OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 26. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	60
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	57
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	57
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	50
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	49
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	48
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	40
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	38
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	38
Editorial Board	38
Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making	37
Editorial Board	37
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	36
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	35
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	33
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	33
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	33
Excessive avoidance bias towards uncertain faces in non-clinical social anxiety individuals	32
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	32
Who defines improvement? Patients' global reports of improvement compared to standardized measures of improvement in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	31
The roles of disgust sensitivity and anxiety sensitivity in attentional bias in dental anxiety	31
Man vs. machine: A comparison of human and computer assessment of nonverbal behavior in social anxiety disorder	29
Anxiety and depressive symptoms in U.S. Census Bureau assessments of adults: Trends from 2019 to fall 2020 across demographic groups	28
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting	28
Relationship between anxiety sensitivity and post-traumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed adults: A meta-analysis	28

The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study	27
Intensive treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Are psychological interventions for adult PTSD more efficacious and acceptable when treatment is delivered in higher frequency? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	26