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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring marital safety: three South African wives living with HIV in nonmutual monogamous marriage	43
A brief comparison of forensic psychology in South Africa, the United States, and Canada	26
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	16
Editorial: Continuity, transformation and the future of the South African Journal of Psychology	14
Psychological distress related to COVID-19 among mental health care professionals in full-time private practice in South Africa	14
South African Psychologists’ experiences treating paedophilic disorder: an exploratory study	13
Hyper-invisibility and visual scrutiny: reflections from photo-narrative research with transgender young persons	12
Race, representativity, and the (im)probability of being a Black African professional psychology graduate: an institutional case study	10
Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa	10
Perceptions of primary mental health care in a semi-rural setting in the Eastern Cape of South Africa: a qualitative inquiry	10
The correlation between self-reported sleep quality, anxiety levels, and balance confidence among university students	10
An analysis of KwaZulu-Natal clinical psychologists’ multicultural experience	9
The psychology of social change – 30 years post-apartheid: what went wrong and how to fix it?	9
Book Reviews: Liezille Jean Jacobs, Rocklands—On Becoming the First Generation of Black Psychologists in Post-Apartheid South Africa JacobsLiezille Jean,	9
Differences in time-based prospective memory between field-independent and field-dependent cognitive styles under different time monitoring conditions	9
Empowering leadership, playful work design, and work engagement	8
Artificial intelligence (AI) in psychology: a commentary on AI’s emerging role and the ensuing conversation	8
Relationship between mindfulness and meaning in life among university students: roles of social support and the experience of being left behind	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
African traditional healing and mental well-being: insights from traditional healers in Gqeberha	7
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	7
Reclaiming the Hidden Curriculum: Embedding Empathy Development in Online Professional Psychology Training Through Experiential Learning	7
Psychosocial support for families journeying with developmental coordination disorder	7

Repetitive negative thinking mediates the relationship between experiential avoidance and emotional distress among South African university students	6
The role of critical methodologies in climate psychology scholarship: themes, gaps, and futures	6
The psychological contract and retention practices in the higher education context: the mediating role of organisational justice and trust	6
Prevalence of mental distress and social support among university students in the occupied Palestinian territories	6
Delivering a South African mathematics mindset intervention via Social Networking Service (WhatsApp)	6
The mental health impact of loadshedding on small-business owners in Alexandra township, Gauteng	6
A systematic exploratory review investigating the relationship between working memory and emotion regulation: implications for working memory training	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
Associations of childhood violence experience and intimate partner violence during adulthood among women in Limpopo, South Africa	5
Interweaving xenophobia and racism in South Africa: the impact of racial discrimination on anti-immigrant hate violence among people of colour	5
Three decades of psychology in South Africa: legacies of hope and fault lines of the future	4
The association between intimate partner violence and antiretroviral therapy adherence among individuals receiving art care in Johannesburg	4
Queer and using substances, a ‘ double whammy’ : results from a needs assessment of substance use treatment professionals in South Africa	4
Conceptualising an Afrocentric Model of Resilience Among Black Rural Adolescents in Limpopo, South Africa	4
Mental illness and stigma: subjective experiences of mothers with children diagnosed with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder	4
The effect of career construction counselling on high school students’ career decision-making difficulties and career adaptability	4
Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions	3
Leveraging adversity during pandemics: the role of adaptive cognitive appraisals of self and others in mental health outcomes among students	3
Young adult ex-offenders’ experiences of the transition from incarceration to their families in a rural community	3
Moving from able to not able: the psychosocial experiences of adults who had a traumatic brain injury	3
Through the lens of a global pandemic: the evolution of the multidimensional role of a school counsellor	3
A qualitative study on the role of alcohol in the lives of a group of sexual minority women in South Africa	3
Difficulties experienced by South African adolescents during COVID-19 lockdown: implications for early mental health interventions	3
Call for a special issue of the South African Journal of Psychology	3
Rhythmic engagement therapy improved drug use abstinence better than cognitive behavioural therapy among individuals with substance use disorder	3
A scoping review of Rogers’ person-centred approach to identify constructs relevant to optimal intergenerational relationships	3
Experiences of Xhosa women providing Kangaroo mother care in a tertiary hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa	3
Exploring environmental challenges among university students in conflict-affected Palestine	3
‘Crushed all over again’: the professional experiences of early career counselling psychologists in South Africa	3
Eco-anxiety and its divergent power holds: a youth climate activist’s perspective	3
Resilience to structural violence: an exploration of the multisystemic resources that enable youth hope	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
Editorial	3