OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 9. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a brief computerized anxiety sensitivity reduction intervention for health anxiety	126
Editorial Board	90
Attending to the Attentional Control Scale for Children: Confirming its factor structure and measurement invariance	82
Positive emotion dysregulation and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: Investigating the role of anxiety sensitivity	49
Fear of pain as a predictor of concurrent and downstream PTSD symptoms	47
How does COVID stress vary across the anxiety-related disorders? Assessing factorial invariance and changes in COVID Stress Scale scores during the pandemic	44
Editorial Board	44
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Remote cognitive behaviour therapy for social anxiety disorder: A meta-analysis	36
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	36
Catching a (sine) wave: Temporal dynamics of nonverbal synchrony in social anxiety disorder	35
Psychometric properties of the state Probability and Consequences Questionnaire for social anxiety disorder	30
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	30
Reimaging context within exposure-based treatments for adolescent social anxiety disorder: It all begins with optimizing the context-sensitivity of our clinical assessments	30
Dynamics of affect, cognition and behavior in a general population sample of adolescents and young adults with current and remitted anxiety disorders: An Ecological Momentary Assessment study	29
More than just fear: Development and psychometric evaluation of the Spider Distress Scale to assess spider fear and spider-related disgust	29
Moral injury events and behavioral health outcomes among American veterans	29
Editorial Board	27
The impact of prepartum pandemic-related perceived stress on anxiety symptoms in the postpartum: The role of perceived childbirth experiences	26
Network analyses of ecological momentary emotion and avoidance assessments before and after cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders	26
CyberStatus: Responses to status manipulation and fears of positive and negative evaluations	25
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	24

Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	24
The naturalistic reinforcement of worry from positive and negative emotional contrasts: Results from a momentary assessment study within social interactions	23
Longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 preventative behaviors and perceived vulnerability to disease	23
Fear of negative and positive evaluation as mediators and moderators of treatment outcome in social anxiety disorder	23
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	21
Efficacy of third wave cognitive behavioral therapies in the treatment of posttraumatic stress: A meta-analytic study	20
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	20
When is the best time to screen for perinatal anxiety? A longitudinal cohort study	20
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	20
Examining the psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a black community sample using item response theory	20
Distinct patterns of monocular advantage for facial emotions in social anxiety	19
Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later	19
Remote cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder: A meta-analysis	18
Longitudinal changes in intolerance of uncertainty and worry severity during CBT for generalized anxiety disorder	18
Is cyberchondria specific to hypochondriasis?	18
Progression of externalizing disorders into anxiety disorders: Longitudinal transitions in the first three decades of life	18
The uptake and outcomes of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for health anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Nonverbal synchrony in diagnostic interviews of individuals with social anxiety disorder	17
Increasing cognitive load attenuates the moderating effect of attentional inhibition on the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and threat-related attention bias variability	17
The first steps in facing your fears: The acceptability of virtual reality and in vivo exposure treatment for specific fears	16
Just do something: An experimental investigation of brief interventions for reducing the negative impact of post-event processing in social anxiety disorder	16
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	16
Garbage in, garbage out: The tenuous state of research on PTSD in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic	16
The effects of intelligence on exposure to combat and posttraumatic stress disorder across multiple deployments	16
Pride in social anxiety disorder	15
Is a brief mindfulness ecological momentary intervention more efficacious than a self-monitoring app for social anxiety disorder? A randomized controlled trial	15
The comorbidity structure of fear, distress and compulsive disorders in an acute psychiatric sample	15
Attention bias vs. attention control modification for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial	14
Pediatric anxiety associated with altered facial emotion recognition	14
Optimized short-forms of the Cognitive Distortions Questionnaire	14
A transdiagnostic evaluation of contrast avoidance across generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and social anxiety disorder	14
The combined cognitive bias hypothesis in anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	14
The efficacy of interventions for behaviourally inhibited preschool-aged children: A meta-analysis	14
Metacognition, cognition and social anxiety: A test of temporal and reciprocal relationships	14
Increased self-reported reward responsiveness predicts better response to cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety	13
The development and preliminary validation of a brief scale of emotional distress in young people using combined classical test theory and item response theory approaches: The Brief Emotional Distress	13
Effectiveness of a smartphone-based, augmented reality exposure app to reduce fear of spiders in real-life: A randomized controlled trial	12
From negative feelings to impairments: A longitudinal study on the development of climate change anxiety	12
Anxiety among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Understanding and managing pandemic-related panic buying	12
Meta-analyses of the associations of mentalization and proxy variables with anxiety and internalizing problems	12
Can mindfulness-based interventions reduce PTSD symptoms? An umbrella review	12
Disgust and fear reactions uniquely affect intrusions and posttraumatic stress symptoms	11
Mind’s eye: The impact of spider presence and cognitive therapy on size estimation biases in spider phobia	11
Problematic anger in military and veteran populations with and without PTSD: The elephant in the room	11
From psychological to physical health: Exploring temporal precedence throughout emotion regulation therapy	11
Interpersonal contrast avoidance as a mechanism for the maintenance of worry	11
Exposure therapy in a virtual environment: Validation in obsessive compulsive disorder	11
Cognitive behavioral group therapy for social anxiety disorder – A critical review of methodological designs	11
Avoidance of mild threat observed in generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) using eye tracking	11

A pilot study on the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of a brief text message intervention for co-occurring alcohol misuse and PTSD symptoms in a community sample	11
Transdiagnostic emotion regulation processes explain how emotion-related factors affect co-occurring PTSD and MDD in relation to trauma	11
Real versus illusory personal growth in response to COVID-19 pandemic stressors	11
Group metacognitive therapy for children and adolescents with anxiety and depression: A preliminary trial and test of proposed mechanisms	11
Assessing parental cognitions about child anxiety: Are parents’ thoughts about child anxiety associated with child anxiety and anxiety sensitivity?	11
PTSD symptom heterogeneity and alcohol-related outcomes in U.S. military veterans: Indirect associations with coping strategies	11
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Using machine learning to predict sudden gains in intensive treatment for PTSD	10
Editorial Board	10
Associations between self-absorption and working memory capacity: A preliminary examination of a transdiagnostic process spanning across emotional disorders	10
Hair pulling disorder and skin picking disorder have relatively limited associations with negative emotionality: A meta-analytic comparison across obsessive-compulsive and related disorders	10
Changes in guilt cognitions in intensive PTSD treatment among veterans who experienced military sexual trauma or combat trauma	10
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	10
The contribution of guilt sensitivity in the prediction of obsessive-compulsive disorder symptom dimensions: Replication and extension	10
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	10
Streamlined pediatric anxiety program for school mental health services	10
Do positive and negative emotional reactions during war predict subsequent symptomatology? A prospective experience sampling study	10
Incremental validity of the contrast avoidance model: A comparison with intolerance of uncertainty and negative problem orientation	10
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
The impact of psychological treatment on intolerance of uncertainty in generalized anxiety disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Intolerance of uncertainty as a predictor of anxiety severity and trajectory during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The OCI-4: An ultra-brief screening scale for obsessive-compulsive disorder	9
A randomized clinical trial of in-person vs. home-based telemedicine delivery of Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in military sexual trauma survivors	9
Incidences of anxiety disorders among active duty service members between 1999 and 2018	9
A meta-analysis of mentalizing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor related disorders	9
Efficacy and acceptability of interventions for co-occurring PTSD and SUD: A meta-analysis	9