OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Black Psychology is 2. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Fifty Years (1974–2024) of the Journal of Black Psychology: A Brief History and Reflection of Its Significance	46
Beyond Code of the Street and Psychopathic Features: Black Masculinity and Self-Compassion	23
Book Review: Solution to Double Consciousness and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	18
Correlates of Psychological Distress Among African American Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic	15
Trauma, Help-Seeking, and the Strong Black Woman	15
It’s More Than Skin-Deep: Gendered Racial Microaggressions, Skin Tone Satisfaction, and Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Black Women	15
Seeking Just Us: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Racism-Specific Support Among Black College Students	14
“AmeriKenyan”: Lived Acculturation and Ethnic Identification of Kenyan Natives During Their Youth	13
Starting the Conversation: Common Themes Typifying Expectant Unmarried Black Parents’ Discussions About Coparenting a First Child Together	12
Black Identity in Action: Examining Ethnic and Racial Identity, Racial Discrimination, and Collective Action Among Black Individuals	12
In This Together? Exploring Moderating and Mediating Effects of Shared Racial Fate on the Predictive Role of Racial Socialization and Discrimination on Black Activism	12
Hair Messages: A Context for Exploring Racial Socialization Among African American Males	11
Seeing One Another: The Creation of the Sawubona Healing Circles	11
Spiritual Surrender: Initial Appraisals of Cancer Diagnoses in Black Christian Women	10
Sankofa: Using Topic Models to Review the History of the Journal of Black Psychology	10
‘It Just Feels Like an Invasion’: Black First-Episode Psychosis Patients’ Experiences With Coercive Intervention and Its Influence on Help-Seeking Behaviours	9
African-Centered Spirituality as a Buffer of Psychological Symptoms Related to Specific Forms of Racism for African Americans	9
Associations Between Family Factors, Social Integration, and Suicidal Ideation Across the Life Course of an Urban African American Cohort	8
Black Students’ Mental Help-Seeking Processes During College Matriculation	7
Stay out of the Sun: Exploring African American College Women’s Thoughts on the Dynamics Between Colorism and Sun-related Behavior	7
Seeing Black Girls in Their Glory: Cultivating Spaces that Facilitate Black Girls’ Psychological Safety	6
Black Psychology and Whiteness: Toward a Conceptual Model of Black Trauma through the Prism of Whiteness	6
Race-Based Stress Reactions and Recovery: Pilot Testing a Racial Trauma Meditation	6
Black Love, Activism, and Community (BLAC): The BLAC Model of Healing and Resilience	5
Body Satisfaction and Disordered Eating Among Black Women Student Athletes: An Examination of Resilience, Self-Compassion, and Social Support	5

Lawyering While Black: Perceived Stress as a Mediator of Impostor Feelings, Race-Related Stress and Mental Health Among Black Attorneys	5
COVID-19 Pandemic and Education: Nigerian Parents’ Approach and Perception of Children’s Education Based on Socioeconomic Indicators	5
Experiences of Black Women Understanding Racial Microaggressions and Identifying Replenishing Healing Practices	5
“They Do Us Wrong”: Bringing Together Black Adolescent Girls’ Voices on School Staff’s Differential Treatment	5
Special Issue on Black Youth Suicide and Beyond	5
Peer Ethnicity as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Body Appreciation in Black College-Aged Women	5
“I Remember My First Relaxer”: Black Women Voicing Psychologically Engrained Practices of Chemical Hair Straightening	5
Bibliometric Analysis of Suicide Research Among Black Youth	5
Growing but Not Grown: Adolescent Black Girls’ Reasoning About a Hypothetical and Challenging Social Situation	5
Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction	4
Identifying Risk and Protective Factors in Research on Mental Health and Black American Adolescents: 1990 Through 2022	4
Religious/Spiritual Struggles and Mental Health Among Black Adolescents and Emerging Adults: A Meta-synthesis	4
Vicarious Experiences with Police Violence: Examining Psychosocial Factors that Predict Black Individuals’ Negative Affect and Intentions to Engage in Collective Action	4
“The Talk” and Parenting While Black in America: Centering Race, Resistance, and Refuge	4
The Influence of Gendered Racial Identity Centrality on Gendered Racism and Identity Shifting Among Black Undergraduate Women at a HBCU	4
Ethical Standards of Black Psychologists: Revised 2021	3
Conceptualizations of Effective Parenting: Perspectives of Religious Counselors in Ghana	3
(Un)availability of Social Provisions and the Framing of Loneliness by Black Older Adults in Canada: A Qualitative Narrative Study	3
Depression and Suicide Ideation: The Role of Self-Acceptance for Black Young Adults	3
Attachment Neuroscience and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Nonviolence Philosophy: Implications for the 21st Century and Beyond	3
A Psychological, Historical Analysis of Post-Slavery Trauma and Post-Slavery Growth: Are They Viable Constructs?	3
The Strong Black Woman Schema and Mental Health: Examining the Role of Personal Mastery	2
A Single-Session Wellness Initiative for Black College Women: Integrating Expressive Arts, Spirituality, and Political Resistance	2
The Association of Sleep Disturbance, Depression, and Kin Social Support With the College Adjustment of African American Students: A Moderated Mediation Model	2
Life Stressors and Mental Well-Being: Experiences of African American Women Navigating Perinatal Loss and Pregnancy Subsequent to Loss	2
Black Women’s Body Image: Implications for Identity Formation and Well-Being	2
“They Need to Hear Our Voices”: A Multidimensional Framework of Black College Women’s Sociopolitical Development and Activism	2
Racial Regard and Physical Health Among Low-Income Black Caregivers of Children With and Without Asthma	2
Black Racial Identity, Perceived Support, and Mental Health Within Dyadic Relationships	2
Experiences of Black Men: Forms of Masculinity and Effects on Psychological Help-Seeking Variables	2
Exploring the Experiences of Black Men Through the Decision-Making Process in Secure Settings: A Qualitative Study	2
End of the Year: 50th Anniversary Reflections	2
Black Women’s Sexual Assertiveness and Satisfaction: The Role of the Superwoman Schema	2