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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Black Psychology is 2. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Book Review: Solution to Double Consciousness and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	48
Beyond Code of the Street and Psychopathic Features: Black Masculinity and Self-Compassion	23
Fifty Years (1974–2024) of the Journal of Black Psychology: A Brief History and Reflection of Its Significance	19
Correlates of Psychological Distress Among African American Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic	18
W. Curtis Banks: The Second Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Black Psychology	15
It’s More Than Skin-Deep: Gendered Racial Microaggressions, Skin Tone Satisfaction, and Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Black Women	15
Seeking Just Us: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Racism-Specific Support Among Black College Students	14
Trauma, Help-Seeking, and the Strong Black Woman	14
Black Identity in Action: Examining Ethnic and Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination, and Collective Action Among Black Individuals	13
“AmeriKenyan”: Lived Acculturation and Ethnic Identification of Kenyan Natives During Their Youth	13
Seeing One Another: The Creation of the Sawubona Healing Circles	12
Spiritual Surrender: Initial Appraisals of Cancer Diagnoses in Black Christian Women	11
Hair Messages: A Context for Exploring Racial Socialization Among African American Males	11
In This Together? Exploring Moderating and Mediating Effects of Shared Racial Fate on the Predictive Role of Racial Socialization and Discrimination on Black Activism	11
‘It Just Feels Like an Invasion’: Black First-Episode Psychosis Patients’ Experiences With Coercive Intervention and Its Influence on Help-Seeking Behaviours	10
African-Centered Spirituality as a Buffer of Psychological Symptoms Related to Specific Forms of Racism for African Americans	10
Sankofa: Using Topic Models to Review the History of the Journal of Black Psychology	10
Associations Between Family Factors, Social Integration, and Suicidal Ideation Across the Life Course of an Urban African American Cohort	10
Black Students’ Mental Help-Seeking Processes During College Matriculation	7
Stay out of the Sun: Exploring African American College Women’s Thoughts on the Dynamics Between Colorism and Sun-related Behavior	7
Seeing Black Girls in Their Glory: Cultivating Spaces that Facilitate Black Girls’ Psychological Safety	7
Experiences of Black Women Understanding Racial Microaggressions and Identifying Replenishing Healing Practices	6
Black Psychology and Whiteness: Toward a Conceptual Model of Black Trauma through the Prism of Whiteness	6
Race-Based Stress Reactions and Recovery: Pilot Testing a Racial Trauma Meditation	6
“They Do Us Wrong”: Bringing Together Black Adolescent Girls’ Voices on School Staff’s Differential Treatment	5

Body Satisfaction and Disordered Eating Among Black Women Student Athletes: An Examination of Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Social Support	5
Peer Ethnicity as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Body Appreciation in Black College-Aged Women	5
Black Love, Activism, and Community (BLAC): The BLAC Model of Healing and Resilience	5
“I Remember My First Relaxer”: Black Women Voicing Psychologically Engrained Practices of Chemical Hair Straightening	5
Bibliometric Analysis of Suicide Research Among Black Youth	5
The Relationship Between Africentrism, Mental Health Outcomes, and Academic Self-Concept Among Black College Students	5
My Journey as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Black Psychology	5
Lawyering While Black: Perceived Stress as a Mediator of Impostor Feelings, Race-Related Stress and Mental Health Among Black Attorneys	5
The Influence of Gendered Racial Identity Centrality on Gendered Racism and Identity Shifting Among Black Undergraduate Women at a HBCU	4
Vicarious Experiences with Police Violence: Examining Psychosocial Factors that Predict Black Individuals’ Negative Affect and Intentions to Engage in Collective Action	4
Special Issue on Black Youth Suicide and Beyond	4
Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health Among Black Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Meta-synthesis	4
Growing but Not Grown: Adolescent Black Girls’ Reasoning About a Hypothetical and Challenging Social Situation	4
Identifying Risk and Protective Factors in Research on Mental Health and Black American Adolescents: 1990 Through 2022	4
COVID-19 Pandemic and Education: Nigerian Parents’ Approach and Perception of Children’s Education Based on Socioeconomic Indicators	4
“The Talk” and Parenting While Black in America: Centering Race, Resistance, and Refuge	3
Ethical Standards of Black Psychologists: Revised 2021	3
A Psychological, Historical Analysis of Post-Slavery Trauma and Post-Slavery Growth: Are They Viable Constructs?	3
(Un)availability of Social Provisions and the Framing of Loneliness by Black Older Adults in Canada: A Qualitative Narrative Study	3
A Past Editor’s Retrospective and Future Perspectives on the Journal of Black Psychology: The Third Editor of the Journal	3
Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction	3
Attachment Neuroscience and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Nonviolence Philosophy: Implications for the 21st Century and Beyond	3
Conceptualizations of Effective Parenting: Perspectives of Religious Counselors in Ghana	2
The Association of Sleep Disturbance, Depression, and Kin Social Support With the College Adjustment of African American Students: A Moderated Mediation Model	2
End of the Year: 50th Anniversary Reflections	2
Experiences of Black Men: Forms of Masculinity and Effects on Psychological Help-Seeking Variables	2
The Strong Black Woman Schema and Mental Health: Examining the Role of Personal Mastery	2
A Single-Session Wellness Initiative for Black College Women: Integrating Expressive Arts, Spirituality, and Political Resistance	2
Black Women’s Body Image: Implications for Identity Formation and Well-Being	2
Depression and Suicide Ideation: The Role of Self-Acceptance for Black Young Adults	2
Exploring the Experiences of Black Men Through the Decision-Making Process in Secure Settings: A Qualitative Study	2
Black Racial Identity, Perceived Support, and Mental Health Within Dyadic Relationships	2
“They Need to Hear Our Voices”: A Multidimensional Framework of Black College Women’s Sociopolitical Development and Activism	2