OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Loss & Trauma 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Ukrainian “Help” Profession Women: War and Location Status Impact on Well-Being	133
What Have College Students Lost as They Cope with the COVID-19 Pandemic?	24
Wall Climbing Therapy for Adults Diagnosed with Complex PTSD Due Childhood Sexual Assault	21
Military Widows’ Experiences of Social Isolation, Loneliness and Unmet Social Needs	21
The Impact of Lockdowns during the Corona Pandemic on Parental Aggressiveness Behaviors	19
Comorbidities of Combat Trauma: Unresolved Grief and Moral Injury	19
A Qualitative Inquiry of Holocaust Survivors in the Face of Financial Exploitation	17
Turkish Version of the Psychological Responses to Grief Before Loss of Health Scale	17
Complex Outcomes of Failure: How Loss of Success Yields Wisdom Alongside Depression	16
The Trauma Trilogy of Catastrophic Grief, Survivor Guilt and Anger in Aging Child Holocaust Survivors	15
Reuniting with Michael: An Autoethnography of a Police Officer’s Experience with PTSD	12
Fictionalizing Pain: Processing Grief Through Fiction Writing	12
PTSD Among Refugee Rescue Workers: Effects of Compassion Satisfaction and Fatigue on Burnout	12
Tracking and Memorializing Homeless Deaths in Seattle with WHEEL Women in Black	12
Retired College Student Athletes’ Psychological Well-Being: A Prospective Analysis	12
Structural Analysis of Social Representations of COVID-19 Among Health Professionals	11
The LAST Letter: Creation of a Meaning-Making Tool Following the Death of a Loved One	10
The Effects of Exposure to Factors Related to Death in Mental Health	9
The Effects of Torture in the Context of COVID-19 and Continuous Type III Trauma’s Variants: The Peri-Post Type III Trauma Mental Health Syndrome in Syrian Torture Survivors	9
The Linear and Non-Linear Association between Trauma, Dissociation, Complex PTSD, and Executive Function Deficits: A Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling Study	9
Complicated Grief, PTSD, and PTG in Bereaved Family: Moderating Effect of Resilience and Family Support	8
Educator Secondary Traumatic Stress in the Pandemic’s Wake: Buoying Teacher Holistic Health	8
Mental Health Services for Unaccompanied Children in the United States	8
The Impact of COVID-19 Vaccination on Mental Health	8
Living with Loss: Evaluating an Internet-Based Program for Parents Following Perinatal Death	7

Grief, Partner Support, Posttraumatic Growth among Women with Pregnancy Loss in Korea	7
If You Sit Very Still by Marian Partington	7
Loss, Trauma, and the Future for College Students during Super Typhoon Rai	7
Growth in the Loss: PTG of Parents Who Lost Their Only Child	7
Moving from the Environment of Death to the Environment of the Living	6
Correction	6
The Compounding Effect of COVID-19 and War in Ukraine on Mental Health: Α Global Time Bomb Soon to Explode?	6
Emergency Room Physicians’ Levels of Anxiety, Depression, Burnout, and Coping Methods During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Impact of War on Ukrainian University Students and Personnel: Repeated Cross-Sectional Study	6
The Ukrainian Population’s War Losses and Their Psychological and Physical Health	6
Discriminatory Job Loss and Overcoming Strategies of Turkish Academicians	5
Final Editorial (2023)	5
Shared Traumatic Reality: Coping among Educational Counselors Living and Working in Israeli Communities on the Gaza Border	5
SPORT vs COVID: A Project Where Sports People Help Promote Recovery Among People Negatively Impacted by COVID-19	5
Assumptive Worldviews and Prolonged Grief Disorder in Terror-bereaved Family Members – The Mediator’s Role of Coping Flexibility and Adjustment Disorder	5
Toward an Understanding of the Russian-Ukrainian War Impact on University Students and Personnel	5
Social Support as Resilience Factor in the Aftermath of October 7th Attack	5
Who are Vulnerable to Mental Health Concerns amid COVID-19 Pandemic? Follow-up Evidence on Philippine Teachers	5
Virtuousness and Posttraumatic Growth after Traumatic Loss: Latent Profile Analysis	5
Childhood Trauma in Bipolar Disorder: A North-African Study	4
Narrative Means to Recovery Ends. Novel Psychoactive Substance Users in Early Recovery	4
Bereavement for Companion Animals: Intensity, Moderating Variables, and Effects on Wellbeing	4
