OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Religion Protected Mental Health but Constrained Crisis Response During Crucial Early Days of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	45
Changes in Religious Doubt and Physical and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood	30
Zooming In and Out of Virtual Jewish Prayer Services During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	15
Mattering to God and to the Congregation: Gendered Effects in Mattering as a Mechanism Between Religiosity and Mental Health	14
Gender, Sexuality, and Religion: A Critical Integrative Review and Agenda for Future Research	13
Explaining Unfavorable Attitudes Toward Religious Out‐Groups Among Three Major Religions	13
Differences in Mortality Rates between Haredi and Non‐Haredi Jews in Israel in the Context of Social Characteristics	11
National Context, Parental Socialization, and the Varying Relationship Between Religious Belief and Practice	11
Why Younger Catholics Seem More Committed: Survivorship Bias and/or “Creative Minority” Effects among British Catholics	11
Racialized Religion and Judicial Injustice: How Whiteness and Biblicist Christianity Intersect to Promote a Preference for (Unjust) Punishment	11
One Conception of Secularism for All? A Comparison of Conceptions of Laïcité among Nonbelievers, Catholics, and Muslims in France	10
The National Survey of Religious Leaders: Background, Methods, and Lessons Learned in the Research Process	10
COVID‐19's effects upon the religious group resources, psychosocial resources, and mental health of Orthodox Jews	10
A Complex Simplicity: The Relationship of Religiosity and Nonreligiosity to Life Satisfaction	9
Prayer in America: A Detailed Analysis of the Various Dimensions of Prayer	9
Can the State Make you More Religious? Evidence from Turkish Experience	9
Religion and Spirituality among American Indian, South Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latina, and White Women in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health	9
A Tale of Decline or Change? Working Toward a Complementary Understanding of Secular Transition and Individual Spiritualization Theories	9
Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample	9
Does Religious Affiliation Protect People's Well‐Being? Evidence from the Great Recession after Correcting for Selection Effects	8
Projecting Religious Demographics: The Case of Jews in the United States	8
Trust and Trustworthiness of Christians, Muslims, and Atheists/Agnostics in the United States	8
Attachment to God and Psychological Distress: Evidence of a Curvilinear Relationship	8
Historical Fundamentalism? Christian Nationalism and Ignorance About Religion in American Political History	7
Born‐Again Versus Evangelical: Does the Difference Make a Difference?	7

Individuals’ Use of Religion in Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic as Complementary to Their Use of Medically Recommended Responses	7
Measuring Religiosity of East Asians: Multiple Religious Belonging, Believing, and Practicing	7
Religious trajectories of immigrants in the first years after migration	7
Individual Differences in Religious Motivation Influence How People Think	7
Opposing Immigrants in Europe: The Interplay Between Religiosity, Values, and Threat	7
Flowing Across with Demonic Hate: Belief in Supernatural Evil and Support for Stricter Immigration Policy	6
The Discursive and Practical Influence of Spirituality on Civic Engagement	6
The Politics of 130,000 American Religious Leaders: A New Methodological Approach	6
Multiple (Non)Religious Identities Leads to Undercounting Religious Nones and Asian Religious Identities	6
Threatening Morality: Religious and Political Opposition to Science in the United States	6
The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health: Disaggregating by Types of Discrimination Experiences, Religious Tradition, and Forms of Health	5
Is There a Bidirectional Causal Relationship Between Religiosity and Volunteering?	5
Coping with an Evil World: Contextualizing the Stress‐Buffering Role of Scripture Reading	5
Measuring Fundamentalism Across the Abrahamic Faiths	5
Psychological Resilience After Cancer via Religion/Spirituality: Spiritual Capital Through a Life Course Lens	5
Shifting Religious Influences on Attitudes Towards Same‐Sex Behavior and Civil Liberties: A Multilevel Across‐Time Analysis	5
The Zeal of the Convert Revisited	4
2021 SSSR Presidential Address: Religion as Social Location—Global and Comparative Perspectives	4
Religion Data from Australia's 2016 Census: The Case of Judaism with Broader Implications for Comparisons with Earlier Census Results	4
