OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology & Sexuality is 3. 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
LGB widowhood: the association between partner loss and psychological well-being	43
Developing and piloting an online articulated thoughts in simulated situations (ATSS) paradigm to explore drinking to cope among sexual minorities	23
Understanding the distribution of recent deliberate self-harm among young LGBTQ+ australians	21
Workplace harassment as a moderator of sexual minority employees’ minority stress and psychological distress	15
Asexual individuals report high preferences for femininity in male and female faces	14
Self-compassion as a mediator of the relationship between social support and identity affirmation in sexual minority adults	11
Compassion and gender diversity: evaluation of an online compassion-focused therapy group in a gender service	11
Bereavement in older age in LGBTIQ adults	11
Self-injury in young bisexual people: a micro-longitudinal investigation (SIBL) of rumination and binegativity on non-suicidal self-injury	11
Regulatory focus and perceived safety with casual partners: implications for perceived risk and casual sex intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic	11
A sexual empowerment process predicting heterosexual women’s sexual pleasure	10
Sexual-specific disgust sensitivity mechanisms in homonegativity and transnegativity; the mediating role of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)	10
“When men were men”: the effects of Gender Nostalgia on bias against trans men and women	10
Measuring sexual self-concept: a methodological review	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
Behavioural responses to SOGIE-based harassment among university students: a qualitative study on bystander intervention in the Philippines	8
Ideological beliefs and gender essentialism: relations to individual and normative opposition to same-sex parent families	8
What the hell are you doing? A PRISMA systematic review of psychosocial precursors of slut-shaming in adolescents and young adults	8
Associations between subcategories of disgust sensitivity and homonegativity: examining intergroup contact as a moderator	7
The investment model of commitment: examining asexual and aromantic populations using confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis	7
Exploring the prevalence and characteristics of self-labelled identity, coping, and mental health among BDSM-practicing adults in the United States	7
A “social cure” for minority stress? Individual and collective identity strategies on the mental health outcomes of lesbian and gay people	6
For sex, ulterior motives or relief: a latent profile analysis of individuals who sext their relationship partner(s)	6
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
Parameters of masturbation: effects of gender and sexual orientation	6
Pain characteristics, sexual script flexibility, and penetration control cognitions in those experiencing anodyspareunia	6
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
‘You’re straight until proven gay’ – a qualitative exploration of identity development among gay men who have ‘come-out’ as ‘late bloomers’	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
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
The integration of queer-related curriculum in psychology training in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a survey with programme directors	4
Examining the orgasm gap in a diverse sample with mixed methods	4
Ambiguity tolerance and desire to practice or actual involvement in various types of consensual non-monogamy	4
Intersectional health disparities: the relationships between sex, race/ethnicity, and sexual orientation and depressive symptoms	4
Eros under patriarchy: A study of Basson’s ‘sexual response model’	4
The moderating role of ambivalent sexism in the relationship between multidimensional heterosexism and attitudes towards same-sex parenting: an exploratory analysis with clinical implications	4
Transgender and gender expansive emerging adults: the moderating role of thwarted belongingness on mental health	4
Is the sexual sensation seeking scale a reliable instrument? addressing multiple factor structures in a Colombian sample	4
Motives for security and sexual activity among single individuals at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Fisting intimacy: The sexual scripting of intimacy in gay men’s anal fisting	4
Collective resistance as a means to healing. A narrative participatory study with sexual minority refugee & asylum-seeking people	4
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
Holding hands: LGBTQ people’s experiences of public displays of affection with their partner(s)	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
Associations with LGBTQ+ mental health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
‘An impossible dream’? Non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform in the UK	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
Fat fuckers and fat fucking: a feminine ethic of care in sex therapy	3
Fear of being single moderates the link between relationship status and psychological or sexual well-being	3