International Journal of Intercultural Relations

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Intercultural Relations 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial Board63
Different patterns of national innovation under COVID-19: The moderating role of culture57
Editorial Board41
Negative side effects of music listening during cross-cultural transitions: Exploring how music hinders cross-cultural (re)adaptation among student sojourners39
Types of relations between national identity and global identity and their associated factors: A scoping review31
Intercultural relations among Filipino immigrants living in Macau30
Editorial Board29
Editorial Board28
Reframing intercultural supervision: Understanding mainland Chinese doctoral students’ adaptation experiences in Hong Kong28
Emotional foundations of refugee policy support: The role of threats and emotions towards refugees25
Examining Erasmus student social integration at two Croatian universities25
The Israeli preschool from the perspective of Eritrean asylum seekers: The issue of power relations in a context informed study24
A new look at parenting through the cultural context: Development and initial psychometric evidence of the Interculturally Sensitive Parenting Scale (ISPAS)24
A blind spot in intergroup contact: A systematic review on predictors and outcomes of inter-minority contact experiences23
Intersections of identity and status in international students’ perceptions of culturally engaging campus environments23
"Computer games can change it for us": Serious games and openness to conflict resolution23
Love of place: Conceptual framework and template for measuring the contributory and unitive affection towards a place22
Generalized trust and attitudes toward immigrants in East Asia: A cross-national comparative study22
Examining acculturation at the daily level: Adding nuance to acculturation scholarship22
Editorial Board20
Ideological orientations and generalized prejudice in Turkey: Adapting the dual process motivational model20
Measuring national resilience: Israel in the first week of the Gaza war20
Editorial Board19
Chinese students’ decisions to study in Australia after the COVID pandemic-based on the PESTLE factor analysis19
The influence of host receptivity and conformity pressure on the intercultural transformation of Filipino migrants in New Zealand19
Examining the work–life balance of immigrants in Australia: An anomie theory perspective18
What if we focus on developing commonalities? Results of an international and interdisciplinary Delphi study on transcultural competence18
Major life events and acculturation trajectories of refugees: The example of divorced Syrian refugees in Germany17
Marriage economics, bargaining and strategic agency: Egyptian-Syrian intermarriage practices in the context of displacement17
The integration hypothesis and positive mental health outcomes for children and young asylum-seekers in Iceland17
Happiness across cultures: Considering the relationship between general well-being and Hofstede's culture dimensions17
Corrigendum to “Self-affirmation, prejudice against Muslim immigrants and French secularism: A dual motivation perspective” [International Journal of Intercultural Relations 108 (2025) 102256]17
The shifting context of immigration for recent Latino/a immigrants over the past decade: Findings from an established immigrant receiving community in the U.S.17
Increase in the preference for civic over ethnic nationalism among Poles: The impact of representations of a multiethnic past on the perceived inclusiveness of the nation16
Framing the inclusiveness of the national ingroup: Do identity-related frames affect national identity representations salience?16
Mediating and moderating effects of WeChat use on cross-cultural adaptation among international students in China16
Isaac Levi’s belief change methodology as a way to settle conflicting views: Case study of Palestinian teachers in Jewish schools16
Using spatial big data to analyse neighbourhood effects on immigrant inclusion and well-being15
Role of attachment style, acculturation orientation, and social support in the acculturation of international students in China15
Development of cultural intelligence during international student mobility: The role of prior intercultural exposure and personality15
What kind of emotional intelligence enhances what kind of cultural intelligence: Analysis using emotional and cultural intelligence facets of expatriates15
From global exposure to local realities: Examining how foreign adaptation and individualism shape Chinese returnees’ perceived discrimination15
Pilgrimization of the return and re-acculturation of the returnee: A study of homecoming among Kashmiri Pandits14
Ethnic-cultural bullying among adolescents in multicultural environments: A study in Latin America14
