OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Death Studies 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Social disabling: A qualitative study of interpersonal interaction patterns of shiduers in China	73
Introduction of the French version of the Multidimensional Orientation Toward Dying and Death Inventory (MODDI-F/fre)	49
Psycholinguistic, Stroop, and self-report measurements of death anxiety: A study of convergent validity	30
Who breaks bad news: Doctors, family caregivers or cancer patients? A qualitative study in Southern China	23
Grief Coach : Feasibility and acceptability of a text message program for bereavement support among grievers in the United Kingdom	19
Aesthetic practices in bereavement	17
A poetry of grief	17
Exploring the stigma of suicide in Malaysia: Lived experience perspectives	16
Supporting palliative patients on their journeyA review of Palliative Treatment for Advanced Cancer Patients: Can Hope Be a Right? by Cynthia Pereirade Araújo. Springer	16
“Who is going to take care of these grandkids if I go?”: End-of-life planning by caregivers in grandparent-headed households	16
Coping and grief symptoms after parental loss in adolescence - a nationwide follow-up study	15
Violence and suicide risk behavior in a nationally representative sample of youth aged 12-17: What does it mean to be at-risk?	15
Death attitudes and Chinese college students’ mental health: A latent profile analysis	15
An online grief intervention to improve well-being and reduce clinical symptoms: a randomized controlled trial	14
Mothers’ views on death education for children aged 4–6	14
Correlations between the euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide rates and the non-assisted suicide rates at the municipal level in the Netherlands	14
The gift of peer understanding and suicide bereavement support groups: A qualitative study	14
End-of-life care volunteers’ initial motivational profile and their death anxiety: A latent profile analysis	13
“Mum, when we die, what do you think happens?” A qualitative study of views on death education among Spanish families	13
Community-based death preparation and education: A scoping review	12
Balancing roles: Teaching staff’s dilemma in supporting bereaved college students	12
Shared death experience or shared beliefs?	12
The impact of heteropatriarchy and support on grief in sexual minorities: A qualitative study	11
Frequency of suicidal ideation inventory: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	11
Grief, mourning, and the body: Ritual attention to the death of victims of the dictatorship in Chile*	11

Factors associated with grief in informal carers of people living with Motor Neuron Disease: A mixed methods systematic review	11
Applying attachment theory to grief therapy through the therapeutic relationshipA review of Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy: The Clinician’s Guide to Foundations and Applications	11
Turkish version of the Pet Bereavement Questionnaire: Validity, reliability and psychometric properties	10
Continuing bonds or ongoing attachments? Exploring the distinction	9
Assessing the fear of COVID-19 scale among health care workers in Israel: a psychometric validation study	9
The role of sense of coherence and emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and grief	9
Thoughts and emotions evoked by thinking about own death: American versus Japanese undergraduates	9
Unity strengthens and inhibits development: A focus group interview with volunteer adults in support programs for bereaved children and their family	9
Age does matter for hospice care: Health care providers’ attitudes toward hospice care in Binzhou, China	9
Grief trajectories among bereaved parents after the 2011 Utøya terror attack: A qualitative analysis	9
Attachment styles, continuing bonds, and grief following companion animal death	8
Navigating mortality: A multidisciplinary approach to the epistemology and practice of death education	8
Survivors’ perspectives on saying goodbye: Implications for end-of-life engagement across the lifespan and grieving process	8
Psychometric properties of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale (CAS) in Brazil	8
Windmills and pediatric palliative care	8
Readiness of a U.S. Black community to address suicide	8
Applying terror management theory as a framework to understand the impact of heightened mortality salience on children, adolescents, and their parents: A systematic review	8
Disembodied ritual: An explorative study on the meanings of physical absence during funerals by bereaved in times of COVID-19	8
Ethical judgment in assessing requests for medical assistance in dying in Canada and Quebec: What can we learn from other jurisdictions?	8
Transforming funeral practices: Rituality and necropower in mass death situations	8
To ventilate or not to ventilate: A qualitative analysis of physicians’ experience during the first and second waves of the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Navigating the edge: A personal account of madness, suicide, and recovery	7
