OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal of Clinical and Health Psychology is 3. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Benchmarks for dialectical behavioural therapy intervention in adults and adolescents with borderline personality symptoms	148
Reduced stereotypicality and spared use of facial expression predictions for social evaluation in autism	59
Impact of COVID-19 on psychological wellbeing	57
Superhero in a skirt: Psychological resilience of Ukrainian refugee women in Poland. A thematic analysis	48
Mindfulness on Daily Life Coping in People Experiencing Psychosis: A Randomized Controlled Trial	45
Glucose metabolism, hippocampal subfields and cognition in first-episode and never-treated schizophrenia	42
Neuroticism, rumination, depression and suicidal ideation: A moderated serial mediation model across four countries	42
Concurrent TMS-EEG and EEG reveal neuroplastic and oscillatory changes associated with self-compassion and negative emotions	38
Loneliness among single and coupled individuals in response to the COVID-19 pandemic: A cross-country analysis	36
Measuring everyday adaptation after imprisonment: The post-release living inventory for ex-prisoners (PORLI-ex)	32
Applicability of the cognitive model of generalized anxiety disorder to adolescents’ sleep quality: A cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis	31
Transcranial direct current stimulation versus intermittent theta-burst stimulation for the improvement of working memory performance	31
Establishing the relevance of psychological determinants regarding physical activity in people with overweight and obesity	30
Table tennis experience enhances motor control in older adults: Insights into sensorimotor-related cortical connectivity	27
Nodes of the default mode network implicated in the quality of empathic responses: A clinical perspective of the empathic response	26
A short screen for lifetime sexual victimization experiences: Expanding research on the Sexual Abuse History Questionnaire (SAHQ) across cultures, genders, and sexual identities	25
High-intensity interval training (HIIT) and slow breathing interventions alleviate premature ejaculation (PE) symptoms	23
Relations between childhood psychological maltreatment and mental health dimensions within a higher-order model	23
The (In)flexible self: Psychopathology, mindfulness, and neuroscience	22
Mind matters: A narrative review on affective state-dependency in non-invasive brain stimulation	20
Stressful Life Events and Distress in Breast Cancer: A 5-Years Follow-Up	19
The role of sexual communication in the relationship between emotion regulation and sexual functioning in women: The impact of age and relationship status	19
The effects of stimulating the cerebellum on social sequences: A tDCS-fMRI pilot study	19
Reduction mammoplasty, self-esteem, and sexual desire: A pre-post intervention study	19
Impact of mindfulness and self-compassion on anxiety and depression: The mediating role of resilience	18

Risky decision-making in major depressive disorder: A three-level meta-analysis	17
Effects of aerobic exercise on cognitive function in adults with major depressive disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis	17
Transcutaneous auricular vagus nerve stimulation enhanced emotional inhibitory control via increasing intrinsic prefrontal couplings	17
Cognitive interventions for healthy older adults: A systematic meta-review	17
Mindfulness-based psychotherapy in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder: A meta-analytical Study	17
Digital empowerment in mental health: A meta-analysis of internet-based interventions for enhancing mental health literacy	16
COVID-19 pandemic impact on family life and exacerbated emotional and behavioral health among preschool children: A longitudinal study	16
Adult attachment style, perceived social support, and post-traumatic stress among female victims of sexual assault	16
Alteration of hypnotic experience following transcranial electrical stimulation of the left prefrontal cortex	15
The paradox of social avoidance and the yearning for understanding: Elevated interbrain synchrony among socially avoidant individuals during expression of negative emotions	15
Trait self-compassion enhances activation in the medial prefrontal cortex during fear extinction: An fNIRS study	14
The mental health-related barriers and benefits to exercise in adults with and without chronic pain	14
Transitioning from perceived stress to mental health: The mediating role of self-control in a longitudinal investigation with MRI scans	14
