Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Papers
(The median citation count of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 4. 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample73
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care59
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder59
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma59
Investigating the Use of Large Language Models for the Detection of Trauma-Related Symptoms: An Exploratory Study Using Trauma Narratives56
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders54
Antisaccade performance in spider phobia and its association with multimodal correlates of fear49
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety49
Reciprocal association and bridge symptoms in the comorbidity between social anxiety and problematic internet use: A four-wave longitudinal study48
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD44
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Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis41
Is it worth it to personalize the treatment of PTSD? – A variance-ratio meta-analysis and estimation of treatment effect heterogeneity in RCTs of PTSD40
Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making39
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis36
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder35
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression34
Who defines improvement? Patients' global reports of improvement compared to standardized measures of improvement in cognitive processing therapy for posttraumatic stress disorder33
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting32
Are psychological interventions for adult PTSD more efficacious and acceptable when treatment is delivered in higher frequency? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials30
Man vs. machine: A comparison of human and computer assessment of nonverbal behavior in social anxiety disorder29
Relationship between anxiety sensitivity and post-traumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed adults: A meta-analysis29
Excessive avoidance bias towards uncertain faces in non-clinical social anxiety individuals29
Exploring the symptomatology and assessment of emetophobia: A comprehensive scoping review29
The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study27
A brief ecological momentary intervention for generalized anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial of the worry outcome monitoring app26
Conditional probability of posttraumatic stress disorder in the Canadian Armed Forces: A longitudinal study26
Parental cognitions and child anxiety: A systematic review26
Social anxiety in the context of the alternative DSM-5 model of personality disorder25
Intensive treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis25
Computationally derived parent-child interaction patterns and oxytocin in children with and without OCD25
Intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity, and health anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring temporal relationships using cross-lag analysis24
Treating specific phobia in youth: A randomized controlled microtrial comparing gradual exposure in large steps to exposure in small steps24
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Climate change anxiety positively predicts antenatal distress in expectant female parents23
Longitudinal changes in the PTSD symptom network following trauma-focused treatment in military populations: Identifying central symptoms and the role of military sexual trauma23
Intolerance of uncertainty, posttraumatic stress, depression, and fears for the future among displaced refugees22
Identifying trajectories of symptom change in adults with obsessive compulsive disorder receiving exposure and response prevention therapy21
Treating child anxiety using family-based internet delivered cognitive behavior therapy with brief therapist guidance: A randomized controlled trial20
Limited consensus on what climate anxiety is: Insights from content overlap analysis on 12 questionnaires20
Acute stress and PTSD among trauma-exposed children and adolescents: Computational prediction and interpretation19
Corrigendum to “Efficacy of imagery rescripting in treating mental disorders associated with aversive memories – An updated meta-analysis” [Journal of Anxiety Disorders 99 (2023) 102772]19
Group schema therapy versus group cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with social anxiety disorder and comorbid avoidant personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial19
Affective forecasting during a horror attraction: Insights into Intolerance of Uncertainty18
Investigating the under-recognition of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder among the public and mental health professionals18
Challenging heights: Findings from a proof-of-principle randomized controlled trial testing interpretation bias modification as an adjunct to exposure therapy for acrophobic patients17
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Assessing the reliability and validity of the International Trauma Interview in a sample of Ukrainian soldiers17
Cannabis use and social anxiety disorder in emerging adulthood: Results from a nationally representative sample17
Contrast avoidance prospectively mediates effects of fear of emotional responding, negative problem orientation, and sensitivity to low perceived control on generalized anxiety disorder symptoms17
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Unpacking parental accommodation: Relationship to parent distress tolerance and cognitive styles16
