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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the impact of infant feeding patterns on the psychological well-being of adolescent mothers	46
Post-traumatic stress symptoms, rumination, and posttraumatic growth in women with a traumatic childbirth experience	33
Pandemic-related stress in pregnant women during the first COVID-19 lockdown and neonatal development	20
Thank you to reviewers	20
Developing a new measure of retrospective body dissatisfaction: links to postnatal bonding and psychological well-being	17
‘Would I risk it again?’ The long-term impacts of a traumatic birth, as experienced by fathers	16
Psychological flexibility and role satisfaction as serial mediators between dispositional mindfulness and postpartum depressive symptoms	15
The experience of oocyte donation pregnancy and early motherhood in Greece: a longitudinal, phenomenological study	14
Association between infants’ excessive crying and mother–infant bonding: a prospective observational study	12
One birth, two experiences: why is the prevalence of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder four times lower in fathers than in mothers?	12
Psychometric evaluation of the Czech Peripartum Depression Scale in pregnant and postpartum women	11
Prenatal anomaly diagnosis and healthy birth: socio-psychological experiences of women in Turkey	11
Decisional conflict, anxiety, and social support among Chinese pregnant women making further prenatal testing decisions	11
Exploring parents’ experiences and holistic needs following late miscarriage: a narrative systematic review	10
Mother-infant postnatal experience and its association with maternal emotion and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Translation and validation of the Czech Republic version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)	9
The Fathers’ Fear of Childbirth Scale: a Turkish validity and reliability study	9
Effectiveness of a couple-based mobile programme in improving human fertility	9
‘Are you a first-time parent?’ Challenges for reproductive and infant researchers in asking about reproductive history and family composition	9
Developing a text message intervention for fathers with partners experiencing perinatal depression or anxiety	9
Maternal stress and interpersonal sensitivity during pregnancy: impact on offspring’s stress and temperament	8
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of BUMPs and its relationship with prenatal attachment	8
Trajectories of perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder scores in association with child’s behaviour at 12 months	8
Maternal depression, psychosocial stress and race/ethnicity: examining barriers to breastfeeding for young mothers	8
Interparental conflict in the perinatal period: exploring clinical and community populations	8

Maternal childhood adversity and pregnancy intentions as predictors of pregnancy happiness	8
Post-traumatic stress symptoms and war-related concerns among pregnant women: The contribution of self-mastery and intolerance of uncertainty	8
Antenatal and postpartum depression in women who conceived after infertility treatment: a longitudinal study	8
Supporting physiological birth choices in midwifery practice: the role of workplace culture, politics, and ethics	8
Why mothers with midwifery-led vaginal births recommend that mode of birth: a qualitative study	7
Phenomenological review of depression in women experiencing infertility: an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design systematic review	7
The surrogacy experience: a survey of psychosocial impacts on gestational carriers	7
The role of self-esteem on fear of childbirth and birth experience	7
What tools should be used to identify women in need of additional support in pregnancy?	7
Demographic and arrangement-based predictors of Dutch people’s attitudes towards surrogacy in various family constitutions	7
A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the preferences of perinatal women for mental health screening	7
Factors associated with suicide mortality among reproductive age women: a case–control study	7
Perinatal mental health practitioners’ experiences supporting mothers with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder: a qualitative study	7
The effect of empowerment counseling on stress and self-esteem of mothers with hospitalized premature infants	7
Increasing opportunities for networking and public engagement through SRIP Research Development Workshop Grants	7
Psychological interventions to improve parental wellbeing after fetal abnormality diagnosis: a systematic scoping review	7
Self-harm thoughts among postpartum women - associated factors	7
Effects of foot-massage in pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum on severity of nausea-vomiting and anxiety	7
Maternal childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms, bonding, and infant development: a prospective study	6
Midwifery care for pregnant women who live with obesity	6
Factors related to a positive childbirth experience – a cross-sectional study	6
Development and psychometric properties of the Respectful Maternity Care Scale (RMCS)	6
A NICU stay during the pandemic: Bridging collective and subjective loss	6
Longitudinal reproductive healthcare pathways of transmasculine people	6
Integrated care for pregnant women with psychiatric and psychosocial problems; patients’ and healthcare providers’ perspectives	6
Barriers to psychological support following early miscarriage. Perspectives of the UK-based IAPT perinatal champion	6
How do women cope with couples’ infertility? Using language to explore elaborative processes	6
Anxiety trajectories from pregnancy to one-year postpartum and their contributors during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Perceptions of motherhood in mothers of children with disabilities in Turkey: a qualitative study	6
Emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress during pregnancy in expectant mothers and fathers	5
To build a family: exploring preferred paths to parenthood among plurisexual individuals without children	5
Body image and eating habits during pregnancy and postpartum: themes and suggestions for maternal healthcare	5
“Being in the zone” makes a difference: flow, birth experience, birth duration, and postpartum Stress	5
Feelings, thoughts and experiences of fathers in the early postpartum period: a phenomenological study	5
COVID-19-Related worries mediate the association between attachment orientation and elevated depression levels at 21-month postpartum	5
Reproductive timing and social egg freezing within British South Asian communities: a qualitative study	5
The course of women’s emotions from early pregnancy to the postpartum period	5
Impact of expectation, catastrophizing, and self-compassion on labour pain experiences among Portuguese women	5
Midwives’ perspectives and perceptions in relation to perinatal psychotic-like experiences: a qualitative study	5
Psychological flexibility, birth satisfaction and postnatal trauma symptoms in women with abnormally invasive placenta	5
Associations between postpartum haemorrhage, postnatal mental health and longer term mental illness: a record-linked cohort study	5
Fertility decision-making after an experience of first-onset postpartum psychosis	5
Psychologists’ experiences of working with fear of childbirth: implications and advice for care providers	5
An evaluation of a trauma-focused group intervention for women accessing a maternal mental health service	5
Efficacy of in-person versus digital mental health interventions for postpartum depression: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	5
LBTQ parents’ bonding experiences after complicated births: managing minority stress and traumatic experiences	4
Targeted interventions for women exposed to adverse childhood experiences: a critical next step in perinatal mental Health	4
Fear of childbirth among Chinese women in the third trimester and mode of delivery	4
Mother-child bond and its relationship with maternal postpartum depression	4
The effect of positive psychotherapy-based training on psychological well-being and hope level in women receiving infertility: experimental study	4

Experiences of success and failure in childbirth	4
Posttraumatic stress symptoms in sexual minority and majority women after difficult births: a cross-sectional study	4
Validation of the Hebrew Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised for partners of birthing women in Israel	4
Research on stillbirth: back and forth between the researcher’s and mother’s perspective	4
The experience of men following stillbirth: the case of Israeli bereaved fathers	4
Gravidity status predicts mental health symptoms in women planning a pregnancy	4
Pregnancy intendedness and happiness as predictors of maternal-foetal bonding: evidence for mediation	4
Evaluating caregiver-child interactions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of tools and methods	4
In search of the ‘like-minded’ people: pregnant women’s sense-making of their physical activity-related social experiences	4
Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale: measuring parenting self-efficacy in Portuguese mothers during the first year postpartum	4
Coping styles among Vietnamese people with infertility diagnosis: does type of infertility-related stress really matter?	4
A hopeful future: a qualitative investigation of positive psychological functioning in young mothers	4
Perinatal grief creates vulnerability to anxiety in subsequent pregnancy: the mediating role of bereavement-related guilt	4