| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Guidelines, criteria, and rules of thumb for evaluating normed and standardized assessment instruments in psychology. | Psychological Assessment | 1994 | 6,653 |
| 2 | The Pain Catastrophizing Scale: Development and validation. | Psychological Assessment | 1995 | 5,687 |
| 3 | Constructing validity: Basic issues in objective scale development. | Psychological Assessment | 1995 | 4,393 |
| 4 | The development of markers for the Big-Five factor structure. | Psychological Assessment | 1992 | 3,942 |
| 5 | Psychometric properties of the 42-item and 21-item versions of the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales in clinical groups and a community sample. | Psychological Assessment | 1998 | 3,311 |
| 6 | Review of the Satisfaction With Life Scale. | Psychological Assessment | 1993 | 3,094 |
| 7 | Factor analysis in the development and refinement of clinical assessment instruments. | Psychological Assessment | 1995 | 2,837 |
| 8 | The validation of a self-report measure of posttraumatic stress disorder: The Posttraumatic Diagnostic Scale. | Psychological Assessment | 1997 | 2,314 |
| 9 | The Obsessive-Compulsive Inventory: Development and validation of a short version. | Psychological Assessment | 2002 | 2,199 |
| 10 | Normal personality assessment in clinical practice: The NEO Personality Inventory. | Psychological Assessment | 1992 | 2,090 |
| 11 | Uses and abuses of coefficient alpha. | Psychological Assessment | 1996 | 1,812 |
| 12 | Motivations for alcohol use among adolescents: Development and validation of a four-factor model. | Psychological Assessment | 1994 | 1,689 |
| 13 | The Mini-IPIP Scales: Tiny-yet-effective measures of the Big Five Factors of Personality. | Psychological Assessment | 2006 | 1,577 |
| 14 | Psychometric properties of the PTSD Checklist for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders–Fifth Edition (PCL-5) in veterans. | Psychological Assessment | 2016 | 1,568 |
| 15 | Robust dimensions of anxiety sensitivity: Development and initial validation of the Anxiety Sensitivity Index-3. | Psychological Assessment | 2007 | 1,384 |
| 16 | Content validity in psychological assessment: A functional approach to concepts and methods. | Psychological Assessment | 1995 | 1,355 |
| 17 | Clinical versus mechanical prediction: A meta-analysis. | Psychological Assessment | 2000 | 1,311 |
| 18 | The Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI): Development and validation. | Psychological Assessment | 1999 | 1,286 |
| 19 | The dirty dozen: A concise measure of the dark triad. | Psychological Assessment | 2010 | 1,222 |
| 20 | Refining the construct of psychopathy: Towards a hierarchical model. | Psychological Assessment | 2001 | 1,221 |
| 21 | A psychometric evaluation of the Beck Depression Inventory–II. | Psychological Assessment | 1998 | 1,161 |
| 22 | The Parenting Scale: A measure of dysfunctional parenting in discipline situations. | Psychological Assessment | 1993 | 1,150 |
| 23 | Factor structure of the Working Alliance Inventory. | Psychological Assessment | 1989 | 1,088 |
| 24 | The Clinician-Administered PTSD Scale for DSM–5 (CAPS-5): Development and initial psychometric evaluation in military veterans. | Psychological Assessment | 2018 | 959 |
| 25 | Self-Injurious Thoughts and Behaviors Interview: Development, reliability, and validity in an adolescent sample. | Psychological Assessment | 2007 | 954 |
| 26 | Thwarted belongingness and perceived burdensomeness: Construct validity and psychometric properties of the Interpersonal Needs Questionnaire. | Psychological Assessment | 2012 | 933 |
| 27 | Initial construction and validation of the Pathological Narcissism Inventory. | Psychological Assessment | 2009 | 915 |
| 28 | Integration of impulsivity and positive mood to predict risky behavior: Development and validation of a measure of positive urgency. | Psychological Assessment | 2007 | 907 |
| 29 | Two-factor conceptualization of psychopathy: Construct validity and assessment implications. | Psychological Assessment | 1989 | 852 |
| 30 | A measure of positive and negative affect for children: Scale development and preliminary validation. | Psychological Assessment | 1999 | 848 |
| 31 | Clinical validation of the Quality of Life Inventory. A measure of life satisfaction for use in treatment planning and outcome assessment. | Psychological Assessment | 1992 | 831 |
| 32 | The accuracy of recidivism risk assessments for sexual offenders: A meta-analysis of 118 prediction studies. | Psychological Assessment | 2009 | 808 |
| 33 | Development and preliminary validation of a brief broad-spectrum measure of trauma exposure: The Traumatic Life Events Questionnaire. | Psychological Assessment | 2000 | 757 |
| 34 | Clinical evaluation of a measure to assess combat exposure. | Psychological Assessment | 1989 | 742 |
| 35 | The experiences in close relationships—Relationship Structures Questionnaire: A method for assessing attachment orientations across relationships. | Psychological Assessment | 2011 | 713 |
| 36 | Cross-cultural normative assessment: Translation and adaptation issues influencing the normative interpretation of assessment instruments. | Psychological Assessment | 1994 | 711 |
| 37 | An empirically derived inventory to measure social fears and anxiety: The Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory. | Psychological Assessment | 1989 | 702 |
| 38 | Confirmatory factor analysis of the clinician-administered PTSD Scale: Evidence for the dimensionality of posttraumatic stress disorder. | Psychological Assessment | 1998 | 682 |
| 39 | A new look at the big five factor structure through exploratory structural equation modeling. | Psychological Assessment | 2010 | 680 |
| 40 | On the sins of short-form development. | Psychological Assessment | 2000 | 643 |
| 41 | Validation of malingered amnesia measures with a large clinical sample. | Psychological Assessment | 1994 | 636 |
| 42 | Psychometric analysis of the PTSD Checklist-5 (PCL-5) among treatment-seeking military service members. | Psychological Assessment | 2016 | 636 |
| 43 | Psychometric properties of nine scoring rules for the Clinician-Administered Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale. | Psychological Assessment | 1999 | 624 |
| 44 | Assessment of multidimensional coping: Task, emotion, and avoidance strategies. | Psychological Assessment | 1994 | 621 |
| 45 | Preliminary development and validation of a multidimensional life satisfaction scale for children. | Psychological Assessment | 1994 | 621 |
| 46 | Development and validation of the Eating Disorder Diagnostic Scale: A brief self-report measure of anorexia, bulimia, and binge-eating disorder. | Psychological Assessment | 2000 | 619 |
| 47 | Ecological momentary assessment (EMA) in studies of substance use. | Psychological Assessment | 2009 | 619 |
| 48 | The Disgust Scale: Item analysis, factor structure, and suggestions for refinement. | Psychological Assessment | 2007 | 613 |
| 49 | Assessment of obsessive-compulsive symptom dimensions: Development and evaluation of the Dimensional Obsessive-Compulsive Scale. | Psychological Assessment | 2010 | 607 |
| 50 | Development and validation of the Inventory of Depression and Anxiety Symptoms (IDAS). | Psychological Assessment | 2007 | 594 |
