OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Psychotherapy Research is 20. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
The Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences: Measurement invariance across international datasets and languages	143
Self-efficacy, motivation, social support, and alliance as predictors of youth psychotherapy outcomes in usual care	64
The association between therapist internal relational models, professional self-doubt, and coping strategies and the process and outcome of psychotherapy	56
A pilot and feasibility study of Sage: A couple therapy for borderline personality disorder	54
“Picking up the pieces”: Patients’ retrospective reflections of rupture resolution episodes during treatment	46
Target validation in dialectical behavior therapy skills group: Emotion regulation, mindfulness, and distress tolerance as mediators of outcome	34
Agreement in patient-therapist alliance ratings and its relation to dropout and outcome in a large sample of cognitive behavioral therapy for panic disorder	33
Therapists’ and patients’ experiences of using patients’ self-reported data in ongoing psychotherapy processes—A systematic review and meta-analysis of qualitative studies	33
Maladaptive defense mechanisms moderate treatment outcome in 6 months versus 12 months dialectical-behavior therapy for borderline personality disorder	33
Hope predicts long-term well-being following cognitive behavioral therapy for anxiety and related disorders	27
Smaller effects matter in the psychological therapies: 25 years on from Wampold et al. (1997)	25
Client perspectives on psychotherapy failure	25
Profiles of mentalizing in individuals with antisocial behavior: comparing state- and trait-mentalizing	25
Exploring the attitudes toward receiving information on potential negative effects of psychological treatments: A mixed-methods study	24
Development and validation of countertransference feeling and behavior awareness measures in an Italian and American clinician sample	24
Breakthroughs in emotional awareness: Exploring sudden gains in internet-based psychodynamic therapy for depressed adolescents	24
Group schema therapy for personality disorders: Systematic review, research agenda and treatment implications	23
Quasi-randomized trial of solution-focused brief therapy intervention for readiness to change and alcohol and other drug use in a Brazilian community-based treatment center	23
“It felt like I was being tailored to the treatment rather than the treatment being tailored to me”: Patient experiences of helpful and unhelpful psychotherapy	21
What to think or how to think – is symptom reduction in posttraumatic symptomatology associated with change in posttraumatic cognitions or perseverative thinking? A latent change score model approach	20
Vindicating pollyanna? An experimental test of cognitive restructuring and positive thinking interventions	20
Predictors of homework engagement in group CBT for social anxiety: client beliefs about homework, its consequences, group cohesion, and working alliance	20
Targeting mechanisms of change as a path to precision psychotherapy for community settings	20