OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Anxiety Disorders is 10. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
The relationship between perceived stress and emotional distress during the COVID-19 outbreak: Effects of boredom proneness and coping style	159
Worry, avoidance, and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comprehensive network analysis	131
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	126
Anxiety and safety behavior usage during the COVID-19 pandemic: The prospective role of contamination fear	105
COVID-19 and traumatic stress: The role of perceived vulnerability, COVID-19-related worries, and social isolation	100
Understanding and managing pandemic-related panic buying	88
Threats to Mental Health and Well-Being Associated with Climate Change	86
Obsessive-compulsive disorder during COVID-19: Turning a problem into an opportunity?	79
A systematic literature review of factor analytic and mixture models of ICD-11 PTSD and CPTSD using the International Trauma Questionnaire	78
Anxiety and resilience in the face of natural disasters associated with climate change: A review and methodological critique	76
Anxiety disorders, climate change, and the challenges ahead: Introduction to the special issue	64
Coronaphobia revisted: A state-of-the-art on pandemic-related fear, anxiety, and stress	48
Fear and anxiety in the face of COVID-19: Negative dispositions towards risk and uncertainty as vulnerability factors	47
Social Anxiety and Empathy: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis	47
The latent and item structure of COVID-19 fear: A comparison of four COVID-19 fear questionnaires using SEM and network analyses	44
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) symptoms?	44
Psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a sample of first responders	42
Efficacy and acceptability of interventions for co-occurring PTSD and SUD: A meta-analysis	42
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	39
Fear of COVID-19 predicts vaccination willingness 14 months later	38
Garbage in, garbage out: The tenuous state of research on PTSD in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and infodemic	38
Pre-pandemic disgust proneness predicts increased coronavirus anxiety and safety behaviors: Evidence for a diathesis-stress model	37
COVID-19 and OCD: Potential impact of exposure and response prevention therapy	37
A meta-analysis of relapse rates in cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders	36
Real versus illusory personal growth in response to COVID-19 pandemic stressors	35

Psychometric properties of the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale-12 in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment of factor structure, measurement properties and clinical utility	31
Investigating the impact of masculinity on the relationship between anxiety specific mental health literacy and mental health help-seeking in adolescent males	30
The uptake and outcomes of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for health anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	30
Posttraumatic stress or posttraumatic growth? Using network analysis to explore the relationships between coping styles and trauma outcomes	29
Shame, guilt, and posttraumatic stress symptoms: A three-level meta-analysis	29
Intolerance of COVID-19-related uncertainty and depressive and anxiety symptoms during the pandemic: A longitudinal study in Argentina	29
Why Sleep is Key: Poor Sleep Quality is a Mechanism for the Bidirectional Relationship between Major Depressive Disorder and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Across 18 Years	28
Anxiety disorders, COVID-19 fear, and vaccine hesitancy	27
A randomized clinical trial of in-person vs. home-based telemedicine delivery of Prolonged Exposure for PTSD in military sexual trauma survivors	26
Elements of the therapeutic relationship in CBT for anxiety disorders: A systematic review	26
How does COVID stress vary across the anxiety-related disorders? Assessing factorial invariance and changes in COVID Stress Scale scores during the pandemic	26
Individual differences in emotion regulation prospectively predict early COVID-19 related acute stress	26
Working out the worries: A randomized controlled trial of high intensity interval training in generalized anxiety disorder	25
Comparison of symptom-based versus self-reported diagnostic measures of anxiety and depression disorders in the GLAD and COPING cohorts	24
A network approach to climate change anxiety and its key related features	24
Linking insomnia and OCD symptoms during the coronavirus pandemic: Examination of prospective associations	24
Intolerance of uncertainty and obsessive-compulsive disorder dimensions	23
Anxiety and depressive symptoms in U.S. Census Bureau assessments of adults: Trends from 2019 to fall 2020 across demographic groups	23
Responding to uncertain threat: A potential mediator for the effect of mindfulness on anxiety	22
Exposure therapy in a virtual environment: Validation in obsessive compulsive disorder	20
Immunization stress-related responses: Implications for vaccination hesitancy and vaccination processes during the COVID-19 pandemic	20
A transdiagnostic evaluation of contrast avoidance across generalized anxiety disorder, major depressive disorder, and social anxiety disorder	20
Clinical predictors of treatment response towards exposure therapy in virtuo in spider phobia: A machine learning and external cross-validation approach	20
Long-term outcomes of cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder: A meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials	20
Effectiveness of a smartphone-based, augmented reality exposure app to reduce fear of spiders in real-life: A randomized controlled trial	20
Does complex PTSD predict or moderate treatment outcomes of three variants of exposure therapy?	20
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	19
Aerobic exercise in the treatment of PTSD: An examination of preclinical and clinical laboratory findings, potential mechanisms, clinical implications, and future directions	19
Mental contamination, disgust, and other negative emotions among survivors of sexual trauma: Results from a daily monitoring study	19
Distinguishing PTSD, complex PTSD, and borderline personality disorder using exploratory structural equation modeling in a trauma-exposed urban sample	18
A meta-analysis of mentalizing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor related disorders	18
Understanding climate anxiety: What decision-makers, health care providers, and the mental health community need to know to promote adaptative coping	18