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Savoring, worry, and positive emotion duration in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment and interventional experiment16
An Intensive time series investigation of the relationships across eating disorder-specific fear responses and behavior urges in partially remitted anorexia nervosa16
Emotion regulation difficulties in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A multi-informant and multi-method study16
FOMO’s apprehension of missing out and constant connection desire dimensions differentially correlate with problematic smartphone and social media use, but not with depression or generalized anxiety15
The efficacy of psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder, a systematic review and meta-analysis15
Mindfulness- and acceptance-based programmes for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis15
The query is the theory: Why “exact-term” bibliometrics can conflate climate anxiety with broader eco-emotions15
Values- versus monetary reward-enhanced exposure therapy for the treatment of social anxiety in emerging adulthood15
Eye-tracking indices of attention allocation and attention bias variability are differently related to trauma exposure and PTSD15
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The effects of intelligence on exposure to combat and posttraumatic stress disorder across multiple deployments14
Epidemiology of DSM-5 PTSD and ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in the Netherlands14
Relationships between symptom profiles and memory in posttraumatic stress disorder13
Psychometric properties of the state Probability and Consequences Questionnaire for social anxiety disorder13
Personalized stress optimization intervention to reduce adolescents’ anxiety: A randomized controlled trial leveraging machine learning13
Catching a (sine) wave: Temporal dynamics of nonverbal synchrony in social anxiety disorder13
Is cyberchondria specific to hypochondriasis?13
"And then one day you find ten years have got behind you": Reflections on a Decade as Editor-in-Chief12
Pilot study of an anxiety induction method applying generative artificial intelligence and mixed reality12
The relationship of posttraumatic stress disorder and developmental trauma disorder with childhood psychopathology: A network analysis12
A review of the relationship between changes in trauma-related cognitions and PTSD outcome in response to trauma-focused psychotherapy: A three-level meta-analysis12
Disgust and fear reactions uniquely affect intrusions and posttraumatic stress symptoms12
Name avoidance in social anxiety: Understanding alexinomia12
A meta-analytic review of cognitive processing therapy with and without the written account12
Hair pulling disorder and skin picking disorder have relatively limited associations with negative emotionality: A meta-analytic comparison across obsessive-compulsive and related disorders12
A meta-analysis of mentalizing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor related disorders12
Risky business: Considerations of emotion regulation and high-risk behaviors in anxious adolescents12
Prevalence, correlates, and treatment gap of generalized anxiety disorder among adults in Bangladesh: Results from a nationally representative survey11
Psychological interventions for adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of published meta-analyses11
Assessing executive functioning in individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) across the lifespan: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis11
Adverse childhood experiences, adult anxiety and social capital among women in rural Kenya11
A novel probe of attentional bias for threat in specific phobia: Application of the “MouseView.js” approach11
Predicting treatment outcomes in patients with panic disorder: Cross-sectional and two-year longitudinal structural connectome analysis using machine learning methods11
Corrigendum to “Reward processes in extinction learning and applications to exposure therapy” [Journal of Anxiety Disorders 106 (2024) 102911]10
Anxious youth and adults share threat-biased interpretations of linguistic and visual ambiguity: A proof of concept study10
Ecological anxiety and pro-environmental behaviour: The role of attention10
Reducing contrast avoidance in GAD by savoring positive emotions: Outcome and mediation in a randomized controlled trial10
Prospective predictors of posttraumatic stress symptoms following two “armed and dangerous person” campus lockdowns10
Circulating endocannabinoids and psychological outcomes in women with PTSD10
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School-based supports and accommodations among anxious youth in treatment10
Social anxiety in online social interactions: Examining the effects of self and audience images on anxiety, self-awareness and performance evaluations10
Actigraphy and subjective sleep predictors of nine-year generalized anxiety disorder10
Intensive 7-day internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial10
Cannabis use and trauma-focused treatment for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of individual patient data10
Dyadic analyses on the prospective association between birth experience and parent-child-bonding: The role of postpartum depression, anxiety, and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder10
Daily-life reactivity and emotion regulation in children with social anxiety disorder10
