OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Culture Wars and COVID‐19 Conduct: Christian Nationalism, Religiosity, and Americans’ Behavior During the Coronavirus Pandemic	105
Culturalized Religion: A Synthetic Review and Agenda for Research	46
Religion Protected Mental Health but Constrained Crisis Response During Crucial Early Days of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	37
Changes in Religious Doubt and Physical and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood	26
Introducing the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study	19
Racial Diversity in U.S. Congregations, 1998–2019	18
Religion and Armed Conflict: Evidence from the Kurdish Conflict in Turkey	17
Sacred Canopies or Religious Markets? The Effect of County‐Level Religious Diversity on Later Changes in Religious Involvement	17
Religious Queer People Beyond Identity Conflict: Lessons from Orthodox LGBT Jews in Israel	14
Changes in Religiosity Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Emerging Adults	13
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Gun Ownership	13
Differences in Mortality Rates between Haredi and Non‐Haredi Jews in Israel in the Context of Social Characteristics	12
Zooming In and Out of Virtual Jewish Prayer Services During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	12
Why are Women More Religious than Men? Do Risk Preferences and Genetic Risk Predispositions Explain the Gender Gap?	12
Evangelical Environmentalists? Evidence from Brazil	12
Racialized Religion and Judicial Injustice: How Whiteness and Biblicist Christianity Intersect to Promote a Preference for (Unjust) Punishment	10
Mattering to God and to the Congregation: Gendered Effects in Mattering as a Mechanism Between Religiosity and Mental Health	10
Faith and Agency: The Relationships Between Sense of Control, Socioeconomic Status, and Beliefs About God	9
One Conception of Secularism for All? A Comparison of Conceptions of Laïcité among Nonbelievers, Catholics, and Muslims in France	9
Projecting Religious Demographics: The Case of Jews in the United States	8
A Tale of Decline or Change? Working Toward a Complementary Understanding of Secular Transition and Individual Spiritualization Theories	8
The Political Mobilization of America's Congregations	8
Changing Worship Practices in American Congregations	8
Religion and Spirituality among American Indian, South Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latina, and White Women in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health	8
Trust and Trustworthiness of Christians, Muslims, and Atheists/Agnostics in the United States	7

National Context, Parental Socialization, and the Varying Relationship Between Religious Belief and Practice	7
COVID‐19's effects upon the religious group resources, psychosocial resources, and mental health of Orthodox Jews	7
Does Religious Affiliation Protect People's Well‐Being? Evidence from the Great Recession after Correcting for Selection Effects	7
Can the State Make you More Religious? Evidence from Turkish Experience	7
A Complex Simplicity: The Relationship of Religiosity and Nonreligiosity to Life Satisfaction	6
Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample	6
Individuals’ Use of Religion in Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic as Complementary to Their Use of Medically Recommended Responses	6
Gender, Sexuality, and Religion: A Critical Integrative Review and Agenda for Future Research	6
Explaining Unfavorable Attitudes Toward Religious Out‐Groups Among Three Major Religions	6
Does the Bible Tell Me So? Weighing the Influence of Content versus Bias on Bible Interpretation Using Survey Experiments	6
Why Younger Catholics Seem More Committed: Survivorship Bias and/or “Creative Minority” Effects among British Catholics	6
Historical Fundamentalism? Christian Nationalism and Ignorance About Religion in American Political History	5
Multiple (Non)Religious Identities Leads to Undercounting Religious Nones and Asian Religious Identities	5
Individual Differences in Religious Motivation Influence How People Think	5
The National Survey of Religious Leaders: Background, Methods, and Lessons Learned in the Research Process	5
The Discursive and Practical Influence of Spirituality on Civic Engagement	5
Are Religious Women More Traditionalist? A Cross‐National Examination of Gender and Religion	5
Psychological Resilience After Cancer via Religion/Spirituality: Spiritual Capital Through a Life Course Lens	4
Prayer in America: A Detailed Analysis of the Various Dimensions of Prayer	4
Religious Heterogamy and the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion in China	4
Religious trajectories of immigrants in the first years after migration	4
Church Voting Recommendations, Voter Preferences, and Political Decisions	4
The Zeal of the Convert Revisited	4
Religion Data from Australia's 2016 Census: The Case of Judaism with Broader Implications for Comparisons with Earlier Census Results	4
Attachment to God and Psychological Distress: Evidence of a Curvilinear Relationship	4
Shifting Religious Influences on Attitudes Towards Same‐Sex Behavior and Civil Liberties: A Multilevel Across‐Time Analysis	4
Opposing Immigrants in Europe: The Interplay Between Religiosity, Values, and Threat	4
The Influence of Close Ties on Depression: Does Network Religiosity Matter?	4
Political Congregations, Race, and Environmental Policy Attitudes	4
What Aspects of Religiosity are Associated with Values?	4
Threatening Morality: Religious and Political Opposition to Science in the United States	4
The Politics of 130,000 American Religious Leaders: A New Methodological Approach	4
A Multidimensional Model of Religiosity from Adolescence through the Transition to Adulthood	3
“Ye Double‐Minded”: Black Parishioners’ Attitudes toward Nonaffirming Church Climates	3
Is There a Bidirectional Causal Relationship Between Religiosity and Volunteering?	3
“Doing Gender” and “Doing Religion” in Science: A Cross‐National Examination	3
On Weber, Pathogens, and Culture: A Global Empirical Analysis of Religion and Individualism	3
Born‐Again Versus Evangelical: Does the Difference Make a Difference?	3
Religiosity, Secular Participation, and Cultural Socialization: A Case Study of the 1933–1942 Urban English Cohort	3
Religious Fundamentalism and Quest as Predictors of Moral Foundations Among Iranian Muslims	3
Trust in Religious Leaders and Voluntary Compliance: Lessons from Social Distancing during COVID‐19 in Central Asia	3
2021 SSSR Presidential Address: Religion as Social Location—Global and Comparative Perspectives	3
Congregation Shopping During the Pandemic: A Research Note	3
Flowing Across with Demonic Hate: Belief in Supernatural Evil and Support for Stricter Immigration Policy	3
The Resilience of Clergywomen?: Gender and the Relationship between Occupational Distress and Mental Health among Congregational Leaders	3