OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Social comparison for concern and action on climate change, racial injustice, and COVID‐19	46
Founder ownership and system‐justifying beliefs in relation to perception toward Black Lives Matter and other social movements	43
Stories of aloneness in childhood	30
Should health communication regarding COVID‐19 emphasize self‐ or other‐focused impacts of mitigation behaviors? Insights from two message matching studies	28
Climate change threats and affective polarization. Exploring the role of negative emotional reactions	27
Anti‐immigration policies of the trump administration: A review of Latinx mental health and resilience in the face of structural violence	26
How much do we need college admission tests?	22
The role of religious coping to overcome mental distress and anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An integrative review	21
A critical activist orientation predicts lower latent ableist bias	17
A measure of positive and negative perception of migration: Development and psychometric properties of the Positive and Negative Perception of Immigrants Scale (PANPIS)	17
Dependency and aged care in Spain: Tensions and contradictions in a society in transition	16
Does framing climate change policies to fit with epistemic needs for predictability reduce conservatives’ opposition?	13
Hate crime law associations with mental health and discrimination experiences among transgender and gender diverse adults	13
Economic contact in service encounters between groups in protracted conflict	12
The influence of political partisanship on perceptions of sexual assault	11
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Editorial	10
When political elites talk, citizens reply. Affective polarization through temporal orientation and intergroup emotions	8
Health consequences of a death threat: How terrorist attacks impact drinking	8
Nudging to handwash during the pandemic – The use of visual priming and salience	8
Negative and positive partisans’ responses to the 2020 presidential election	8
Expectancy violations after moral transgressions: Exploring the role of moral disengagement on online vindictive word of mouth	7
LGBTQ+ conspiracy beliefs and collective actions: Factors and processes that (de)motivate support for LGBTQ+ equality	7
Barriers of emergent psychological groupness predict stockpiling during the pandemic: Lack of trust, media exposure, and anxiety	7
“They really care about you, they really build relationships”: Care and justice in a community organization	7

Realigning individual behavior with societal values: The role of planning in injunctive‐norm interventions aimed at increasing voter turnout	6
“Our voice as a legacy”: Trauma, resilience, and post‐traumatic growth among people living with long‐term HIV	6
He's to blame, she is lying: Judgments of child sex trafficking survivors	6
Experimental testing of three categorization‐based interventions to reduce prejudice and discrimination against the unvaccinated in the aftermath of COVID‐19	6
Countering anti‐democratic policies in democracies: The importance of value‐oriented citizenship	6
What is justice? A qualitative exploration with college students who endured parental incarceration or parental substance use	5
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Democratic candidates in the 2020 US presidential primary: The portrayal of race, gender, and age in editorial cartoons	5
Extending the rejection‐identification model: The protective role of multiple identities to cope with discrimination for lesbians	4
Ideological orientations, intergroup stereotypes, and opposition to permanent supportive housing	4
Examining the relationship between conspiracy theories and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: A mediating role for perceived health threats, trust, and anomie?	4
The effects of official reporting and perceived deservingness on evaluations of sexual harassment responses	4
A pandemic of hate: Social representations of COVID‐19 in the media	4
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Coping with the stigma of mental illness: An interpretive descriptive study of out‐patients in a public mental health hospital in Ghana	4
Populist attitudes moderates the negative relationship between national identity and support for pro‐refugee policies	4
Better support for national than local system during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	4
The identities of employed students: Striving to reduce distinctiveness from the typical student	4
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Plotting against justice: Conspiracy theory endorsement and opposition to criminal justice reform	4
When longing goes wrong: Nostalgia can cause a preference for harmful aspects of the past	4
Victim‐survivors’ proposed solutions to addressing image‐based sexual abuse in the U.S.: Legal, corporate, educational, technological, and cultural approaches	4
One nation, under war: Did the language of Fox News and MSNBC converge during the invasion of Ukraine?	4
Signaling sizeism: An assessment of body size‐based threat and safety cues	3
Acknowledgment of collective victimization: Findings from four contexts of historical victimization	3
Influence falling income inequality for social stability: Case study of four European countries	3
Exploring disparities in research through the lens of epistemic exclusion: A focus on Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy	3
Employment, collective action, and satisfaction: the moderating role of acceptance of inequality	3
Reducing health disparities through understanding the lived experiences of women living with HIV regarding intimate relationship power and reproductive decision‐making	3
Development and validation of the Abolitionist Ideology Scale with abolitionist‐identifying and nationally representative samples	3
Identifying hate speech in societal context: When psychological factors are more important than contents	3
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The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F word: Transnational feminism and its discontents	3
Student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Perspectives from first‐generation/lower‐income students and others	3
A matter of trust? Analyzing the relationship between attitudes toward COVID‐19 countermeasures and right‐wing ideology in Germany	3
An exploratory qualitative analysis of rape myths in India	2
Call it what it is: Does the framing of sex crimes impact jury decision making?	2
COVID‐19 and K‐12 teachers: Associations between mental health, job satisfaction, perceived support, and experiences of ageism and sexism	2
Predictors of White parents' racial socialization: Links to attributions for racial inequalities and views of White privilege	2