Symptom distress and psychosocial functioning improve bidirectionally during cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders9
Race moderates the impact of intolerance of uncertainty on mental health symptoms in Black and White community adults9
Impact of youth and caregiver worries about treatment on therapeutic process factors and posttreatment outcomes9
A meta-analytic review of randomized clinical trials of online treatments for anxiety: Inclusion/exclusion criteria, uptake, adherence, dropout, and clinical outcomes9
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Tri-level anxiety and depression symptom trajectory in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation diversity9
An Initial examination of fear of negative and positive evaluation in youth9
When All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks like a Nail: The Limitations of Viewing all PTSD Treatments Through the Exposure Lens Commentary on Rubenstein et al. (2026)9
Savoring meditation for emotional disorders: Targeting positive emotion regulation deficits9
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The screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders scale: A longitudinal validation study based on Chinese children and adolescents8
More than just fear: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Spider Distress Scale to assess spider fear and spider-related disgust8
Anxiety among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic8
Group metacognitive therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety and depression: A preliminary trial and test of proposed mechanisms8
The meta-inner humor therapy: Insights from a three-arm randomized controlled trial for comorbid emotional disorders8
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Dynamic changes in metacognitive mechanisms and symptoms during the attention training technique: Insights from ecological momentary assessment8
When is the best time to screen for perinatal anxiety? A longitudinal cohort study8
Fear of negative and positive evaluation as mediators and moderators of treatment outcome in social anxiety disorder8
Just do something: An experimental investigation of brief interventions for reducing the negative impact of post-event processing in social anxiety disorder8
Meta-analyses of the associations of mentalization and proxy variables with anxiety and internalizing problems8
Can mindfulness-based interventions reduce PTSD symptoms? An umbrella review8
Fear generalization predicts post-traumatic stress symptoms: A two-year follow-up study in Dutch fire fighters8
Safety behavior fading for social anxiety: A randomized controlled trial of a self-monitoring intervention8
Efficacy and safety of etifoxine versus alprazolam in generalized anxiety disorders with somatic symptoms: A randomized, double-blind, comparative study8
Intensive longitudinal assessment following index trauma to predict development of PTSD using machine learning8
The combined cognitive bias hypothesis in anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis8
Is a brief mindfulness ecological momentary intervention more efficacious than a self-monitoring app for social anxiety disorder? A randomized controlled trial8
CBT-based self-help guided by a lay provider for generalized anxiety in older adults: A randomized controlled trial8
Comparing phase-based treatment, prolonged exposure, and skills-training for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A randomized controlled trial8
Disrupting posttrauma networks: Identifying candidate intervention targets to improve military veterans’ mental health and well-being8
Perinatal PTSD and the mother-infant bond: A systematic review and meta-analysis8
The role of tonic immobility during re-experiencing trauma in PTSD treatment7
Streamlined pediatric anxiety program for school mental health services7
Intolerance of uncertainty, aging, and anxiety and mental health concerns: A scoping review and meta-analysis7
The free-viewing matrix task: A reliable measure of attention allocation in psychopathology7
Using network models to explore the associations between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and subjective cognitive functioning7
The contribution of guilt sensitivity in the prediction of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom dimensions: Replication and extension7
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Exposure therapy consortium: Outcomes of the proof-of-principle study7
Development of a machine learning-based multivariable prediction model for the naturalistic course of generalized anxiety disorder7
Predicting anxiety symptoms through gaze-directed attention: A mobile eye-tracking study of adolescents during a real-world speech task7
Brief imaginal exposure exercises for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial of a self-help momentary intervention app7
Love is a losing game: The experience of romantic love in social anxiety disorder7
Bidirectional associations between PTSD symptoms and pain in daily life among women survivors of sexual assault6
Unveiling temporal dynamics of PTSD and its functional impairments: A longitudinal study in UK healthcare workers6
Metacognitive therapy versus exposure and response prevention for obsessive-compulsive disorder – A non-inferiority randomized controlled trial6
Negative emotion differentiation buffers against intergenerational risk for social anxiety in at-risk adolescent girls6
Understanding climate anxiety: What decision-makers, health care providers, and the mental health community need to know to promote adaptative coping6
