OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Constructivist Psychology is 2. 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 Usefulness of Tattoo Narratives for Expressing Life-Story Constructs	50
How does change occur in psychotherapy? Innovative moments predict stronger therapeutic alliance and functional improvement in a psychodynamic case study	15
On the Relation Between Ego-Development and Life Focus in Adult Development	9
Constructions of Genocide	8
Internal Dialogical Activity and How to Measure It: Internal Dialogical Activity Scale-Revised	7
Responses to Killing in State-Sanctioned and Unsanctioned Killers: Pathways of Construing	7
The Encounter With the Other: The Space Where Love and Threat Confront Each Other	6
Review of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture	5
Taking Mental Health Practices into Social Realities. A Trialogue Between Open Dialogue, Recovery Capital and Power Threat Meaning Framework	5
Review of Coaching Psychology: Constructivist Approaches	5
Narrative Identity through a Constructivist Lens: Introduction	5
Commentary: Still Becoming – The Ongoing Emergence of Personal Construct Psychology in a Fragmented Century	5
Assimilation Theory and the Essence of Constructivism	5
Role of Reflective Writing: A First Person Inquiry into the Therapist Self	5
Learning What Leadership Is: A Qualitative Study into the Construction of Implicit Leadership Theories in Children	4
Re-Engaging Tensions within Narrative Threads: Ethical Obligations, Researcher Identity, and Methodological Meaning Making	4
Consolidated Gains, Remaining Challenges: Commentary on “Fostering Creative Dialogues Through Imagery and Body Work in Metacognitive Interpersonal Therapy”	4
“Take off the Chains and Have Room to Think:” Constructing Identity Within Conflicting Religious and Sexual Frameworks	4
Constructing Existential Uncertainty in the Cancer Context: A Deductive Thematic Analysis	4
Emerging Meaning-Making: Combining Qualitative Methods in a Study of Women’s Ambivalence Toward Makeup	4
REVIEW0014Constructing Meaning across Contexts & Generations	4
Self-Construction Discrepancies and Their Relationship with Emotional and Physical Pain: A Study Involving Women with Fibromyalgia	4
A Social Constructionist Model of Mental Load: An Interdisciplinary Definition and Framework	3
The Relevance of Conversational Domains to Psychotherapy	3
Radicalized Trump Supporters: Construing, Identity Fusion, and Hypothetical and Actual Extremism	3

Narcissus Beyond the Mirror: A Relational Reading of Constrained Identity	3
Applications of Dialogical Self Theory to Psychotherapy: A State-of-the-Art Review	3
Internal Dialogues in Grief—an Analysis of Language	3
Identification, Similarity and Understanding in Female Same-Sex Couples: A Dyadic Study	3
The Dialogical Self and Transgender Identity: How Filipino Transgender Men Navigate Tensions between I-Positions	3
Nuancing Our Psychological Vocabularies Review of The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows , by John Koenig, 2021, $16.99 Hardc	3
The Impact of Presenting Borderline Personality Disorder Using the Power Threat Meaning Framework Versus a Psychiatric Diagnosis on Laypersons’ Stigmatizing Attitudes	3
It’s a (Half)Marathon: A Duoethnography of Two Chinese Female Scholars’ Intersectional Precarity in U.S. Academia	3
Clinician Experiences of Identity Change When Implementing or Training in Open Dialogue: A Systematic Review and Meta-Ethnography	2
Social Representation of Global Climate Change: An Exploratory Study Focusing on Emotions	2
Narcissus-the-Scientist: An Alternative Methodology to Examine Narcissists’ Self-Identities	2
Dialogical Self Theory: Playing with Positions Seriously	2
Dialogues between Distanced and Suffering I-Positions: Emotional Consequences and Self-Compassion	2
Personal Construct Psychology – Still Going Strong at 70?	2
Loneliness and Parental Separation: A Narrative Approach	2
The Journey of Self-Identity in Language Learning: Perceptions of Actual and Ideal L2 Selves Among University Foreign Language Students in Russia	2
Building Citizenship: An Experiential Awareness Intervention for Mental Health Professionals	2
Innovative Moments and the Process of Change in the Treatment of Bulimia Nervosa	2
Two Types of Inner Conflicts and Their Trait-Specific Correlates: Neuroticism, Extraversion, and Openness	2
A Dialogical Self Approach to Self-Innovation and Narrative Continuity in Retirement From Elite Sport	2
The Meaning Sextet: A Systematic Literature Review and Further Validation of a Universal Typology of Meaning in Life	2
Negotiating Normalcy and Patienthood: A Dialectical View of Mental Illness Narratives Among Indian Women with Psychiatric Diagnoses	2
Self-Talk Functions in Travelers	2
Construing, Depression, and Somatization in Mothers in Taiwan	2
Different Maps, Same Territory: Dialogical Self Theory and its Predecessors	2
Invalidating Environment and Clinical Symptoms: The Moderator Role of Meaning in Life	2
From Conflict and Suppression to Reflection: Longitudinal Analysis of Multivoicedness in Clients Experiencing Depression	2
Effects of Priming Different I-Positions on Motor Behavior	2