OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Cognitive Therapy and Research 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Predicting Anxiety Symptoms Using the Uncertainty and Anticipation Model of Anxiety: A Prospective Longitudinal Study	39
The Attention Allocation of Individuals with Problematic Smartphone Use during Different Cognitive Reappraisal Phases	36
Developmental Differences in Cognitive Restructuring Skill Acquisition across the Lifespan: Age Differences between Children, Adults and Older Adults, and the Role of Cognitive Flexibility	27
The Psychometric Validity and Clinical Utility of the Short Scale Anxiety Sensitivity Index (SSASI) Among Individuals of Racially and Ethnically Diverse Backgrounds	27
Stress-Related Exhaustion, Polygenic Cognitive Potential, and Cognitive Test Performance – A General Population Study	24
Predictors and Moderators of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Outcomes in Older Adults with Anxiety and Mood Disorders	22
Becoming My Own Best Friend: The Influence of Self-Compassion on Acute Affective and Physiological Stress Responses in Adolescents	21
Feasibility and Potential Efficacy of an Ecological Momentary Intervention for Training Acceptance and Problem Solving in Young People	21
Social and Adaptive Functioning Deficits in Children with Anxiety Disorders: The Buffering Effects of Effortful Control	21
Network Analysis of Cognitive-Behavioral Symptom Connectivity in OCD Subtypes: Evaluating SSRI Treatment Response and Resistance	20
Always Saying the Wrong Thing: Negative Beliefs About Losing Control Cause Symptoms of Social Anxiety	20
The Many Roads on the Affective Pathway to Psychosis. A S-GIMME-Network Analysis of the Association Between Negative Emotions and Psychosis Symptom States in Everyday Life	20
The Efficacy of Online Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Suicidal Ideation, Cognitive Flexibility, and Hopelessness in Persons Diagnosed with Depression who Attempted Suicide: Randomized Controlled Tria	19
Self-Reported Worries in Young People During the COVID-19 Pandemic	19
Correction: How Does Mindfulness Awareness Influence Cognitive Reappraisal in Individuals with Mild Cognitive Impairment? Cognitive Flexibility as a Mediator and Age as a Moderator	19
Utility of the Death-Implicit Association Test in a Sample of Suicidal Inpatients	18
Efficacy of Internet-based, Therapist-Assisted Treatment Programs for Hair Pulling and Skin Picking: Preliminary Results	17
Biased Belief Updating in Relation To Depressive Symptoms: Evidence from Two Studies Using Feedback from Real Social Interactions	16
Personalized Ecological Momentary Assessment and Networks to Improve Client-Practitioner Communication in Motivational Interviewing for Cannabis Use Problems: A Case Study	16
RETRACTED ARTICLE: Entrée or Sampler? A Randomized Controlled Trial of Two Approaches to Single Session Internet-Based Interventions	16
Metacognitive Feelings of Epistemic Gain are Central to the Understanding of Psychedelic-Induced Mystical-Type Experiences	15
When Average Isn't Good Enough: Identifying Meaningful Subgroups in Clinical Data	15
Negativity is Key for Understanding the Interplay Between Rumination’s Features, Attention Control, and Their Dynamic Nature: A Temporal Network Approach	15
The Relationship Between Food Categorisation Biases, Restrictive Eating and Dieting Success in Women with a Low to Healthy BMI	14
Reliability, Validity and Factor Structure of the Polish Version of the Massachusetts General Hospital Hair Pulling Scale	12

Specifying the Protective Role of Mindfulness: Nonjudging Buffers the Association Between Posttraumatic Cognitions and PTSD Symptoms	12
Cognitive Function Status in Methamphetamine-Dependent Inpatients with Childhood Maltreatment: The Mediating Role of Emotional Responses	11
Changing Emotion with Emotion: The Best Sequence Depends on the Target Concern	11
The Challenge for Successful Self-Help: Side Effects of Discontinuing an Internet-Based Program for Skin Picking Disorder	11
Two-Year Longitudinal Study of Children’s Cognitive Behavioral Characteristics Associated with Depressive Symptoms	10
Beyond Positive Affect: Discrete Positive Emotions Differentiate Major Depression from Social Anxiety Disorder	10
Safety Behaviors Predict Long-Term Treatment Outcome Following Internet-Based Treatment of Adults with Social Anxiety Disorder	10
The Intervention Effects of Blended Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on Patients with Depression: A Meta-analysis	10
The Interplay of Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies in College Students	10
The Properties of Involuntary and Voluntary Autobiographical Memories in Chinese Patients with Depression and Healthy Individuals	9
Understanding Biased Expectation Change in Depression – The Influence of State Affect and Affect Regulation	9
Out of My League: Dating Preferences of Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder	9