The transdiagnostic use of worry and rumination to avoid negative emotional contrasts following negative events: A momentary assessment study6
Editorial: From algorithms to clinical reality: The next frontier in mental health AI6
The effect of positive and negative evaluation on state anxiety and repetitive negative thinking in social evaluative situations: An experimental study6
The role of base-rate neglect in cyberchondria and health anxiety6
We need to start thinking about thinking: The impact of rumination on OCD symptom improvement in exposure and response prevention6
Worry and rumination enhance a positive emotional contrast based on the framework of the Contrast Avoidance Model6
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Interplay of serum BDNF levels and childhood adversity in predicting earlier-onset post-traumatic stress disorder: A two-year longitudinal study6
PTSD and cognition in older adults: A systematic literature review6
Development and validation of the positive evaluation core beliefs scale for social anxiety6
A comparison of virtual reality and verbal imaginal exposure for childhood anxiety disorders6
What caregivers like the most (and least) about cognitive behavioral therapy for youth anxiety: A mixed methods approach6
Altered resting-state amygdala-cerebellar functional connectivity is associated with intolerance of uncertainty in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A longitudinal study6
Four profiles of symptom change in residential Cognitive Processing Therapy5
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Reciprocal changes in functioning and PTSD symptoms over the course of psychotherapy5
Temporal dynamics of costly avoidance in naturalistic fears: Evidence for sequential-sampling of fear and reward information5
Altered interoceptive–exteroceptive profile in Generalized Anxiety Disorder: Evidence from bayesian psychophysics and metacognitive modeling5
Anxiety symptoms before and during the COVID-19 pandemic: A longitudinal examination of Canadian young adults5
A meta-analytic review of the relations between anxiety and empathy5
Linking repetitive negative thinking and insomnia symptoms: A longitudinal trait-state model5
Trajectories of grief-related psychopathology: A decade after the MH17 plane disaster5
Cross-cultural network structures of social anxiety, body dysmorphic, and major depressive disorder symptoms in individualistic vs. collectivistic societies: A comparison between American, German, and5
A novel independence intervention to treat child anxiety: A nonconcurrent multiple baseline evaluation5
Prospective network of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms across adolescent survivors with distinct trajectories of PTSD: A cohort study of the Wenchuan earthquake5
Is intolerance of uncertainty a necessary condition for anxiety symptoms in adolescents? A necessary condition analysis study5
Work-Related Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for racially and economically diverse unemployed persons with social anxiety: A randomized clinical trial5
Validity and factor structure of the Czech GAD-7 across twenty samples and four independent translations5
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the effect of an internet-based cognitive-behavioral program on anxiety symptoms in a community-based sample of adolescents5
Posttraumatic stress disorder, sleep and medical cannabis treatment: A daily diary study5
Daily stress and emotions in relation to fear of negative and positive evaluation5
Where is the ‘Anxious’ in climate anxiety? Evidence from Chinese social media big data5
Longitudinal trajectories of coronavirus anxiety and health behavior use before and after the U.S. 2020 presidential election: The effects of political orientation4
A prospective examination of the role of psychological (in)flexibility in posttraumatic stress: A cross-lagged panel design4
Trends and determinants of childhood anxiety disorders burden in Asia, 1990–20234
Does intolerance of uncertainty predict child generalised anxiety? A longitudinal study4
Prospective prediction of first-onset generalized and social anxiety disorders in adolescent girls4
Comparing structural models for internalizing pathology: Latent dimensions, classes, or a mix of both?4
Neuromodulation treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder: A systematic review and network meta-analysis covering efficacy, acceptability, and follow-up effects4
Sleep disturbances predict nine-year panic disorder chronicity: The sleep-panic nexus theory with machine learning insights4
Fear of positive evaluation and the bivalent fear of evaluation model of social anxiety: An Integration4
Re-assessing the assessment of fears of positive and negative evaluation: Scale development and psychometric evaluation of the Bivalent Fear of Evaluation Scale (BFOES)4
Advancing health equity by understanding race disparities and other factors associated with PTSD symptom improvement following evidence-based psychotherapy4
Is symptom improvement similar during PTSD psychotherapy delivered by video telehealth and in-person in routine veterans health administration care?4
Exposure traced in daily life: improvements in ecologically assessed social and physical activity following exposure-based psychotherapy for anxiety disorders4
Physical activity moderates the relationship between PTSD symptom severity and approach-avoidance conflict decision-making4
Why Sleep is Key: Poor Sleep Quality is a Mechanism for the Bidirectional Relationship between Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Across 18 Years4
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