OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Australian Psychologist is 2. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
The professional identity of Australian counselling psychologists: a reflexive thematic analysis	25
Supporting LGBTQA+ peoples’ recovery from sexual orientation and gender identity and expression change efforts	22
The role of emotion beliefs in depression, anxiety, and stress	19
The relationship between phubbing and social relationships among Turkish college students: mediating roles of self-control and empathy	15
Urgent call for research into imagery rescripting to reduce suicidal mental imagery: clinical research considerations	14
Understanding the provision of psychological interventions for psychosis in an Australian mental health service: a mixed methods study	12
Wellbeing programs for culturally and linguistically diverse population in Australia: barriers and improvements	12
A qualitative investigation into perceptions of scientist-practitioner competence within supervision during psychology training programmes	11
Digital game addiction, classroom engagement, sleep deprivation and mind-wandering: tests of mediating relationships with Turkish adolescents	11
Beyond desirable: preferences for thinness and muscularity are greater than what is rated as desirable by heterosexual Australian undergraduate students	11
The role of psychologists in managing mental health comorbidities in adults with neurological disorders	11
Teleworking during the COVID-19 pandemic: the job demands and job resources associated with telework outcomes	10
Factorial and construct validity of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) in an Australian sample	10
A theory-based examination of the predictors of mental health help-seeking in young men	10
Personal recovery in psychological interventions for bipolar disorder: a systematic review	10
Exploring the effect of gender and culture on the relationship between self-silencing and depressive symptoms	9
The psychosocial experience of cancer: a meta-analysis of Australian rural versus urban populations	9
Co-sleeping fathers’ perceptions of sleep quality with intentional and unintentional co-sleeping	9
Building consensus between lived experience and professional stakeholders on mental health research priorities: a Delphi study	8
A mixed methods pilot study assessing adaptations to the ESTEEM program for Australian same sex attracted men	8
Investigating professional identity formation of postgraduate clinical psychology students	7
Resilience, self-compassion, and indices of psychological wellbeing: a not so simple set of relationships	7
You’re virtually a psychologist: enhancing professional psychology education through virtual client simulations	7
Cross-cultural validation and measurement invariance of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire (PAQ): a study in Iran and the USA	7
The Fears of Compassion in Sport Scale: a short, context-specific measure of fear of self-compassion and receiving compassion from others validated in UK athletes	7

A qualitative study of sporting club stakeholder perspectives of a Mental Fitness Charter for South Australian sport	7
Who are you going to talk to? Help-seeking for partner violence among refugee-background young women in Australia	6
We need something completely different: catalysing new innovations in teaching	6
Social representations of therapist self-care and well-being: a thematic analysis of peak body media	6
Network psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Australians: a hierarchical exploratory graph analysis	6
The Westerman Aboriginal Symptom Checklist – Youth Version: national data from a clinical sample of Aboriginal youth	6
A systematic review of the thoughts and feelings that are associated with suicidal behaviours in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander young peoples	5
Eco-psychology: a critical paradigm in the climate emergency	5
A national study of the psychological theories and therapies covered within clinical psychology training programs in Australia	5
Perceptions of mental health and illness amongst Australian Ismaili Muslim youth	5
Lose yourself: feared self, emotion regulation, and obsessive-compulsive and eating disorder symptomatology	5
Psychological testing in Australia: what does the profession tell us?	5
Why do some therapists manage uncertainty better than others? A study of individual differences in therapists’ affective responses to uncertainty	5
Family violence education for post-graduate psychology trainees: a longitudinal mixed-method survey evaluating self-reported knowledge and confidence levels	5
Measuring the coach’s compassion through the eyes of their athletes: validity of The Compassionate Coach Scale as perceived by the adolescent athletes	4
Session frequency in routine psychology practice and perspectives on session scheduling: a mixed-methods study of clinician attitudes and practices	4
What do private practice referrers value about neuropsychology assessment?	4
Trait empathy and the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia	4
Physical and psychological wellbeing among Australian and New Zealand patients seeking fertility treatment during COVID-19	4
Nurturing self-compassionate performers	4
