OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Behaviour Research and Therapy is 33. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Optimizing in vivo exposure using occasional reinforced extinction with aversive imagery in spider fearful individuals	186
A randomized controlled trial modifying insomnia-consistent interpretation bias in students	144
Editorial Board	138
Sudden gains in face-to-face and internet-based cognitive therapy for social anxiety disorder	88
Components of cognitive-behavioral interventions to prevent the onset of depression among the high-risk population: a systematic review and component network meta-analysis	83
Cognitive behavioural therapy for functional abdominal pain disorders in children and adolescents: A systematic review of randomized controlled trials	77
Exposure to images of post-bushfire disaster impacts fear learning and extinction	69
Social anxiety inhibits needs repair following exclusion in both relational and non-relational reward contexts: The mediating role of positive affect	59
Problem mastery and motivational clarification as mechanisms of change in cognitive-behavioral therapy for depression: Secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial	58
Intolerance of uncertainty and information-seeking behavior: Experimental manipulation of threat relevance	55
From basic science to clinical practice: Can cognitive behavioural therapy tasks be augmented with enhanced episodic specificity?	55
Direct mapping of intervention to thought features: A Bayesian proof-of-concept study	55
Reacting to changing environment: Updating patterns in social anxiety	53
Unsupervised clustering of autonomic temporal networks in clinically distressed and psychologically healthy individuals	45
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	42
Evaluation of a brief, online imagery rescripting intervention targeting fear-of-self in high obsessive-compulsive participants	41
Editorial Board	39
Overgeneral autobiographical memory in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the differential roles of executive function subcomponents and the impact on symptom severity	39
Exploring the effect of loneliness on fear: Implications for the effect of COVID-19-induced social disconnection on anxiety	39
Less is more: Decreasing the frequency of maladaptive coping predicts improvements in DBT more consistently than increasing the frequency of adaptive coping	39
The role of expectancies and selective interrogation of information in trait anxiety-linked affect when approaching potentially stressful future events	39
The role of emotion dysregulation and interpersonal dysfunction in nonsuicidal self-injury during dialectical behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	39
Prior conceptual structure in shaping fear generalization: The impact of co-occurrence frequency and retrieval context	36
Cognitive flexibility improves in cognitive behavioral therapy for irritable bowel syndrome but not nonspecific education/support	36
Bilateral eye movements disrupt the involuntary perceptual representation of trauma-related memories	36

Online cognitive bias modification for interpretation to reduce anxious thinking during the COVID-19 pandemic	36
The relation between children's attention bias to pain and children's pain-related memory biases is moderated by parental narrative style	36
Interoception in functional motor symptoms and functional seizures: Preliminary evidence of intact accuracy alongside reduced insight and altered sensibility	35
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	35
Family accommodation in pediatric anxiety: Relations with avoidance and self-efficacy	34
Editorial Board	34
Fear reacquisition and symptoms of combat-related PTSD: Specificity and preliminary examination of the influence of the 5-HT3A receptor gene	33
Interoceptive anxiety-related processes: Importance for understanding COVID-19 and future pandemic mental health and addictive behaviors and their comorbidity	33
Network Intervention Analyses of cognitive therapy and behavior therapy for insomnia: Symptom specific effects and process measures	33
Testing associations between negative interpretation inflexibility, anxiety symptoms and intolerance of uncertainty	33