Rethinking climate change vulnerabilities after COVID‐19: Recommendations for social science‐based interventions drawn from research on Conspiracy Theories and Diversity Science	2
A mixed method examination of support for two college sexual assault mandatory reporting policy approaches	2
Prosecutors’ considerations when initiating plea bargaining	2
Social dominance orientation, right‐wing authoritarianism, and political attitudes toward governmental performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
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Testing the interrelationship between area deprivation and ethnic disparities in sentencing	2
An analysis of the relationships between religious orientation, authoritarianism, cross‐cultural interactions, and political views	2
Policy whiplash: How California Title IX coordinators navigated local, state, and federal policy changes during the Trump administration	2
Gains and losses for humans and the environment: Effects of social identity and message prospect framing on pro‐environmental behaviors	2

Ingroup identification moderates blame attributions for the COVID‐19 crisis, and willingness to help ingroup and outgroup members	2
“Is voting even effective?” Examining voting and protest as an expression of dissent and their efficacy in risky contexts	2
The reproductive rights of pregnant people: Abortion attitudes and gender‐inclusive language	2
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A majority group perspective on the association between perceived national identification of minority groups and minority helping	2
The core of division: Examining how essentialist views of the U.S. underlie right‐wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and nationalism	2
Immigrant's death at the border: Do they influence White and Latinx Americans’ belief in the American dream?	2
Eliciting preferences for redistribution across domains: A study on wealth, education, and health	2
Unvaccinated and left out: The mismatch of vaccine supply and demand during COVID‐19 as a source of interpersonal and societal exclusion	2
Why are socioeconomic health inequalities unacceptable? Studying the influence of explanatory framings on cognitive appraisals	2
“I had no power whatsoever”: Graduate student survivors’ experiences disclosing sexual harassment to mandatory reporters	2
When fear meets anger: Attitudes toward positively versus negatively evaluated pandemic policy proposals when negative emotions are competing in society	1
Prejudice in Turkey and Belgium: The cross‐cultural comparison of correlations of right‐wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation with sexism, homophobia, and racism	1
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How are first‐generation students doing throughout their college years? An examination of academic success, retention, and completion rates	1
Politicized science and rural–urban divides: Exploring how rurality in the place of residence and red and blue media use affected attitudes toward scientists before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
What makes a liberal feminist? Identifying predictors of heterosexual women and men's liberal feminist ideology	1
Trajectories of affective and cognitive well‐being at times of COVID‐19 containment policies in Italy	1
The unheard echoes of equality: perceptions of wealth inequality in the Czech Republic	1
Who do you like? Who will you vote for? Political ideology and person perception in the 2020 U.S. presidential election	1
Longitudinal associations between a health risk factor and juvenile justice placement among persistent juvenile offenders	1
Where are the men?: Investigating intersectional gender differences in postsecondary outcomes	1
Surveilling threat: The roles of ideology and threat perceptions in support for Islamophobic policy	1
Multifaceted volunteering: The volunteering experience in the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in light of volunteering styles	1
Between applause and arm crossing: Public reception of within‐group apologies and the role of system justification	1
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Recognizing racism in George Floyd's death	1
“I know what's best for my child”: A qualitative analysis of US cisgender‐heterosexual and LGBTQ parents’ perspectives on inclusive education policies	1
What works to promote community engagement: Strategic plan for volunteering and participation in Andalusia (Spain)	1
Social identity processes predicting post‐election 2020 ideological extremism	1
Factors influencing mock parole board members: the impact of an incarcerated person's race/ethnicity, conversion while in prison, and mental health status	1
Perceived discrimination and self‐esteem of left‐behind children: The mediating effect of grit	1
Conceptualization and measurement of Islamophobia: A systematic review	1
Perceived threat and support for right‐wing ideology in Finland	1
“I'm not batman” and other factors impacting bystander intervention against sexual violence in Australian nightlife settings	1
Attitudes on affirmative action targeted to help Black and Hispanic individuals: The roles of knowledge, race, and perceived discrimination	1
Focusing on fake news’ contents: The association between ingroup identification, perceived outgroup threat, analytical‐intuitive thinking and detecting fake news	1
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Together or divided: How collective narcissism versus secure identity are related to solidarity between disadvantaged groups?	1
How social support predicts anxiety among university students during COVID‐19 control phase: Mediating roles of self‐esteem and resilience	1
From scarcity to security: Participant well‐being in the first 2 years of a basic income pilot	1
Disparities in healthcare, STI testing, and PrEP access among newcomer sexual minority men in Canada's three largest urban centers	1
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When and how many: Factors associated with campus sexual assault reforms	1
Young university students’ cultural values, filial obligation norms, and ageism toward older people	1
United as one? Outgroup discrimination matters but so does ingroup standing in shaping solidarity among Latinx and Asian Americans	1
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Negative media representations of young people during COVID related national lockdown increases young people's perceived stress	1
Investigating the white racial equilibrium and the power‐maintenance of whiteness	1
Hegemonic masculinities in the ‘Manosphere’: A thematic analysis of beliefs about men and women on The Red Pill and Incel	1
Individual values and career choice: Does cultural context condition the relationship?	1