Differential associations of leisure music engagement with resilience: A network analysis	14
Stress-Related Growth Scale-Short Form: A Portuguese validation for cancer patients	13
Transdiagnostic study of dynamic brain activity and connectivity among people with gambling and internet gaming disorders	13
ABCDE-Psy: Primary assessment scale of acute stress response to critical and potentially traumatic events	13
Interoception primes negative emotion processing during cognitive reappraisal: Electroencephalographical evidence	13
Demoralization in acute coronary syndrome: Treatment and predictive factors associated with its persistence	13
Spanish adaptation and validation of sexual distress scale in Colombian population	13
A longitudinal study of preadolescent and adolescent substance use: Within-individual patterns and protective factors	13
Volume of the Dentate Gyrus/CA4 Hippocampal subfield mediates the interplay between sleep quality and depressive symptoms	13
Relationship (in)congruency may differently impact mental health	12
Effects of Smoking Social Cues on Inhibitory Control in Smokers: An Event-Related Potential Study	12
Attentional bias to infant faces might be associated with previous care experiences and involvement in childcare in same-sex mothers	12
Dreaming during a pandemic: Low incorporation of COVID-19-specific themes and lucidity in dreams of psychiatric patients and healthy controls	12
An application of the stress-diathesis model: A review about the association between smoking tobacco, smoking cessation, and mental health	11
Does Cognitive Stimulation Therapy show similar efficacy in individuals with mild-to-moderate dementia from varying etiologies? An examination comparing its effectiveness in Alzheimer's disease and va	11
The impact of COVID-19 and socioeconomic status on psychological distress in cancer patients	11
Dose-response effects of exercise on mental health in community-dwelling older adults: Exploration of genetic moderators	11
Development and validation of a nomogram for predicting intellectual disability in children with cerebral palsy	10
Prevalence and risk factors for nonconsensual distribution of intimate images among Italian young adults: Implications for prevention and intervention	10
Clinical value and mechanistic analysis of HIIT on modulating risk and symptoms of depression: A systematic review	10
Psychometric propierties of the Selective Mutism Questionnaire in Spanish children	10
Dysfunction of visual novelty detection in physical but not social anhedonia in a non-clinical sample	10
The relationship between personality and bullying among primary school children: the mediation role of trait emotion intelligence and empathy	10
Conscious knowledge of CS-UCS contingency information affects extinction retrieval of conditioned disgust responses: Findings from an online de novo disgust conditioning task	10
Fear, anxiety and depression in gastrointestinal stromal tumor (GIST) patients in the Netherlands: Data from a cross-sectional multicenter study	10
Emotional dysregulation in relation to substance use and behavioral addictions: Findings from five separate meta-analyses	9
Effects of transcranial direct current stimulation on neural activity and functional connectivity during fear extinction	9
Seeking the Psilocybiome: Psychedelics meet the microbiota-gut-brain axis	9
Clinical and psychosocial constructs for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening participation: A systematic review	9
Multimodal quantitative magnetic resonance imaging alterations of the basal ganglia circuit underlie the severity of bulimia nervosa	9
Transgender body image: Weight dissatisfaction, objectification & identity - Complex interplay explored via matched group	8
The Satisfaction with Life Scale in Breast Cancer Patients: Psychometric Properties	8
The experimental study of consciousness: Is psychology travelling back to the future?	8
Loneliness, ageism, and mental health: The buffering role of resilience in seniors	8
Understanding the impact of extreme terrorist events on evacuees and non-evacuees: A study on child aggression and social problems	8
Using an interactive web application to identify pre-exposure prophylaxis adherence among men who have sex with men	8
A quantitative study on peripersonal space in anorexia nervosa and healthy subjects: Role of social variables and association with psychopathology	7

Blinding integrity of dorsomedial prefrontal intermittent theta burst stimulation in depression	7
Effects of two-person synchronized cycling exercise on interpersonal cooperation: A near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning study	7