Repetitive Negative Thinking as a Predictor of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Outcomes in a Naturalistic Outpatient Treatment	9
Is Future Mental Imagery Associated with Reduced Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Negative Affect and Anhedonic Symptoms in Young People?	9
Therapeutic Alliance and Treatment Expectations: Predicting Outcomes in Exposure Treatments for Specific Phobia	9
Process-Informed Psychological Profiles in Social Anxiety: A Multidimensional Person-Centered Analysis	9
Modulating the Value of Positive Feedback Does Not Influence Expectation Change in Major depression – What Can be Learned from a Failed Replication?	9
What Happens After Intensive Treatment? Post-Discharge Skill Use and Affect as Predictors of Depression Outcomes	8
Disentangling Attentional Processes in Early Childhood: Response-Based Indicators of Avoidance of and Vigilance to Angry Faces in Relation to Anxiety and Traumatic Stress	8
Perfectionism as Possible Predictor for Treatment Success in Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy and Metacognitive Training as Third-Wave Treatments for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder	8
Two Diagnostic Traditions: Kraepelin & Spitzer’s DSM Tradition Versus the Treatment Resistant Depression Literature Tradition	8
Initial Development of Group Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Fidelity Assessment Instruments	8
Eating Expectancies and Anxiety Sensitivity Sub-Facets	7
Emotion Dysregulation in Patients with Eating Disorders: The Role of Metacognitions and Repetitive Negative Thinking	7
The Contributions of Attentional Bias and Expectancy Bias to Fluctuations in State Anxiety	7
Smoking Abstinence Expectancies Among Latinx Smokers: An Initial Test and Evaluation of Individual Difference Factors	7
Reading the Negative: Negative Bias in Interrogation of Information Predicts Prenatal Repetitive Negative Thinking	7
A Testable Recursive Affective-Regulatory Framework for Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder: Symbolic Integration Failure, Inflated Responsibility, and Discursive Saturation	7
Body-focused Repetitive Behavior: Towards a Better Understanding of this Prevalent but Undertreated Disorder	7
Sudden Gains in Cognitive Behavioral Group Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder: Changes in Core Symptoms and Maintaining Variables	7
Anxiety and Depression are Associated with More Distorted Thinking on Social Media: A Longitudinal Multi-Method Study	7
Self-Help to Reduce Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviors via Video or Website? A Randomized Controlled Trial	7
Effectiveness of School-Based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Alleviating Anxiety and Depression Among High-Risk Child and Young People: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis with Meta-Regression	7
Ruminative Variability Predicts Increases in Depression and Social Anxiety	6
Correction to: Understanding Treatment Pathways in Cognitive-Behavioral and Experiential Therapies for Social Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	6
Correction to: Do Clients Learn Specific Skills from Cognitive Versus Behavioral Interventions for Depression?	6
The Relationships Between Metacognitive Beliefs, Executive Functioning, and Psychological Distress in Early Adolescence	6
Compulsive Sexual Behavior in Adolescents: The Roles of Personality, Attachment Orientations, Cognitive Mechanisms, and Psychopathology	6
The Differential Effects of Posttraumatic Cognitions on Internalizing and Externalizing Behavior Problems in Sexually Abused Youth	6
Emotion Regulation Profiles and Their Association with Psychological Functioning: A Latent Profile Analysis Across Two Age-Differentiated Samples	6
Being Physically Active is Associated with More Positive Autobiographical Memories and Better Mood States in Daily Life	6
Association Between Judgment Biases During Facial Processing and Body Dysmorphic Symptomatology	6
Piloting of Augmented Reality-Based Psychoeducation with Mindfulness Intervention for Chronic Low Back Pain	6
Changes in Perspective-Taking During Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in a Partial Hospital Setting	6
Outcome Expectations in Psychotherapy: Validation of the Therapy Single Category Implicit Association Test (Therapy SC-IAT)	6
The Regulatory Role of Cognitive Reappraisal in the Effect of Neuroticism on Test Anxiety	6
Unraveling the Links Between Environmental Sensitivity, Negative Self-Attention Bias, and Social Anxiety: A Network and Directed Acyclic Graph Analysis	6
Dynamics of Insight, Emotion Regulation, and Emotional Clarity in Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder	6
Clinical Characteristics, Sleep, and Temperament in Infants and Young Children with Problematic Hair Pulling and Skin Picking	6
An Examination of the Role of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation on the Link Between Social Anxiety and Well-Being	6

