OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Sex Research is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 500 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2019-09-01 to 2023-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Surveying Pornography Use: A Shaky Science Resting on Poor Measurement Foundations	68
Changes in Sexual Desire and Behaviors among UK Young Adults During Social Lockdown Due to COVID-19	48
Sexual and Reproductive Health Outcomes of Violence Against Women and Girls in Lower-Income Countries: A Review of Reviews	47
The Prevalence of Paraphilic Interests in the Czech Population: Preference, Arousal, the Use of Pornography, Fantasy, and Behavior	44
Gender Differences in Parents’ Communication With Their Adolescent Children about Sexual Risk and Sex-Positive Topics	41
A Systematic Scoping Review of the Prevalence, Etiological, Psychological, and Interpersonal Factors Associated with BDSM	38
A Meta-Analysis on the Association Between Rape Myth Acceptance and Sexual Coercion Perpetration	33
How WEIRD and Androcentric Is Sex Research? Global Inequities in Study Populations	32
Sexual Consent Communication in Best-Selling Pornography Films: A Content Analysis	30
The Short Version of the Problematic Pornography Consumption Scale (PPCS-6): A Reliable and Valid Measure in General and Treatment-Seeking Populations	30
“Sex” and the Ace Spectrum: Definitions of Sex, Behavioral Histories, and Future Interest for Individuals Who Identify as Asexual, Graysexual, or Demisexual	28
How Has HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Changed Sex? A Review of Research in a New Era of Bio-behavioral HIV Prevention	26
Geosocial Networking Application Use, Characteristics of App-Met Sexual Partners, and Sexual Behavior Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents Assigned Male at Birth	24
A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Combination Behavioral Interventions Co-Targeting Psychosocial Syndemics and HIV-Related Health Behaviors for Sexual Minority Men	23
Sexual Satisfaction in Trans Masculine and Nonbinary Individuals: A Qualitative Investigation	21
Personality and Sexual Orientation: New Data and Meta-analysis	20
Concordance of Paraphilic Interests and Behaviors	20
Universality of the Triangular Theory of Love: Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Triangular Love Scale in 25 Countries	20
Methodology of the German National Sex Survey – GeSiD (German Health and Sexuality Survey)	19
VR Porn as “Empathy Machine”? Perception of Self and Others in Virtual Reality Pornography	19
The Association between the Quantity and Severity of Pornography Use: A Meta-analysis	19
Is There Space for Our Stories? An Examination of North American and Western European Gay, Bi, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men’s Non-consensual Sexual Experiences	18
Theoretical Antecedents of Male Adolescents’ Problematic Pornography Use: A Longitudinal Assessment	18
An Exploration of Factors That Influence Enactment of Affirmative Consent Behaviors	18
Women’s and Men’s Reactions to Receiving Unsolicited Genital Images from Men	18

Changes in Sexual Identity Labels in a Contemporary Cohort of Emerging Adult Women: Patterns, Prevalence and a Typology	17
Untangling the Porn Web: Creating an Organizing Framework for Pornography Research Among Couples	17
Adolescents and Young People’s Sexual and Reproductive Health in Iran: A Conceptual Review	16
Women’s Orgasm and Sexual Satisfaction in Committed Sex and Casual Sex: Relationship Between Sociosexuality and Sexual Outcomes in Different Sexual Contexts	16
How Does Childhood Trauma Impact Women’s Sexual Desire? Role of Depression, Stress, and Cortisol	16
The New Genetic Evidence on Same-Gender Sexuality: Implications for Sexual Fluidity and Multiple Forms of Sexual Diversity	15
Assessing How Gender, Relationship Status, and Item Wording Influence Cues Used by College Students to Decline Different Sexual Behaviors	15
The Webs We Weave: Predicting Infidelity Motivations and Extradyadic Relationship Satisfaction	15
Stigmatization of Paraphilias and Psychological Conditions Linked to Sexual Offending	14
Sexual Practices and Satisfaction among Gay and Heterosexual Men in Romantic Relationships: A Comparison Using Coarsened Exact Matching in a U.S. National Sample	14
Exploring Parent-gender Differences in Parent and Adolescent Reports of the Frequency, Quality, and Content of Their Sexual Health Communication	14
Sugaring: Understanding the World of Sugar Daddies and Sugar Babies	13
When Desire Fades: Women Talk About Their Subjective Experience of Declining Sexual Desire in Loving Long-term Relationships	13
Coding Responses to an Open-ended Gender Measure in a New Zealand National Sample	13
