OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Theory & Psychology is 4. 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 2022-07-01 to 2026-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Depth of the self: Implicit motives and human flourishing. Introduction to the special section	49
Psychologisation of cinema: The work of Val del Omar (1904–1982)	37
From the proscenium: The influence of Konstantin Stanislavski and the psychology of acting in Vygotsky’s work	23
Considerations on Behavior Based on Merleau-Ponty’s Criticisms	18
The Gibsonian movement and Koffka’s Principles of Gestalt Psychology	17
Liberation in the hall of mirrors	16
Searching for rightness: Ecological perspectives on realizing values in acting and perceiving	13
Conceptualising the digital “subject”: A Deleuzoguattarian framing of social media, desire and becoming in psychotherapeutic assemblages	11
The power to promise and forgive: Stabilizers of action and the moral ecology	11
Epistemic disagreement in psychopathology research and practice: A procedural model	11
Gordon Pask’s second-order cybernetics and Lev Vygotsky’s cultural historical theory: Understanding the role of the internet in developing human thinking	10
Misogyny as Hierarchy Reinforcement: Towards an Integrated Framework of Gender Hierarchy Maintenance Mechanisms	10
Tools of the data detective: A review of statistical methods to detect data and result anomalies in psychology	10
What is so special about conspiracy theories? Conceptually distinguishing beliefs in conspiracy theories from conspiracy beliefs in psychological research	10
The organismic theory of development: Romantic roots of a vital concept	10
Affective experience in neuroscience and phenomenology: An epistemological analysis of emotions and feelings	10
The impact of neoliberalism on psychological research and practice	9
Existential moods as resonances of being: Anchoring existential psychology in nature—An outline	9
Imagination in perception and art	8
Rethinking “transfer” in the transgenerational transmission of trauma: A qualitative study of the 1984 anti-Sikh violence	8
Navigating the dynamic complexities of human processes	8
The importance of interdisciplinarity in research: A response to Stenner	8
Carl Rogers’ struggle to be “real” and its implications for understanding psychologists’ life–work connections and sociocultural impact	7
Estranging intersectionality: A call for context-sensitive applications of intersectionality for non-capitalist and non-democratic regimes	7
Existential origins of endogenous and exogenous psychosis: A phenomenological inquiry into uncanny and twilight atmospheres	7

Making therapy more transparent: On Kevin R. Smith’s therapeutic ethics	7
Ab-normalising projects of third culture kid identity: Troubling the god trick	7
Wundt’s logic: Old resource for new ideas	6
Acknowledgement of editorial consultants	6
Advancing a cultural–historical activity perspective in a psychodynamic-oriented psychotherapy training programme	6
Neonihilism: Meaninglessness and irony in neoliberal capitalism	6
“Their voice becomes my voice”: Understanding the development of the dialogical self through the internalization of voices in group psychotherapy	6
Facing up to the hardest problem: The human information field and the ontological primacy of subjective consciousness	6
Iconic models in science and psychology	5
Reclaiming care toward disability justice	5
Trapped or Free? Fanon and Lacan on Psychosis and Alienation	5
Moral breakdowns and their (failed) repair: The role of socionormative concerns in ressentiment formation	5
Chains of reasons: Exploring structural conditions by analysing subjective reasons	5
The narrative structure of working cognition: Combining the Theory of Narrative Thought and Conviction Narrative Theory	5
Habitus, Field, and the Broader Autism Phenotype: Toward a Structural Account of Neurodivergence Beyond Diagnosis	5
Introduction: Theorizing the psychology of deglobalization	5
Beyond an abstract and technical conception of psychotherapy: The indispensable role of practical wisdom	5
Hysteria in empathy: Understanding virtual companionship and emotional connection between humans and Al	5
Challenging (the History of) Psychology: Rewriting Psychology as a Feminist Practice	5
The Retreat to Positionality Statements: A Critique of the Assumptions (And How to Avoid Making Them)	4
“For the first time someone understood”: A study of noncoherence and heterogeneity in a Swedish autism support and advocacy association	4
Return to reality: What does the world ask of us?	4
Theoretical statements on life projects: A scoping review	4
An ontology of difference: Speculations on psychotherapy, mental health work, difference, and ethical realism	4
Social technologies in and out of psychology	4
From cinema to the lab: Psychological experiments as liminal affective technologies	4
Causal inference: Principles unifying experimental and observational accounts	4
Chasing complexity in metaphor research: A response to Thibodeau (2022)	4
Analysing films to rethink the psychology of time	4