Multilevel Structure of Emotion Regulation Strategies and Daily Associations with Treatment Outcomes During Virtual Psychotherapy for Depression: An Experience Sampling Study	6
Associations Between Self-Criticism, Basic Psychological Needs Frustration, and Self-Damaging Behaviors: An Application of Self-Determination Theory	6
Harm Avoidance and Incompleteness as Motivational Dimensions of OCD: Associations with Clinical and Demographic Traits	6
Goal-Directed Learning Deficits in Patients with OCD: A Bayesian Analysis	6
Sudden Gains in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Seasonal Affective Disorder	6
Is a Gradualist Approach to Clinical Training Helpful or Necessary?	6
Effectiveness of Blended Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Versus Treatment as Usual for Depression in Routine Specialized Mental Healthcare: E-COMPARED Trial in the Netherlands	5
Verbal Expression Patterns in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Sessions for Children and Adolescents with Anxiety Disorders: A Comparative Study Between Australia and Japan	5
A 14-Day Self-help Internet-Based Cognitive Behavioral therapy for Social Anxiety College Students: Randomized Controlled Evidence and Exploratory Cross-Study Comparison	5
Identifying Predictors of Symptom and Cognitive Change Following a Single Session of Cognitive Bias Modification of Interpretations	5
Tolerance of Uncontrollability and Psychopathology: The Role of Maladaptive Emotion Regulation	5
The Relationship Between Working Alliance and Treatment Outcome in an Internet-Based Grief Therapy for People Bereaved by Suicide	5
Unscrambling the Dynamics of Danger: Scientific Foundations and Evidence for the Looming Vulnerability Model and Looming Cognitive Style in Anxiety	5
Within-Intervention Change: Anger Regulation and Hostile Intent Attribution as Mechanisms to Reduce Children’s Aggressive Behavior	5
Examining Cross-Cultural Invariance of Common Mental Disorder Symptom Measures in the United States and Singapore	5
Biased Perceptions of Physiological Arousal in Social Anxiety: Understanding the Role of Objective and Subjective Physiological Arousal in the Discrepancy Between Self and Observer Perceptions of Soci	5
Mindfulness for Reducing Everyday Suicidal Thoughts (Mind-REST): A Daily Mindfulness Intervention for Adults with Suicidal Ideation	5
Meta-autobiographical Remembering Questionnaire (MARQ): Metacognitive Beliefs About Voluntary and Involuntary Negative and Positive Autobiographical Memories	5
Relationship Between Anxiety Sensitivity and Post-Traumatic Stress Symptoms in Trauma-Exposed Children and Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis	5
Occasional Reinforced Extinction as a Method for Relapse Prevention: A Critical Systematic Review and Future Directions	5
COVID-19 Related Loss is Reliably Associated with Attentional Capture and Facilitation by COVID Related Stimuli: Evidence from the Emotional Stroop Dilution Task	5
Metacognitive Appraisals of Perseverative Cognition: A Prospective Test Across Thought Types	5
Predictive Validity and Treatment Sensitivity of the Death-Implicit Association Test (D-IAT) During Inpatient Treatment and Across a 6-Month Follow-Up Period	5
Do Clients Learn Specific Skills from Cognitive Versus Behavioral Interventions for Depression?	5
Efficacy of the App esTOCma Throughout Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Contents: A post hoc Analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	5
Understanding Treatment Pathways in Cognitive-Behavioral and Experiential Therapies for Social Anxiety: Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial	5
Disorder Relevant or Disorder Specific: Measuring Fear of Losing Control in Relation To the Experience of Anxiety and Related Issues	5
Interpretation Biases Predict Changes in Depression, Social Anxiety, and Generalized Anxiety Over time	5
Food Categorization Performance and Strategies in Orthorexia Nervosa	5
Hope and Depression: A Meta-Analytic Review	5
Health Anxiety in Somatic Symptom Disorder: The Impact of Emotion Regulation Deficits	5
Offline and Online Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Adolescence: Bidirectional Associations or Not?	5
Network Intervention Analysis of a Web-Based Training to Improve Clinical Psychologist’s Transcultural Competence	5
The Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation–Focused Interventions on Non-Suicidal Self-injury: A Meta-Analysis	5
Body, Breath, and Mind: Feasibility of an Internet Intervention for Depressive Symptoms Combining Qi Gong and Behavioral Activation	5
Experiential Avoidance Has a Sex-Specific Relationship with Depressive Symptoms in Patients with Bipolar Disorder	5
Correction to: Measuring Early Maladaptive Schemas in Daily Life	5
Identifying Network Bridge Symptoms of Type D Personality among Chinese College Students and Evaluating the Effectiveness of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Via a Randomized Controlled Trial	5