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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Denying Descartes and wary of Wittgenstein: Response to Franz	61
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	34
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	30
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	19
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	17
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	15
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	12
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	12
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	11
Imagination in perception and art	10
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	10
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	10
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	9
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	8
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	8
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	7
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	7
Imaginary friend play in light of enactivism	7
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
Autism in the interstices: Toward an ethical understanding of autistic cultural worlds	6
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	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
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	6

Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	6
Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	6
The role of education in neoliberal selfhood	6
Iconic models in science and psychology	6
“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
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
“Are psychological attributes quantitative?” is not an empirical question: Conceptual confusions in the measurement debate	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
The autistic mirror in the real: Autism in Lacan’s mirror stage	4
The oughtness of existence: Living and suffering by what we ought	4
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	4
On the ontology of language: A critique of trait theory	4
Lacan after Heidegger	4
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	4
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	4
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	4
Wise thoughts on phronesis	3
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	3
Social technologies in and out of psychology	3
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	3
The evil within: The AMORAL model of dark creativity	3
Safety and contagion in acute psychiatric wards: How the milieu is implicated in the occurrence of clustered safety incidents	3
Communication in youth mental health clinical encounters: Introducing the agential stance	3
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	3
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	3
Identifying and mapping professional identities among Swedish ambulance nurses: A multiple qualitative case study	3
The role of inferences in reading comprehension: A critical analysis	3
Behavioral illusions: The Snark is a Boojum	3
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	3
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	3