OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sexual Aggression is 1. 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
Understanding child sex offending trajectories in South Africa: from victimisation to perpetration	20
From myth to reality: sexual image abuse myth acceptance, the Dark Tetrad, and non-consensual intimate image dissemination proclivity	16
Prevalence of unwanted sexual experiences and their associations on university students in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland: a systematic review	14
Do popular attitudinal scales perpetuate negative attitudes towards persons who have sexually offended?	12
Emotional intelligence in incarcerated sexual offenders with sexual sadism	12
Paraphilic offending: another privilege of White men?	11
Treating an adolescent male who has engaged in intrafamilial harmful sexual behaviour: a case study	11
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of young adults regarding revenge pornography in Ghana: a qualitative study	10
Rape myth acceptance and psychopathy as interacting predictors of rape proclivity	8
Thank You to 2021 Reviewers	8
Victim-blaming in sexual violence against sex workers: a systematic review	8
The impact of empathy priming on the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale for those with antisocial/psychopathic traits	8
An empirical examination of sexual harassment and Stockholm syndrome in relation to essential and non-essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	8
Empathy in paedophilia and sexual offending against children: a longitudinal extension	8
“I don’t really see any kind of change” – multi-perspective analysis of a circle of support and accountability for young people who have previously demonstrated harmful sexual behaviour	8
Personalised monitoring and feedback on risk-relevant features in forensic case formulation: a series of case-studies in men who have committed sexual offences	7
Ensuring long-term success of personalised support for a young man with intellectual disability and harmful sexual behaviour: a Swiss case study	7
“I read about it in that book” – towards a child safe approach to literature	6
Barriers and opportunities for gender-based violence prevention & response at universities in Sub-Saharan Africa	6
“Grieving someone who’s still alive, that’s hard”: the experiences of non-offending partners of individuals who have sexually offended – an IPA study	6
A descriptive evaluation of children presenting with Technology Assisted-Harmful Sexual Behaviour (TA-HSB) within a regional Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (FCAMHS)	6
A cost–benefit analysis of a treatment program for adult males who have offended sexually	6
“A shoulder to lean on in hard times”: understanding the role of friendships in the lives of individuals convicted of sexual offences	5
Strong & Solid Spirit: design & development of a treatment programme for First Nations men incarcerated for sexual offences	5
“County lines” and child criminal exploitation in the UK: a secondary data analysis of focus groups with young people who attended a theatre-in-education programme	5

Across landscapes and lifespan: causes and solutions of gender-based violence from survivors of sexual violence against women and girls (VAWG)	5
Guardians: masculine honour beliefs and perceptions of men’s roles in preventing sexual violence	5
Comparing treatment professional’s risk and disposition judgments of child and adult sexual offences	5
Hindsight bias in assessing child sexual abuse	4
Jehovah’s witnesses response to child sexual abuse: a critique of organisational behaviour and management policies (1989–2020)	4
Development and validation of the MIDSA-SC scale	4
Do professionals show a bias specific to treatment for people who have sexually offended in their interpretation of ambiguous evidence?	4
Living through the experience of sibling sexual abuse: parents’ perspectives	4
Masculine honour beliefs and volunteering to prevent rape versus volunteering to help women who have been raped	4
Aotearoa New Zealand adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours: the importance of a holistic approach when working with Rangatahi Māori	4
Differences in Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP) risk factors among older and adult men who have sexually offended	3
Assessing the risk of users of child sexual exploitation material committing further offences: a scoping review	3
Examining sexual victimisation among LGBQT+college students in the U.S.: results from the national college health assessment	3
Victim vs. survivor: the effect of labels and consensual sexual behaviour on observers’ perceptions of sexual assault	3
Fear of sexual assault and personal safety in young female students of Bangladesh	3
Is sex-offending treatment trauma-informed? Exploring perspectives of clinicians and clients	3
Victims’ experiences of cyberflashing: an explorative study	3
Investigating the phenomenology and plausibility of sexual fantasies and their relationship with behavioural enactment and motivation	3
Personality features of sexual offenders who committed offences against children	3
Recognising risk: perceptions of risk factors for female children and adolescents at risk of being sexually groomed	3
Predicting recidivism: psychosocial collateral consequences among registered offenders	3
A preview of the AIM practice guidance for harmful sexual behaviour between siblings illustrated by a case series	3
Behind the weapon of war: sexual violence in wartime as a reflection of social attitudes towards women in peacetime	2
Challenges of technology-mediated child sexual abuse: contrasting Irish findings with Paraguayan reality	2
Self-Determination Theory as an underpinning theory for community maintenance programs for those who have sexually offended	2
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) networks: reassembling structure and activity	2
Mental wellbeing, but not prison climate, mediates the association between autistic traits and treatment readiness among men with sexual convictions	2
The role of defendant gender on juror decision-making within a mock sex trafficking case among a jury-eligible community sample	2
Experience of sexual violence and satisfaction with life: a 20-year prospective cohort study	2
Adverse childhood experiences and psychosocial functioning problems for youths who sexually harm siblings	2
Group sexual offending in Spain: an exploratory study	2
The effect of differing operational definitions on sexual recidivism rates	2
The biopsychosocial experience of sexual harassment: the concomitant effects of being harassed and response choice	1
Testing the reliability of sexual aggression self-reports	1
Family, individual and socio-economic risk factors for the trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation of Nigerian girls in Northern Ghana	1
Dodging justice: characteristics of men with multiple victims who evade detection for long periods	1
Are men who identify as a feminist less likely to sexually objectify women?: a cross-sectional study of heterosexual men	1
Professional responses to sibling sexual abuse	1
Power, romance, and aggression in statutory rape: comparing between male adolescent perpetrators with adult perpetrators and sexually inactive adolescents	1
Associations between media exposure to sexual violence during the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict and sexual, psychological, and relational well-being	1
“Frantic online searches for help”: design considerations for an online early intervention service addressing harmful sexual behaviour	1
Adult recollections of childhood memories in individuals convicted of sexual offences: implications for narrative therapy	1
Factors related to motivation to change and therapeutic alliance among men early in treatment following perpetration of child sexual abuse	1
Convergent effects of alcohol and confluence model constructs on sexual aggression, sexual misperception, and coercive condom use resistance: a scoping review	1
Structural equation modelling in male sexual violence against women research: best practices in statistical reporting and interpretation	1
An investigation of healthcare professionals’ perspectives on the role of technology in child sexual abuse	1
Public attitudes toward teenagers with paedophilia: a qualitative examination	1
An inclusive typology of youths convicted of sexual or non-sexual crime	1
Clusters of risk associated with harmful sexual behaviour onset for children and young people: opportunities for early intervention	1
Zero tolerance to sexual harm in schools – from broken rules to broken systems	1

A multi-country study of image-based sexual abuse: extent, relational nature and correlates of victimisation experiences	1
An investigation of the relationship between female rape myths, child sexual abuse myths and personality disorders	1
Mindfulness-based interventions for adult survivors of sexual assault: a scoping review	1
Under pressure: identifying pathways to sexual coercion in a community sample	1
Thank You to 2024 Reviewers	1