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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
Culture Wars and COVID‐19 Conduct: Christian Nationalism, Religiosity, and Americans’ Behavior During the Coronavirus Pandemic	105
Religion Protected Mental Health but Constrained Crisis Response During Crucial Early Days of the COVID‐19 Pandemic	42
Changes in Religious Doubt and Physical and Mental Health in Emerging Adulthood	28
Racial Diversity in U.S. Congregations, 1998–2019	22
Introducing the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study	20
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Gun Ownership	15
Zooming In and Out of Virtual Jewish Prayer Services During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	14
Mattering to God and to the Congregation: Gendered Effects in Mattering as a Mechanism Between Religiosity and Mental Health	12
Differences in Mortality Rates between Haredi and Non‐Haredi Jews in Israel in the Context of Social Characteristics	12
Racialized Religion and Judicial Injustice: How Whiteness and Biblicist Christianity Intersect to Promote a Preference for (Unjust) Punishment	10
National Context, Parental Socialization, and the Varying Relationship Between Religious Belief and Practice	10
Changing Worship Practices in American Congregations	10
The Political Mobilization of America's Congregations	10
A Tale of Decline or Change? Working Toward a Complementary Understanding of Secular Transition and Individual Spiritualization Theories	9
Religion and Spirituality among American Indian, South Asian, Black, Hispanic/Latina, and White Women in the Study on Stress, Spirituality, and Health	9
Gender, Sexuality, and Religion: A Critical Integrative Review and Agenda for Future Research	9
One Conception of Secularism for All? A Comparison of Conceptions of Laïcité among Nonbelievers, Catholics, and Muslims in France	9
COVID‐19's effects upon the religious group resources, psychosocial resources, and mental health of Orthodox Jews	9
Why Younger Catholics Seem More Committed: Survivorship Bias and/or “Creative Minority” Effects among British Catholics	9
Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample	8
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
The National Survey of Religious Leaders: Background, Methods, and Lessons Learned in the Research Process	8
Explaining Unfavorable Attitudes Toward Religious Out‐Groups Among Three Major Religions	8
Prayer in America: A Detailed Analysis of the Various Dimensions of Prayer	7

Attachment to God and Psychological Distress: Evidence of a Curvilinear Relationship	7
Can the State Make you More Religious? Evidence from Turkish Experience	7
Individuals’ Use of Religion in Response to the COVID‐19 Pandemic as Complementary to Their Use of Medically Recommended Responses	7
Historical Fundamentalism? Christian Nationalism and Ignorance About Religion in American Political History	7
Trust and Trustworthiness of Christians, Muslims, and Atheists/Agnostics in the United States	7
Individual Differences in Religious Motivation Influence How People Think	6
Measuring Religiosity of East Asians: Multiple Religious Belonging, Believing, and Practicing	6
Flowing Across with Demonic Hate: Belief in Supernatural Evil and Support for Stricter Immigration Policy	6
Does the Bible Tell Me So? Weighing the Influence of Content versus Bias on Bible Interpretation Using Survey Experiments	6
Born‐Again Versus Evangelical: Does the Difference Make a Difference?	6
Are Religious Women More Traditionalist? A Cross‐National Examination of Gender and Religion	6
A Complex Simplicity: The Relationship of Religiosity and Nonreligiosity to Life Satisfaction	6
Multiple (Non)Religious Identities Leads to Undercounting Religious Nones and Asian Religious Identities	5
Threatening Morality: Religious and Political Opposition to Science in the United States	5
Psychological Resilience After Cancer via Religion/Spirituality: Spiritual Capital Through a Life Course Lens	5
Religious trajectories of immigrants in the first years after migration	5
The Discursive and Practical Influence of Spirituality on Civic Engagement	5
The Politics of 130,000 American Religious Leaders: A New Methodological Approach	5
The Influence of Close Ties on Depression: Does Network Religiosity Matter?	4
Political Congregations, Race, and Environmental Policy Attitudes	4
Religious Heterogamy and the Intergenerational Transmission of Religion in China	4
Is There a Bidirectional Causal Relationship Between Religiosity and Volunteering?	4
Church Voting Recommendations, Voter Preferences, and Political Decisions	4
Coping with an Evil World: Contextualizing the Stress‐Buffering Role of Scripture Reading	4
A Multidimensional Model of Religiosity from Adolescence through the Transition to Adulthood	4
The Association between Religious Discrimination and Health: Disaggregating by Types of Discrimination Experiences, Religious Tradition, and Forms of Health	4
What Aspects of Religiosity are Associated with Values?	4
Opposing Immigrants in Europe: The Interplay Between Religiosity, Values, and Threat	4
The Zeal of the Convert Revisited	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
Shifting Religious Influences on Attitudes Towards Same‐Sex Behavior and Civil Liberties: A Multilevel Across‐Time Analysis	4
Trust in Religious Leaders and Voluntary Compliance: Lessons from Social Distancing during COVID‐19 in Central Asia	4
Development of the Spiritual Harm and Abuse Scale	3
The Resilience of Clergywomen?: Gender and the Relationship between Occupational Distress and Mental Health among Congregational Leaders	3
Fluidity of Faith: Predictors of Religion in a Longitudinal Sample of Chinese Adults	3
Masculinity, Femininity, and Reported Paranormal Beliefs	3
2021 SSSR Presidential Address: Religion as Social Location—Global and Comparative Perspectives	3
Congregation Shopping During the Pandemic: A Research Note	3
Religious Fundamentalism and Quest as Predictors of Moral Foundations Among Iranian Muslims	3
Linking Evangelical Subculture and Phallically Insecure Masculinity Using Google Searches for Male Enhancement	3
Understanding the Diversity of Catholic Higher Education: A New Empirical Guide for Evaluating the Influence of Catholic Identity	3
Mental Health Correlates of Sharing Private Problems in Congregations during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	3
Religion and Charitable Donations: Experimental Evidence from Africa	3
Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment: How State Pressure and Taxes Led to Church Disaffiliations between 1940 and 2010 in Germany	3
On Weber, Pathogens, and Culture: A Global Empirical Analysis of Religion and Individualism	3
Religion, Family, and Career among Graduate Students in the Sciences	3