| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Using thematic analysis in psychology | Qualitative Research in Psychology | 2006 | 94,086 |
| 2 | “Mini-mental state” | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 1975 | 77,621 |
| 3 | Cutoff criteria for fit indexes in covariance structure analysis: Conventional criteria versus new alternatives | Structural Equation Modeling | 1999 | 69,701 |
| 4 | The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: Conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1986 | 61,996 |
| 5 | The theory of planned behavior | Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes | 1991 | 53,836 |
| 6 | Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies. | Journal of Applied Psychology | 2003 | 50,127 |
| 7 | The CES-D Scale | Applied Psychological Measurement | 1977 | 44,270 |
| 8 | G*Power 3: A flexible statistical power analysis program for the social, behavioral, and biomedical sciences | Behavior Research Methods | 2007 | 38,307 |
| 9 | Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change. | Psychological Review | 1977 | 33,345 |
| 10 | The assessment and analysis of handedness: The Edinburgh inventory | Neuropsychologia | 1971 | 32,207 |
| 11 | A power primer. | Psychological Bulletin | 1992 | 31,963 |
| 12 | Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach. | Psychological Bulletin | 1988 | 30,544 |
| 13 | A Coefficient of Agreement for Nominal Scales | Educational and Psychological Measurement | 1960 | 30,234 |
| 14 | Coefficient alpha and the internal structure of tests | Psychometrika | 1951 | 29,707 |
| 15 | Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: The PANAS scales. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1988 | 27,410 |
| 16 | Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. | American Psychologist | 2000 | 23,552 |
| 17 | Naturalistic inquiry | International Journal of Intercultural Relations | 1985 | 23,540 |
| 18 | The Pittsburgh sleep quality index: A new instrument for psychiatric practice and research | Psychiatry Research | 1989 | 23,254 |
| 19 | Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models | Behavior Research Methods | 2008 | 23,188 |
| 20 | The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research: conceptual, strategic, and statistical considerations | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1986 | 22,262 |
| 21 | The Satisfaction With Life Scale | Journal of Personality Assessment | 1985 | 21,076 |
| 22 | A Global Measure of Perceived Stress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1983 | 21,013 |
| 23 | Statistical power analyses using G*Power 3.1: Tests for correlation and regression analyses | Behavior Research Methods | 2009 | 19,954 |
| 24 | Comparative fit indexes in structural models. | Psychological Bulletin | 1990 | 19,439 |
| 25 | The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior | Psychological Inquiry | 2000 | 18,673 |
| 26 | Intraclass correlations: Uses in assessing rater reliability. | Psychological Bulletin | 1979 | 18,372 |
| 27 | The magical number seven, plus or minus two: some limits on our capacity for processing information. | Psychological Review | 1956 | 16,720 |
| 28 | Culture and the self: Implications for cognition, emotion, and motivation. | Psychological Review | 1991 | 16,023 |
| 29 | The Psychophysics Toolbox | Spatial Vision | 1997 | 15,713 |
| 30 | Studies of interference in serial verbal reactions. | Journal of Experimental Psychology | 1935 | 14,787 |
| 31 | The need to belong: Desire for interpersonal attachments as a fundamental human motivation. | Psychological Bulletin | 1995 | 14,567 |
| 32 | Normative data on a battery of neuropsychological tests in the Han Chinese population | Journal of Neuropsychology | 2011 | 13,754 |
| 33 | Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix. | Psychological Bulletin | 1959 | 13,459 |
| 34 | Self-efficacy: toward a unifying theory of behavioral change | Psychological Review | 1977 | 13,407 |
| 35 | A theory of human motivation. | Psychological Review | 1943 | 13,352 |
| 36 | Significance tests and goodness of fit in the analysis of covariance structures. | Psychological Bulletin | 1980 | 13,015 |
| 37 | SPSS and SAS procedures for estimating indirect effects in simple mediation models | Behavior Research Methods | 2004 | 12,395 |
| 38 | Stress, social support, and the buffering hypothesis. | Psychological Bulletin | 1985 | 12,015 |
| 39 | Development and validation of brief measures of positive and negative affect: the PANAS scales | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1988 | 12,000 |
| 40 | Centrality in social networks conceptual clarification | Social Networks | 1978 | 11,938 |
| 41 | Development and validation of a geriatric depression screening scale: A preliminary report | Journal of Psychiatric Research | 1982 | 11,521 |
| 42 | The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis | Cognitive Psychology | 2000 | 11,093 |
| 43 | The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire: A Research Note | Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines | 1997 | 10,710 |
| 44 | A feature-integration theory of attention | Cognitive Psychology | 1980 | 10,634 |
| 45 | Evaluating Goodness-of-Fit Indexes for Testing Measurement Invariance | Structural Equation Modeling | 2002 | 10,537 |
| 46 | A circumplex model of affect. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1980 | 10,473 |
| 47 | A power primer | Psychological Bulletin | 1992 | 10,469 |
| 48 | Emerging adulthood: A theory of development from the late teens through the twenties. | American Psychologist | 2000 | 10,398 |
| 49 | Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivations: Classic Definitions and New Directions | Contemporary Educational Psychology | 2000 | 10,230 |
| 50 | Self-efficacy mechanism in human agency. | American Psychologist | 1982 | 10,147 |
| 51 | The Scree Test For The Number Of Factors | Multivariate Behavioral Research | 1966 | 9,919 |
| 52 | Psychometric properties of the Beck Depression Inventory: Twenty-five years of evaluation | Clinical Psychology Review | 1988 | 9,882 |