Crossing digital borders: Exploring the role of non-Chinese social media use in the cross-cultural adaptation of Chinese international students14
Changes in national identity across adulthood: A longitudinal analysis of cohort differences in Nationalism and Patriotism14
Intergroup contact in Japan: An exploration of direct, E-contact, and mass-mediated modalities among Japanese and international students14
Editorial Board14
Utilizing AI questionnaire translations in cross-cultural and intercultural research: Insights and recommendations14
A call for research on immigrant and refugee youth amidst the global rise in xenophobia and nationalism14
Media influences on ethnic majority attitudes toward ethnic minorities: A systematic review and meta-analysis13
The transmission of intergenerational trauma and protective factors in survivors of the lebanese civil war and their adult offspring13
Intercultural experience facilitates majority-group acculturation through ethnocultural empathy: Evidence from a mixed-methods investigation in Japan13
Remote acculturation experiences of Turkish emerging adults to U.S. culture: A focus group study13
Validating negative context of reception scale for Ukrainians in the US13
Love beyond east and west: How cultural models of selfhood predict frequency of being in love13
Is everywhere I go home? Reflections on the acculturation journey of African international students in China13
Forty-five years of International Journal of Intercultural Relations: A bibliometric analysis13
Relations between positive and negative extended contact experiences and prejudice in host society and refugees: Effects of positive and negative direct contact13
University students’ attitudes toward the stalled peace process and normalization with the Israeli occupation13
Testing the theory of cultural inertia: How majority members’ perceptions of culture change relate to prejudice13
Mental health, stressors and resources in migrant domestic workers in Singapore: A thematic analysis of in-depth interviews12
Perceived forcedness and perils of migration: Development and validation of a questionnaire for residents in receiving countries12
Embracing ethnic diversity benefits everyone: How most pluralist, some color-blind, but no assimilationist practices relate to higher belonging and achievement in primary school students12
Editorial Board12
Relationship between compassionate love and satisfaction with life in Angolan college students: The mediating roles of satisfaction with love life and commitment12
Examining acculturation in three generations of Turkish-Dutch citizens: The role of national identification, cultural values, language, and media use12
Critical Inclusiveness: Prejudice, principles, and the social acceptance of Muslim minorities12
Situating colorism in intercultural contexts: The multifaceted process of acculturation in shaping attitudes towards skin color12
Cultural religiosity moderates the relationship between being in love and subjective well-being12
Understanding perceived COVID-19 changes, collectivism, and social exclusion: A cross-cultural study in 32 countries11
“Bridging cultures through food”: A qualitative analysis of food dynamic between Italian host families and Ukrainian refugees11
Intercultural competence developmental processes of university and college students as three types of transition – A systematic review11
Acculturative stress and social isolation in multicultural adolescents: A moderated mediation model of social withdrawal and in-school support11
The role of intercultural transitional competence in students’ transitions on an internationalized campus – A mixed methods study11
Constructions of Japanese national identity: Host views using a social markers of acceptance framework11
Geographical and aesthetic inclusiveness: A new cultural worldview? The case of nine European countries11
Nostalgia as a vehicle for improving relations between Israeli Jews and Israeli Arabs11
Delineating the boundaries between genuine cultural change and cultural appropriation in majority-group acculturation11
Mindreading across cultural boundaries11
Immigrant entrepreneurs: A review of the literature and an agenda for future investigations11
Israeli scientists in an American looking glass: Habitus, self-awareness and identity formation11
Perceived forcedness and perils of migration: Development and validation of a questionnaire for migrants in receiving countries10
Factors affecting mental health of South Asian international university students studying in high-income countries: A scoping review10
A socio-ecological perspective on psychological well-being in a culturally diverse context: The role of perceived national multicultural norms10
The benefits of career adaptability on African international students’ perception of social support and quality of life in China during the COVID-19 pandemic10