Predicting COVID-19-related anxiety: The role of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions, anxiety sensitivity, and body vigilance	18
tDCS-Augmented in vivo exposure therapy for specific fears: A randomized clinical trial	17
COVID stress in older adults: Considerations during the Omicron wave and beyond	17
Psychophysiological assessment of stress reactivity and recovery in anxiety disorders	16
The naturalistic reinforcement of worry from positive and negative emotional contrasts: Results from a momentary assessment study within social interactions	16
Examining the associations between PTSD symptoms and aspects of emotion dysregulation through network analysis	16
Are people with social anxiety disorder happier alone?	16
Delayed reward discounting and increased risk for suicide attempts among U.S. adults with probable PTSD	16
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	16
Interpersonal dysfunction and treatment outcome in GAD: A systematic review	15
Anxiety among older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic	15
Training with tarantulas: A randomized feasibility and acceptability study using experiential learning to enhance exposure therapy training	15
Patterns of exposure to potentially morally injurious events among Israeli combat veterans: A latent class analysis approach	15
Anxiety disorders among adolescents and young adults: Prevalence and mental health care service utilization in a regional epidemiological study in Germany	15
Reductions in social anxiety during treatment predict lower levels of loneliness during follow-up among individuals with social anxiety disorder	15
Exposure therapy for PTSD in military populations: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials	14
Remote cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder: A meta-analysis	14
Latent class growth analyses reveal overrepresentation of dysfunctional fear conditioning trajectories in patients with anxiety-related disorders compared to controls	14

The impact of sleep quality on the incidence of PTSD: Results from a 7-Year, Nationally Representative, Prospective Cohort of U.S. Military Veterans	14
Circulating endocannabinoids and psychological outcomes in women with PTSD	14
Event centrality and secondary traumatization among Holocaust survivors' offspring and grandchildren: A three-generation study	13
The OCI-4: An ultra-brief screening scale for obsessive-compulsive disorder	13
Emotions in social anxiety disorder: A review	13
The impact of treating parental anxiety on children’s mental health: An empty systematic review	12
The efficacy of interventions for behaviourally inhibited preschool-aged children: A meta-analysis	12
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	12
The grass is always greener: Envy in social anxiety disorder	12
The combined cognitive bias hypothesis in anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	12
Reducing contrast avoidance in GAD by savoring positive emotions: Outcome and mediation in a randomized controlled trial	12
Meta-analyses of the associations of mentalization and proxy variables with anxiety and internalizing problems	12
Traumatic memories of childbirth relate to maternal postpartum posttraumatic stress disorder	11
The transdiagnostic use of worry and rumination to avoid negative emotional contrasts following negative events: A momentary assessment study	11
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Anxiety Disorders: Outcomes From a Multi-State, Multi-Site Primary Care Practice	11
Efficacy of third wave cognitive behavioral therapies in the treatment of posttraumatic stress: A meta-analytic study	11
An experience sampling investigation of emotion and worry in people with generalized anxiety disorder	11
The OCI-CV-R: A Revision of the Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory - Child Version	11
Family accommodation mediates the impact of childhood anxiety on functional impairment	11
Transdiagnostic emotion regulation processes explain how emotion-related factors affect co-occurring PTSD and MDD in relation to trauma	11
Examining the psychometric properties of the PCL-5 in a black community sample using item response theory	11
Internet-delivered cognitive-behaviour therapy (ICBT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder when delivered as routine clinical care: A phase IV clinical trial	11
Efficacy of imagery rescripting in treating mental disorders associated with aversive memories – An updated meta-analysis	11
Worry and rumination enhance a positive emotional contrast based on the framework of the Contrast Avoidance Model	11
But first, coffee: The roles of arousal and inhibition in the resistance of compulsive cleansing in individuals with high contamination fears	11
Longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 preventative behaviors and perceived vulnerability to disease	11
The Medium is the Message: Effects of Mediums of Communication on Perceptions and Emotions in Social Anxiety Disorder	10
Psychometric evaluation of the Adjustment Disorder New Module-20 (ADNM-20): A multi-study analysis	10
Moderators of psychological and psychoeducational interventions for the prevention of anxiety: A systematic review	10
Progression of externalizing disorders into anxiety disorders: Longitudinal transitions in the first three decades of life	10
When a nightmare comes true: Change in obsessive-compulsive disorder over the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Positive Emotion Dysregulation in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder	10
A systematic review and meta-analysis of resting-state fMRI in anxiety disorders: Need for data sharing to move the field forward	10
Are psychological interventions for adult PTSD more efficacious and acceptable when treatment is delivered in higher frequency? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	10
Functional outcomes from psychotherapy for people with posttraumatic stress disorder: A meta-analysis	10
Impaired action-safety learning and excessive relief during avoidance in patients with anxiety disorders	10
Disgust propensity and sensitivity in childhood anxiety and obsessive-compulsive disorder: Two constructs differentially related to obsessional content	10
What explains the failure to identify replicable moderators of symptom change in social anxiety disorder?	10
Positive valence systems in youth anxiety development: A scoping review	10
Metacognition, cognition and social anxiety: A test of temporal and reciprocal relationships	10
Intolerance of uncertainty prospectively predicts the transdiagnostic severity of emotional psychopathology: Evidence from a Veteran sample	10