Midlife heart rate variability and cognitive decline: A large longitudinal cohort study	7
Towards a (Neuro)Science Based Clinical & Health Psychology	7
Neural and gaze pattern responses to happy faces in autism: Predictors of adaptive difficulties and re-evaluation of the social motivation hypothesis	7
Coping strategies in obsessive-compulsive patients during Covid-19 lockdown	6
Bright light therapy-induced improvements of mood, cognitive functions and cerebellar functional connectivity in subthreshold depression: A randomized controlled trial	6
Cortical hemodynamics and inhibitory processing in preadolescent children with low and high physical activity	6
Clinical utility of new cut-off scores for the world health organization ADHD self-report scale among adolescents in psychiatric outpatient care	6
Modification of hostile interpretation bias and self-reported aggression in juvenile delinquents: A randomized controlled trial	6
Coping with stress in parents of children with developmental disabilities	6
Effects of victimization and perpetration in observing bullying scenes: an eye-tracker study	6
The impact of past temporal discounting on mental health: Opposite effects of positive and negative event aftertastes over time	6
Phenomenological memory characteristics and impact of near-death experience in critically ill survivors: Observations at discharge and after a 1-year follow-up	6
Objective Diagnosis of Fibromyalgia Using Neuroretinal Evaluation and Artificial Intelligence	6
Virtual individual cognitive stimulation therapy (V-iCST): Mixed methods feasibility randomised controlled trial	6
Evaluation of a web-based intervention to optimize perinatal emotional wellbeing: A nested case-control study	6
Which came first? Bulimia and emotional symptoms: A cross-lagged panel analysis	6
The short version of the Sexual Distress Scale (SDS-3): Measurement invariance across countries, gender identities, and sexual orientations	6
The specificity of the auditory P300 responses and its association with clinical outcomes in youth with psychosis risk syndrome	6
Decoding ruminative reflection in healthy individuals: The role of triple network connectivity	6
Self-efficacy as a mediator of neuroticism and perceived stress: Neural perspectives on healthy aging	6
Reducing stress and promoting well-being in healthcare workers using mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for life	6
An International Study on Psychological Coping During COVID-19: Towards a Meaning-Centered Coping Style	6
Treatment of Insomnia within an Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Program: A Randomized Trial	5
MIR137 polygenic risk for schizophrenia and ephrin-regulated pathway: Role in lateral ventricles and corpus callosum volume	5
A comic-based body image intervention for adolescents in semi-rural Indian schools: A randomised controlled trial	5
Sense of coherence, resilience, and habitual optimism in cancer patients	5
Differential reduction of psychological distress by three different types of meditation-based mental training programs: A randomized clinical trial	5
Was that (cyber)bullying? Investigating the operational definitions of bullying and cyberbullying from adolescents’ perspective	5
An electroencephalography connectome predictive model of craving for methamphetamine	5
Effect of the SNS-Based Physical Activity-Related Psychological Intervention on Physical Activity and Psychological Constructs among Inactive University Students	5
Abnormalities in the default mode network in late-life depression: A study of resting-state fMRI	5
DSM-5 genito-pelvic pain/penetration disorder: Prevalence, comorbidities, and associated factors in university students	5
The relationship between mindfulness and empathy with the oxytocinergic system in persons with schizophrenia spectrum disorders – A proof-of-concept randomized controlled trial (OXYGEN)	5
Restless nights, cold hearts: Poor sleep causally blunts empathy	4
A taxonomy of threat and soothing influences in rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases and central sensitivity syndromes	4
Abnormalities of cortical and subcortical spontaneous brain activity unveil mechanisms of disorders of consciousness and prognosis in patients with severe traumatic brain injury	4
Altered connectivity patterns of medial and lateral orbitofrontal cortex underlie the severity of bulimic symptoms	4
Network-level dynamics underlying a combined rTMS and psychotherapy treatment for major depressive disorder: An exploratory network analysis	4
Psychometric Properties of Parental Burnout Assessment and Prevalence of Parental Burnout: A Person-Centered Approach	4
