OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Archive for the Psychology of Religion-Archiv fuer Religionspsychologi 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Attachment to God and positive orientation: A systematic review	23
Meaning in life and identity in patients with severe dementia in Norway: a qualitative study	22
Relating religious leaders’ personality, leadership style, and emotional intelligence to member assessments of church vitality: A multidimensional approach	15
Significance of spirituality/religiousness (S/R) for developing compassion and self-compassion in institutional care providers: A narrative review	12
The experience of, and beliefs about, divine grace in mainline protestant Christianity: A consensual qualitative approach	11
Interfaith prejudice in the United States: The role of social identity complexity	9
The moderating function of sexual sanctification on the relation between sexual and relationship satisfaction: A registered report	9
If not belief in God, then what? Identifying factors that contribute to well-being among Polish nonbelievers	8
Prime and punishment: Effect of religious priming and group membership on prosocial behavior	8
Acknowledgement of Ad Hoc Reviewers	8
Religious worship online: A qualitative study of two Sunday virtual services	7
Wisdom partially mediates the relationship between spirituality and eudaimonic well-being	7
Religious identity, religious practice, and religious beliefs across countries and world regions	7
Belief in Jinn Possession Scale: Development and validation	7
Epilepsy and religiosity: A historical overview	6
Spirituality is older than religion: Supporting the phylogenetic primacy of intensity over religiosity using the PCI-RSE	6
Religion and health in the Netherlands: Disentangling underlying pathways	6
Cultural dimensions of nonsuicidal self-injury: A Malaysian perspective	5
Humility among seminarian women: A qualitative study	5
Acknowledgement of Ad Hoc Reviewers	5
Does childhood religiosity enhance learning motivation? Testing the role of Islamic religiosity using moderated mediation model	4
How religious identity affects life satisfaction of Afghan immigrants in Turkey: The role of social support and discrimination	4
Allah has told us everything: An interpretative phenomenological analysis exploring the lived experiences of British Muslims	4
Psychology of mysticism: Toward a layered hierarchy model	4
Existential questing: Investigating the function of religious exploration, uncertainty, and growth motivation in managing existential anxiety	4

Health and holiness: Resources from Buddhist indigenous psychology for differentiating mental health and religion	4
The Camino de Santiago as a Reflective Journey: Navigating Existential Questions in Late Modernity	3
Associations between religion and suicidality for LGBTQ individuals: A systematic review	3
The experiences of spiritual enlightenment: A mixed-method study of the development of a Spiritual Enlightenment Experience Scale	3
A narrative evaluation of a faith-based aftercare program for youth involved in the juvenile justice system	3
Religious coping and young adult’s mental well-being during Covid-19: Testing a double moderated mediation model	3
Meaning in life for residents with dementia living in long-term nursing homes: An exploratory qualitative interview-based study	3
Authoritarianism, xenophobia, Christian nationalism, and theological conservatism among Christian leaders in the United States, during COVID-19	3
Effects of listening to Quran recitation on anxiety reduction in elective surgeries: A systematic review and meta-analysis	2
Psychology of religion and spirituality in Jewish contexts: A synthetic review	2
Experiences of meaning in life in urban and rural Zambia	2
Spirituality as a key asset in promoting positive youth development: Advances in research and practice	2
Bishri Hafi Effect: How spirituality might stall off the addiction recovery	2
Unravelling ageing: Taking a social identity approach to understanding religion and health across the life-course	2
Longitudinal associations for right-wing authoritarianism, social justice, and compassion among seminary students	2
Religiosity and moral judgment: Moderating role of moral internalization and moral competence	2
Can religion motivate people to blow the whistle?	2
The past, present, and future of research on religious and spiritual development in adolescence, young adulthood, and beyond	2
Spiritually significant places as adaptive psycho-spatial resources: Mattering struggles, spiritual ties to place, and mental well-being in US adults	2
The varying effects of clergy counsel on religiousness and health among Latter-day Saint sexual and gender minorities	1
Religious deconversion in adolescence and young adulthood: A literature review	1
The dynamic uncertainty of narrative, place, and practice in spiritual experience: Clues from the phenomenology of walking a labyrinth	1
The search for meaning in earthquake survivors: An existentially positive psychology perspective	1
Life meaning, God’s grace, and the COVID-19 pandemic: Reflections among Latter-day Saints	1
Ritual responses to environmental apocalypse in activist communities	1
Merging Oblivion Meditation: A Daoist method facilitating nondual experience through cosmic integration	1
Psychometric evaluation of the bottom-up developed Experiencing Grace Scale	1
Patients at risk of suicide and their meaning in life experiences	1
Dialectical thinking in contemporary spirituality: Reconciling contradictory beliefs through metamodern oscillations between two ways of thinking	1
Global perceptions of religious and non-religious scientists	1
Religiosity/spirituality and mental health: Evidence of curvilinear relationships in a sample of religious people, spirituals, atheists, and agnostics	1
Religious coping in parenting a child with Down syndrome: A case study	1