reality (VR) paradigm for studying state dissociation and etiological models of clinically-significant dissociation	7
Imagery Rescripting as a stand-alone treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder related to childhood abuse: A randomized controlled trial	7
Memory confidence and memory accuracy deterioration following repeated checking: A systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Reappraising beliefs about losing control: An experimental investigation	7
Validity of the counter-app method in the assessment of intrusions	7
Impact of virtual reality applications in the treatment of anxiety disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized-controlled trials	7
Fear-related associations in children of parents with an anxiety disorder	7
A decade on: Reflecting on the limitations of the first meta-analysis of the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure's (IRAP) criterion validity in the clinical domain	7
Effects of confronting the feared outcome during exposure therapy on the return of fear: An analogue study	7
Metacognitive monitoring in schizotypy: Systematic literature review and new empirical data	7
Negative cognitive biases in older adults with subthreshold depression	7