OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Black Psychology is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Black Emerging Adult Preventive Care: The Role of Health Care System Distrust, Trust in Physician, and Usual Source of Care	43
Seeing Black Girls in Their Glory: Cultivating Spaces that Facilitate Black Girls’ Psychological Safety	20
Colorism as Historical Trauma: Exploring School Racial Context, Peer Dynamics, and Counternarratives Among Black Women	15
Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction	15
Home Based Racialized Messages Transmitted to African American Students Transitioning to Predominantly White Institutions	14
Life Stressors and Mental Well-Being: Experiences of African American Women Navigating Perinatal Loss and Pregnancy Subsequent to Loss	14
Message From the Editor-in-Chief: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward	13
Sister Outsider: Superwoman Schema, Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Distress Among Black College Women	12
Black Students’ Mental Help-Seeking Processes During College Matriculation	12
“Just Trying to Make it Through”: Understanding Transitions Into Motherhood Among Young Black Women Amidst Trauma, Racism, and Structural Oppression	11
Fifty Years (1974–2024) of the Journal of Black Psychology: A Brief History and Reflection of Its Significance	11
“The Talk” and Parenting While Black in America: Centering Race, Resistance, and Refuge	11
Correlates of Psychological Distress Among African American Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Beyond Code of the Street and Psychopathic Features: Black Masculinity and Self-Compassion	10
Book Review: Solution to Double Consciousness and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	8
“Flipping the Sexual Script”: A Systematic Review of Black Girls’ and Women’s Responses to and Experiences With Sexual Stereotypes	7
Attachment Neuroscience and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Nonviolence Philosophy: Implications for the 21st Century and Beyond	7
Black Psychology and Whiteness: Toward a Conceptual Model of Black Trauma through the Prism of Whiteness	7
“They Do Us Wrong”: Bringing Together Black Adolescent Girls’ Voices on School Staff’s Differential Treatment	7
The Strong Black Woman Concept: Associated Demographic Characteristics and Perceived Stress Among Black Women	7
It’s More Than Skin-Deep: Gendered Racial Microaggressions, Skin Tone Satisfaction, and Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Black Women	6
Trapped in a Pathological Paradigm: Critiques of Suicidology Scholarship and Practice	5
Paternal and Maternal Cognitive Engagement and Preschoolers’ Literacy Skills Across Six Ethnic Groups in Suriname	5
Race-Based Stress Reactions and Recovery: Pilot Testing a Racial Trauma Meditation	5
Experiences of Black Women Understanding Racial Microaggressions and Identifying Replenishing Healing Practices	5

Ethical Standards of Black Psychologists: Revised 2021	5
Investigating Race-related Stress, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress for Black Mental Health Therapists	5
A Psychological, Historical Analysis of Post-Slavery Trauma and Post-Slavery Growth: Are They Viable Constructs?	5
“Coming Together Educationally Creates a Bond Like No Other”: Exploring How Families Engage in Black History Home Learning	5
Living in Between: A Grounded Theory Study of Depression Among Middle-Class Black Women	4
(Un)availability of Social Provisions and the Framing of Loneliness by Black Older Adults in Canada: A Qualitative Narrative Study	4
Black Love, Activism, and Community (BLAC): The BLAC Model of Healing and Resilience	4
Conceptualizations of Effective Parenting: Perspectives of Religious Counselors in Ghana	4
Black Parents’ Rationales for Using Specific Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices With Their Young Children	4
Introduction to Special Issue on the Psychology of Black Activism: The Psychology of Black Activism in the 21^st Century	4
Demystifying Male Emotional Development: Exploring the Implications of Forced Gender Roles on Black American Males	4
Black Beauty: Womanist Consciousness as a Protective Factor in Black Women’s Body Image Satisfaction	4