OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of BMC Psychology is 42. 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
A mobile phone intervention to reduce heavy drinking: a preliminary analysis of anchoring heuristics	215
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the body image life disengagement questionnaire in a sample of adolescents	166
Interpersonal Behaviors Questionnaire (IBQ) applied to parenting of emerging adults: dimensional structure and criterion validity	152
The Japanese version of the Material Values Scale: construct assessment and relationship with age, personality, and subjective well-being	109
Through the lens of patients: a photovoice study exploring inpatients’ sense of safety and well-being in a new Norwegian mental health facility	102
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of Staff Attitude to Coercion Scale	100
Maximizing tendency and meaning in life: a cross-cultural network analysis of Chinese and American samples	99
Experimental paradigm to test the effects of providing social support: study protocol of the PROSPECT trial (Study 2)	96
The effect of hope-based counseling on perceived stress and the quality of life in pregnant women experiencing nausea and vomiting: a randomized control trial	91
The effects of age and delay task duration on attentional boost effect: evidence from behavior and fNIRS	83
The relationship between psychological capital and subjective academic achievement among middle school students: the chain mediating role of adolescent internalizing problems and life attitude	74
Meat-eating justifications in Türkiye: cultural adaptation, validation, and correlates of the MEJ and 4Ns scales	70
The mediating role of career decision-making self-efficacy in the relationship between career locus of control and career indecision among Turkish high school students	69
Development and validation of a mental hyperactivity questionnaire for the evaluation of chronic stress in higher education	69
The predicting factors of chronic pain among nursing students: a national study in Iran	65
Marital dissolution and associated factors in Hosanna, Southwest Ethiopia: a community-based cross-sectional study	62
Examining the relationship between preferred music types and temperament-character in individuals diagnosed with alcohol and substance use disorders	61
Music, families and interaction (MUFASA): a protocol article for an RCT study	60
Otherness measuring scale: design and validation for social sciences	57
Longitudinal study on professional identity and future self-continuity of undergraduate nursing students	56
Empirical validation study and psychometric evaluation of the properties of the populist attitudes scale for the portuguese population	56
Fear of progression among postoperative patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer: a cross-sectional survey in China	56
Construction process and development stages of pandemic emotions questionnaire in cancer patients (PEQ-CP)	56
Cognitive biases in military intelligence analysis: amplification mechanisms and intervention strategies in the digital-intelligent era	54
Differential associations between distinct facets of empathy, engaged gaming, and problematic gaming behaviours	53

Could the use of web-based applications assist in neuropsychiatric treatment? An umbrella review	53
Neuroticism and adolescent depression in China: a chain mediation model of interpersonal sensitivity and loneliness	52
How does the online discussion intervention influence learners’ engagement, emotions, and motivation in a blended learning environment? Learners’ need for cognition matters	52
What if parental love is conditional …? Children’s self-esteem profiles and their relationship with parental conditional regard and self-kindness	50
How digital stress affects academic procrastination and subjective well-being: mediating effect of ego depletion	50
Meta-analytic structural equation modeling with mediation role of problematic mobile phone use between solitude and anxiety and depression	49
Research on the influence path of red tourism experience on tourists’ well-being: based on the chain mediating role of tourists’ emotion and national identity	48
How parental educational anxiety fuels adolescent depression: the mediating chain of moral disengagement and negative coping, and the buffering role of psychological resilience	48
The effect of outdoor sports education on university students’ employment anxiety: the mediating role of fear of failure and self-management	48
Building destination brands through trust: unpacking the role of digital integrated marketing communication in driving travel intentions	48
Exploring the intersections between digital competence with job motivation and job efficacy in EFL teachers: insights from achievement goal theory	47
Investigation and analysis of magnetic resonance imaging experience and psychological status of patients	46
Putting the broken pieces of life together, Baloch family caregivers’ confrontation with schizophrenia: a phenomenological study	45
Exploring the potential of gamified reading: the effects of duolingo on L2 reading, self-efficacy, and learner experiences in a Chinese university EFL context	44
The relationship between physical activity levels and depressive symptoms: a mediation analysis of flow state in university students	44
The dynamic association between depression, psychological flexibility, and meaning in life among medical students: a cross-lagged analysis	44
How the brain memorizes the world from others’ perspectives: investigating allocentric encoding of object features during perspective taking	43
The relationship between heart rate variability and baseline state anxiety during stress and recovery	42