Most-cited Psychology papers of 2019, with free PDFs

The 25 most-cited Psychology research papers published in 2019, ranked by citations in OpenAlex, with their original abstracts and free PDFs where available.

1. Cognitive Architecture and Instructional Design: 20 Years Later
   John Sweller, Jeroen J. G. van Merriënboer et al. · 2019 · 2,274 citations · Free PDF
2. How phenomenology can help us learn from the experiences of others
   Brian E. Neubauer, Catherine Witkop et al. · 2019 · 2,088 citations
3. The Interaction of Person-Affect-Cognition-Execution (I-PACE) model for addictive behaviors: Update, generalization to addictive behaviors beyond internet-use disorders, and specification of the process character of addictive behaviors
   Matthias Brand, Elisa Wegmann et al. · 2019 · 2,081 citations
4. Contrasting Computational Models of Mate Preference Integration Across 45 Countries
   Daniel Conroy‐Beam, David Michael Buss et al. · 2019 · 1,772 citations · Free PDF
5. Bridge Centrality: A Network Approach to Understanding Comorbidity
   Payton J. Jones, Ruofan Ma et al. · 2019 · 1,758 citations
6. Accuracy of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression: individual participant data meta-analysis
   Brooke Levis, Andrea Benedetti et al. · 2019 · 1,717 citations · Free PDF
7. New WHO prevalence estimates of mental disorders in conflict settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis
   Fiona Charlson, Mark van Ommeren et al. · 2019 · 1,684 citations
8. The Health Stigma and Discrimination Framework: a global, crosscutting framework to inform research, intervention development, and policy on health-related stigmas
   Anne L. Stangl, Valerie A. Earnshaw et al. · 2019 · 1,590 citations · Free PDF
9. A national experiment reveals where a growth mindset improves achievement
   David Scott Yeager, Paul Hanselman et al. · 2019 · 1,519 citations · Free PDF
10. Age, period, and cohort trends in mood disorder indicators and suicide-related outcomes in a nationally representative dataset, 2005–2017.
    Jean M. Twenge, Alysha Cooper et al. · 2019 · 1,472 citations
11. The Gamification of Learning: a Meta-analysis
    Michael Sailer, Lisa Homner · 2019 · 1,463 citations · Free PDF
12. Changes in the global burden of depression from 1990 to 2017: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease study
    Qingqing Liu, Hairong He et al. · 2019 · 1,447 citations
13. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society 2019 Annual Meeting
    2019 · 1,434 citations
14. What do centrality measures measure in psychological networks?
    Laura Francina Bringmann, Timon Elmer et al. · 2019 · 1,363 citations
15. The impact of stress on students in secondary school and higher education
    Michaela C. Pascoe, Sarah Elisabeth Hetrick et al. · 2019 · 1,343 citations
16. Mental health in elite athletes: International Olympic Committee consensus statement (2019)
    Claudia L. Reardon, Vincent Gouttebarge et al. · 2019 · 1,263 citations
17. Mindsets: A View From Two Eras
    Carol Sorich Dweck, David Scott Yeager · 2019 · 1,233 citations
18. REBUS and the Anarchic Brain: Toward a Unified Model of the Brain Action of Psychedelics
    Robin Lester Carhart-Harris, Karl John Friston · 2019 · 1,206 citations
19. Depression in sleep disturbance: A review on a bidirectional relationship, mechanisms and treatment
    Hong Fang, Sheng Tu et al. · 2019 · 1,148 citations
20. Genome-wide association study identifies eight risk loci and implicates metabo-psychiatric origins for anorexia nervosa
    Anorexia Nervosa Genetics Initiative, Hunna J. Watson et al. · 2019 · 1,114 citations · Free PDF
21. Agreement Between Prospective and Retrospective Measures of Childhood Maltreatment
    Jessie R. Baldwin, Aaron Reuben et al. · 2019 · 1,086 citations
22. The Relationship Between Burnout, Depression, and Anxiety: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    Panagiota Koutsimani, Anthony Montgomery et al. · 2019 · 1,083 citations · Free PDF
23. Qualitative thematic analysis based on descriptive phenomenology
    Annelie J. Sundler, Elisabeth Lindberg et al. · 2019 · 1,079 citations
24. Global, regional, and national burden of suicide mortality 1990 to 2016: systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016
    Mohsen Naghavi · 2019 · 1,045 citations
25. Chatbots and Conversational Agents in Mental Health: A Review of the Psychiatric Landscape
    Aditya Nrusimha Vaidyam, Hannah Wisniewski et al. · 2019 · 1,025 citations

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