OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of South African Journal of Psychology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Race, representativity, and the (im)probability of being a Black African professional psychology graduate: an institutional case study	29
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons	27
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage	20
A brief comparison of forensic psychology in South Africa, the United States, and Canada	20
Perceptions of primary mental health care in a semi-rural setting in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: a qualitative inquiry	18
Post-migration stressors, correlates, and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder and common mental disorders in refugees settled in Cape Town, South Africa	12
An exploration of risk factors in a community sample of low socioeconomic status youth in South Africa	11
Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa	10
An analysis of KwaZulu-Natal clinical psychologists’ multicultural experience	9
Experiences and views of clinical psychologists working in non-urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	9
The correlation between self-reported sleep quality, anxiety levels, and balance confidence among university students	9
Collaborative care for mental health in South Africa: a qualitative systematic review	9
Book Reviews: Liezille Jean Jacobs, Rocklands—On Becoming the First Generation of Black Psychologists in Post-Apartheid South Africa JacobsLiezille Jean, (2024). Rocklan	8
Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychology: a commentary on AI’s emerging role and the ensuing conversation	7
Relationship between mindfulness and meaning in life among university students: roles of social support and the experience of being left behind	7
Differences in time-based prospective memory between field-independent and field-dependent cognitive styles under different time monitoring conditions	7
The psychology of social change – 30 years post-apartheid: what went wrong and how to fix it?	7
Decision-making associated with anxiety and depression among emerging adults	6
Client and counsellor experiences of abbreviated trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for South African adolescents	6
Empowering leadership, playful work design, and work engagement	6
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures	6
Psychosocial support for families journeying with developmental coordination disorder	6
Contextual factors impacting families in enabling resilience of gender and sexually diverse youth	6
Adolescent girls’ experiences and health care workers’ perspectives on sexual and reproductive health services at urban public health care facilities in the Western Cape, South Africa	6
Associations of childhood violence experience and intimate partner violence during adulthood among women in Limpopo, South Africa	5

A systematic exploratory review investigating the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation: implications for working memory training	5
Delivering a South African mathematics mindset intervention via Social Networking Service (WhatsApp)	5
Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between experiential avoidance and emotional distress among South African university students	5
The house that apartheid built: what room for cohabitation?	5
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy mediates the link between posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms and health-related quality of life	5
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: the relationship between cardiac vagal tone, emotion recognition, and expressive prosody	5
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust	5
The association between intimate partner violence and antiretroviral therapy adherence among individuals receiving art care in Johannesburg	4
Editorial	4
Resilience factors of orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons and implications for practice post pandemic	4
Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa	4
Three decades of psychology in South Africa: legacies of hope and fault lines of the future	4
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour	4
Insecure attachment styles as predictors of posttraumatic growth in a South African student sample	4
Leveraging adversity during pandemics: the role of adaptive cognitive appraisals of self and others in mental health outcomes among students	3
A qualitative study on the role of alcohol in the lives of a group of sexual minority women in South Africa	3
Exploring environmental challenges among university students in conflict-affected Palestine	3
Resilience to structural violence: an exploration of the multisystemic resources that enable youth hope	3
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions	3
Queer and using substances, a ‘double whammy’: results from a needs assessment of substance use treatment professionals in South Africa	3
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions	3
‘Crushed all over again’: the professional experiences of early career counselling psychologists in South Africa	3
Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana	3
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa	3
Call for a special issue of the South African Journal of Psychology	3
RETRACTION NOTICE: Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana	3
Cyclone Idai–related losses and the coping strategies of adolescent survivors in the Odzi community of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe	3
Loadshedding, safety concerns, and mental health in South Africa	2
Climate justice is central to addressing the climate emergency’s psychological consequences in the Global South: a narrative review	2
Promoting well-being in the face of a pandemic: the role of sense of coherence and ego-resilience in the relationship between psychological distress and life satisfaction	2
From fear and vulnerability to fortitude: sustaining psychological well-being in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic	2
Exploring the experiences of stigma among South African gay men who practice consensual nonmonogamy	2
Cancer coping self-efficacy mediates the relationship between mental adjustment to cancer and health-related quality of life in persons with cancer	2
Mapping the evolution and hotspots of future orientation research: a visualized analysis from 1991 to 2023 using Citespace	2
Rhythmic engagement therapy improved drug use abstinence better than cognitive behavioural therapy among individuals with substance use disorder	2
A scoping review of Rogers’ person-centred approach to identify constructs relevant to optimal intergenerational relationships	2
Distress among cancer patients: some considerations in identification and treatment	2
Technologically assisted interventions for neurological and psychological applied outcomes: a scoping review	2
Perceptions of causes and treatment of mental illness among traditional health practitioners in Johannesburg, South Africa	2
The relationship between the dark triad personality traits, motivation, mood states, and exercise dependence	2
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective	2
Authorship and building psychological research in low and middle income countries: a view from the Pacific Island Nation of Fiji	2
Depressive symptoms and socio-demographic correlates among adolescents in Kampala: a cross-sectional study	2
Looking backwards, looking forwards: collective and critical conversations on psychology in South Africa	2
Rumination impacts depressive symptoms among orthopedic patients: analysis of the buffering role of dispositional mindfulness	1
Social media and adolescent psychosocial development: a systematic review	1
Conceptualising eco-anxiety using an existential framework	1
Reading a liberation psychology archive in South Africa	1
Inclusive leadership, psychological safety, and employee voice in remote and hybrid work employees	1
Investigating parenting factors, traumatic brain injury and callous and unemotional traits among high school students in a South African setting	1

Health professionals’ perceptions of the South African adapted online Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale – Revised: properties, implementation, and context	1
Poverty, protests and pandemics: what can we learn from community resilience?	1
Beyond the shadows of trauma: exploring the synergy of emotional intelligence and distress disclosure in Nigerian adolescents’ trauma journey	1
The role of non-governmental organisations in strengthening the South African health system: a commentary	1
Exploring the perceptions and experiences of diabetes management and self-regulation in young adults using a continuous glucose monitoring device	1
Knowledge, misinformation, stigma, and disclosure hesitancy among women receiving curative treatment for cervical cancer at a tertiary hospital in South Africa	1
Advancing an agenda for psychological assessment in South Africa	1
Why South Africa needs cognitive neuroscientists	1
Something about us with us: a reflection of disability studies within psychology in South Africa	1
Editorial	1
Our grief matters – loss, grief, and mourning in Black vertically infected HIV-positive adolescents	1
‘Private practice was my second option’: exploring barriers and facilitators to the delivery of mental health care by registered counsellors in South Africa	1
Freedom from American psychology	1
Practical training completed by clinical psychology Master’s students commencing their internship at 1 Military Hospital: a preliminary study	1
Group-based emotional regulation training for adolescents in primary health care settings: a proof-of-concept study of its utility to improve mental health	1
The need for psychosocial oncology research in sub-Saharan Africa: a review of the terrain	1
Fetal alcohol syndrome knowledge and risk behaviors among university students and community residents in Limpopo, South Africa	1
The mediating role of positive reappraisal and self-compassion on the relationship between mindfulness and posttraumatic growth in patients with cancer	1