A multilevel review of the psychological and emotional challenges faced by skilled migrants: Extending the psychological toll model10
The “Japa-Japada” construct: A theoretical framework for exploring the recent medical brain drain scourge in Sub-saharan Africa and the potential medical reverse brain drain10
Cross-cultural analysis of a new indicator which measures the degree of Islamophobia social awareness10
Personal, social, and cultural engagement factors of academic success: The case of Arab students in the higher education system in Israel10
Threats to resources and cultural values: Functional pathways to positive and negative intergroup emotions10
International students’ adaptation in Ankara: The mediating roles of anxiety and self-esteem10
Cultural involvement and preference in ethnic accommodation10
IJIR Academy Description10
Measuring Algerian EFL university students national and ethnic identity: The mediating role of multiculturalism10
COVID-19 fear and ethnocentrism in the global south: A cross-cultural analysis10
International student-parents in UK higher education: A temporal analysis of their intersectional experiences and challenges9
Cosmopolitanism, trust, and democratic support shaping immigrant attitudes: A multilevel analysis across 36 European countries9
Navigating parenthood in a new culture: The experiences of Syrian migrant families in Türkiye9
A phenomenological study on the North Korean refugees' trauma experience and recovery process during the escape and resettlement in South Korea9
Attachment style and romantic involvement with host nationals influence migrants’ acculturation and adjustment9
Investigating the forgotten side of acculturation: Introduction to the special issue9
Acculturative stress and depressive symptoms among international university students: A meta-analytic investigation9
Editorial Board9
Why do students who have mental health issues decide to study abroad? Qualitative research on mental health issues as a push factor for international students in Japan9
Intercultural mentoring among university students: The importance of meaningful communication9
Blaming “illegal aliens” for crisis?: Cultural worldview defenses in effects of death and economic threats on anti-undocumented immigrant attitudes9
Immigrant blaming during the COVID-19 pandemic: A Canadian American study9
Interethnic workplace relations in times of heightened social tension: Israeli-Arab teachers in Jewish schools post-10/79
Acculturation and breast cancer screening in Latina women: Unraveling reasons for mixed results over 44 years of research8
Privacy versus intimacy: Social interactions in Norway8
Decomposing the role of ingroup evaluation in the contact-deprovincialization path: The role of collective narcissism versus ingroup satisfaction8
Loneliness in newly-arrived adolescents in Flanders: The role of positive and negative social ties within reception education8
Integration and intersection: Ethnic minority women educators in Israel8
Negotiating entry to the professional labour market among Vietnamese skilled migrants in Australia: The impact of cultural distance8
Exploring the influence of need for closure on anti-immigrants collective actions: The mediating role of binding moral foundations and desired cultural tightness8
Religiosity and attitudes toward muslim immigrants in the context of a terrorist attack8
Applying an equivalent indigenous concept model to understand Love in Mandarin Chinese (爱) and Ukrainian (кохаю)8
Academic adaptation of international students in the chinese higher education environment: A case study with mixed methods8
The association between type of exposure to the threat of terrorism and resilience in communal villages in Israel: A cross-sectional study8
International students’ social contact patterns and their effects on intercultural sensitivity8
A critical review of multiculturalism and interculturalism as integration frameworks: The case of Canada8
Asylum seekers working as mediators in Israel: The impact of legal liminality8
The effect of perceived similarity and dissimilarity between in- and out-group members on children’s intergroup attitudes and perceptions in a context of conflict8
Unveiling the veil: Addressing SGBV in camps based on Addonia’s Silence is My Mother Tongue7
Interactions between international doctoral students studying in China and their advisors: The role of intercultural adaptive guidance and psychological safety7
Overcoming barriers to intercultural communication in romantic love relationships across WIERD and non-WEIRD cultural regions7
Is intercultural integration an ideal outcome for students? Reconsidering the role of motivations and agency in shaping pathways in transnational education7
The impact of intercultural competence on international students’ academic, social and affective outcomes in China: The mediating role of coping strategies7
Immigration status and adolescents’ voting intention in European countries: The importance of immigrant integration policy context7