| 53 | The role of positive emotions in positive psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions. | American Psychologist | 2001 | 9,773 |
| 54 | An inventory for measuring clinical anxiety: Psychometric properties. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1988 | 9,636 |
| 55 | Telling more than we can know: Verbal reports on mental processes. | Psychological Review | 1977 | 9,602 |
| 56 | The Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale | Psychological Reports | 1962 | 9,597 |
| 57 | Job Burnout | Annual Review of Psychology | 2001 | 9,572 |
| 58 | The VideoToolbox software for visual psychophysics: transforming numbers into movies | Spatial Vision | 1997 | 9,392 |
| 59 | Conservation of resources: A new attempt at conceptualizing stress. | American Psychologist | 1989 | 9,371 |
| 60 | Prejudice, social stress, and mental health in lesbian, gay, and bisexual populations: Conceptual issues and research evidence. | Psychological Bulletin | 2003 | 9,347 |
| 61 | The social readjustment rating scale | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 1967 | 9,287 |
| 62 | Positive psychology: An introduction. | American Psychologist | 2000 | 9,041 |
| 63 | Sources of Method Bias in Social Science Research and Recommendations on How to Control It | Annual Review of Psychology | 2012 | 9,037 |
| 64 | Missing data: Our view of the state of the art. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 8,854 |
| 65 | The structure of negative emotional states: Comparison of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) with the Beck Depression and Anxiety Inventories | Behaviour Research and Therapy | 1995 | 8,785 |
| 66 | Happiness is everything, or is it? Explorations on the meaning of psychological well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1989 | 8,716 |
| 67 | Back-Translation for Cross-Cultural Research | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology | 1970 | 8,601 |
| 68 | Mediation in experimental and nonexperimental studies: New procedures and recommendations. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 8,595 |
| 69 | The benefits of being present: Mindfulness and its role in psychological well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 8,519 |
| 70 | An index of factorial simplicity | Psychometrika | 1974 | 8,510 |
| 71 | Social Cognitive Theory: An Agentic Perspective | Annual Review of Psychology | 2001 | 8,471 |
| 72 | The weirdest people in the world? | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | 2010 | 8,390 |
| 73 | Amazon's Mechanical Turk | Perspectives on Psychological Science | 2011 | 8,300 |
| 74 | Construct validity in psychological tests. | Psychological Bulletin | 1955 | 8,275 |
| 75 | Fit indices in covariance structure modeling: Sensitivity to underparameterized model misspecification. | Psychological Methods | 1998 | 8,230 |
| 76 | The Application of Electronic Computers to Factor Analysis | Educational and Psychological Measurement | 1960 | 8,227 |
| 77 | Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children-Present and Lifetime Version (K-SADS-PL): Initial Reliability and Validity Data | Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 1997 | 8,209 |
| 78 | THE ASSESSMENT OF ANXIETY STATES BY RATING | The British Journal of Medical Psychology | 1959 | 8,149 |
| 79 | Measuring individual differences in implicit cognition: The implicit association test. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 1998 | 8,119 |
| 80 | Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior: A developmental taxonomy. | Psychological Review | 1993 | 8,058 |
| 81 | The measurement of experienced burnout | Journal of Organizational Behavior | 1981 | 7,971 |
| 82 | The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support | Journal of Personality Assessment | 1988 | 7,853 |
| 83 | Subjective well-being. | Psychological Bulletin | 1984 | 7,845 |
| 84 | An Introduction to Propensity Score Methods for Reducing the Effects of Confounding in Observational Studies | Multivariate Behavioral Research | 2011 | 7,822 |
| 85 | The validity of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale | Journal of Psychosomatic Research | 2002 | 7,759 |
| 86 | Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being | American Psychologist | 2000 | 7,759 |
| 87 | Orienting of Attention | The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology | 1980 | 7,757 |
| 88 | Executive Functions | Annual Review of Psychology | 2013 | 7,750 |
| 89 | Development of NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of Empirical and Theoretical Research | Advances in Psychology | 1988 | 7,737 |
| 90 | Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised: A revised version of a diagnostic interview for caregivers of individuals with possible pervasive developmental disorders | Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | 1994 | 7,720 |
| 91 | A global measure of perceived stress | Journal of Health and Social Behavior | 1983 | 7,571 |
| 92 | Availability: A heuristic for judging frequency and probability | Cognitive Psychology | 1973 | 7,519 |
| 93 | A comparison of methods to test mediation and other intervening variable effects. | Psychological Methods | 2002 | 7,498 |
| 94 | Clinical significance: A statistical approach to defining meaningful change in psychotherapy research. | Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology | 1991 | 7,489 |
| 95 | Levels of processing: A framework for memory research | Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior | 1972 | 7,471 |
| 96 | Deciding on the Number of Classes in Latent Class Analysis and Growth Mixture Modeling: A Monte Carlo Simulation Study | Structural Equation Modeling | 2007 | 7,452 |
| 97 | Subjective well-being: Three decades of progress. | Psychological Bulletin | 1999 | 7,429 |
| 98 | Individual differences in two emotion regulation processes: Implications for affect, relationships, and well-being. | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology | 2003 | 7,425 |
| 99 | Addressing Moderated Mediation Hypotheses: Theory, Methods, and Prescriptions | Multivariate Behavioral Research | 2007 | 7,418 |
| 100 | Whole Brain Segmentation | Neuron | 2002 | 7,404 |
