OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Perspectives on Psychological Science is 45. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
The Loneliness of the Odd One Out: How Deviations From Social Norms Can Help Explain Loneliness Across Cultures	875376689
Racial Inequality in Psychological Research: Trends of the Past and Recommendations for the Future	452
Mental Health During the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Review and Recommendations for Moving Forward	214
Student Motivation and Associated Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis From Self-Determination Theory	202
Small Effects: The Indispensable Foundation for a Cumulative Psychological Science	173
Rethinking Executive Function and Its Development	171
Rethinking Concepts and Categories for Understanding the Neurodevelopmental Effects of Childhood Adversity	161
The Empirical Status of Mindfulness-Based Interventions: A Systematic Review of 44 Meta-Analyses of Randomized Controlled Trials	153
The MAD Model of Moral Contagion: The Role of Motivation, Attention, and Design in the Spread of Moralized Content Online	134
The Theory Crisis in Psychology: How to Move Forward	134
How Computational Modeling Can Force Theory Building in Psychological Science	126
The Value of Dimensional Models of Early Experience: Thinking Clearly About Concepts and Categories	124
Theory Construction Methodology: A Practical Framework for Building Theories in Psychology	117
Why Hypothesis Testers Should Spend Less Time Testing Hypotheses	114
Psychological and Behavioral Predictors of Vaccine Efficacy: Considerations for COVID-19	114
The Taboo Against Explicit Causal Inference in Nonexperimental Psychology	113
The Sisyphean Cycle of Technology Panics	112
The Nomological Net of the HEXACO Model of Personality: A Large-Scale Meta-Analytic Investigation	112
Theory Before the Test: How to Build High-Verisimilitude Explanatory Theories in Psychological Science	103
Big Five and HEXACO Personality Traits, Proenvironmental Attitudes, and Behaviors: A Meta-Analysis	87
The Effects of Gender Trouble: An Integrative Theoretical Framework of the Perpetuation and Disruption of the Gender/Sex Binary	76
Psychosocial Vulnerabilities to Upper Respiratory Infectious Illness: Implications for Susceptibility to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)	74
What Happened to Mirror Neurons?	69
Common Academic Experiences No One Talks About: Repeated Rejection, Impostor Syndrome, and Burnout	69
Invisible Hands and Fine Calipers: A Call to Use Formal Theory as a Toolkit for Theory Construction	68

The Emerging Science of Virtue	63
The Importance of Context in Moral Judgments	61
After Pierce and Sue: A Revised Racial Microaggressions Taxonomy	60
The U Shape of Happiness Across the Life Course: Expanding the Discussion	60
Bored Into Depletion? Toward a Tentative Integration of Perceived Self-Control Exertion and Boredom as Guiding Signals for Goal-Directed Behavior	58
Neurodiversity and the Social Ecology of Mental Functions	58
Habitual Behavior Is Goal-Driven	56
Ecological Validity and “Ecological Validity”	54
Machine Learning and Psychological Research: The Unexplored Effect of Measurement	53
Better Safe Than Sorry: A Common Signature of General Vulnerability for Psychopathology	53
Estimating the Prevalence of Transparency and Reproducibility-Related Research Practices in Psychology (2014–2017)	53
The Future of Women in Psychological Science	52
Reexamining the Findings of the American Psychological Association’s 2015 Task Force on Violent Media: A Meta-Analysis	51
From Gaze Perception to Social Cognition: The Shared-Attention System	51
Psychological Antecedents of Refugee Integration (PARI)	51
When Beliefs Face Reality: An Integrative Review of Belief Updating in Mental Health and Illness	50
The Practical Alternative to the p Value Is the Correctly Used p Value	50
On Dual- and Single-Process Models of Thinking	47
What Makes a Champion? Early Multidisciplinary Practice, Not Early Specialization, Predicts World-Class Performance	47
Talent Development in Achievement Domains: A Psychological Framework for Within- and Cross-Domain Research	46
Making Sense of the World: Infant Learning From a Predictive Processing Perspective	45
Seven Challenges for the Dehumanization Hypothesis	45
Training Learning Strategies to Promote Self-Regulation and Transfer: The Knowledge, Belief, Commitment, and Planning Framework	45