I occasionally wear his huge sweaters… but I often prefer not to think about it: Bereaved children talking and not talking about parental loss	7
Cultural differences on baby loss experiences: A comparison of the US and New Zealand	7
How to prevent suicidal behavior and non-suicidal self-injury? An analysis of adolescent typologies	7
Effectiveness of the death education in Chinese nurses: A mixed method study	7
Death before birth: An encounter between Prenatal Pedagogy and the Pedagogy of Death	7
Reflecting on the concept of death: A qualitative investigation of the experiences among early childhood education teachers	7
Turkish adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Grief Impairment Scale	6
In the wake of a boat: The politics of mourning the 18th of April 2015 shipwreck	6
‘I feel so alone… I am nobody, and I am nothing’. A psychosocial autopsy study on adolescent girls’ suicide, with a focus on sexual orientation	6
Passing through end-of-life suffering: Possible or not? Results from a qualitative inquiry	6
The impact of their role on telephone crisis support workers’ psychological wellbeing and functioning: Qualitative findings from a mixed methods investigation	6
Providing a voice to the experience of bereavement support at Mexican workplaces	6
Influencing factors of nurses’ short-term bereavement reactions after patient death	6
Parents’ lived experience of support through their neonate’s end of life and grief journey: An interpretative phenomenology study	6
Ecological momentary assessment in prolonged grief research: Feasibility, acceptability, and measurement reactivity	6
What we said and what I wish we said: Regret during final conversations	6
What predicts suicidality among psychologists? An examination of risk and resilience	6
The role of pre-sleep arousal in the connection between insomnia and suicide risk	6
Explaining suicidal ideation among divorced parents by coping strategies and personality characteristics: A mediation model	6
Communication about euthanasia in Dutch nursing homes	6
Adult insecure attachment styles and suicidality: A meta-analysis	6
Cohort profile of FALCON: a prospective nationwide cohort of families with minor children who have lost a parent in Denmark in 2019–2021	6
Experiences of Iranian people who lost a partner in road traffic collisions: A descriptive phenomenology	5
“As long as they remember me, I am alive”: Commemoration and memory through stickers	5
The Pedagogy of Death and education in the wake of the pandemic: Implications for comprehensive teacher education encompassing awareness and the biographical dimension	5
The impact of a student death doula service-learning experience in palliative care settings on nursing students: A pilot mixed-methods study	5
Understanding self-healing: Recovery insights from Indonesian suicide loss survivors and support providers	5
Comparing social media engagement between women with suicidal ideation and those who have attempted suicide	5

Consulting parents bereaved by childhood cancer: A qualitative study to improve bereavement services	5
Proof of life: Human remains and memory in the Philippine Drug War	5
Supports for university counselors impacted by student suicide: A systematic review and thematic synthesis	5
Bereavement in Pakistan during the COVID-19 pandemic: Psychometric analysis of the Pandemic Grief Scale-Urdu Version (PGS-UV)	5
Dynamic bidirectional relation between state mindfulness and suicidal ideation among female college students: The moderating effect of trait mindfulness	5
Patients’ experiences and expectations of the General Practitioner’s role during bereavement care after losing a loved one: A qualitative study	5
Quality of life and loneliness post-bereavement: Results from a nationwide survey of bereaved older adults	5
Suicide-related communication and circumstances surrounding suicide: Study of police records in Slovenia	5
Correlates of prolonged grief, posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in Brazilian COVID-19 bereaved adults	5
Filling in the gaps: A grounded theory of the experiences and needs of healthcare staff following a colleague death by suicide in the UK	5
Applying the phenomenology of grief: An autoethnographic study	5
Counselor preparedness to counsel grieving clients: Insights and implications	5
Grief participation rights and the social support hierarchy: Exploring the communicative role of the bereaved in a social support interaction	5
Construction of meaning in survivors of suicide loss: A Spanish translation and application of the Meaning in Loss Codebook	5
The first 72 hours: Suicide loss survivor experiences with early responders	5
Reduced death anxiety as a mediator of the relationship between acute subjective effects of psychedelics and improved subjective well-being	5
“It’s not a pain you can fix”: A qualitative exploration of working with vulnerably positioned current and bereaved carers across sectors of health and social care	4
Emotion regulation deficits across the spectrum of self-harm	4
Correction	4