Rituals in Grief: Why Meaning Matters More than Numbers	4
Trauma, Mental Health, and Suicidal Tendencies: Lessons from Portuguese Language Countries	4
Associations Between Gender, Torture, and Health: A 5-Year Retrospective Cohort Analysis	4
Braiding Self into Social: Remembering Bob McGrath	4
COVID-19 Pandemic-Specific PTSD: Risk and Protective Factors Among University Students	4
Meaning Integration and Grief Trajectories Within in the First Two Years Among Chinese: Latent Growth Modeling	4
Influence of Daily Coping on Psychological Stress: A Multilevel Modeling Approach	3
Masculinity and Men’s Suicide Attempts in Bangladesh	3
The Curvilinear Empathy–Secondary Traumatic Stress Relationship: The More Empathy, the Better?	3
Female-Specific Refugee Trauma Impacting Psychological Wellbeing Post-Settlement: A Scoping Review of Research	3
The Association between Early Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in Egypt	3
Sibling Grief over Perinatal Loss—A Retrospective Qualitative Study	3
Indonesian Suicide Loss Survivors’ Perceived Facilitators and Barriers to Self-Healing	3
Trauma Reactions in Children with ADHD During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Mediating Effect of Irritability	3
Accidental and Purposeful Triggers of Post-Relationship Grief	3
The SPAN Scale in Colombian COVID-19 Survivors: Validity and Reliability Assessment	3
The Role of Comorbidity in Understanding Traumatic Sequelae Among Ukrainian War Refugees	3
Engagement in Meaningful Activities and Psychological Distress During the COVID-19 Pandemic	3
Loss of Hometown: Young Hongkongers’ Collective Grief following the 2019 Social Movement	3
Effectiveness of a Group Counseling Intervention for Turkish University Students with Childhood Trauma	3
Between Fear and Hope: The Lived Experiences of Grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors: A Qualitative Systematic Literature Review	3
Bereaved Military Families: Relationships and Identity	3
Understanding Post-Traumatic Growth in Adolescent Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse	3
Strengths-Based Models of Resilience in Tertiary Education Students	3
The Transdiagnostic Role of Rumination in the Comorbidity of PTSD and Depression	3
Personal Versus Work-Related Trauma: Mental Health Nurse PTG Change from Resilience-Building Program	3
PTSD Among Body Handlers: The Role of Task-Related Characteristics, Coping, and Well-Being	2
Mental Health Outcomes Among Public Social Workers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories	2

Differential Impact of Lockdown on Psychological Suffering	2
The Psychosocial Interventions for the Marmara Earthquake Children Survivors: The Lessons Learned	2
When a Loss is Unavoidable: The Endowment Effect in Intimate Relationships	2
The Urban-Rural Divide and Depression During COVID-19 Pandemic Among Filipino Emerging Adults	2
Mental Health of Servicemen, POWs, and Civilians in Ukraine: A Comparative Study	2
Grief after Pandemic Loss: Factors Affecting Grief Experiences (the CO-LIVE Study)	2
The Impact of Mass Protests on Hong Kong Educators, Parents, and Students	2
What Stops Children from Disclosing Sexual Abuse: Perspectives from Adults	2
Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in India: A National Study	2
Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Aftermath of the February 2023 Earthquake in Turkey	2
Reactions Among Mental Health Professionals During Early Stages of the COVID-19 Pandemic	2
Identity Crisis in the Life Stories of Rural Chinese Older Adults	2
Stressful Life Events among Women Living Homeless in Argentina	2
What Do Veterans Discuss the Most about Post-Combat Stress on Social Media? – A Text Analytics Study	2
Eleven Days	2
Prevalence of Severe Anxiety in the Philippines Amid the COVID-19 Outbreak	2
Subjective Holocaust Influence Level and Holocaust Survivors’ Offspring Financial Thinking and Attitude	2
Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal	2
Japan and Thailand: A Cross National Comparison of COVID 19 Impact on University Student Health and Well-Being	2
The Effects of Social Support on ACEs and Mental Health in Ireland	2
A Study of People's Perception of Childhood Trauma Using Text Analysis Techniques	2
Trauma and Stress Associated With Breast Cancer Survivors—A Natural Language Processing Study	2
