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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Stories of aloneness in childhood	52
Founder ownership and system‐justifying beliefs in relation to perception toward Black Lives Matter and other social movements	48
Anti‐immigration policies of the trump administration: A review of Latinx mental health and resilience in the face of structural violence	28
Should health communication regarding COVID‐19 emphasize self‐ or other‐focused impacts of mitigation behaviors? Insights from two message matching studies	26
Climate change threats and affective polarization. Exploring the role of negative emotional reactions	22
Social comparison for concern and action on climate change, racial injustice, and COVID‐19	18
Issue Information	16
Editorial	14
Nudging to handwash during the pandemic – The use of visual priming and salience	13
Dependency and aged care in Spain: Tensions and contradictions in a society in transition	12
Does framing climate change policies to fit with epistemic needs for predictability reduce conservatives’ opposition?	11
A measure of positive and negative perception of migration: Development and psychometric properties of the Positive and Negative Perception of Immigrants Scale (PANPIS)	10
A critical activist orientation predicts lower latent ableist bias	10
Economic contact in service encounters between groups in protracted conflict	9
Hate crime law associations with mental health and discrimination experiences among transgender and gender diverse adults	9
How much do we need college admission tests?	8
How do neoliberals vote? Power‐based asymmetries in hierarchy‐enhancement	8
The role of religious coping to overcome mental distress and anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An integrative review	8
When political elites talk, citizens reply. Affective polarization through temporal orientation and intergroup emotions	8
“They really care about you, they really build relationships”: Care and justice in a community organization	7
Health consequences of a death threat: How terrorist attacks impact drinking	7
Experimental testing of three categorization‐based interventions to reduce prejudice and discrimination against the unvaccinated in the aftermath of COVID‐19	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
Realigning individual behavior with societal values: The role of planning in injunctive‐norm interventions aimed at increasing voter turnout	6

He's to blame, she is lying: Judgments of child sex trafficking survivors	6
Countering anti‐democratic policies in democracies: The importance of value‐oriented citizenship	6
Democratic candidates in the 2020 US presidential primary: The portrayal of race, gender, and age in editorial cartoons	5
Expectancy violations after moral transgressions: Exploring the role of moral disengagement on online vindictive word of mouth	5
Issue Information	5
Issue Information	5
“Our voice as a legacy”: Trauma, resilience, and post‐traumatic growth among people living with long‐term HIV	5
Examining the relationship between conspiracy theories and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: A mediating role for perceived health threats, trust, and anomie?	4
Plotting against justice: Conspiracy theory endorsement and opposition to criminal justice reform	4
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Reducing health disparities through understanding the lived experiences of women living with HIV regarding intimate relationship power and reproductive decision‐making	4
Student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Perspectives from first‐generation/lower‐income students and others	4
The effects of official reporting and perceived deservingness on evaluations of sexual harassment responses	4
The identities of employed students: Striving to reduce distinctiveness from the typical student	4
Populist attitudes moderates the negative relationship between national identity and support for pro‐refugee policies	4
Employment, collective action, and satisfaction: the moderating role of acceptance of inequality	4
What is justice? A qualitative exploration with college students who endured parental incarceration or parental substance use	4
Coping with the stigma of mental illness: An interpretive descriptive study of out‐patients in a public mental health hospital in Ghana	4
Exploring disparities in research through the lens of epistemic exclusion: A focus on Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy	4
Better support for national than local system during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	4
A matter of trust? Analyzing the relationship between attitudes toward COVID‐19 countermeasures and right‐wing ideology in Germany	4
Victim‐survivors’ proposed solutions to addressing image‐based sexual abuse in the U.S.: Legal, corporate, educational, technological, and cultural approaches	4
Extending the rejection‐identification model: The protective role of multiple identities to cope with discrimination for lesbians	4
When longing goes wrong: Nostalgia can cause a preference for harmful aspects of the past	4
Issue Information	4
The interaction between individual traits and societal factors in predicting abortion stigma	4
Signaling sizeism: An assessment of body size‐based threat and safety cues	4
Issue Information	4
A pandemic of hate: Social representations of COVID‐19 in the media	4
One nation, under war: Did the language of Fox News and MSNBC converge during the invasion of Ukraine?	4
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Ideological orientations, intergroup stereotypes, and opposition to permanent supportive housing	4
The core of division: Examining how essentialist views of the U.S. underlie right‐wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and nationalism	3
Identifying hate speech in societal context: When psychological factors are more important than contents	3
Call it what it is: Does the framing of sex crimes impact jury decision making?	3
Issue Information	3
Acknowledgment of collective victimization: Findings from four contexts of historical victimization	3
A majority group perspective on the association between perceived national identification of minority groups and minority helping	3
The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F word: Transnational feminism and its discontents	3
