OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 27. 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
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	54
Fear of pain as a predictor of concurrent and downstream PTSD symptoms	53
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	52
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	50
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	47
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	46
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a brief computerized anxiety sensitivity reduction intervention for health anxiety	46
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	44
Increased self-reported reward responsiveness predicts better response to cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety	44
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	41
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	37
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	37
Editorial Board	36
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	36
Editorial Board	34
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	33
Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making	33
Assessing parental cognitions about child anxiety: Are parents’ thoughts about child anxiety associated with child anxiety and anxiety sensitivity?	33
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	31
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	31
Are psychological interventions for adult PTSD more efficacious and acceptable when treatment is delivered in higher frequency? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	30
Is it worth it to personalize the treatment of PTSD? – A variance-ratio meta-analysis and estimation of treatment effect heterogeneity in RCTs of PTSD	30
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	30
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting	29
Anxiety and depressive symptoms in U.S. Census Bureau assessments of adults: Trends from 2019 to fall 2020 across demographic groups	29

Excessive avoidance bias towards uncertain faces in non-clinical social anxiety individuals	29
The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study	27