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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Stories of aloneness in childhood	43
Founder ownership and system‐justifying beliefs in relation to perception toward Black Lives Matter and other social movements	38
Social comparison for concern and action on climate change, racial injustice, and COVID‐19	29
Anti‐immigration policies of the trump administration: A review of Latinx mental health and resilience in the face of structural violence	26
Should health communication regarding COVID‐19 emphasize self‐ or other‐focused impacts of mitigation behaviors? Insights from two message matching studies	26
A critical activist orientation predicts lower latent ableist bias	21
How much do we need college admission tests?	20
Does framing climate change policies to fit with epistemic needs for predictability reduce conservatives’ opposition?	20
Issue Information	17
Economic contact in service encounters between groups in protracted conflict	17
Hate crime law associations with mental health and discrimination experiences among transgender and gender diverse adults	16
Dependency and aged care in Spain: Tensions and contradictions in a society in transition	15
Nudging to handwash during the pandemic – The use of visual priming and salience	15
Editorial	13
The influence of political partisanship on perceptions of sexual assault	13
A measure of positive and negative perception of migration: Development and psychometric properties of the Positive and Negative Perception of Immigrants Scale (PANPIS)	13
The role of religious coping to overcome mental distress and anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An integrative review	11
LGBTQ+ conspiracy beliefs and collective actions: Factors and processes that (de)motivate support for LGBTQ+ equality	10
Health consequences of a death threat: How terrorist attacks impact drinking	9
Changing channels? A comparison of Fox and MSNBC in 2012, 2016, and 2020	8
Negative and positive partisans’ responses to the 2020 presidential election	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
He's to blame, she is lying: Judgments of child sex trafficking survivors	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	7
School characteristics associated with active shooter drill implementation	7
Expectancy violations after moral transgressions: Exploring the role of moral disengagement on online vindictive word of mouth	7
Democratic candidates in the 2020 US presidential primary: The portrayal of race, gender, and age in editorial cartoons	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
Issue Information	5
Issue Information	5
Extending the rejection‐identification model: The protective role of multiple identities to cope with discrimination for lesbians	5
What is justice? A qualitative exploration with college students who endured parental incarceration or parental substance use	5
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Issue Information	5
Ideological orientations, intergroup stereotypes, and opposition to permanent supportive housing	4
Plotting against justice: Conspiracy theory endorsement and opposition to criminal justice reform	4
The effects of official reporting and perceived deservingness on evaluations of sexual harassment responses	4
Personality and environmental outcomes: The role of moral anger in channeling climate change action and pro‐environmental behavior	4
When longing goes wrong: Nostalgia can cause a preference for harmful aspects of the past	4
The identities of employed students: Striving to reduce distinctiveness from the typical student	4
Examining the relationship between conspiracy theories and COVID‐19 vaccine hesitancy: A mediating role for perceived health threats, trust, and anomie?	4
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
A matter of trust? Analyzing the relationship between attitudes toward COVID‐19 countermeasures and right‐wing ideology in Germany	3
One nation, under war: Did the language of Fox News and MSNBC converge during the invasion of Ukraine?	3
The elephant (and donkey) in the room: Parents’ approaches to political socialization surrounding the 2020 US election	3
Issue Information	3
The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F word: Transnational feminism and its discontents	3
Exploring disparities in research through the lens of epistemic exclusion: A focus on Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy	3
Victim‐survivors’ proposed solutions to addressing image‐based sexual abuse in the U.S.: Legal, corporate, educational, technological, and cultural approaches	3
Reducing health disparities through understanding the lived experiences of women living with HIV regarding intimate relationship power and reproductive decision‐making	3
Signaling sizeism: An assessment of body size‐based threat and safety cues	3
Student experiences of the COVID‐19 pandemic: Perspectives from first‐generation/lower‐income students and others	3
Better support for national than local system during the COVID‐19 pandemic in China	3
A pandemic of hate: Social representations of COVID‐19 in the media	3
Employment, collective action, and satisfaction: the moderating role of acceptance of inequality	3
Influence falling income inequality for social stability: Case study of four European countries	3
Predictors of White parents' racial socialization: Links to attributions for racial inequalities and views of White privilege	2
“I had no power whatsoever”: Graduate student survivors’ experiences disclosing sexual harassment to mandatory reporters	2