Perceived discrimination and Asian cultural values are associated with beliefs about psychological services among Chinese international students7
Narrative threads, exploring identity formation through cultural immersion: A qualitative study into the experiences of U.S. University Students Abroad7
“Give and take is the key”: Reciprocity leads to psychological well-being of North Korean refugees in South Korea7
Socioeconomic status, work-family conflict, and employee well-being in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic7
Unveiling the lingering traces: Impact of COVID-19 perceptions on home culture connectedness among international tourists7
A quantitative study on Chinese international students’ support mechanisms to address alienation caused by COVID-19 stigma encounters in the United States7
Acculturative challenges and intercultural communication competence in the Sino-Anglo cultural duet: The tales of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong7
Cultural values, shame and guilt, and expressive suppression as predictors of depression7
Towards inclusion through polyculturalism: A critical review of cultural hybridity7
The social ecology of health promotion within war-effected refugee preschool children7
National resilience rise following the Hamas invasion of southern Israel as an indicator of collective post-traumatic growth7
Longitudinal relationships between coping strategies, cultural orientations, and mental health among young refugees from the Middle East in Germany7
Corrigendum to “Examining acculturation at the daily level: Adding nuance to acculturation scholarship” [International Journal of Intercultural Relations 100 (2024) 101989]7
Perceiving change on the rival side of the conflict: A pathway to peace-building7
Foreign language learners’ self-perceived proficiency and intercultural competence: Mediating roles of quantity and quality of intercultural interactions7
Effects of Chinese EFL learners’ English self-efficacy and ideal L2 self on intercultural sensitivity: A cross-sectional and longitudinal study7
Cultural dynamics of digital space: Democracy, civic engagement and youth participation in virtual spheres6
Examining the effect of perceived group norms on the indirect relationship between intergroup contact and anti-Muslim prejudice among white Americans6
Envisioning and actualizing a new generation of acculturation research: The International Academy for Intercultural Research Fellows Day 20236
Sea turtles stranded ashore: Sociocultural dissonance and identity conflicts in migration intentions of Chinese international student returnees6
I never promised you a rose garden, or did I? A critical review of the Israeli diaspora immigration policy and its outcomes for immigrants from the Former Soviet Union6
How can offline and online contact predict intercultural communication effectiveness? Findings from domestic and international students in China6
Mapping the knowledge base in study abroad from the United States: A scoping review from 2001 to 20216
Self-affirmation, prejudice against Muslim immigrants and French secularism: A dual motivation perspective6
Exploring the relationships between international extracurricular activities and the intercultural competence of Chinese domestic university students6
Identity development of Assyrian/Syriac youth: Narratives of becoming a self6
Dispositional Empathy and Cultural Sensitivity among Iranians, U.S. citizens, and Bicultural-Iranians Living in the U.S.6
Editorial Board6
Internationalisation-at-Home and intercultural communication: Malaysian local students’ experiences in internationalised higher education6
Alcohol use severity and intragroup marginalization among Hispanic emerging adult college students: Examining the moderating roles of ethnic identity and nativity status6
Psychological health of Afghan refugees: A narrative review of key factors in pre-migration and post-migration6
Building bridges: Interreligious marriage in fostering social integration in South Wollo, Ethiopia6
‘What is love?’: Exploring the feeling rules and emotion work of Chinese users in human-AI romance6
Emotional experience of Afghan migrants in Iran6
“Hidden stories behind global love”: Acculturative and social integration challenges of marriage migrant women in South Korea5
Impact of Rohingya influx on host community’s relations to places in Bangladesh5
Majority expectations regarding immigrant acculturation in Belgium: A person-centered, domain-specific approach5
News, networks, and nostalgia: Examining the role of Hong Kong media and diaspora communities in identity preservation and integration5
Is There No Place Like Home? Expatriates' Locus of Control Personality, Self-efficacy, Cross-cultural Adjustment, and Organizational Support for Expatriate Career5
