OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of South African Journal of Psychology is 4. 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 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
University students’ mental health and emotional wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing lockdown	51
Mental health and COVID-19 in South Africa	39
Psychology and COVID-19: impacts, themes and way forward	35
The influence of self-leadership strategies, psychological resources, and job embeddedness on work engagement in the banking industry	26
Undergraduate psychology student experiences during COVID-19: challenges encountered and lessons learnt	23
Leading with heart: academic leadership during the COVID-19 crisis	23
A looming mental health pandemic in the time of COVID-19? Role of fortitude in the interrelationship between loneliness, anxiety, and life satisfaction among young adults	21
Depression among health care students in the time of COVID-19: the mediating role of resilience in the hopelessness–depression relationship	18
Suicidal behaviour among university students: a systematic review	17
Doing systematic reviews in Psychology	16
Mental health and academic failure among first-year university students in South Africa	14
Effects of COVID-19 on the economy and mental health of young people in South Africa: opportunities for strengthening social protection programmes by integrating mental health	13
Managing the Covid-19 pandemic in South African Schools: turning challenge into opportunity	12
Telepsychology and the COVID-19 pandemic: the experiences of psychologists in South Africa	12
Exploring the reciprocal correspondence among workplace relationships, career goal instrumentality, career satisfaction, and organisational commitment	10
On the biopolitics of breathing: race, protests, and state violence under the global threat of COVID-19	9
Secondary traumatic stress in police detective officers dealing with complainants of sexual crimes	9
Working memory and psychological resilience in South African emerging adults	9
Social justice, health equity, and mental health	8
Suicide and depression in university students: a possible epidemic	7
Botho as an essential ingredient of African psychology: an insider perspective	7
Climate justice is central to addressing the climate emergency’s psychological consequences in the Global South: a narrative review	7
Comorbid anxiety and depression psychopathology in university students: a network approach	7
The revolution will not be peer reviewed: (creative) tensions between academia, social media and anti-racist activism	6
Career agility and career embeddedness as psychological needs of the value-oriented psychological contract	6

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	6
An exploratory survey of the lived experiences of lesbian, gay, and bisexual South Africans of Indian descent: towards intersectional insights	6
Current strategies in the reduction of stigma among caregivers of patients with mental illness: a scoping review	6
Trends in the prevalence and severity of depressive symptoms among undergraduate students at a South African University, 2016–2019	6
Emotional consequences of hate incidents: experiences of a South African cohort	6
An investigation into the South African correctional officers’ experiences of their work and the Employee Assistance Programme	6
A review of place identity studies in post-apartheid South Africa	6
The influence of father involvement during childhood on the emotional well-being of young adult offspring: a cross-sectional survey of students at a university in Botswana	6
What antiracist psychology does and does not (do)	5
The dynamics of appraisal: a review of 20 years of research using the Fortitude Questionnaire	5
Student factors affecting academic success among undergraduate students at two South African higher education institutions	5
Adjustment and socioeconomic status: how do these factors influence the intention to dropout of university?	5
African/Afrikan-centered Psychology	5
Is post-apartheid South Africa training more black African clinical psychologists and addressing the historical imbalance?	5
Innovating and contextualising career counselling for young people during the Covid-19 pandemic	5
The influence of social achievement goals on academic engagement: a cross-sectional survey in a Namibian primary school	5
Reducing nonfatal suicidal behaviour among university students: actuarial analysis of potential effects of treating common mental disorders	5
Influence of poor emotion regulation on disrupted sleep and subsequent psychiatric symptoms in university students	5
Social media and adolescent psychosocial development: a systematic review	5
Three Pathways for Enlarging Critical African Psychology	4
Perceptions of thermal comfort and coping mechanisms related to indoor and outdoor temperatures among participants living in rural villages in Limpopo province, South Africa	4
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust	4
Culture, politics and being more equal than others in COVID-19: some psychological anthropology perspectives	4
The role of fortitude, loneliness, and depression in the association between risk perception of contracting COVID-19 and life satisfaction: serial mediation analysis	4
Mental health policy and system preparedness to respond to COVID-19 and other health emergencies: a case study of four African countries	4
Pathways to health: conceptual clarification and appropriate statistical treatment of mediator, moderator, and indirect effects using examples from burnout research	4
Conceptualising eco-anxiety using an existential framework	4