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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Symptom networks of COVID-19-related versus other potentially traumatic events in a global sample	54
Fear of pain as a predictor of concurrent and downstream PTSD symptoms	53
Things You Do: A randomized controlled trial of an unguided ultra-brief intervention to reduce symptoms of depression and anxiety	52
Understanding veteran barriers to specialty outpatient PTSD clinical care	50
Correlates of treatment seeking in individuals with social anxiety disorder: Findings from a nationally representative sample	47
A randomized controlled trial evaluating the efficacy of a brief computerized anxiety sensitivity reduction intervention for health anxiety	46
Changes and persistence in heart rate variability before and during social stress: A comparison of individuals with and without social anxiety disorder	46
Increased self-reported reward responsiveness predicts better response to cognitive behavioral therapy for youth with anxiety	44
Social anxiety disorder in adolescents: Prevalence and subtypes in the Young-HUNT3 study	44
Parent-coached exposure therapy versus cognitive behavior therapy for childhood anxiety disorders	41
Context as a barrier: Impaired contextual processing increases the tendency to develop PTSD symptoms across repeated exposure to trauma	37
360° Video virtual reality exposure therapy for public speaking anxiety: A randomized controlled trial	37
Editorial Board	36
Predictors of clinical worsening during a discontinuation trial of serotonin reuptake inhibitors for obsessive compulsive disorder	36
Editorial Board	34
Fear of positive evaluation and social affiliation in social anxiety disorder and major depression	33
Choosing certainty over risk: Associations of PTSD symptom severity with memory sampling during experiential decision making	33
Assessing parental cognitions about child anxiety: Are parents’ thoughts about child anxiety associated with child anxiety and anxiety sensitivity?	33
Association between negative parent-related family interactions and child social anxiety: A cross-cultural systematic review and meta-analysis	31
A systematic review and meta-analysis of PTSD symptoms at mid-treatment during trauma-focused treatment for PTSD	31
Are psychological interventions for adult PTSD more efficacious and acceptable when treatment is delivered in higher frequency? A meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	30
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	30
Psychological interventions for pre-event and post-event rumination in social anxiety: A systematic review and meta-analysis	30
A scientometric and descriptive review on the debate about repressed memories and traumatic forgetting	29
Anxiety and depressive symptoms in U.S. Census Bureau assessments of adults: Trends from 2019 to fall 2020 across demographic groups	29

Excessive avoidance bias towards uncertain faces in non-clinical social anxiety individuals	29
The effect of aerobic exercise alone and in combination with cognitive behavioural therapy on obsessive compulsive disorder: A randomized control study	27
The roles of disgust sensitivity and anxiety sensitivity in attentional bias in dental anxiety	26
Relationship between anxiety sensitivity and post-traumatic stress symptoms in trauma-exposed adults: A meta-analysis	26
Limited consensus on what climate anxiety is: Insights from content overlap analysis on 12 questionnaires	25
Man vs. machine: A comparison of human and computer assessment of nonverbal behavior in social anxiety disorder	25
Intensive treatments for children and adolescents with anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorders: A systematic review and meta-analysis	24
Group schema therapy versus group cognitive behavioral therapy for patients with social anxiety disorder and comorbid avoidant personality disorder: A randomized controlled trial	23
Editorial Board	23
Longitudinal changes in the PTSD symptom network following trauma-focused treatment in military populations: Identifying central symptoms and the role of military sexual trauma	22
Treating child anxiety using family-based internet delivered cognitive behavior therapy with brief therapist guidance: A randomized controlled trial	22
Treating specific phobia in youth: A randomized controlled microtrial comparing gradual exposure in large steps to exposure in small steps	22
Technology supported mindfulness for obsessive compulsive disorder: The role of obsessive beliefs	21
Identifying trajectories of symptom change in adults with obsessive compulsive disorder receiving exposure and response prevention therapy	21
Computationally derived parent-child interaction patterns and oxytocin in children with and without OCD	21
Intolerance of uncertainty, anxiety sensitivity, and health anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic: Exploring temporal relationships using cross-lag analysis	21
Intolerance of uncertainty, posttraumatic stress, depression, and fears for the future among displaced refugees	20
Climate change anxiety positively predicts antenatal distress in expectant female parents	20
Longitudinal trajectory and predictors of change in family accommodation during exposure therapy for pediatric OCD	20
Acute stress and PTSD among trauma-exposed children and adolescents: Computational prediction and interpretation	18
Disgust in anxiety-related psychopathology	18
Latent stability and change in subgroups of social anxiety and depressive symptoms in adolescence: A latent profile and transitional analysis	18
Contrast avoidance prospectively mediates effects of fear of emotional responding, negative problem orientation, and sensitivity to low perceived control on generalized anxiety disorder symptoms	18
Comparing symptom networks of daytime and nocturnal panic attacks in a community-based sample	18