Short communication – Students’ attitudes toward boundary-crossing teachers before and after the May 2021 violence between Israelis and Palestinians: A ripple effect?5
International students’ acculturation in host countries: A typology of intergroup and intragroup contact5
Are daily intergroup interactions distressing? An end-of-day diary study of associations between daily intergroup interaction proportion and psychological distress/well-being5
Experiences of loneliness amongst newly-arrived adolescent migrants: The role of family and housing situation, and transnational contacts5
Intercultural sensitivity and measurement instruments: A systematic review of the literature5
Moderating effects of stigma-related barriers on ethnic identity dimensions and mental health service utilization among Black adults in the US5
Activation of the culture-transmission motive in immigrants: A factorial survey experiment5
Migrants in interethnic partnerships: Between preferences and structural opportunities5
Acculturative stress and psychological well-being: The mediating role of social support, difficulties in emotion regulation, and meaning-centered coping style among international students in Germany5
South-South acculturation: Majority-group students’ relation to Sub-Saharan students in Moroccan universities5
Does intercultural communication competence, cultural sensitivity, and temporal flexibility related to employee engagement? Moderation of negative emotions with COVID-195
Editorial Board5
Additive and multiplicative effects of different forms of positive and negative indirect intergroup contact in predicting intergroup attitudes5
Pan-African solidarity in South Africa: An empirical public opinion analysis5
Refining the myth of brain drain and gain and transnational academic capital mobility: A cross-cultural ethnography of global talent scholars in sino-foreign relations5
Intercultural competence for peaceful communities: The role of blended learning higher education in refugee camps5
Region-level Pākehā warmth towards Māori enhances collective action intentions: An extension of the social identity model of collective action (SIMCA)5
Integrating Pakistani and Western cultural identities through globalization-based acculturation5
Sense of belongingness, discrimination, and mental health: Associations and buffering effects of sense of belonging on mental health among Finnish native and immigrant-origin youth5
How ‘should’ the majority group acculturate? Acculturation expectations and their correlates among minority- and majority-group members5
Generalized trust among rural-to-urban migrants in China: Role of relative deprivation and neighborhood context5
Undocumented Afghan refugee women’s lived experiences of distress in Iran: A narrative inquiry of social suffering during the COVID-19 pandemic5
The association between intergroup contact and psychological capital among adolescents from Chinese ethnic minority areas: A latent profile analysis5
School engagement of adolescent sojourners and its longitudinal interplay with acculturation behavior4
Masochistic love as the game of power in Eastern Europe – Bruno Schulz4
Cross-sectional study investigating the mental health and wellbeing of university students in Australia4
The experiences of gay and lesbian first-generation immigrants to Canada: Negotiating identities post-migration4
Publisher’s note4
Social connectedness and isolation among East Asian international students: An integrative review of mental health implications4
Acculturation preferences and perceived (dis)loyalty of Muslims in the U.K.: Two vignette-based experimental studies4
Shifting the belief of the “hard-to-reach parents” to “reachable parents”: Parent-teacher collaboration within schools in a post-colonial country4
Characterizing the role of the nail salon and nail salon worker on the ethnic identity development of Michigan nail salon workers’ second-generation Vietnamese American children4
Social psychological dynamics of migrant women employment: The experiences of displaced Syrian women in Turkey4
Navigating mentoring across cultures – Experiences of mentees from high power-distance backgrounds4
Migration and community resilience: A scoping review4
Predictors and outcomes of interminority friendships in the U.S.: A systematized review4
Cultural identity development in adult forced migrants: The psychometrics of a measure in Arabic, Spanish, and Ukrainian4
Meta-autoethnography as a co-constructive descriptive and narrative methodology: Post-pandemic responses to new research agendas in intercultural relations4
Defensive national identity relates to support for collective violence, in contrast to secure national identity, in a sample of displaced Syrian diaspora members4
Ethnic foods serving cultural bridge or barrier? A systematic literature review4
Alliances for social change: Linking majority-group cultural adoption to collective action intentions4
