OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory & Psychology is 2. 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
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	57
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	28
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	27
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	18
Border identities: Theoretical approach to the study of self from bordering processes	16
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	15
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	12
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	11
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	8
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	8
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	8
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	7
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	7
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	7
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	7
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	7
The trees and the forest: Investigating variability surrounding an aggregate result	6
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	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
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6

Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	6
The problematic concrete individual implied by scientific realism	5
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	5
Applications of cybernetics to psychological theory: Historical and conceptual explorations	5
Describing disorder: The importance and advancement of compositional explanations in psychopathology	5
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	5
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
Autism in the interstices: Toward an ethical understanding of autistic cultural worlds	5
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	4
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	4
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	4
Lacan after Heidegger	4
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	3
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	3
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	3
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	3
Moral affordance, moral expertise, and virtue	3
Narrating the zone of proximal goodness	3
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	3
Making sense of signs: Readjusting William Stern’s personological value theory	2
A cautionary note on aggregation in educational psychology and beyond	2
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	2
Social technologies in and out of psychology	2
Emergence, convergence, and theory of mind	2
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	2
Deglobalization and the political psychology of white supremacy	2
Contrasts and synergies: A comment on Jones (2022)	2
A neurophenomenological theory of the three worlds	2
Joseph Delboeuf on time as the mechanism of free will	2
Against the reduction of teleology to sophisticated causal explanation	2
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	2
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	2
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	2
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	2
The autistic pseudosignifier: Imaginary dialectization of signs in the clinic of autism	2
Psychology: Where history, culture, and biology meet	2
Wise thoughts on phronesis	2
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	2
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	2
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	2
Realism and symbolic systems in the practice of scientific psychology	2
On Simpson’s paradox: To remain or not to remain a population-based science	2
“The art of imposing measurement upon the mind”: Sir Francis Galton and the genesis of the psychometric paradigm	2