“They Want You to Kill Your Inner Queer but Somehow Leave the Human Alive”: Delineating the Impacts of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity and Expression Change Efforts	13
“Let’s Hook Up When the Pandemic is Over:” Latinx Sexual Minority Men’s Sexual Behavior During COVID-19	13
Feeling Like a Fetish: Racialized Feelings, Fetishization, and the Contours of Sexual Racism on Gay Dating Apps	13
Delineating the Boundaries Between Nonmonogamy and Infidelity: Bringing Consent Back Into Definitions of Consensual Nonmonogamy With Latent Profile Analysis	12
Understanding Adolescents’ Attitudes Toward Affirmative Consent	12
Emotional Outcomes of Casual Sexual Relationships and Experiences: A Systematic Review	12
“Sex is Easier to Get and Love is Harder to Find”: Costs and Rewards of Hooking Up Among First-Year College Students	12
Sexual Risk Taking Intentions Under the Influence of Relationship Motivation, Partner Familiarity, and Sexual Arousal	12
Are Sibship Characteristics Predictive of Same Sex Marriage? An Examination of Fraternal Birth Order and Female Fecundity Effects in Population-level Administrative Data from the Netherlands	11
Sexual Orientation Moderates the Effect of Gender on Body Satisfaction: Results From a National Probability Sample	11
Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Construct Validity of the Internalized Sex Work Stigma Scale among a Cohort of Cisgender Female Sex Workers in Baltimore, Maryland, United States	11
Youth’s Socio-Sexual Competences With Romantic and Casual Sexual Partners	11
Aggression and Pleasure in Opposite-Sex and Same-Sex Mainstream Online Pornography: A Comparative Content Analysis of Dyadic Scenes	11
Discrepant Responding across Measures of College Students’ Sexual Victimization Experiences: Conceptual Replication and Extension	11
Too Common to Count? “Mild” Sexual Assault and Aggression among U.S. College Women	11
Describing the “Gray” Area of Consent: A Comparison of Sexual Consent Understanding Across the Adult Lifespan	10
COVID-19 and Sexual Desire: Perceived Fear Is Associated with Enhanced Relationship Functioning	10
Asexuality, Graysexuality, and Demisexuality: Distinctions in Desire, Behavior, and Identity	10
Challenging the Standard Model of Sexual Response: Evidence of a Variable Male Sexual Response Cycle	10
From Freewill to Force: Examining Types of Coercion and Psychological Outcomes in Unwanted Sex	10
Disorders or Differences of Sex Development? Views of Affected Individuals on DSD Terminology	10
Motives and Manifestations of Sex as Self-Injury	10
Prevalence and Patterns of Extramarital Sex among Chinese Men and Women: 2000-2015	10
Concordance and Discordance between Paraphilic Interests and Behaviors: A Follow-Up Study	10
Longitudinal Associations between Depressive Symptoms and Postpartum Sexual Concerns Among First-time Parent Couples	10
Age of Sexual Debut among Young Gay-identified Sexual Minority Men: The P18 Cohort Study	10
The Heterosexual Script on Tween, Teen, and Young-Adult Television Programs: A Content Analytic Update and Extension	10
“What Do You Mean by Sex?” A Qualitative Analysis of Traditional versus Evolved Meanings of Sexual Activity among Older Women and Men	10
Re-Analyzing Phase III Bremelanotide Trials for “Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder” in Women	9
Exploring the Psychological Characteristics and Risk-related Cognitions of Individuals Who Own Sex Dolls	9
Assessing the Within-Person Variability of Internal and External Sexual Consent	9
What Is So Appealing About Being Spanked, Flogged, Dominated, or Restrained? Answers from Practitioners of Sexual Masochism/Submission	9
Developing Valid and Feasible Measures of Sexual Consent for Experience Sampling Methodology	9
Associations Between Pornography Use Frequency, Pornography Use Motivations, and Sexual Wellbeing in Couples	8
Traditional Machismo, Caballerismo, and the Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Cascade Among a Sample of Latino Sexual Minority Men	8
School-based Sexuality Education Experiences across Three Generations of Sexual Minority People	8

Masturbation in the Animal Kingdom	8
Female Multiple Orgasm: An Exploratory Internet-Based Survey	8
Interpersonal and Intrapersonal Influences on Sexual Satisfaction in Young Male Couples: Analyses of Actor-Partner Interdependence Models	8
Is Being Queer Gay? Sexual Attraction Patterns, Minority Stressors, and Psychological Distress in Non-Traditional Categories of Sexual Orientation	8
Romantic Attachment and Relationship Satisfaction in Gay Men and Lesbians in Chile	8
Initial Impacts of COVID-19 on Sex Life and Relationship Quality in Steady Relationships in Britain: Findings from a Large, Quasi-representative Survey (Natsal-COVID)	8
Will Men Use Novel Male Contraceptive Methods and Will Women Trust Them? A Systematic Review	8
Female Sexual Satisfaction and Sexual Identity	8
