OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Psychology & Sexuality 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Workplace harassment as a moderator of sexual minority employees’ minority stress and psychological distress	42
LGB widowhood: the association between partner loss and psychological well-being	23
Developing and piloting an online articulated thoughts in simulated situations (ATSS) paradigm to explore drinking to cope among sexual minorities	21
Understanding the distribution of recent deliberate self-harm among young LGBTQ+ australians	19
Regulatory focus and perceived safety with casual partners: implications for perceived risk and casual sex intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic	13
Asexual individuals report high preferences for femininity in male and female faces	13
Self-injury in young bisexual people: a micro-longitudinal investigation (SIBL) of rumination and binegativity on non-suicidal self-injury	11
Bereavement in older age in LGBTIQ adults	11
Compassion and gender diversity: evaluation of an online compassion-focused therapy group in a gender service	11
Self-compassion as a mediator of the relationship between social support and identity affirmation in sexual minority adults	11
A sexual empowerment process predicting heterosexual women’s sexual pleasure	10
“When men were men”: the effects of Gender Nostalgia on bias against trans men and women	10
Ideological beliefs and gender essentialism: relations to individual and normative opposition to same-sex parent families	10
The virility-fertility tradeoff: effects of fatherhood on (precarious) masculinity, sexual esteem, and sexual depression	10
Mental health and general psychological processes among asexual, bisexual, and gay/lesbian college students in the United States	9
Sexual-specific disgust sensitivity mechanisms in homonegativity and transnegativity; the mediating role of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)	9
Measuring sexual self-concept: a methodological review	9
Pain characteristics, sexual script flexibility, and penetration control cognitions in those experiencing anodyspareunia	8
A “social cure” for minority stress? Individual and collective identity strategies on the mental health outcomes of lesbian and gay people	8
Exploring the prevalence and characteristics of self-labelled identity, coping, and mental health among BDSM-practicing adults in the United States	7
What the hell are you doing? A PRISMA systematic review of psychosocial precursors of slut-shaming in adolescents and young adults	7
‘You’re straight until proven gay’ – a qualitative exploration of identity development among gay men who have ‘come-out’ as ‘late bloomers’	7
Behavioural responses to SOGIE-based harassment among university students: a qualitative study on bystander intervention in the Philippines	7
The impact of transgender minority stress and emotion regulation on suicidality and self-harm	6
Systematic review of queer and minority identities in romantic relationships research	6

The investment model of commitment: examining asexual and aromantic populations using confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis	6
For sex, ulterior motives or relief: a latent profile analysis of individuals who sext their relationship partner(s)	6
Associations between subcategories of disgust sensitivity and homonegativity: examining intergroup contact as a moderator	6
Parameters of masturbation: effects of gender and sexual orientation	6
Development and validation of a measure of attitudes towards sex doll ownership	5
Closeness and distance: relationships and sexuality during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	5
Why men don’t say no: sexual compliance and gender socialization in heterosexual men	5
Prejudice against gender and sexual diversity among soldiers of the Brazilian army	5
Narrative processing of anti-LGBTQ+ victimisation: exploring themes of redemption and meaning	5
Attachment buffers against the association between childhood sexual abuse, depression, and substance use problems among transgender women: a moderated-mediation model	5
Examining the orgasm gap in a diverse sample with mixed methods	4
Eros under patriarchy: A study of Basson’s ‘sexual response model’	4
Ambiguity tolerance and desire to practice or actual involvement in various types of consensual non-monogamy	4
Motives for security and sexual activity among single individuals at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Is the sexual sensation seeking scale a reliable instrument? addressing multiple factor structures in a Colombian sample	4
Collective resistance as a means to healing. A narrative participatory study with sexual minority refugee & asylum-seeking people	4
Fisting intimacy: The sexual scripting of intimacy in gay men’s anal fisting	4
Intersectional health disparities: the relationships between sex, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation and depressive symptoms	4
The integration of queer-related curriculum in psychology training in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a survey with programme directors	4
Transgender and gender expansive emerging adults: the moderating role of thwarted belongingness on mental health	4
Fat fuckers and fat fucking: a feminine ethic of care in sex therapy	3
Holding hands: LGBTQ people’s experiences of public displays of affection with their partner(s)	3
Shame as a moderator of attachment and sexual satisfaction	3
Different impacts of traditional bullying and cyberbullying in Chinese LGB adolescents and young adults: a moderated mediation analysis	3
Fear of being single moderates the link between relationship status and psychological or sexual well-being	3
”I don’t want to say the wrong thing”: mental health professionals’ narratives of feeling inadequately skilled when working with gender diverse adults	3
Lay theories of decreasing homophobia in the UK among an older heterosexual cohort	3
Sexual consent attitudes mediate gender differences in responsibility attributions for a heterosexual date rape scenario	3
‘Why are PrEP gays always like this … ’: psychosocial influences on U.K.-based men who have sex with men’s perceptions and use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis	3
Associations with LGBTQ+ mental health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
To feel safe inside and out: The effect of self-compassion and social safeness underlie the relationship between parental invalidation and borderline features in sexual minority adults	3