The Greek Australian neuropsychological normative study: tests & norms for Greek Australians aged 70-85 years	4
Trauma involving violation of trust and mental health help seeking among homeless adults	4
The mediating role of behavioural automaticity and intention on past to future bootcamp attendance	4
Cultural interventions that target mental health and wellbeing for First Nations Australians: a systematic review	4
Jandu Yani U (for all families): evaluating Indigenous Triple P, a community-tailored parenting support program in remote Aboriginal communities	4
Different motivations for volunteering are associated with different outcomes for Australian animal welfare volunteers: a mixed-methods analysis	4
Correction	4
Experience of and recommendations for creating new rural and remote psychology placements	4
“The only man on the mat”: yoga as a therapeutic pathway for men’s mental health	4
Assessing alexithymia in adolescents: psychometric properties of the Perth Alexithymia Questionnaire in high school students	3
Translation and validation of the Swedish version of the Self-Compassion Scale for Youth	3
Australian counselling psychologists’ perceptions of the similarities and differences between clinical and counselling psychology	3
Aversion to happiness mediates effects of meaning in life, perfectionism, and self-esteem on psychological distress in Turkish adults	3
Climate change and mental health: postgraduate psychology student and program coordinator perspectives from Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand	3
Alexithymia, attachment security and negative mood	3
Mental health literacy in Australian schools: evaluation of the Australian adapted youth education and support program	3
Self-compassion as a moderator between clinical perfectionism and psychological distress	3
Group supervision is a distinct supervisor competency: empirical evidence and a brief scale for supervisory practice	3
Using physical activity guidelines to examine associations between self-reported physical activity and depression symptoms in adolescent girls	3
Outcomes from a pilot study to evaluate Phase 1 of a two-phase approach to treat women with complex trauma histories	3
Dysfunctional beliefs associated with hair pulling disorder: an examination in clinical versus non-clinical groups	3
Tackling implicit and explicit stigma towards voice hearing in clinical psychology students before it enters the workplace: a preliminary brief educational intervention	3
The mental health of elite athletes in developing nations of the greater Oceania region	3
Self-compassion and psychological mindedness in depressed Turkish adolescents with non-suicidal self-injury	3
“That weird kid without parents”: a qualitative analysis of identity following bereavement due to parental intimate partner homicide in Australia	3
Conceptualising Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara mental health beliefs	3
Loneliness and health in older adults: a multivariate analysis of Spanish Red Cross users living alone	2
Association between sleep quality and social media use in Australian adults	2
Sleep quality and general distress in individuals with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome: the mediating role of emotion regulation	2
She is like me: a qualitative exploration of body image ideals and the young woman psychologist working with eating disorders	2

Goal motives in depression and anxiety: the mediating role of emotion regulation difficulties	2
Cognitive processing of HIV stigma and its association with posttraumatic growth: a reflexive thematic analysis	2
Tracking trainee development: preliminary validation of a tool designed to evaluate clinical psychology competencies over time	2
Self-efficacy as a mediator between psychologists’ technology affinity and telehealth satisfaction	2
Psychometric examination of the Japanese version of Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory	2
Promoting psychological interventions in psychosis: the NSW Tertiary Referral Service for Psychosis	2
Who, what, where, when and where to now? The landscape of cognitive assessment in Australia	2
Evaluating emotion regulation ability across negative and positive emotions: psychometric properties of the Perth Emotion Regulation Competency Inventory (PERCI) in American adults and Iranian adults	2
BEST-Foundations: a mixed methods exploration of the feasibility of a novel intervention treating internalising symptoms in children	2
Effects of clinical placements in residential aged care settings on geropsychology competencies among provisional psychologists in Australia	2
Treatment preferences and help seeking experiences of Australian adults with insomnia	2
Postgraduate students’ perceptions of simulation-based learning in professional psychology training	2
Psychology service model redesign: direct to psychology and stepped care in the multidisciplinary sleep service	2
Psychologists’ perceptions of assessing and treating trauma-exposed clients	2
Occurrence of potentially traumatic events, type, and severity in undergraduate students	2
Health and wellbeing at the intersection of gender modality and ethnicity in Australia	2
A network cross-cultural validation of the Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support (MSPSS) among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous Australian adults	2