Mobility patterns and COVID growth: Moderating role of country culture4
Subjective well-being and attitudes toward outgroup members4
Understanding the interrelations between cultural empathy, intercultural communication competence, and the psychosocial adjustment of international students in Canada: A longitudinal examination4
Acculturation in lockdown: The effects of heritage and settlement COVID-19 concern and support on well-being4
Acculturation attitudes and adaptation among South Korean residents in Japan: The mediating role of coping strategies4
A dynamic approach to acculturation revisited4
Editorial Board4
Adult attachment and well-being in the wake of collective trauma: Evidence from the October 7 terror attack in Israel4
Do newly graduated nurses feel culturally competent?: A descriptive phenomenological study4
The mental health burden of LGBT+ refugees and asylum seekers in Greece4
Perceived negative political climate among Hispanic/Latino adolescents before and after the 2020 U.S. presidential election: Associations with internalizing symptoms and substance use4
The influence of social support on the wellbeing of immigrants residing in Italy: Sources and functions as predictive factors for life satisfaction levels, sense of community and resilience4
An empirical analysis of cultural differences in overseas tourism: How do they affect self-determination theory (SDT) needs by age?4
Arab Mediterranean youth's values: The role of values and value congruence on intentions to Emigrate4
The odyssey of Turkish school leaders in Africa: An expedition into professional identity, challenges, and cultural adaptations4
Cultural competence, acculturation orientations, and attachment dimensions in future social workers and occupational therapists before entering these professions: A comparative study4
Marriage, poverty and inferiority: A qualitative study of the causes and consequences of early marriage among Afghan migrant women in Yazd, Iran4
Multiculturalism in dominant ethnic populations: A transnational profile analysis3
Acculturation strategies and psychological adaptation of two generations of the same ethnic minority group in different sociopolitical contexts3
Intersectionality of ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation: Intergroup bias towards immigrants in Canada3
Addressing the effect of concern with COVID-19 threat on prejudice towards immigrants: The sequential mediating role of need for cognitive closure and desire for cultural tightness3
Statistical positivism, psychoanalysis, and the theory of sociocultural models: A review of three approaches to acculturation3
Muslim-friendly tourist destination image in travel and hospitality industry: Conceptualization and scale development3
Exploring empathy and multicultural acceptance: How Korean adolescents' multicultural experiences shape their intentions for inclusive behavior3
Dispositional empathy and personality as predictors of contact quality: The mediating roles of contact self-efficacy and effort towards contact3
IJIR Academy Description3
Exploring language diversity dimensions and differences in meaningful experiences during short-term study abroad (STSA)3
Workplace and school microaggressions on anxiety symptoms: The role of cultural values among Hispanic Americans3
Unpacking the complexity of immigrant stereotypes: Perceptions of Nigerian immigrants in the US depend on between-country versus within-country framing3
Becoming otherwise in the region: Affective intercultural learning among Vietnamese Students in Southeast Asian faculty-led mobility programs3
Student agency for intercultural adaptability in international programs: Insights into internationalization at home in Vietnam3
A window to the future of intercultural competence in tertiary education: A narrative literature review3
The effects of perceived threat and perceived benefit on the association between societal pessimism and anti-immigrant attitude in Japan3
(In)visible harm: Microaggressions and blatant discrimination within the psychological acculturation process of immigrant women in a post-colonial context3
Responses to the rapid reactionary social change: A social-psychological investigation of young Afghan women’s experiences during the Second-Taliban era3
Looking for an agreed-upon definition of teachers’ intercultural competence in a divided society3
Different but not at odds: Dialectical thinking moderates the association between bicultural compartmentalization and adjustment3
Understanding body dissatisfaction and preferences among Palestinian-Arab Women in Israel: Westernization and culturally bound factor3
Humility in context: Insights from eastern and western research3
Navigating parent-child value differences: Capturing strategies used by immigrant parents from the perspective of East Asian young adult children of immigrants3
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