Putting the Dyad into the Sexual Response Discussion: A Latent Class Analysis Using Ratings of Self and Partner	8
Is Regulatory Focus Related to Condom Use, STI/HIV Testing, and Sexual Satisfaction?	8
Making and Communicating Decisions About Sexual Consent During Drug-Involved Sex: A Thematic Synthesis	8
Pleasure and PrEP: A Systematic Review of Studies Examining Pleasure, Sexual Satisfaction, and PrEP	8
Sexual Shame in the Sexual Excitation and Inhibition Propensities of Men With and Without Nonconsensual Sexual Experiences	8
Using the Experience Sampling Method to Study Sexual Risk Behavior among Men Who Have Sex With Men (MSM)	8
How Do Parents Teach “No Means No”? An Exploration of How Sexual Consent Beliefs Are Socialized During Adolescence	7
Performance-Enhancing Substance Use and Sexual Risk Behaviors among U.S. Men: Results from a Prospective Cohort Study	7
Age of Occurrence and Severity of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Impacts on Health Outcomes in Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender Women	7
The Association of Childhood Sexual Abuse With Non-Paraphilic and Paraphilic Sexual Behaviors Among Adolescents Who Have Sexually Offended	7
Identity Integration as a Protective Factor against Guilt and Shame for Religious Gay Men	7
Prospective Risk for Incapacitated Rape Among Sexual Minority Women: Hookups and Drinking	7
Exploring the Role of Sexual Avoidance in Male Sexual Dysfunction	7
Relating Gender to Sex: Gendered Attitudes, Sexual Double Standard, Sexual Intentions and Behaviors in two Chinese Adolescent Samples	7
Development and Testing of the Parent-Child Sex Communication Inventory: A Multidimensional Assessment Tool for Parent and Adolescent Informants	7
Does Question Format Matter in Assessing the Prevalence of Sexual Aggression? A Methodological Study	7
“Strong Together”: Minority Stress, Internalized Homophobia, Relationship Satisfaction, and Depressive Symptoms among Taiwanese Young Gay Men	7
Sexual Self-Concept Discrepancies Mediate the Relation between Gender Dysphoria Sexual Esteem and Sexual Attitudes in Binary Transgender Individuals	7
Pornography Use, Offense-Supportive Cognitions, Atypical Sexual Interests, and Sexual Offending against Children	7
Erectile Dysfunction and Partner-Directed Behaviors in Romantic Relationships: The Mediating Role of Suspicious Jealousy	7
Condom Use Errors and Problems in a Sample of Young Colombian Adults	7
Analysis of a Modification to the Sexual Experiences Survey to Assess Intimate Partner Sexual Violence	7
Engagement with Emerging Forms of Sextech: Demographic Correlates from a National Sample of Adults in the United States	7
Regulatory Focus and Sexual Health: Motives for Security and Pleasure in Sexuality are Associated with Distinct Protective Behaviors	7
Continuum of Symptoms in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS): Links with Sexual Behavior and Unrestricted Sociosexuality	7
Examining Sexual Behavior Among U.S. Transgender Adolescents	7
Hooking Up and Pairing Off: Correlates of College Students’ Interest in Subsequent Hookups and Romantic Relationships With Other-Sex and Same-Sex Hookup Partners	6
Factors Associated with General Sexual Functioning and Sexual Satisfaction among People Living with HIV: A Systematic Review	6
Failure of a Meta-analysis: A Commentary on Glen Spielmans’s “Re-Analyzing Phase III Bremelanotide Trials for ‘Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder in Women’”	6
Up-regulating Sexual Arousal and Down-regulating Disgust while Watching Pornography: Effects on Sexual Arousal and Disgust	6
Health, Homelessness Severity, and Substance Use among Sexual Minority Youth Experiencing Homelessness: A Comparison of Bisexual Versus Gay and Lesbian Youth	6
Childhood Sexual Abuse and Sexual Motivations – The Role of Dissociation	6
Racialized Sexual Discrimination (RSD) in Online Sexual Networking: Moving from Discourse to Measurement	6
“You’re Gay, It’s Just What Happens”: Sexual Minority Men Recounting Experiences of Unwanted Sex in the Era of MeToo	6
Social Media, Marijuana and Sex: An Exploratory Study of Adolescents’ Intentions to Use and College Students’ Use of Marijuana	6
Female Sexual Assertiveness and Sexual Satisfaction Among Chinese Couples in Hong Kong: A Dyadic Approach	6
Attraction to Physical and Psychological Features of Children in Child-Attracted Persons	6
Navigating Women’s Low Desire: Sexual Growth and Destiny Beliefs and Couples’ Well-Being	6
Quality of Sex Life and Perceived Sexual Pleasure of PrEP Users in the Netherlands	6
The Dyadic Effects of Top/Bottom Sexual Self-Labels and Partner Sexual Role Requirements on Facial Masculinity Preferences Among Gay and Bisexual Men in China	6
Adolescent Sexual Development: A Family Perspective	6
Sexual Orientation Beliefs and Identity Development: A Person-Centered Analysis among Sexual Minorities	6