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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	65
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	59
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	58
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	54
Editorial Board	45
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	43
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	40
Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making	40
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	40
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	40
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	39
Editorial Board	39
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	39
Editorial Board	38
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	37
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	36
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	34
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	34
Antisaccade performance in spider phobia and its association with multimodal correlates of fear	34
Who defines improvement? Patients' global reports of improvement compared to standardized measures of improvement in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder	33
The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study	32
Excessive avoidance bias towards uncertain faces in non-clinical social anxiety individuals	32
Man vs. machine: A comparison of human and computer assessment of nonverbal behavior in social anxiety disorder	30
Exploring the symptomatology and assessment of emetophobia: A comprehensive scoping review	29
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting	29

Conditional probability of posttraumatic stress disorder in the Canadian Armed Forces: A longitudinal study	26
Intensive treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	26
Relationship between anxiety sensitivity and post-traumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed adults: A 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
Editorial Board	26