“Ye Double‐Minded”: Black Parishioners’ Attitudes toward Nonaffirming Church Climates	4
Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment: How State Pressure and Taxes Led to Church Disaffiliations between 1940 and 2010 in Germany	4
Religion and Refugee Well‐Being: The Importance of Inclusive Community	4
Understanding the Diversity of Catholic Higher Education: A New Empirical Guide for Evaluating the Influence of Catholic Identity	4
Political Congregations, Race, and Environmental Policy Attitudes	4
What Aspects of Religiosity are Associated with Values?	4
Fluidity of Faith: Predictors of Religion in a Longitudinal Sample of Chinese Adults	4
The Duality of American Christian Nationalism: Religious Traditionalism versus Christian Statism	4
A Multidimensional Model of Religiosity from Adolescence through the Transition to Adulthood	4
Counting on Whiteness: Religion, race, ethnicity, and the politics of Jewish demography	4
The Resilience of Clergywomen?: Gender and the Relationship between Occupational Distress and Mental Health among Congregational Leaders	4
Trust in Religious Leaders and Voluntary Compliance: Lessons from Social Distancing during COVID‐19 in Central Asia	4
Masculinity, Femininity, and Reported Paranormal Beliefs	3
The Relationship between Workplace Status and Workplace Religious Expression	3
Importance of Religion after Adversity	3
Christ, Country, and Conspiracies? Christian Nationalism, Biblical Literalism, and Belief in Conspiracy Theories	3
Religious Fundamentalism and Quest as Predictors of Moral Foundations Among Iranian Muslims	3
On Weber, Pathogens, and Culture: A Global Empirical Analysis of Religion and Individualism	3
The Ideological and Religious Bases of Attitudes Toward Pope Francis in the United States	3
Rest for Your Souls? Religion, Meaning, and Purpose in Life, and Sleep Quality in the United States	3
Development of the Spiritual Harm and Abuse Scale	3
Religion and Charitable Donations: Experimental Evidence from Africa	3
Is the Catholic Church in America Experiencing Internal Secularization? Priests’ Assessments of Pope Francis and the Condition of the Church	3
Do Religious/Spiritual Resources Moderate the Association Between Suffering and Religious/Spiritual Struggles? A Three‐Wave Longitudinal Study of US Adults with Chronic Illness	3
Does Religious Group Population Share Affect the Religiosity of the Next Generation?	3
Religion, Family, and Career among Graduate Students in the Sciences	3
Congregation Shopping During the Pandemic: A Research Note	3
Mental Health Correlates of Sharing Private Problems in Congregations during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	3
Reasons for Leaving: Causes and Initial Triggers for Disaffiliation from Orthodox Judaism	3
Denominational Differences in Obesity Among Black Christian Adults: Why Gender and Life Stage Matter	3
Linking Evangelical Subculture and Phallically Insecure Masculinity Using Google Searches for Male Enhancement	3

The consequences of response options: Including both “Protestant” and “Christian” on surveys	2
The Religious Right and Russia: Christian Nationalism and Americans’ Views on Russia and Vladimir Putin Before and After the Ukrainian Invasion	2
Analysis of Religious Bias among Christian Students in Science	2
Impact of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on Religiosity: Evidence from Germany	2
The Connection between Perceived Workplace Discrimination and Viewing Work as a Spiritual Calling	2
Spillover Effects of Scandals on Exits from the Catholic and Protestant Churches in Germany	2
Explaining the Relationship between Religiosity and Political Participation: The Mediating Roles of Transcendent Accountability and Religiopolitical Awareness	2
Socioeconomic Advantage or Community Attachment? A Register‐Based Study on the Difference in National Lutheran Church Affiliation Between Finnish and Swedish Speakers in Finland	2
When to Preach About Poverty: How Location, Race, and Ideology Shape White Evangelical Sermons	2
Controlling the Past to Control the Future: Christian Nationalism and Mandatory Patriotic Education in Public Schools	2
Racial and Religious Convergences and Divergences among Christian Students’ Approaches to Color‐Blindness, Color‐Cognizance, and Race in Christian Organizations	2
“Not Being Counted”: Women's Place and Religious Space in Jewish Orthodox Communities During the COVID‐19 Crisis	2
Liberal sexual morality, religion, and attitudes toward abortion in Turkey	2
From Christ to Compassion: The Changing Language of Pastoral Care	2