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Response to COVID-19–Related Adverse Events in Hispanic Individuals	2
Stress, Coping, and Mental Health Among Local Government Officials: A Longitudinal Study	2
Traumatic Brain Injury Training Program Value to Caregivers of Law Enforcement Officers, Fire Fighters and Veterans	2
Experience of Miscarriage versus Stillbirth: Differences in Fear of Childbirth, Adjustment Disorder, and Optimism	2
Narratives of Stroke Survivors: Between Trauma and Redemption	2
Measuring COVID-19 Stressors and Their Impact: The Second-Order Factor Model and Its Four First-Order Factors: Infection Fears, Economic, Grief, and Lockdown Stressors	2
Grief Interventions: A Qualitative Review of Systematic Reviews	2
Does Self-Monitoring Reduce Prolonged Grief Symptoms? Pre-Post Analyses of a Diary Study	2
COVID-19 Relates to Both PTSD and PTG in a Non-clinical Population, Why?	2
Mental Health Policies in Queer Community: Are We Doing Enough?	2
“Burned into my Brain:” Trauma Anniversary Reactions Examined from a Qualitative Perspective	2
First and Second Waves of COVID-19: A Comparative Study on the Impact of Pandemic Fear on the Mental Health of University Students in India	2
Statistical Analysis of Mental Health of Differently Habituated Orphans in Kashmir	2
Association Between General Trauma and Comorbid Psychiatric Symptoms Among Female Convicts	1
Early Aftermath of February 6 Earthquakes in Turkey: PTSD, PTG, and Resilience	1
Family Death During Upbringing and Maladaptive Personality Traits	1
Italian Grief and Meaning Reconstruction Inventory (GMRI): Exploratory, Confirmatory and Network Analyses	1
Evidence from Bereaved Families of Women Soldiers- Loss and Moral Trauma	1
TF-CBT for Child Earthquake Survivors: Promoting Self-Compassion, PTG, and Reducing Behavioral Problems	1
Finding Hope at Camp: An Investigation of the Influence of Grief Camp on Youth Depression, Anxiety, and Self-Concept Indicators	1
Experiences of Social Disconnection in a Bereaved Community Sample from Ontario, Canada	1
From the Screen to the Streets: Technology-Facilitated Violence Against Public Health Professionals	1
Dimensions of Post-Traumatic Growth Resulting from Parental Divorce among Young Iranian Women	1
Good Enough Care of Israeli Therapists Following the October 7 Attack	1
Understanding Suicides through the Processes of Bereaved Relatives: A Phenomenological Study	1
Neural Prediction of Posttraumatic Growth in Healthy Adults With and Without Probable PTSD	1
Predictors of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Patients with COVID-19: A Prospective Study	1
Parenting following the Death of a Child in War or Terror Attack: “Hyper-Enfranchised Loss”	1
Narrating and Navigating through Miscarriage, Stigma, and Identity Changes	1
Is Videoconference “Zoom” Fatigue Real among Nursing Students?	1
Motivation and Compassion Satisfaction of Volunteer Bereavement Photographers: A Mixed Methods Study	1
Collective Value-Laden Grief Among Hongkongers: We Left, We Grieve, We Live	1
Reconciliation Programs from the Experiences of War-Affected Persons in Post-Conflict Northern Uganda	1
Resilience and Loss During the Iron-Swords War: The Importance of Coping Strategies	1
Professional Growth from Painful Experiences: Developing the Posttraumatic Growth Scale for Workers	1
Academic Strengths of Female Students after Their Father’s Death: A Qualitative Study	1
Childhood Trauma May Explain Gains in Relationship Satisfaction After Integrative Couple Therapy	1
The Role of Attachment in Perinatal Loss: A Systematic Review	1
Perceptions Matter: An Expanded Operationalization of Betrayal Trauma Using Perceived Betrayal	1
Examining Traumatic Experiences: Violence, Loss, Isolation, Cultural Struggle, and Their Influence on the Mental Health of Unaccompanied Rohingya Youth Resettled in the U.S.	1
Arab Muslim Mothers’ Struggle Attributing Meaning to Child Loss in Home Accidents	1
Understanding Parental Historical Trauma and the Effect on Second-Generation Cambodian Americans	1
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s Adjustment Following Pregnancy Loss	1
Spirituality and Meaning-Making in Bereavement: The Role of Social Validation	1
Dispositional and Contextual Predictors of Forgiveness in Adults with Limb Amputation	1