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on HIV-positive men who have sex with men: (dis)connection to social, sexual, and health networks	2
Investigating the relationship between non-consensual condom removal and the dark triad of personality	2
‘An impossible dream’? Non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform in the UK	2
Mental health literacy in India and Australia and its relationship to attitudes towards LGBT people	2
A meta-analysis of the reliability of the Sexual Self-Esteem Inventory in Women (SSEI-W) measure	2
Predictors of perceptions toward blaming the victim, excusing the perpetrator, and supporting the victim in intimate partner violence scenarios involving transgender women	2
Grief in later life: symbolic losses and unsolicited gains following the death of a same-gender partner	2
Differences between Australian bisexual and pansexual women: an assessment of minority stressors and psychological outcomes	2
The interaction between perceived chronological age and physical sexual development in attractiveness judgements made by people who are attracted to children	2
Exploring LGBT resilience and moving beyond a deficit-model: findings from a qualitative study in England	2
Heterosexist events and psychological problems: internalized homophobia as a mediator and perceived parental support as a moderator	2
A systematic review on differences in sexual satisfaction of women as a function of sexual identity	2
Pro- and anti-LGBT activism as the case of system-challenging and system-supporting collective action	2
Same-sex parented families: can stigma contribute to resilience?	2
Parasocial contact reduces anti-LGBTI+ prejudice via enhanced perspective-taking and lowered symbolic threat	2
Acceptability and determinants of using male hormonal contraceptives: a systematic review from a gender perspective	2
Effects of transgender identity labels on perceptions of gender minorities	2
Social-psychological and socio-structural correlates of negative attitudes towards asexuals’ parenting rights	2
“Much like skydiving, I would really rather avoid it if I can”: asexual and allosexual adults’ motives for not having sexual experiences	2

Do attitude functions and perceiver demographics predict attitudes towards asexuality?	2
Polyamorous and ambiamorous adolescents: a first empirical look at mental health in an LGBTQ+ sample	2
Correction	2
Associations of BDSM fantasies and practices with insecure attachment styles	1
Body dissatisfaction and disordered eating in gay Australian men: exploring social support and self-compassion as protective factors	1
“I had to stay true to myself”: transgender and gender diverse feminine adolescents’ experiences with gender identity disclosure during online partner seeking	1
Intersex people’s experiences of medical interventions, sex education, and physical intimacy	1
Asking about me: the impact of identity-related questions from others on asexual peoples’ well-being and functioning	1
‘Black sheep supporting Black sheep’: Black bisexual men (communal) coping with internalised stigma	1
Hidden grief is complicated: identity concealment as a minority stressor and relational-cultural barrier among bereaved sexual and gender minoritized elders	1
Community (dis)connectedness and identity among LGBTQIA+ people during the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative cross-sectional and longitudinal trajectory study	1
An exploratory investigation of body esteem, body dissatisfaction and body change behaviours in sexual minority young adults from a risk and protective perspective	1
A systematic review of identity management strategies for religious people who are sexually and gender diverse	1
News coverage on transgender celebrities in Belgium: Parasocial contact, attitudes, and policy support	1
Psychological health among adult offspring of lesbian parents at a time of anti-LGBTQ+ oppression	1
Experiences and correlates of cyber dating abuse in sexual and gender minority adolescent girls and feminine teens: implications for psychological wellbeing	1
Support needed from inside and out: social support and self-compassion as negative determinants of psychiatric symptoms among Polish gays, lesbians, and bisexuals experiencing minority stress	1
Beyond transitioning: committing to, exploring, and reconsidering transmasculine identity	1
Bidimensional self-esteem and sexual functioning among Malaysian young adults: the moderating role of relationship status	1
Unveiling the stressful experiences faced by asexual individuals in South Korea: a consensual qualitative study	1
Psychological distress mediates the link between bullying and truancy in Australian LGBQ+ adolescents with experiences of homelessness	1
First time sexual experiences of sexual minority adolescent girls in the United States	1
‘I’d rather be dead than gay:’ a qualitative exploration of the lived experiences of sexually and gender diverse Christians in Australia	1
The role of faith in the experience of grief among sexually diverse individuals: a systematic review	1
Interventions to reduce prejudice against bisexual people and bisexuality: a systematic review and meta-analysis	1
The relationship between schema modes and problematic pornography use in youth: the mediating role of emotional dysregulation	1
Him, her, them, or none: misgendering and degendering of transgender individuals	1
Fear of victimisation among LGBTQ+ students at Latine-focused institutions v. predominately white institutions: an examination across sexuality, gender identity, and ethnoracial identity	1
Development and validation of the Positive Bisexual Identity (PBI) scale	1
The impact of sexual orientation conversion therapies on transgender individuals	1
Asexuality: a content analysis of sex therapy journals	1
Predictors of burnout and resilience in individuals offering peer support within the LGBTQ+ community	1
Condom use in casual sexual relationship scripts	1
Behavioral addictions and compulsive behaviors based on sexual orientation: the role of gender	1
Correction	1
Trends in body image among Australian queer men during COVID-19 lockdowns	1
Why is absent/low sexual desire a mental disorder (except when patients identify as asexual)?	1
“Sex without Sexual Attraction?“: Perceived Sexual Experiences of Indian Sex-favourable Asexuals	1
‘Between losing my family and asserting my identity’: exploration of Korean LGBQ YouTubers’ experiences coming out to parents	1
Who counts as a sexual partner? Women’s criteria for defining and sorting through their sexual histories	1