OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Anxiety Disorders 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between perceived stress and emotional distress during the COVID-19 outbreak: Effects of boredom proneness and coping style	159
Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis	131
Longitudinal changes of anxiety and depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany: The role of pre-existing anxiety, depressive, and other mental disorders	126
Anxiety and safety behavior usage during the COVID-19 pandemic: The prospective role of contamination fear	105
COVID-19 and traumatic stress: The role of perceived vulnerability, COVID-19-related worries, and social isolation	100
Understanding and managing pandemic-related panic buying	88
Threats to Mental Health and Well-Being Associated with Climate Change	86
Obsessive-compulsive disorder during COVID-19: Turning a problem into an opportunity?	79
A systematic literature review of factor analytic and mixture models of ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD using the International Trauma Questionnaire	78
Anxiety and resilience in the face of natural disasters associated with climate change: A review and methodological critique	76
Anxiety disorders, climate change, and the challenges ahead: Introduction to the special issue	64
Coronaphobia revisted: A state-of-the-art on pandemic-related fear, anxiety, and stress	48
Social Anxiety and Empathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	47
Fear and anxiety in the face of COVID-19: Negative dispositions towards risk and uncertainty as vulnerability factors	47
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms?	44
The latent and item structure of COVID-19 fear: A comparison of four COVID-19 fear questionnaires using SEM and network analyses	44
Efficacy and acceptability of interventions for co-occurring PTSD and SUD: A meta-analysis	42
Psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a sample of first responders	42
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	39
Garbage in, garbage out: The tenuous state of research on PTSD in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic	38
Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later	38
COVID-19 and OCD: Potential impact of exposure and response prevention therapy	37
Pre-pandemic disgust proneness predicts increased coronavirus anxiety and safety behaviors: Evidence for a diathesis-stress model	37
A meta-analysis of relapse rates in cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders	36
Real versus illusory personal growth in response to COVID-19 pandemic stressors	35

Psychometric properties of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment of factor structure, measurement properties and clinical utility	31
The uptake and outcomes of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for health anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Investigating the impact of masculinity on the relationship between anxiety specific mental health literacy and mental health help-seeking in adolescent males	30
Intolerance of COVID-19-related uncertainty and depressive and anxiety symptoms during the pandemic: A longitudinal study in Argentina	29
Posttraumatic stress or posttraumatic growth? Using network analysis to explore the relationships between coping styles and trauma outcomes	29
Shame, guilt, and posttraumatic stress symptoms: A three-level meta-analysis	29