OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychological Science is 33. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Fighting COVID-19 Misinformation on Social Media: Experimental Evidence for a Scalable Accuracy-Nudge Intervention	837
What Is the Test-Retest Reliability of Common Task-Functional MRI Measures? New Empirical Evidence and a Meta-Analysis	399
The Emotional Path to Action: Empathy Promotes Physical Distancing and Wearing of Face Masks During the COVID-19 Pandemic	309
Beyond Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) Psychology: Measuring and Mapping Scales of Cultural and Psychological Distance	274
Age Advantages in Emotional Experience Persist Even Under Threat From the COVID-19 Pandemic	153
Early Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Relationship Satisfaction and Attributions	106
People Reject Algorithms in Uncertain Decision Domains Because They Have Diminishing Sensitivity to Forecasting Error	93
Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work	78
Bilingualism Affords No General Cognitive Advantages: A Population Study of Executive Function in 11,000 People	76
A Multisite Preregistered Paradigmatic Test of the Ego-Depletion Effect	71
Changing Social Contexts to Foster Equity in College Science Courses: An Ecological-Belonging Intervention	68
Universal Patterns in Color-Emotion Associations Are Further Shaped by Linguistic and Geographic Proximity	68
Functional MRI Can Be Highly Reliable, but It Depends on What You Measure: A Commentary on Elliott et al. (2020)	67
Polluted Psyche: Is the Effect of Air Pollution on Unethical Behavior More Physiological or Psychological?	64
Comparison of Adopted and Nonadopted Individuals Reveals Gene–Environment Interplay for Education in the UK Biobank	63
Gender Stereotypes in Natural Language: Word Embeddings Show Robust Consistency Across Child and Adult Language Corpora of More Than 65 Million Words	62
Strong Effort Manipulations Reduce Response Caution: A Preregistered Reinvention of the Ego-Depletion Paradigm	59
Relational Mobility Predicts Faster Spread of COVID-19: A 39-Country Study	53
How Accurate Are Accuracy-Nudge Interventions? A Preregistered Direct Replication of Pennycook et al. (2020)	52
The Bilingual Advantage in Children’s Executive Functioning Is Not Related to Language Status: A Meta-Analytic Review	52
Behavioral Immune Trade-Offs: Interpersonal Value Relaxes Social Pathogen Avoidance	51
Minding Your Own Business? Mindfulness Decreases Prosocial Behavior for People With Independent Self-Construals	48
Revisiting the Integration Hypothesis: Correlational and Longitudinal Meta-Analyses Demonstrate the Limited Role of Acculturation for Cross-Cultural Adaptation	48
The Experience of Empathy in Everyday Life	46
Preverbal Infants Discover Statistical Word Patterns at Similar Rates as Adults: Evidence From Neural Entrainment	43

Does Happiness Improve Health? Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial	43
Anxiety Impedes Adaptive Social Learning Under Uncertainty	41
Children Prioritize Humans Over Animals Less Than Adults Do	41
Training for Wisdom: The Distanced-Self-Reflection Diary Method	39
Responsible Use of Open-Access Developmental Data: The Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Study	37
Aging Increases Prosocial Motivation for Effort	36
The Development of Intersectional Social Prototypes	34
Playing With Fear: A Field Study in Recreational Horror	33