OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of South African Journal of Psychology 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 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)

Article	Citations
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons	32
A brief comparison of forensic psychology in South Africa, the United States, and Canada	23
Race, representativity, and the (im)probability of being a Black African professional psychology graduate: an institutional case study	23
An exploration of risk factors in a community sample of low socioeconomic status youth in South Africa	19
Post-migration stressors, correlates, and predictors of post-traumatic stress disorder and common mental disorders in refugees settled in Cape Town, South Africa	14
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage	12
Perceptions of primary mental health care in a semi-rural setting in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: a qualitative inquiry	11
An analysis of KwaZulu-Natal clinical psychologists’ multicultural experience	10
The correlation between self-reported sleep quality, anxiety levels, and balance confidence among university students	10
Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa	10
Experiences and views of clinical psychologists working in non-urban areas of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa	9
Book Reviews: Liezille Jean Jacobs, Rocklands—On Becoming the First Generation of Black Psychologists in Post-Apartheid South Africa JacobsLiezille Jean,	8
Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychology: a commentary on AI’s emerging role and the ensuing conversation	8
Collaborative care for mental health in South Africa: a qualitative systematic review	8
Differences in time-based prospective memory between field-independent and field-dependent cognitive styles under different time monitoring conditions	8
Empowering leadership, playful work design, and work engagement	8
Decision-making associated with anxiety and depression among emerging adults	7
Contextual factors impacting families in enabling resilience of gender and sexually diverse youth	7
The psychology of social change – 30 years post-apartheid: what went wrong and how to fix it?	7
Psychosocial support for families journeying with developmental coordination disorder	7
Relationship between mindfulness and meaning in life among university students: roles of social support and the experience of being left behind	7
The mental health impact of loadshedding on small-business owners in Alexandra township, Gauteng	6
Client and counsellor experiences of abbreviated trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy for South African adolescents	6
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures	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

The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust	6
Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between experiential avoidance and emotional distress among South African university students	5
Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: the relationship between cardiac vagal tone, emotion recognition, and expressive prosody	5
Resilience factors of orphans and vulnerable children in a children’s home during the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons and implications for practice post pandemic	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
Looking back to move forward: a scoping review of counselling psychology in South Africa	5
Associations of childhood violence experience and intimate partner violence during adulthood among women in Limpopo, South Africa	5
The association between intimate partner violence and antiretroviral therapy adherence among individuals receiving art care in Johannesburg	5
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour	4
Editorial	4
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions	4
Insecure attachment styles as predictors of posttraumatic growth in a South African student sample	4
Three decades of psychology in South Africa: legacies of hope and fault lines of the future	4
Queer and using substances, a ‘double whammy’: results from a needs assessment of substance use treatment professionals in South Africa	4
Mental illness and stigma: subjective experiences of mothers with children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	4
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa	4
‘Crushed all over again’: the professional experiences of early career counselling psychologists in South Africa	3
Exploring environmental challenges among university students in conflict-affected Palestine	3
Rhythmic engagement therapy improved drug use abstinence better than cognitive behavioural therapy among individuals with substance use disorder	3
Cyclone Idai–related losses and the coping strategies of adolescent survivors in the Odzi community of Manicaland Province, Zimbabwe	3
Emotional experiences and challenges faced by patients with systemic lupus erythematosus who attend a support group in Ghana	3
Leveraging adversity during pandemics: the role of adaptive cognitive appraisals of self and others in mental health outcomes among students	3
Through the lens of a global pandemic: the evolution of the multidimensional role of a school counsellor	3
Call for a special issue of the South African Journal of Psychology	3
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective	3
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	3
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions	3
A qualitative study on the role of alcohol in the lives of a group of sexual minority women in South Africa	3
Resilience to structural violence: an exploration of the multisystemic resources that enable youth hope	3
A scoping review of Rogers’ person-centred approach to identify constructs relevant to optimal intergenerational relationships	3
Authorship and building psychological research in low and middle income countries: a view from the Pacific Island Nation of Fiji	3