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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Strong Black Woman Concept: Associated Demographic Characteristics and Perceived Stress Among Black Women	42
Colorism as Historical Trauma: Exploring School Racial Context, Peer Dynamics, and Counternarratives Among Black Women	34
Home Based Racialized Messages Transmitted to African American Students Transitioning to Predominantly White Institutions	19
Book Review: Solution to Double Consciousness and the Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man	15
Half-Connecting Theory: Developing African Psychology Theory in a “Radical Beginnings” Direction	15
“The Talk” and Parenting While Black in America: Centering Race, Resistance, and Refuge	13
“Just Trying to Make it Through”: Understanding Transitions Into Motherhood Among Young Black Women Amidst Trauma, Racism, and Structural Oppression	12
Black Students’ Mental Help-Seeking Processes During College Matriculation	12
Correlates of Psychological Distress Among African American Young Adults During the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
Life Stressors and Mental Well-Being: Experiences of African American Women Navigating Perinatal Loss and Pregnancy Subsequent to Loss	11
Fifty Years (1974–2024) of the Journal of Black Psychology: A Brief History and Reflection of Its Significance	11
Beyond Code of the Street and Psychopathic Features: Black Masculinity and Self-Compassion	10
Message From the Editor-in-Chief: Reflecting Back and Looking Forward	10
Seeing Black Girls in Their Glory: Cultivating Spaces that Facilitate Black Girls’ Psychological Safety	10
Sister Outsider: Superwoman Schema, Emotion Regulation, and Psychological Distress Among Black College Women	10
Introduction to Special Issue on the Psychology of Black Activism: The Psychology of Black Activism in the 21^st Century	9
Black Love, Activism, and Community (BLAC): The BLAC Model of Healing and Resilience	9
“They Do Us Wrong”: Bringing Together Black Adolescent Girls’ Voices on School Staff’s Differential Treatment	8
It’s More Than Skin-Deep: Gendered Racial Microaggressions, Skin Tone Satisfaction, and Traumatic Stress Symptoms Among Black Women	7
Editorial Note: New Editorial Board and New Submission Guidelines	7
Trapped in a Pathological Paradigm: Critiques of Suicidology Scholarship and Practice	7
Black Psychology and Whiteness: Toward a Conceptual Model of Black Trauma through the Prism of Whiteness	7
Living in Between: A Grounded Theory Study of Depression Among Middle-Class Black Women	7
Investigating Race-related Stress, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress for Black Mental Health Therapists	7
Experiences of Black Men: Forms of Masculinity and Effects on Psychological Help-Seeking Variables	6

“Flipping the Sexual Script”: A Systematic Review of Black Girls’ and Women’s Responses to and Experiences With Sexual Stereotypes	5
Conceptualizations of Effective Parenting: Perspectives of Religious Counselors in Ghana	5
Paternal and Maternal Cognitive Engagement and Preschoolers’ Literacy Skills Across Six Ethnic Groups in Suriname	5
Black Beauty: Womanist Consciousness as a Protective Factor in Black Women’s Body Image Satisfaction	5
Black Parents’ Rationales for Using Specific Ethnic-Racial Socialization Practices With Their Young Children	5
Demystifying Male Emotional Development: Exploring the Implications of Forced Gender Roles on Black American Males	5
Race-Based Stress Reactions and Recovery: Pilot Testing a Racial Trauma Meditation	5
“Coming Together Educationally Creates a Bond Like No Other”: Exploring How Families Engage in Black History Home Learning	5
Depression and Suicide Ideation: The Role of Self-Acceptance for Black Young Adults	4
Ethical Standards of Black Psychologists: Revised 2021	4
Experiences of Black Women Understanding Racial Microaggressions and Identifying Replenishing Healing Practices	4
A Psychological, Historical Analysis of Post-Slavery Trauma and Post-Slavery Growth: Are They Viable Constructs?	4
Attachment Neuroscience and Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Nonviolence Philosophy: Implications for the 21st Century and Beyond	4
Conferring Kinship: Examining Fictive Kinship Status in a Black Adolescent’s Natural Mentoring Relationship	4
“I Remember My First Relaxer”: Black Women Voicing Psychologically Engrained Practices of Chemical Hair Straightening	3
“Take a Mental Break”: Examining the Coping Efforts of Black College Students Exposed to Police Killings	3
Trauma, Help-Seeking, and the Strong Black Woman	3
A Qualitative Exploration of Stressors: Voices of African American Women who have Experienced Each Type of Fetal/Infant Loss: Miscarriage, Stillbirth, and Infant Mortality	3
“AmeriKenyan”: Lived Acculturation and Ethnic Identification of Kenyan Natives During Their Youth	3
Advancing African Psychology: An Exploration of African American College Students’ Definitions and Use of Spirit in Times of Stress	3
Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Suicidal Ideation and Suicide Attempts Among Black Adolescents Based on the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey	3
Black Americans’ Racism-Based Traumatic Stress Reactions Following the January 6 Capitol Insurrection	3
Seeing One Another: The Creation of the Sawubona Healing Circles	2
On Being Black and Out of the Closet: Exploring Moderators of Black Queer Sexual Orientation Disclosure	2
“They Need to Hear Our Voices”: A Multidimensional Framework of Black College Women’s Sociopolitical Development and Activism	2
Racial Microaggressions and African American Undergraduates’ Academic Experiences: Preparation for Bias Messages as a Protective Resource	2
Rape Appraisals: Class Mobility, Social Geography, and Sexual Morality Tales in Ghana, South Africa, and Rwanda	2
Perceptions of Burnout Among Black Pastors of Small Churches: A Phenomenological Study	2
Seeking Just Us: A Mixed Methods Investigation of Racism-Specific Support Among Black College Students	2
Suicide Rates Among 5–29-Year-Old African Americans, 1990–2018	2
Starting the Conversation: Common Themes Typifying Expectant Unmarried Black Parents’ Discussions About Coparenting a First Child Together	2
The Strong Black Woman Schema and Mental Health: Examining the Role of Personal Mastery	2
In This Together? Exploring Moderating and Mediating Effects of Shared Racial Fate on the Predictive Role of Racial Socialization and Discrimination on Black Activism	2
Peer Ethnicity as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Ethnic Identity and Body Appreciation in Black College-Aged Women	2
Representations of Mental Illness in a Ga Community in Southern Ghana	2
Spiritual Surrender: Initial Appraisals of Cancer Diagnoses in Black Christian Women	2