Most-cited Psychology papers of 2018, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Psychology research papers published in 2018, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. A tutorial on regularized partial correlation networks.
   Sacha Epskamp, Eiko I. Fried · 2018 · 2,864 citations · Free PDF
2. WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and distribution of mental disorders.
   Randy Patrick Auerbach, WHO WMH-ICS Collaborators et al. · 2018 · 2,496 citations · Free PDF
3. The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS): A dynamic, multimodal set of facial and vocal expressions in North American English
   Steven Robert Livingstone, Frank Russo · 2018 · 1,900 citations · Free PDF
4. The alliance in adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic synthesis.
   Christoph Flückiger, A. C. Del Re et al. · 2018 · 1,745 citations
5. Epidemiology of Adult DSM-5 Major Depressive Disorder and Its Specifiers in the United States
   Deborah S. Hasin, Aaron L. Sarvet et al. · 2018 · 1,736 citations
6. The rise of motivational information systems: A review of gamification research
   Jonna Koivisto, Juho Hamari · 2018 · 1,735 citations
7. EEG Emotion Recognition Using Dynamical Graph Convolutional Neural Networks
   Tengfei Song, Wenming Zheng et al. · 2018 · 1,599 citations
8. Prevalence of Depression in the Community from 30 Countries between 1994 and 2014
   Grace Y. Lim, Wilson Tam et al. · 2018 · 1,557 citations · Free PDF
9. The integrated motivational–volitional model of suicidal behaviour
   Rory C. O’Connor, Olivia J Kirtley · 2018 · 1,530 citations · Free PDF
10. Social robots for education: A review
    Tony Belpaeme, James Kennedy et al. · 2018 · 1,522 citations
11. Epidemiology of Suicide and the Psychiatric Perspective
    Silke Bachmann · 2018 · 1,381 citations · Free PDF
12. The International Trauma Questionnaire: development of a self‐report measure of ICD‐11 PTSD and complex PTSD
    Marylène Cloître, Mark E. Shevlin et al. · 2018 · 1,306 citations
13. Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert
    Anne E. Castles, Kathleen Rastle et al. · 2018 · 1,291 citations
14. EmotionMeter: A Multimodal Framework for Recognizing Human Emotions
    Wei‐Long Zheng, Wei Liu et al. · 2018 · 1,284 citations
15. Facial Expression Analysis under Partial Occlusion
    Ligang Zhang, Brijesh Verma et al. · 2018 · 1,258 citations · Free PDF
16. PERMA and the building blocks of well-being
    Martin E. P. Seligman · 2018 · 1,245 citations
17. Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity
    Calvin Ly, Alexandra C. Greb et al. · 2018 · 1,192 citations · Free PDF
18. Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences From the 2011-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 23 States
    Melissa T. Merrick, Derek C. Ford et al. · 2018 · 1,191 citations
19. Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being
    Ed Diener, Richard E. Lucas et al. · 2018 · 1,072 citations
20. Network analysis: a brief overview and tutorial
    David Hevey · 2018 · 1,069 citations
21. An Empathy-Driven, Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agent (Wysa) for Digital Mental Well-Being: Real-World Data Evaluation Mixed-Methods Study
    Becky Inkster, Shubhankar Sarda et al. · 2018 · 1,059 citations
22. The Influence of Attitudes on Behavior
    Icek Ajzen, Martin Fishbein et al. · 2018 · 1,053 citations
23. Resilience Theory and Research on Children and Families: Past, Present, and Promise
    Ann S. Masten · 2018 · 1,044 citations
24. The Global Problem of Insufficient Sleep and Its Serious Public Health Implications
    Vijay Kumar Chattu, Md Dilshad Manzar et al. · 2018 · 1,026 citations · Free PDF
25. The Oxytocin Receptor: From Intracellular Signaling to Behavior
    Benjamin Jurek, Inga D. Neumann · 2018 · 1,001 citations

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