OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Reproductive and Infant 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the impact of infant feeding patterns on the psychological well-being of adolescent mothers	33
The role of perceived social support on pregnant women’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Post-traumatic stress symptoms, rumination, and posttraumatic growth in women with a traumatic childbirth experience	23
Pandemic-related stress in pregnant women during the first COVID-19 lockdown and neonatal development	20
Thank you to reviewers	19
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Psychopathological symptoms in pregnant women in Spain	19
The experience of oocyte donation pregnancy and early motherhood in Greece: a longitudinal, phenomenological study	15
One birth, two experiences: why is the prevalence of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder four times lower in fathers than in mothers?	15
Psychological flexibility and role satisfaction as serial mediators between dispositional mindfulness and postpartum depressive symptoms	13
Association between infants’ excessive crying and mother–infant bonding: a prospective observational study	13
‘Would I risk it again?’ The long-term impacts of a traumatic birth, as experienced by fathers	12
Developing a new measure of retrospective body dissatisfaction: links to postnatal bonding and psychological well-being	12
Exploring parents’ experiences and holistic needs following late miscarriage: a narrative systematic review	12
The Fathers’ Fear of Childbirth Scale: a Turkish validity and reliability study	11
Decisional conflict, anxiety, and social support among Chinese pregnant women making further prenatal testing decisions	11
Mother-infant postnatal experience and its association with maternal emotion and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Maternal childhood adversity and pregnancy intentions as predictors of pregnancy happiness	9
Translation and validation of the Czech Republic version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)	9
‘Are you a first-time parent?’ Challenges for reproductive and infant researchers in asking about reproductive history and family composition	8
Effectiveness of a couple-based mobile programme in improving human fertility	8
Maternal depression, psychosocial stress and race/ethnicity: examining barriers to breastfeeding for young mothers	8
Antenatal and postpartum depression in women who conceived after infertility treatment: a longitudinal study	8
Developing a text message intervention for fathers with partners experiencing perinatal depression or anxiety	8
How is a man supposed to be a man? Male childlessness– A life course disrupted	7
Interparental conflict in the perinatal period: exploring clinical and community populations	7

Demographic and arrangement-based predictors of Dutch people’s attitudes towards surrogacy in various family constitutions	7
Supporting physiological birth choices in midwifery practice: the role of workplace culture, politics, and ethics	7
Post-traumatic stress symptoms and war-related concerns among pregnant women: The contribution of self-mastery and intolerance of uncertainty	7
Why mothers with midwifery-led vaginal births recommend that mode of birth: a qualitative study	7
Trajectories of perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder scores in association with child’s behaviour at 12 months	7
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of BUMPs and its relationship with prenatal attachment	7
Factors associated with suicide mortality among reproductive age women: a case–control study	7
Effects of foot-massage in pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum on severity of nausea-vomiting and anxiety	6
Maternal childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms, bonding, and infant development: a prospective study	6
Psychological interventions to improve parental wellbeing after fetal abnormality diagnosis: a systematic scoping review	6
What tools should be used to identify women in need of additional support in pregnancy?	6
Self-harm thoughts among postpartum women - associated factors	6
The role of self-esteem on fear of childbirth and birth experience	6
A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the preferences of perinatal women for mental health screening	6
41st SRIP Annual Virtual Conference 8th – 10th September 2021	6
Barriers to psychological support following early miscarriage. Perspectives of the UK-based IAPT perinatal champion	6
The surrogacy experience: a survey of psychosocial impacts on gestational carriers	6
Increasing opportunities for networking and public engagement through SRIP Research Development Workshop Grants	6
The effect of empowerment counseling on stress and self-esteem of mothers with hospitalized premature infants	6
Development and psychometric properties of the Respectful Maternity Care Scale (RMCS)	5
Longitudinal reproductive healthcare pathways of transmasculine people	5
Body image and eating habits during pregnancy and postpartum: themes and suggestions for maternal healthcare	5
Monitored home-based with or without face-to-face exercise for maternal mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Efficacy of in-person versus digital mental health interventions for postpartum depression: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	5
The course of women’s emotions from early pregnancy to the postpartum period	5
How do women cope with couples’ infertility? Using language to explore elaborative processes	5
Anxiety trajectories from pregnancy to one-year postpartum and their contributors during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
A NICU stay during the pandemic: Bridging collective and subjective loss	5
Reproductive timing and social egg freezing within British South Asian communities: a qualitative study	5
Associations between postpartum haemorrhage, postnatal mental health and longer term mental illness: a record-linked cohort study	5
Psychologists’ experiences of working with fear of childbirth: implications and advice for care providers	5
Midwifery care for pregnant women who live with obesity	5
Perceptions of motherhood in mothers of children with disabilities in Turkey: a qualitative study	5
Factors related to a positive childbirth experience – a cross-sectional study	5
Feelings, thoughts and experiences of fathers in the early postpartum period: a phenomenological study	5
“Being in the zone” makes a difference: flow, birth experience, birth duration, and postpartum Stress	5
Validation of the Hebrew Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised for partners of birthing women in Israel	4
Coping styles among Vietnamese people with infertility diagnosis: does type of infertility-related stress really matter?	4
The experience of men following stillbirth: the case of Israeli bereaved fathers	4
Emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress during pregnancy in expectant mothers and fathers	4
LBTQ parents’ bonding experiences after complicated births: managing minority stress and traumatic experiences	4
Research on stillbirth: back and forth between the researcher’s and mother’s perspective	4
Impact of expectation, catastrophizing, and self-compassion on labour pain experiences among Portuguese women	4
Pregnancy intendedness and happiness as predictors of maternal-foetal bonding: evidence for mediation	4
In search of the ‘like-minded’ people: pregnant women’s sense-making of their physical activity-related social experiences	4
Midwives’ perspectives and perceptions in relation to perinatal psychotic-like experiences: a qualitative study	4
COVID-19-Related worries mediate the association between attachment orientation and elevated depression levels at 21-month postpartum	4
Evaluating caregiver-child interactions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of tools and methods	4
Fear of childbirth among Chinese women in the third trimester and mode of delivery	4
The effect of fathers’ birth attendance on paternal attachment and the perception of parental role: a randomised controlled trial	4

Psychological flexibility, birth satisfaction and postnatal trauma symptoms in women with abnormally invasive placenta	4
Screening women for distress during pregnancy: the impact of including ‘Possibly’ as a response option	4
Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale: measuring parenting self-efficacy in Portuguese mothers during the first year postpartum	4