OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychotherapy Research is 16. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder	95
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	33
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy	31
Therapist in-session feelings predict change in depressive symptoms in interpersonal and brief relational psychotherapy	31
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	29
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	28
Target validation in dialectical behavior therapy skills group: Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance as mediators of outcome	26
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	22
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	22
Profiles of mentalizing in individuals with antisocial behavior: comparing state- and trait-mentalizing	21
Symptom reduction in DBT-informed partial hospital, intensive outpatient, and step-down programs: Mindfulness matters	18
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	17
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	17
Hope predicts long-term well-being following cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders	16
How does hostile resistance interfere with the benefits of cognitive–behavioral therapy for panic disorder? The role of therapist adherence and working alliance	16
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	16
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	16