Testing the interrelationship between area deprivation and ethnic disparities in sentencing	3
An analysis of the relationships between religious orientation, authoritarianism, cross‐cultural interactions, and political views	3
Influence falling income inequality for social stability: Case study of four European countries	3
Development and validation of the Abolitionist Ideology Scale with abolitionist‐identifying and nationally representative samples	3
Living in fear: The psychological impact of the threat of sexual violence on women in India	3
COVID‐19 and K‐12 teachers: Associations between mental health, job satisfaction, perceived support, and experiences of ageism and sexism	3
Policy whiplash: How California Title IX coordinators navigated local, state, and federal policy changes during the Trump administration	3
Unvaccinated and left out: The mismatch of vaccine supply and demand during COVID‐19 as a source of interpersonal and societal exclusion	2
Perceived threat and support for right‐wing ideology in Finland	2
United as one? Outgroup discrimination matters but so does ingroup standing in shaping solidarity among Latinx and Asian Americans	2
The reproductive rights of pregnant people: Abortion attitudes and gender‐inclusive language	2

Longitudinal associations between a health risk factor and juvenile justice placement among persistent juvenile offenders	2
Why are socioeconomic health inequalities unacceptable? Studying the influence of explanatory framings on cognitive appraisals	2
Rethinking climate change vulnerabilities after COVID‐19: Recommendations for social science‐based interventions drawn from research on Conspiracy Theories and Diversity Science	2
Social dominance orientation, right‐wing authoritarianism, and political attitudes toward governmental performance during the COVID‐19 pandemic	2
Issue Information	2
Negative media representations of young people during COVID related national lockdown increases young people's perceived stress	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
“I had no power whatsoever”: Graduate student survivors’ experiences disclosing sexual harassment to mandatory reporters	2
An exploratory qualitative analysis of rape myths in India	2
Predictors of White parents' racial socialization: Links to attributions for racial inequalities and views of White privilege	2
Immigrant's death at the border: Do they influence White and Latinx Americans’ belief in the American dream?	2
Conceptualization and measurement of Islamophobia: A systematic review	2
Young university students’ cultural values, filial obligation norms, and ageism toward older people	2
Who do you like? Who will you vote for? Political ideology and person perception in the 2020 U.S. presidential election	2
Gains and losses for humans and the environment: Effects of social identity and message prospect framing on pro‐environmental behaviors	2
A mixed method examination of support for two college sexual assault mandatory reporting policy approaches	2
AI as moral cover: How algorithmic bias exploits psychological mechanisms to perpetuate social inequality	2
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Prosecutors’ considerations when initiating plea bargaining	2
How social support predicts anxiety among university students during COVID‐19 control phase: Mediating roles of self‐esteem and resilience	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
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Factors influencing mock parole board members: the impact of an incarcerated person's race/ethnicity, conversion while in prison, and mental health status	1
Disparities in healthcare, STI testing, and PrEP access among newcomer sexual minority men in Canada's three largest urban centers	1
How are first‐generation students doing throughout their college years? An examination of academic success, retention, and completion rates	1
Trajectories of affective and cognitive well‐being at times of COVID‐19 containment policies in Italy	1
Hegemonic masculinities in the ‘Manosphere’: A thematic analysis of beliefs about men and women on The Red Pill and Incel	1
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Multifaceted volunteering: The volunteering experience in the first wave of the COVID‐19 pandemic in light of volunteering styles	1
Recognizing racism in George Floyd's death	1
Together or divided: How collective narcissism versus secure identity are related to solidarity between disadvantaged groups?	1
From scarcity to security: Participant well‐being in the first 2 years of a basic income pilot	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
“I'm not batman” and other factors impacting bystander intervention against sexual violence in Australian nightlife settings	1
The unheard echoes of equality: perceptions of wealth inequality in the Czech Republic	1
Investigating the white racial equilibrium and the power‐maintenance of whiteness	1
What makes a liberal feminist? Identifying predictors of heterosexual women and men's liberal feminist ideology	1
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We the People. Who? The face of future American politics is shaped by perceived foreignness of candidates of color	1
Individual values and career choice: Does cultural context condition the relationship?	1
Focusing on fake news’ contents: The association between ingroup identification, perceived outgroup threat, analytical‐intuitive thinking and detecting fake news	1
Between applause and arm crossing: Public reception of within‐group apologies and the role of system justification	1
Where are the men?: Investigating intersectional gender differences in postsecondary outcomes	1
Attitudes on affirmative action targeted to help Black and Hispanic individuals: The roles of knowledge, race, and perceived discrimination	1
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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
Perceived discrimination and self‐esteem of left‐behind children: The mediating effect of grit	1
When and how many: Factors associated with campus sexual assault reforms	1
Gender and sexual minority PhD students experience epistemic exclusion in STEM	1
Issue Information	1
National prostalgia is associated with decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump's presidency	1
When fear meets anger: Attitudes toward positively versus negatively evaluated pandemic policy proposals when negative emotions are competing in society	1