| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Memory and consciousness. | Canadian Psychology | 1985 | 3,456 |
| 2 | Self-determination theory: A macrotheory of human motivation, development, and health. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 3,382 |
| 3 | Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life's domains. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 1,709 |
| 4 | Vers une méthodologie de validation trans-culturelle de questionnaires psychologiques: Implications pour la recherche en langue française. | Canadian Psychology | 1989 | 794 |
| 5 | Positive psychology 2.0: Towards a balanced interactive model of the good life. | Canadian Psychology | 2011 | 450 |
| 6 | A self-determination theory approach to psychotherapy: The motivational basis for effective change. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 398 |
| 7 | Findings all psychologists should know from the new science on subjective well-being. | Canadian Psychology | 2017 | 398 |
| 8 | A self-determination theory perspective on parenting. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 392 |
| 9 | Optimal learning in optimal contexts: The role of self-determination in education. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 349 |
| 10 | Grounded theory: A promising approach to conceptualization in psychology? | Canadian Psychology | 1988 | 339 |
| 11 | The social communication model of pain. | Canadian Psychology | 2009 | 311 |
| 12 | On the psychology of passion: In search of what makes people's lives most worth living. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 302 |
| 13 | Are men's and women's brains really different? | Canadian Psychology | 1987 | 259 |
| 14 | Traumatic experience and psychosomatic disease: Exploring the roles of behavioural inhibition, obsession, and confiding. | Canadian Psychology | 1985 | 243 |
| 15 | Symptoms of professional burnout: A review of the empirical evidence. | Canadian Psychology | 1988 | 240 |
| 16 | Understanding the Nature and Role of Spirituality in Relation to Coping and Health: A Conceptual Framework. | Canadian Psychology | 2005 | 226 |
| 17 | Phantom limbs, the self and the brain (the D. O. Hebb Memorial Lecture). | Canadian Psychology | 1989 | 216 |
| 18 | Self-determination theory as a fundamental theory of close relationships. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 207 |
| 19 | Reflections on self-determination theory. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 202 |
| 20 | Is the selection of statistical methods governed by level of measurement? | Canadian Psychology | 1993 | 195 |
| 21 | Social media recruitment and online data collection: A beginner’s guide and best practices for accessing low-prevalence and hard-to-reach populations. | Canadian Psychology | 2014 | 190 |
| 22 | When social isolation is nothing new: A longitudinal study on psychological distress during COVID-19 among university students with and without preexisting mental health concerns. | Canadian Psychology | 2021 | 185 |
| 23 | Manuscript characteristics influencing reviewers' decisions. | Canadian Psychology | 1980 | 173 |
| 24 | Four decades of outcome research on psychotherapies for adult depression: An overview of a series of meta-analyses. | Canadian Psychology | 2017 | 161 |
| 25 | Persuasive communication and proenvironmental behaviours: How message tailoring and message framing can improve the integration of behaviours through self-determined motivation. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 156 |
| 26 | The study of compensation systems through the lens of self-determination theory: Reconciling 35 years of debate. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 151 |
| 27 | Personal meaning and successful aging. | Canadian Psychology | 1989 | 149 |
| 28 | Stress, anxiety and coping: The multidimensional interaction model. | Canadian Psychology | 1997 | 147 |
| 29 | Are perfectionistic strivings in sport adaptive? A systematic review of confirmatory, contradictory, and mixed evidence. | Canadian Psychology | 2012 | 147 |
| 30 | Resilience of children with refugee statuses: A research review. | Canadian Psychology | 2016 | 144 |
| 31 | Immigrant acculturation and wellbeing in Canada. | Canadian Psychology | 2016 | 142 |
| 32 | Mindfulness and acceptance models in sport psychology: A decade of basic and applied scientific advancements. | Canadian Psychology | 2012 | 140 |
| 33 | Psychological impact on SARS survivors: Critical review of the English language literature. | Canadian Psychology | 2015 | 139 |
| 34 | The psychological assessment of risk for crime and violence. | Canadian Psychology | 2009 | 135 |
| 35 | Longitudinal predictors of word reading development. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 131 |
| 36 | Intercultural relations in plural societies. | Canadian Psychology | 1999 | 130 |
| 37 | Understanding motivation for exercise: A self-determination theory perspective. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 129 |
| 38 | The systematic assessment of children's testimony. | Canadian Psychology | 1988 | 127 |
| 39 | Correlation, causation, motivation, and second language acquisition. | Canadian Psychology | 2000 | 125 |
| 40 | Teacher mental health, school climate, inclusive education and student learning: A review. | Canadian Psychology | 2017 | 122 |
| 41 | Strengths use in organizations: A positive approach of occupational health. | Canadian Psychology | 2018 | 119 |
| 42 | Defining "addiction." | Canadian Psychology | 1988 | 113 |
| 43 | Anxiety and depression in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic: A national survey. | Canadian Psychology | 2021 | 113 |
| 44 | Psychologists' response to criticisms about research based on undergraduate participants: A developmental perspective. | Canadian Psychology | 2001 | 112 |
| 45 | Commitment in a changing world of work. | Canadian Psychology | 1998 | 111 |
| 46 | Beyond the birds and the bees and was it good for you?: Thirty years of research on sexual communication. | Canadian Psychology | 2011 | 109 |
| 47 | Psychology's essential role in alleviating the impacts of climate change. | Canadian Psychology | 2008 | 108 |
| 48 | Seeing the “we” in “me” sports: The need to consider individual sport team environments. | Canadian Psychology | 2012 | 103 |
| 49 | Coping during the COVID-19 pandemic: Relations with mental health and quality of life. | Canadian Psychology | 2021 | 99 |
| 50 | Parents with mental retardation and their children: Review of research relevant to professional practice. | Canadian Psychology | 1991 | 98 |
