OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Current Directions in Psychological Science is 31. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Narcissism Today: What We Know and What We Need to Learn	123
The Role of Parent Educational Attainment in Parenting and Children’s Development	98
The Major Health Implications of Social Connection	92
Developmental Variability and Developmental Cascades: Lessons From Motor and Language Development in Infancy	75
Attention Control: A Cornerstone of Higher-Order Cognition	67
The Vicious Cycle Linking Stereotypes and Social Roles	66
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science	66
A Developmental-Science Perspective on Social Inequality	64
Why Facts Are Not Enough: Understanding and Managing the Motivated Rejection of Science	61
Progress in Joint-Action Research	61
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC): Progress and Potential	60
Do Social Networking Sites Influence Well-Being? The Extended Active-Passive Model	57
Influences of Caregiving on Development: A Sensitive Period for Biological Embedding of Predictability and Safety Cues	53
Drinking Together and Drinking Alone: A Social-Contextual Framework for Examining Risk for Alcohol Use Disorder	52
Taking Skills Seriously: Toward an Integrative Model and Agenda for Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Skills	51
Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration	49
Neuroticism and Disorders of Emotion: A New Synthesis	49
Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes	47
The Missing Side of Acculturation: How Majority-Group Members Relate to Immigrant and Minority-Group Cultures	46
Mindfulness and Motivation: A Process View Using Self-Determination Theory	43
A Transdiagnostic Perspective on Youth Irritability	41
Vitamin S: Why Is Social Contact, Even With Strangers, So Important to Well-Being?	40
Personality Change Through Digital-Coaching Interventions	40
Shared Reality: From Sharing-Is-Believing to Merging Minds	39
A Grand Challenge for Psychology: Reducing the Age-Related Digital Divide	38

Decomposing the Motivation to Exert Mental Effort	36
Learning by Drawing Visual Representations: Potential, Purposes, and Practical Implications	34
From Stress to Depression: Bringing Together Cognitive and Biological Science	33
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens	32
Concepts for Which We Need Others More: The Case of Abstract Concepts	31
Forms and Functions of the Social Emotions	31