Why are socioeconomic health inequalities unacceptable? Studying the influence of explanatory framings on cognitive appraisals	2
COVID‐19 and K‐12 teachers: Associations between mental health, job satisfaction, perceived support, and experiences of ageism and sexism	2
An analysis of the relationships between religious orientation, authoritarianism, cross‐cultural interactions, and political views	2
Development and validation of the Abolitionist Ideology Scale with abolitionist‐identifying and nationally representative samples	2
Testing the interrelationship between area deprivation and ethnic disparities in sentencing	2
Immigrant's death at the border: Do they influence White and Latinx Americans’ belief in the American dream?	2
Ingroup identification moderates blame attributions for the COVID‐19 crisis, and willingness to help ingroup and outgroup members	2
Gains and losses for humans and the environment: Effects of social identity and message prospect framing on pro‐environmental behaviors	2
A systematic review of literature regarding food insecurity in Sweden	2
Acknowledgment of collective victimization: Findings from four contexts of historical victimization	2
Bullying in schools and LGBTQ+ youth mental health: Relations with voting for Trump	2
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

An exploratory qualitative analysis of rape myths in India	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
The reproductive rights of pregnant people: Abortion attitudes and gender‐inclusive language	2
Mental health and coping strategies during the COVID‐19 pandemic: A qualitative study of unemployed and employed people in Nigeria	2
Issue Information	2
Policy whiplash: How California Title IX coordinators navigated local, state, and federal policy changes during the Trump administration	2
Identifying hate speech in societal context: When psychological factors are more important than contents	2
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Impact of racism and sexism in the 2008–2020 US presidential elections	2
Where are the men?: Investigating intersectional gender differences in postsecondary outcomes	1
Issue Information	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
Investigating the white racial equilibrium and the power‐maintenance of whiteness	1
How are first‐generation students doing throughout their college years? An examination of academic success, retention, and completion rates	1
A mixed method examination of support for two college sexual assault mandatory reporting policy approaches	1
Longitudinal associations between a health risk factor and juvenile justice placement among persistent juvenile offenders	1
When and how many: Factors associated with campus sexual assault reforms	1
Unvaccinated and left out: The mismatch of vaccine supply and demand during COVID‐19 as a source of interpersonal and societal exclusion	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
Together or divided: How collective narcissism versus secure identity are related to solidarity between disadvantaged groups?	1
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Hegemonic masculinities in the ‘Manosphere’: A thematic analysis of beliefs about men and women on The Red Pill and Incel	1
What makes a liberal feminist? Identifying predictors of heterosexual women and men's liberal feminist ideology	1
Perceived discrimination and self‐esteem of left‐behind children: The mediating effect of grit	1
Selected or rejected: Men and women's reactions to affirmative action procedures in hiring	1
Young university students’ cultural values, filial obligation norms, and ageism toward older people	1
Conceptualization and measurement of Islamophobia: A systematic review	1
Leading change by protecting group identity in the 2019 Canadian general election	1
What works to promote community engagement: Strategic plan for volunteering and participation in Andalusia (Spain)	1
“Is voting even effective?” Examining voting and protest as an expression of dissent and their efficacy in risky contexts	1
Prosecutors’ considerations when initiating plea bargaining	1
Social norms misperception among voters in the 2020 US presidential election	1
Disparities in healthcare, STI testing, and PrEP access among newcomer sexual minority men in Canada's three largest urban centers	1
From scarcity to security: Participant well‐being in the first 2 years of a basic income pilot	1
Attitudes on affirmative action targeted to help Black and Hispanic individuals: The roles of knowledge, race, and perceived discrimination	1
How social support predicts anxiety among university students during COVID‐19 control phase: Mediating roles of self‐esteem and resilience	1
Social identity processes predicting post‐election 2020 ideological extremism	1
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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
Negative media representations of young people during COVID related national lockdown increases young people's perceived stress	1
Facilitators and barriers to contact between asylum seekers and their Dutch neighbors	1
Eliciting preferences for redistribution across domains: A study on wealth, education, and health	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
“I know what's best for my child”: A qualitative analysis of US cisgender‐heterosexual and LGBTQ parents’ perspectives on inclusive education policies	1
Between applause and arm crossing: Public reception of within‐group apologies and the role of system justification	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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