OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 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 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
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
Differences in Mortality Rates between Haredi and Non‐Haredi Jews in Israel in the Context of Social Characteristics	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
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
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
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
Flowing Across with Demonic Hate: Belief in Supernatural Evil and Support for Stricter Immigration Policy	6
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 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
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
The Zeal of the Convert Revisited	4
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
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