OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 34. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fear of the coronavirus (COVID-19): Predictors in an online study conducted in March 2020	754
Development and initial validation of the COVID Stress Scales	707
How health anxiety influences responses to viral outbreaks like COVID-19: What all decision-makers, health authorities, and health care professionals need to know	480
Health anxiety, cyberchondria, and coping in the current COVID-19 pandemic: Which factors are related to coronavirus anxiety?	405
Climate anxiety: Psychological responses to climate change	389
Do pre-existing anxiety-related and mood disorders differentially impact COVID-19 stress responses and coping?	313
Incremental validity of coronaphobia: Coronavirus anxiety explains depression, generalized anxiety, and death anxiety	225
Fear and avoidance of healthcare workers: An important, under-recognized form of stigmatization during the COVID-19 pandemic	203
Media use and acute psychological outcomes during COVID-19 outbreak in China	189
The relationship between perceived stress and emotional distress during the COVID-19 outbreak: Effects of boredom proneness and coping style	141
Facing new fears during the COVID-19 pandemic: The State of America’s mental health	128
Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis	118
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	116
COVID-19 and traumatic stress: The role of perceived vulnerability, COVID-19-related worries, and social isolation	95
Anxiety and safety behavior usage during the COVID-19 pandemic: The prospective role of contamination fear	94
Anxiety regarding contracting COVID-19 related to interoceptive anxiety sensations: The moderating role of disgust propensity and sensitivity	91
Understanding and managing pandemic-related panic buying	77
Obsessive-compulsive disorder during COVID-19: Turning a problem into an opportunity?	72
The mental health impacts of climate change: Findings from a Pacific Island atoll nation	72
The prospective influence of COVID-19 affective risk assessments and intolerance of uncertainty on later dimensions of health anxiety	66
Threats to Mental Health and Well-Being Associated with Climate Change	63
A systematic literature review of factor analytic and mixture models of ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD using the International Trauma Questionnaire	57
Anxiety and resilience in the face of natural disasters associated with climate change: A review and methodological critique	56
Life in a post-pandemic world: What to expect of anxiety-related conditions and their treatment	51
COVID-19 stress and substance use: Current issues and future preparations	50

Anxiety disorders, climate change, and the challenges ahead: Introduction to the special issue	50
Coronaphobia revisted: A state-of-the-art on pandemic-related fear, anxiety, and stress	43
The latent and item structure of COVID-19 fear: A comparison of four COVID-19 fear questionnaires using SEM and network analyses	40
Coping with climate change: Three insights for research, intervention, and communication to promote adaptive coping to climate change	39
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms?	39
Fear and anxiety in the face of COVID-19: Negative dispositions towards risk and uncertainty as vulnerability factors	38
Social Anxiety and Empathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	36
Psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a sample of first responders	35
Garbage in, garbage out: The tenuous state of research on PTSD in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic	35
Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later	34
COVID-19 and OCD: Potential impact of exposure and response prevention therapy	34