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 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
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
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	40
Editorial Board	39
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	39
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	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
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
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
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

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
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
Treating specific phobia in youth: A randomized controlled microtrial comparing gradual exposure in large steps to exposure in small steps	25
Computationally derived parent-child interaction patterns and oxytocin in children with and without OCD	25
Treating child anxiety using family-based internet delivered cognitive behavior therapy with brief therapist guidance: A randomized controlled trial	24
Longitudinal changes in the PTSD symptom network following trauma-focused treatment in military populations: Identifying central symptoms and the role of military sexual trauma	24
Identifying trajectories of symptom change in adults with obsessive compulsive disorder receiving exposure and response prevention therapy	23
Limited consensus on what climate anxiety is: Insights from content overlap analysis on 12 questionnaires	23
Group schema therapy versus group cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with social anxiety disorder and comorbid avoidant personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial	23
Climate change anxiety positively predicts antenatal distress in expectant female parents	22
Intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity, and health anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring temporal relationships using cross-lag analysis	22
Parental cognitions and child anxiety: A systematic review	22
Intolerance of uncertainty, posttraumatic stress, depression, and fears for the future among displaced refugees	22
Affective forecasting during a horror attraction: Insights into Intolerance of Uncertainty	21
Comparing symptom networks of daytime and nocturnal panic attacks in a community-based sample	21
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]	21
Acute stress and PTSD among trauma-exposed children and adolescents: Computational prediction and interpretation	21
Cannabis use and social anxiety disorder in emerging adulthood: Results from a nationally representative sample	21
Contrast avoidance prospectively mediates effects of fear of emotional responding, negative problem orientation, and sensitivity to low perceived control on generalized anxiety disorder symptoms	20
Investigating the under-recognition of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder among the public and mental health professionals	20
Latent stability and change in subgroups of social anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescence: A latent profile and transitional analysis	20
Disgust in anxiety-related psychopathology	20
Editorial Board	19
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 anxiety	19
Editorial Board	19
Editorial Board	19
Values- versus monetary reward-enhanced exposure therapy for the treatment of social anxiety in emerging adulthood	19
Emotion regulation difficulties in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A multi-informant and multi-method study	18
Mindfulness- and acceptance-based programmes for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	18
Savoring, worry, and positive emotion duration in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment and interventional experiment	18
When a nightmare comes true: Change in obsessive-compulsive disorder over the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic	17
Eye-tracking indices of attention allocation and attention bias variability are differently related to trauma exposure and PTSD	17
An Intensive time series investigation of the relationships across eating disorder-specific fear responses and behavior urges in partially remitted anorexia nervosa	16
The efficacy of psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder, a systematic review and meta-analysis	16
Editorial Board	15
Unpacking parental accommodation: Relationship to parent distress tolerance and cognitive styles	15
Personalized stress optimization intervention to reduce adolescents’ anxiety: A randomized controlled trial leveraging machine learning	15
Editorial Board	15
The uptake and outcomes of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for health anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	14
The effects of intelligence on exposure to combat and posttraumatic stress disorder across multiple deployments	14
Is cyberchondria specific to hypochondriasis?	14
Longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 preventative behaviors and perceived vulnerability to disease	14
Epidemiology of DSM-5 PTSD and ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in the Netherlands	14
How does COVID stress vary across the anxiety-related disorders? Assessing factorial invariance and changes in COVID Stress Scale scores during the pandemic	14
Positive emotion dysregulation and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: Investigating the role of anxiety sensitivity	13
A meta-analytic review of cognitive processing therapy with and without the written account	13
Psychometric properties of the state Probability and Consequences Questionnaire for social anxiety disorder	13

"And then one day you find ten years have got behind you": Reflections on a Decade as Editor-in-Chief	13
Disgust and fear reactions uniquely affect intrusions and posttraumatic stress symptoms	13
Catching a (sine) wave: Temporal dynamics of nonverbal synchrony in social anxiety disorder	13
Hair pulling disorder and skin picking disorder have relatively limited associations with negative emotionality: A meta-analytic comparison across obsessive-compulsive and related disorders	13
Assessing executive functioning in individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD) across the lifespan: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis	12
Reducing contrast avoidance in GAD by savoring positive emotions: Outcome and mediation in a randomized controlled trial	12
A meta-analysis of mentalizing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor related disorders	12
Incorporating community-level risk factors into traumatic stress research: Adopting a public health lens	12
The relationship of posttraumatic stress disorder and developmental trauma disorder with childhood psychopathology: A network analysis	12
Psychological interventions for adult posttraumatic stress disorder: A systematic review of published meta-analyses	12
Adverse childhood experiences, adult anxiety and social capital among women in rural Kenya	12
COVID stress in older adults: Considerations during the Omicron wave and beyond	12
Name avoidance in social anxiety: Understanding alexinomia	12
Risky business: Considerations of emotion regulation and high-risk behaviors in anxious adolescents	12
A novel probe of attentional bias for threat in specific phobia: Application of the “MouseView.js” approach	11
Anxious youth and adults share threat-biased interpretations of linguistic and visual ambiguity: A proof of concept study	11
Dyadic analyses on the prospective association between birth experience and parent-child-bonding: The role of postpartum depression, anxiety, and childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder	11
Corrigendum to “Reward processes in extinction learning and applications to exposure therapy” [Journal of Anxiety Disorders 106 (2024) 102911]	11
Prevalence, correlates, and treatment gap of generalized anxiety disorder among adults in Bangladesh: Results from a nationally representative survey	11
Predicting treatment outcomes in patients with panic disorder: Cross-sectional and two-year longitudinal structural connectome analysis using machine learning methods	11
An Initial examination of fear of negative and positive evaluation in youth	10
Intensive 7-day internet-delivered cognitive behavioural therapy for social anxiety disorder: A randomized controlled trial	10
Examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of the network approach to psychopathology: Analysis of the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Health (ELSA-Brasil) cohort over a 12-year ti	10
Editorial Board	10
A meta-analytic review of randomized clinical trials of online treatments for anxiety: Inclusion/exclusion criteria, uptake, adherence, dropout, and clinical outcomes	10
Does a unique co-occurring OCD and PTSD factor structure exist?: Examination of overlapping OCD and PTSD symptom clusters	10
Ecological anxiety and pro-environmental behaviour: The role of attention	10
Tri-level anxiety and depression symptom trajectory in adolescents: The role of emotion regulation diversity	10
Editorial Board	10
A novel computer task to assess outcome probability bias	10
Symptom distress and psychosocial functioning improve bidirectionally during cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders	10
Daily-life reactivity and emotion regulation in children with social anxiety disorder	10
School-based supports and accommodations among anxious youth in treatment	10
Editorial Board	10
Circulating endocannabinoids and psychological outcomes in women with PTSD	10
Savoring meditation for emotional disorders: Targeting positive emotion regulation deficits	10
Impact of youth and caregiver worries about treatment on therapeutic process factors and posttreatment outcomes	10
Cannabis use and trauma-focused treatment for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of individual patient data	10