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 2020-09-01 to 2024-09-01.)

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
Racial Diversity in U.S. Congregations, 1998–2019	24
Introducing the Fourth Wave of the National Congregations Study	20
Zooming In and Out of Virtual Jewish Prayer Services During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	15
Gender, Sexuality, and Religion: A Critical Integrative Review and Agenda for Future Research	13
Mattering to God and to the Congregation: Gendered Effects in Mattering as a Mechanism Between Religiosity and Mental Health	13
Explaining Unfavorable Attitudes Toward Religious Out‐Groups Among Three Major Religions	12
Changing Worship Practices in American Congregations	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
COVID‐19's effects upon the religious group resources, psychosocial resources, and mental health of Orthodox Jews	10
One Conception of Secularism for All? A Comparison of Conceptions of Laïcité among Nonbelievers, Catholics, and Muslims in France	10
National Context, Parental Socialization, and the Varying Relationship Between Religious Belief and Practice	10
The National Survey of Religious Leaders: Background, Methods, and Lessons Learned in the Research Process	10
The Political Mobilization of America's Congregations	10
Can the State Make you More Religious? Evidence from Turkish Experience	9
Is There a Crisis in Clergy Health?: Reorienting Research Using a National Sample	9
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
Prayer in America: A Detailed Analysis of the Various Dimensions of Prayer	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
Trust and Trustworthiness of Christians, Muslims, and Atheists/Agnostics in the United States	8

A Complex Simplicity: The Relationship of Religiosity and Nonreligiosity to Life Satisfaction	8
Attachment to God and Psychological Distress: Evidence of a Curvilinear Relationship	8
Religious trajectories of immigrants in the first years after migration	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
Individual Differences in Religious Motivation Influence How People Think	7
Historical Fundamentalism? Christian Nationalism and Ignorance About Religion in American Political History	7
Measuring Religiosity of East Asians: Multiple Religious Belonging, Believing, and Practicing	6
Threatening Morality: Religious and Political Opposition to Science in the United States	6
Multiple (Non)Religious Identities Leads to Undercounting Religious Nones and Asian Religious Identities	6
Are Religious Women More Traditionalist? A Cross‐National Examination of Gender and Religion	6
Flowing Across with Demonic Hate: Belief in Supernatural Evil and Support for Stricter Immigration Policy	6
Psychological Resilience After Cancer via Religion/Spirituality: Spiritual Capital Through a Life Course Lens	5
Is There a Bidirectional Causal Relationship Between Religiosity and Volunteering?	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
Shifting Religious Influences on Attitudes Towards Same‐Sex Behavior and Civil Liberties: A Multilevel Across‐Time Analysis	5
Opposing Immigrants in Europe: The Interplay Between Religiosity, Values, and Threat	5
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
Counting on Whiteness: Religion, race, ethnicity, and the politics of Jewish demography	4
What Aspects of Religiosity are Associated with Values?	4
Losing My Religion as a Natural Experiment: How State Pressure and Taxes Led to Church Disaffiliations between 1940 and 2010 in Germany	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
Measuring Fundamentalism Across the Abrahamic Faiths	4
Fluidity of Faith: Predictors of Religion in a Longitudinal Sample of Chinese Adults	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
“Ye Double‐Minded”: Black Parishioners’ Attitudes toward Nonaffirming Church Climates	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
Reasons for Leaving: Causes and Initial Triggers for Disaffiliation from Orthodox Judaism	3
Belief in Hell and Parenting Priorities Concerning Child Independence and Obedience: Does Economic Context Matter?	3
The Duality of American Christian Nationalism: Religious Traditionalism versus Christian Statism	3
The Relationship between Workplace Status and Workplace Religious Expression	3
Christ, Country, and Conspiracies? Christian Nationalism, Biblical Literalism, and Belief in Conspiracy Theories	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
Masculinity, Femininity, and Reported Paranormal Beliefs	3
2021 SSSR Presidential Address: Religion as Social Location—Global and Comparative Perspectives	3
Religion and Charitable Donations: Experimental Evidence from Africa	3
Mental Health Correlates of Sharing Private Problems in Congregations during the COVID‐19 Pandemic	3
Denominational Differences in Obesity Among Black Christian Adults: Why Gender and Life Stage Matter	3
On Weber, Pathogens, and Culture: A Global Empirical Analysis of Religion and Individualism	3
Religion and Refugee Well‐Being: The Importance of Inclusive Community	3
Religion, Family, and Career among Graduate Students in the Sciences	3
Importance of Religion after Adversity	3

Development of the Spiritual Harm and Abuse Scale