OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychological Science is 30. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Doubling-Back Aversion: A Reluctance to Make Progress by Undoing It	116
People Endorse Harsher Policies in Principle Than in Practice: Asymmetric Beliefs About Which Errors to Prevent Versus Fix	70
Disagreeing Perspectives Enhance Inner-Crowd Wisdom for Difficult (but Not Easy) Questions	68
The 2008 Great Recession Lowered Americans’ Class Identity	58
Fidelity Versus Validity Using Anendophasia as an Example: Commentary on Nedergaard and Lupyan (2024) and Lind (2025)	56
*Social Rewards Protection Theory: Why People Morally Derogate Prosocial Actors for Undisclosed Personal Benefits	56
No Appreciable Effect of Education on Aging-Associated Declines in Cognition: A 20-Year Follow-Up Study	54
No(cebo) Vax: COVID-19 Vaccine Beliefs Are Important Determinants of Both Occurrence and Perceived Severity of Common Vaccines’ Adverse Effects	54
Bidirectional Relationships Between Well-Being and Cognitive Function	53
Stepping Up to the Mic: Gender Gaps in Participation in Live Question-and-Answer Sessions at Academic Conferences	52
On the Efficacy of Accuracy Prompts Across Partisan Lines: An Adversarial Collaboration	50
Electroencephalogram Decoding Reveals Distinct Processes for Directing Spatial Attention and Encoding Into Working Memory	49
Autistic Traits Modulate Social Synchronizations Between School-Aged Children: Insights From Three fNIRS Hyperscanning Experiments	45
Distinct Inhibitory-Control Processes Underlie Children’s Judgments of Fairness	43
Susceptibility to Attentional Capture by Target-Matching Distractors Predicts High Visual Working Memory Capacity	43
Invariant Recognition Memory Spaces for Real-World Objects Revealed With Signal-Detection Analysis	43
People Have Systematically Different Ownership Intuitions in Seemingly Simple Cases	42
Oppressed Groups Engender Implicit Positivity: Seven Demonstrations Using Novel and Familiar Targets	42
Biases in Improvement Decisions: People Focus on the Relative Reduction in Bad Outcomes	39
Cultures in Water-Scarce Environments Are More Long-Term Oriented	39
Peripheral Visual Information Halves Attentional Choice Biases	37
*Co-Occurrence and Causality Among ADHD, Dyslexia, and Dyscalculia	37
Motive Alignment Promotes Adolescents’ Proenvironmental Behavior: A Field Experiment in Two Cultures	34
Learning-Induced Plasticity Enhances the Capacity of Visual Working Memory	32
Recognition of Masked Faces in the Era of the Pandemic: No Improvement Despite Extensive Natural Exposure	32

Mugs and Plants: Object Semantic Knowledge Alters Perceptual Processing With Behavioral Ramifications	32
Radial Bias Alters Perceived Object Orientation	31
Reducing Facial Stereotype Bias in Consequential Social Judgments: Intervention Success With White Male Faces	30
Personalized Prediction of Behaviors and Experiences: An Idiographic Person–Situation Test	30
Ambivalent Sexism and Tolerance of Violence Against Women in India	30
Does Income Inequality Predict Adolescent Depressive Symptoms?	30