How Do Religion and Sexual Orientation Affect Support for U.S. Presidential Candidates? Evidence from a Survey Experiment	2
Evangelical Civil War on the College Campus, White Evangelical Right Framing Resistance to Racial Justice in 2020s America	2
Religion, Politics, and Public Funding for Abortion	2
Religion, Punitive Sentiment, and the Mediating Effect of Racial Resentment	2
Trust in God: The COVID‐19 Pandemic's Impact on Religiosity in China	2
Religiosity and Secular and Ascetic Deviance	2
We Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means: A Response to Thunström et al	1
Conservative Protestantism, Sexual Insecurity, and Masculine Discrepancy Stress	1
Do Religious Politicians Take Risks Differently? Evidence From Pakistan	1
“Like Little Knives, Stabbing Me”: The Impact of Microaggressions on LGBTQ+ Teens and Their Parents in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter‐Day Saints	1
Economy of Shadows: The Effects of Restrictive Regulation on Religiosity in China	1
Divine Relations as a Basis of Subjective Social Status During Later‐Life: Direct and Moderating Effects	1
How Exceptional Is the West? An Investigation of Worldwide Trends in Societal‐Average Levels of Religiosity, 1981–2020	1
Religious Geography and County‐Level Sex Ratios in China	1
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Intersections of Feminist Identification and Hostile Sexism	1
Religious Correlates of Religious Victimization in Youth: Findings from Two Nationally Representative Surveys	1
Religious Identity‐Inconsistent Attending: Its Correlates and Political Implications	1
Does Leaving Faith Mean Leaving Family? Longitudinal Associations Between Religious Identification and Parent‐Child Relationships Across Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood	1
In God We Distrust: Christian Nationalism and Anti‐Atheist Attitude	1
Comparing Pentecostal and Charismatic Christians’ Religious and Political Beliefs Across Latin America and Sub‐Saharan Africa	1
The Digitalization of Religion: Smartphone Use and Subjective Well‐Being during COVID‐19	1
What Makes Politicians “Religious”? How Identity Congruence Shapes Religious Evaluations	1
Diversity in Religiosity Undermines Conventional Personal Morality Across the Globe: Evidence From 90 Nations, 300,000+ Individuals	1
Examining religious/spiritual change among women with metastatic breast cancer	1
Functions of the Black Church in a Global Society: A Du Boisian Approach	1
Race, Religion, and Black Lives Matter: Assessing the Association between Sermon Content and Racial Justice Attitudes and Behaviors	1
Masculine God Imagery and Sense of Life Purpose: Examining Contingencies with America's “Four Gods”	1
Has the New Natalism Reduced the Religious Fertility Advantage?	1
Changes in Politics and Religiosity Among Students at a Protestant University	1
Religion‐State Interaction at the Local Level: Key Findings from a Survey of Religion and Local Elected Officials	1
The Others: Finding and Counting America's Invisible Churches	1
How Do Parents Choose Schools for Their Children? Experimental Evidence from the Private Christian School Sector	1
What Influenced Early Secularization? A Statistical Analysis of the Results of the 1923 Referendum in Estonia	1
Cross‐Cultural Commonalities in Religiosity by Measurement Invariance	1
Religious Service Attendance and Religious and Secular Organizational Engagement in the United Kingdom	1
Examining Average Age at First Marriage within Orthodox Judaism: A Large Community‐Based Study	1
Religious Markets Under Heavy Regulation: Diversification as a Survival Strategy of the Catholic Church in Communist Countries	1
Race, Religion, and Death: How Racial Attitudes Contextualize the Relationship Between Religion and Support for Capital Punishment	1
Religious Homogamy and Marital Satisfaction in South Korea: Exploring Variations across Religious Groups	1
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Classifying Muslims: Contextualizing Religion and Race in the United Kingdom and Germany	1
Gender‐Based Perspectives on Professional Healthcare Chaplaincy Board Certification	1
Expanding the Horizontal Call: A Typology of Social Influence on the Call to Ministry	1
“Too Much to Hope”: Analyzing Clergy Rhetoric on White Supremacy	1
The Cost of Being Christian: The Association between Christian Affiliation and Discrimination Experiences among Asians in the United States	1
Survey Zoroastrians: Online Religious Identification in the Islamic Republic of Iran	1
The Sociological Spirituality of W. E. B. Du Bois's Prayers for Dark People	1