Experiences of Black South African widows regarding mourning rituals following the death of their spouses: Upholding cultural practices or violating human rights?	4
A high tide of death: The American Civil War	4
Transformations and transitions: The social and political life of the dead	4
Psychosocial burden after the death of a child from cancer: Results of a bereaved parent survey	4
COVID-19 pandemic impact on funeral service workers’ work-related mental health	4
Death perceptions, grief, and distress in Ultra-Orthodox Jews who witnessed the 2021 Meron disaster	4
The experiences of grandparents involved in the home-based end-of-life care of their grandchild with cancer: A qualitative secondary data analysis	4
Mindfulness exercises reduce death anxiety and burnout in intensive care nurses	4
Hearing the missing voices: Child and adolescent grief	4
Never-ending funerals. Annual burials and reburials of victims of mass violence in present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina*	4
“I could have”: The lived experience of bereavement-related regret	4
Utrecht grief rumination scale (UGRS): Psychometric study of validation of the Portuguese version	4
Do mortality cues increase state autonomy? The moderating roles of trait autonomy, flexibility, and curiosity	4
Navigating autonomy and decision-making capacity: Legal and ethical considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying for individuals with mental disorders in Portugal	4
Factors associated with nonparticipation and loss to follow-up in bereavement research using data from a cohort of parents with a loss in pregnancy or the neonatal period	4
Exploring the process of adjustment following partner death in younger, widowed individuals: A qualitative systematic review	4
“We are the forgotten grievers”: Bereaved family members’ experiences of support and mental ill-health following a road traffic collision	3
Posttraumatic growth following a drug-related death: A family perspective	3
Bereavement outcomes of carers of patients with high grade glioma: Experiences of support before and after the death	3
Meaning-making following loss among bereaved spouses during the COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)	3
Level of professional quality of life and coping with death competence in healthcare professionals exposed to perinatal loss: A cross-sectional study	3
Risk and correlates of prolonged grief disorder in bereaved Chinese university students	3
Integration of disaster nursing, technology, and health policy in realizing community resilience	3
Relatives’ grief at three moments after death of a loved one during COVID-19 pandemic (the CO-LIVE study)	3
Talking about death when a parent with dependent children dies of cancer: A pilot study of the Family Talk Intervention in palliative care	3
The integrated process model of loss and grief - An interprofessional understanding	3
Validating the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale in a Colombian sample	3
Changing perspectives on participation in assisted dying in Queensland, Australia: A one-year qualitative longitudinal study of doctors	3
Revising ruling discourses: The griefwork evidence-to-practice gap and the mental health workforce	3
Identifying suicide ideation in mental health application posts: A random forest algorithm	3
A case report to understand the use of an evidence-based approach of prolonged grief therapy in Chinese culture	3
The mediating role of self-efficacy, social support, and hope in the relation between mental health and resilience among 2023 Türkiye earthquake survivors	3
“So, whose milk was it? … It became all of ours, together”: A relational autoethnographic study of an interactional human milk donation process through bereavement	3
“It turned out right for both of us”: A qualitative study about a preference for home death and actual place of death	3
Supporting bereaved students: Qualitative insights from Danish college student counselors	3
End-of-life treatment preferences and advanced care planning among older adults	3
Factors associated with suicidal ideation among medical students during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in Peru: A multicenter study	3
“I know she’s there” meanings of continuing bonds for bereaved Costa Rican men: a qualitative study	3
Mass Shootings Anxiety Scale: A preliminary psychometric study	3
Cluster analysis of suicidal ideation and influencing factors among Spanish teachers	3
A long overdue sourcebook of American Indian death and dyingA review of *Sociology of Death and the American Indian* by Gerry R. Cox. Le	3
Measurement invariance of the Grief Facilitation Inventory with respect to youth gender, race, ethnicity, and age	3
Factors associated with suicide risk among Brazilian graduate students during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Missing pieces and body parts: On bodily integrity and political violence	3
Understanding how volunteer companionship impacts those during the end of life: A realist evaluation	3
Maternal mental health, marital adjustment, and family support in the grieving process after a pregnancy loss	3