# 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.](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2462099493) · 2,864 citations · Free PDF
2. [WHO World Mental Health Surveys International College Student Project: Prevalence and distribution of mental disorders.](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2891230948) · 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](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2803193013) · 1,900 citations · Free PDF
4. [The alliance in adult psychotherapy: A meta-analytic synthesis.](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2803499312) · 1,745 citations
5. [Epidemiology of Adult DSM-5 Major Depressive Disorder and Its Specifiers in the United States](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2789034326) · 1,736 citations
6. [The rise of motivational information systems: A review of gamification research](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2903986723) · 1,735 citations
7. [EEG Emotion Recognition Using Dynamical Graph Convolutional Neural Networks](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2790404832) · 1,599 citations
8. [Prevalence of Depression in the Community from 30 Countries between 1994 and 2014](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2807669085) · 1,557 citations · Free PDF
9. [The integrated motivational–volitional model of suicidal behaviour](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2804703589) · 1,530 citations · Free PDF
10. [Social robots for education: A review](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2887260263) · 1,522 citations
11. [Epidemiology of Suicide and the Psychiatric Perspective](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2828567772) · 1,381 citations · Free PDF
12. [The International Trauma Questionnaire: development of a self‐report measure of ICD‐11 PTSD and complex PTSD](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2892364332) · 1,306 citations
13. [Ending the Reading Wars: Reading Acquisition From Novice to Expert](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2807813414) · 1,291 citations
14. [EmotionMeter: A Multimodal Framework for Recognizing Human Emotions](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2786768213) · 1,284 citations
15. [Facial Expression Analysis under Partial Occlusion](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2788728386) · 1,258 citations · Free PDF
16. [PERMA and the building blocks of well-being](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2792485938) · 1,245 citations
17. [Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2808301300) · 1,192 citations · Free PDF
18. [Prevalence of Adverse Childhood Experiences From the 2011-2014 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System in 23 States](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2891121957) · 1,191 citations
19. [Advances and Open Questions in the Science of Subjective Well-Being](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2804847111) · 1,072 citations
20. [Network analysis: a brief overview and tutorial](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2894013570) · 1,069 citations
21. [An Empathy-Driven, Conversational Artificial Intelligence Agent (Wysa) for Digital Mental Well-Being: Real-World Data Evaluation Mixed-Methods Study](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2895995041) · 1,059 citations
22. [The Influence of Attitudes on Behavior](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2132306370) · 1,053 citations
23. [Resilience Theory and Research on Children and Families: Past, Present, and Promise](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2794372866) · 1,044 citations
24. [The Global Problem of Insufficient Sleep and Its Serious Public Health Implications](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2904772173) · 1,026 citations · Free PDF
25. [The Oxytocin Receptor: From Intracellular Signaling to Behavior](https://nerdi.pages.dev/paper/W2808328764) · 1,001 citations

Canonical page: https://nerdi.pages.dev/papers/psychology/most-cited-2018