OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory & Psychology is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	63
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	38
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	33
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	15
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	14
Conceptualising the digital “subject”: A Deleuzoguattarian framing of social media, desire and becoming in psychotherapeutic assemblages	13
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	13
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	12
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	10
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	10
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	10
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	9
Imagination in perception and art	9
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	9
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	8
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	8
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	8
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	7
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	7
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	7
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	7
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness	6
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	6
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6

Existential origins of endogenous and exogenous psychosis: A phenomenological inquiry into uncanny and twilight atmospheres	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	5
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	5
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
Lacan after Heidegger	5
Social technologies in and out of psychology	4
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	4
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	4
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	4
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	4
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	4
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	3
Wise thoughts on phronesis	3
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	3
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	3
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	3
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	3
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	3
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	3
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	3
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	3
Analysing films to rethink the psychology of time	3