| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Development and validation of a revised short version of the working alliance inventory | Psychotherapy Research | 2006 | 884 |
| 2 | Understanding how and why psychotherapy leads to change | Psychotherapy Research | 2009 | 456 |
| 3 | Meta‐Analysis of Therapist Effects in Psychotherapy Outcome Studies | Psychotherapy Research | 1991 | 387 |
| 4 | Implementing routine outcome monitoring in clinical practice: Benefits, challenges, and solutions | Psychotherapy Research | 2015 | 371 |
| 5 | The Effects of Providing Therapists With Feedback on Patient Progress During Psychotherapy: Are Outcomes Enhanced? | Psychotherapy Research | 2001 | 362 |
| 6 | Five-year experience of first-episode nonaffective psychosis in open-dialogue approach: Treatment principles, follow-up outcomes, and two case studies | Psychotherapy Research | 2006 | 331 |
| 7 | Presidential address: What we have learned from a decade of research aimed at improving psychotherapy outcome in routine care | Psychotherapy Research | 2007 | 321 |
| 8 | Therapist effects in psychotherapy: A random-effects modeling of the National Institute of Mental Health Treatment of Depression Collaborative Research Program data | Psychotherapy Research | 2006 | 273 |
| 9 | The therapeutic alliance in internet interventions: A narrative review and suggestions for future research | Psychotherapy Research | 2017 | 263 |
| 10 | Attachment, Social Competencies, Social Support, and Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy | Psychotherapy Research | 2000 | 258 |
| 11 | Psychotherapy change process research: Realizing the promise | Psychotherapy Research | 2010 | 257 |
| 12 | Bracketing in qualitative research: Conceptual and practical matters | Psychotherapy Research | 2009 | 248 |
| 13 | Clinical supervision: Its influence on client-rated working alliance and client symptom reduction in the brief treatment of major depression | Psychotherapy Research | 2006 | 226 |
| 14 | Hermeneutic Single-Case Efficacy Design | Psychotherapy Research | 2002 | 220 |
| 15 | Research-Informed Psychotherapy | Psychotherapy Research | 1997 | 217 |
| 16 | Enhancing outcome for potential treatment failures: Therapist–client feedback and clinical support tools | Psychotherapy Research | 2007 | 214 |
| 17 | Achieving trustworthiness in qualitative research: A pan-paradigmatic perspective | Psychotherapy Research | 2009 | 212 |
| 18 | Meta-analysis of qualitative studies: A tool for reviewing qualitative research findings in psychotherapy | Psychotherapy Research | 2009 | 210 |
| 19 | A meta-analytic examination of client–therapist perspectives of the working alliance | Psychotherapy Research | 2007 | 190 |
| 20 | Assessing Clinical Significance: Proposed Extensions to Method | Psychotherapy Research | 1996 | 189 |
| 21 | Understanding the differential impact of outcome monitoring: Therapist variables that moderate feedback effects in a randomized clinical trial | Psychotherapy Research | 2012 | 189 |
| 22 | The Therapeutic Effects of Providing Patient Progress Information to Therapists and Patients | Psychotherapy Research | 2004 | 185 |
| 23 | Patient Attachment Orientation and the Early Working Alliance-A Study of Patient and Therapist Reports of Alliance Quality and Ruptures | Psychotherapy Research | 2000 | 185 |
| 24 | Outcomes of religious and spiritual adaptations to psychotherapy: A meta-analytic review | Psychotherapy Research | 2007 | 179 |
| 25 | Autonomous motivation for therapy: A new common factor in brief treatments for depression | Psychotherapy Research | 2007 | 175 |
| 26 | Psychotherapy Transcription Standards | Psychotherapy Research | 1992 | 170 |
| 27 | Qualitative research interviews | Psychotherapy Research | 2009 | 168 |
| 28 | How Expert Clinicians' Prototypes of an Ideal Treatment Correlate with Outcome in Psychodynamic and Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy | Psychotherapy Research | 1998 | 165 |
| 29 | Dialogical Sequence Analysis and the Zone of Proximal Development as Conceptual Enhancements to the Assimilation Model: The Case of Jan Revisited | Psychotherapy Research | 2001 | 164 |
| 30 | Toward a working through of some core conflicts in psychotherapy research | Psychotherapy Research | 2009 | 164 |
| 31 | The therapeutic relationship: Research and theory | Psychotherapy Research | 2005 | 163 |
| 32 | Alliance Prediction of Outcome Beyond in-Treatment Symptomatic Change as Psychotherapy Processes | Psychotherapy Research | 1991 | 162 |
| 33 | Experiential Therapy of Depression: Differential Effects of Client-Centered Relationship Conditions and Process Experiential Interventions | Psychotherapy Research | 1998 | 162 |
| 34 | The role of therapist adherence, therapist competence, and alliance in predicting outcome of individual drug counseling: Results from the National Institute Drug Abuse Collaborative Cocaine Treatment Study | Psychotherapy Research | 2006 | 159 |
| 35 | Attachment scales predict outcome in a randomized controlled trial of two group therapies for binge eating disorder: An aptitude by treatment interaction | Psychotherapy Research | 2006 | 158 |
| 36 | Identifying core categories of client-identified impact of helpful events in psychotherapy: A qualitative meta-analysis | Psychotherapy Research | 2007 | 158 |
| 37 | Therapist Effects in Three Treatments for Alcohol Problems | Psychotherapy Research | 1998 | 151 |
| 38 | Can therapists be trained to improve their alliances? A preliminary study of alliance-fostering psychotherapy | Psychotherapy Research | 2006 | 150 |
| 39 | The effects of fifteen evidence-supported therapies for adult depression: A meta-analytic review | Psychotherapy Research | 2020 | 150 |
| 40 | Correspondence of motivational enhancement treatment integrity ratings among therapists, supervisors, and observers | Psychotherapy Research | 2009 | 149 |
| 41 | Therapist effectiveness: Implications for accountability and patient care | Psychotherapy Research | 2011 | 148 |
| 42 | The ups and downs of psychotherapy: Sudden gains and sudden losses identified with session reports | Psychotherapy Research | 2013 | 142 |
| 43 | Understanding minds: Different functions and different disorders? The contribution of psychotherapy research | Psychotherapy Research | 2007 | 140 |
| 44 | The effects of adding emotion-focused interventions to the client-centered relationship conditions in the treatment of depression | Psychotherapy Research | 2006 | 139 |
| 45 | Processing the therapeutic relationship | Psychotherapy Research | 2009 | 136 |
| 46 | Pretreatment Expectations, Interpersonal Functioning, and Symptoms in the Prediction of the Therapeutic Alliance Across Supportive-Expressive Psychotherapy and Cognitive Therapy | Psychotherapy Research | 2003 | 136 |
| 47 | Methodological Problems in Identifying Efficacious Psychotherapies | Psychotherapy Research | 1997 | 135 |
| 48 | Development of the Cognitive Therapy Adherence and Competence Scale | Psychotherapy Research | 2003 | 135 |
| 49 | A guide to conducting a task analysis of psychotherapeutic change | Psychotherapy Research | 2007 | 135 |
| 50 | Therapeutic alliance, empathy, and genuineness in individual adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic review | Psychotherapy Research | 2018 | 134 |