Psychological mechanisms and neural correlates of trait mindfulness in emotion regulation: Testing a novel approach to the monitor and acceptance theory	4
Lower functional connectivity state transitions during affective processing correlate with subsequent impairment in sustaining positive affect in subthreshold depression	4
Perceived parental depression, intrusive rumination, and internalizing problems: A three-wave longitudinal study in adolescents	4
Implicit threat learning involves the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the cerebellum	4
The effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation on cognitive flexibility among undergraduates with insomnia symptoms: A prospective, single-blind, randomized control trial	4
COVID-19: Impact of Diagnosis Threat and Suggestibility on Subjective Cognitive Complaints	4
Symptoms of emotional disorders and sociodemographic factors as moderators of dropout in psychological treatment: A meta-review	4
Neural impacts of personality on deception for applications of deception detection	4
Psychological telephone triage system for outpatient memory clinics - a way for adaptation to new challenges of increasing dementia prevalence and new treatment options?	3
Hypoconnectivity networks in schizophrenia patients: A voxel-wise meta-analysis of Rs-fMRI	3
Free-living physical activity and executive function: A multi-study analysis of age groups and times of day	3
Distress tolerance as a mechanism of mindfulness for depression and anxiety: Cross-sectional and diary evidence	3
Interventions for psychiatric disorders among university students: An umbrella review of systematic reviews and meta-analyses	3
The efficacy and safety of ketamine for depression in patients with cancer: A systematic review	3
Diminished emotion recognition with reduced face gaze in complex situation in individuals with broad autism phenotype	3
The Role of Psychological Well-Being in Weight Loss: New Insights from a Comprehensive Lifestyle Intervention	3
Longitudinal study of quality of life in acquired brain injury: A self- and proxy-report evaluation	3
Mediation of the stigma in the influence of negative symptomatology over recovery in psychosis	3
Modulating prefrontal cortex activity to alleviate stress-induced working memory deficits: A transcranial direct current (tDCS) study	3
Maladaptive Consequences of Mental Intrusions with Obsessive, Dysmorphic, Hypochondriac, and Eating-disorders Related Contents: Cross-cultural Differences	3
Distress tolerance as a mediator of mindfulness-based intervention for anxiety and depression: Evidence from two randomized controlled trials	3
Associations between sedentary behavior and negative emotions in adolescents during home confinement: Mediating role of social support and sleep quality	3
Corrigendum to “Default mode network connectivity and social dysfunction in children with attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder” [Int. J. Clin. Health Psychol. 23 (4) (2023) 100393]	3
A Network Model of Health-Related Changes after a Lifestyle-Enhancing Treatment in Patients with Severe Mental Illness: the MULTI Study VI	3
Unraveling the brain mechanisms of source monitoring with non-invasive brain stimulation: A systematic review	3
Social support and cognitive reappraisal in adolescent females: The moderating role of lifetime stressor exposure	3
Using network analysis to model associations between psychological symptoms, sexual function, and sexual distress in women	3
Social anxiety undermines prosocial behaviors when required effort	3
Aberrant positive affect dynamics in individuals with subthreshold depression: Evidence from laboratory and real-world assessments	3
Role of sexuality in women with chronic pain: Results from an Italian cross-sectional study on chronic headache, fibromyalgia, and vulvodynia	3
Mental health of people with distorted body weight perception using medicinal remedies: A representative study	3
Validation of the multidimensional model of the subjective orgasm experience in the context of same-sex relationships	3
Development of the Spanish short version of Negative Attitudes Toward Masturbation Inventory	3
The effects of physical activity on white matter microstructure in children with overweight or obesity: The ActiveBrains randomized clinical trial	3
A single bout of aerobic exercise modulates motor learning performance and cortical excitability in humans	3
Stimulated brains and meditative minds: A systematic review on combining low intensity transcranial electrical stimulation and meditation in humans	3