Investigating the under-recognition of childbirth-related post-traumatic stress disorder among the public and mental health professionals	18
Disentangling the mediating role of modifying interpretation bias on emotional distress using a novel cognitive bias modification program	18
Psychophysiological assessment of stress reactivity and recovery in anxiety disorders	18
Editorial Board	17
Editorial Board	17
Cannabis use and social anxiety disorder in emerging adulthood: Results from a nationally representative sample	17
Values- versus monetary reward-enhanced exposure therapy for the treatment of social anxiety in emerging adulthood	16
An Intensive time series investigation of the relationships across eating disorder-specific fear responses and behavior urges in partially remitted anorexia nervosa	16
When a nightmare comes true: Change in obsessive-compulsive disorder over the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic	16
Editorial Board	16
Internet-delivered cognitive-behaviour therapy (ICBT) for obsessive-compulsive disorder when delivered as routine clinical care: A phase IV clinical trial	15
Mindfulness- and acceptance-based programmes for obsessive-compulsive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	15
The effects of intelligence on exposure to combat and posttraumatic stress disorder across multiple deployments	15
Moderators of PTSD symptom change in group cognitive behavioral therapy and group present centered therapy	15
Treatment outcome of posttraumatic stress disorder: A white matter tract analysis	15
Emotion regulation difficulties in children and adolescents with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A multi-informant and multi-method study	15
The efficacy of psychotherapy for social anxiety disorder, a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
Unpacking parental accommodation: Relationship to parent distress tolerance and cognitive styles	15
Eye-tracking indices of attention allocation and attention bias variability are differently related to trauma exposure and PTSD	15
Savoring, worry, and positive emotion duration in generalized anxiety disorder: Assessment and interventional experiment	15
Delayed reward discounting and increased risk for suicide attempts among U.S. adults with probable PTSD	15
Psychometric properties of the state Probability and Consequences Questionnaire for social anxiety disorder	14
Catching a (sine) wave: Temporal dynamics of nonverbal synchrony in social anxiety disorder	14
Editorial Board	14
Longitudinal relationships between COVID-19 preventative behaviors and perceived vulnerability to disease	14
Editorial Board	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
Personalized stress optimization intervention to reduce adolescents’ anxiety: A randomized controlled trial leveraging machine learning	13
Positive emotion dysregulation and posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms: Investigating the role of anxiety sensitivity	13
The uptake and outcomes of Internet-based cognitive behavioural therapy for health anxiety symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Epidemiology of DSM-5 PTSD and ICD-11 PTSD and complex PTSD in the Netherlands	12
Hair pulling disorder and skin picking disorder have relatively limited associations with negative emotionality: A meta-analytic comparison across obsessive-compulsive and related disorders	12
Pediatric anxiety associated with altered facial emotion recognition	12
Is cyberchondria specific to hypochondriasis?	12
A meta-analytic review of cognitive processing therapy with and without the written account	11
Disgust and fear reactions uniquely affect intrusions and posttraumatic stress symptoms	11
"And then one day you find ten years have got behind you": Reflections on a Decade as Editor-in-Chief	11
Predicting COVID-19-related anxiety: The role of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions, anxiety sensitivity, and body vigilance	11
Risky business: Considerations of emotion regulation and high-risk behaviors in anxious adolescents	10
Name avoidance in social anxiety: Understanding alexinomia	10
Reducing contrast avoidance in GAD by savoring positive emotions: Outcome and mediation in a randomized controlled trial	10
A meta-analysis of mentalizing in anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related disorders, and trauma and stressor related disorders	10
Adverse childhood experiences, adult anxiety and social capital among women in rural Kenya	10
Predicting treatment outcomes in patients with panic disorder: Cross-sectional and two-year longitudinal structural connectome analysis using machine learning methods	10
COVID stress in older adults: Considerations during the Omicron wave and beyond	10
Editorial Board	10
The relationship of posttraumatic stress disorder and developmental trauma disorder with childhood psychopathology: A network analysis	10
A novel probe of attentional bias for threat in specific phobia: Application of the “MouseView.js” approach	9
Psychometric evaluation of the Adjustment Disorder New Module-20 (ADNM-20): A multi-study analysis	9
Cannabis use and trauma-focused treatment for co-occurring posttraumatic stress disorder and substance use disorders: A meta-analysis of individual patient data	9
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	9
Anxiety disorders among adolescents and young adults: Prevalence and mental health care service utilization in a regional epidemiological study in Germany	9
Corrigendum to “Reward processes in extinction learning and applications to exposure therapy” [Journal of Anxiety Disorders 106 (2024) 102911]	9
Incorporating community-level risk factors into traumatic stress research: Adopting a public health lens	9
Daily-life reactivity and emotion regulation in children with social anxiety disorder	9