OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 29. 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
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?	136
Does raising heart rate prior to a behavioural test enhance learning in cognitive therapy for anxiety? An experimental test for the treatment of fear of heights using virtual reality	120
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study	108
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students	91
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder	83
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	54
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals	51
Predicting positive outcomes and successful completion in an online parenting program for parents of children with disruptive behavior: An integrated data analysis	50
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety	49
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events	48
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals	48
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	47
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety	44
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect	44
Cognitive behavioral therapy versus compassion focused therapy for adult patients with eating disorders with and without childhood trauma: A randomized controlled trial in an intensive treatment setti	40
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance	38
Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic	37
Editorial Board	35
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity	34
Examining weight suppression as a predictor and moderator of intervention outcomes in an eating disorder and obesity prevention trial: A replication and extension study	34
Towards personalizing cognitive remediation therapy: Examining moderators of response for euthymic people with bipolar disorder	32
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	32
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories	31
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style	31
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support	31

Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping	30
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures	30
Sex differences in the effect of subjective sleep on fear conditioning, extinction learning, and extinction recall in individuals with a range of PTSD symptom severity	30
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy	30
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility	29
A personalized index to inform selection of a trauma-focused or non-trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	29
Variable-length Cognitive Processing Therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder in active duty military: Outcomes and predictors	29