OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology is 4. 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 the impact of infant feeding patterns on the psychological well-being of adolescent mothers	50
Pandemic-related stress in pregnant women during the first COVID-19 lockdown and neonatal development	22
Thank you to reviewers	20
Post-traumatic stress symptoms, rumination, and posttraumatic growth in women with a traumatic childbirth experience	18
Psychological flexibility and role satisfaction as serial mediators between dispositional mindfulness and postpartum depressive symptoms	15
Decisional conflict, anxiety, and social support among Chinese pregnant women making further prenatal testing decisions	15
Prenatal anomaly diagnosis and healthy birth: socio-psychological experiences of women in Turkey	14
Association between infants’ excessive crying and mother–infant bonding: a prospective observational study	13
‘Would I risk it again?’ The long-term impacts of a traumatic birth, as experienced by fathers	12
One birth, two experiences: why is the prevalence of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder four times lower in fathers than in mothers?	12
The experience of oocyte donation pregnancy and early motherhood in Greece: a longitudinal, phenomenological study	12
Psychometric evaluation of the Czech Peripartum Depression Scale in pregnant and postpartum women	11
Developing a new measure of retrospective body dissatisfaction: links to postnatal bonding and psychological well-being	11
Effectiveness of a couple-based mobile programme in improving human fertility	10
Mother-infant postnatal experience and its association with maternal emotion and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
Exploring parents’ experiences and holistic needs following late miscarriage: a narrative systematic review	10
Developing a text message intervention for fathers with partners experiencing perinatal depression or anxiety	10
The Fathers’ Fear of Childbirth Scale: a Turkish validity and reliability study	10
Maternal stress and interpersonal sensitivity during pregnancy: impact on offspring’s stress and temperament	9
‘Are you a first-time parent?’ Challenges for reproductive and infant researchers in asking about reproductive history and family composition	9
Supporting physiological birth choices in midwifery practice: the role of workplace culture, politics, and ethics	9
A pilot study to explore postpartum body image and resumed menstruation	9
Antenatal and postpartum depression in women who conceived after infertility treatment: a longitudinal study	9
Interparental conflict in the perinatal period: exploring clinical and community populations	9
Maternal depression, psychosocial stress and race/ethnicity: examining barriers to breastfeeding for young mothers	9

Trajectories of perinatal post-traumatic stress disorder scores in association with child’s behaviour at 12 months	9
A qualitative study exploring healthcare professionals’ perceptions regarding selective versus routine episiotomy	9
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of BUMPs and its relationship with prenatal attachment	8
Post-traumatic stress symptoms and war-related concerns among pregnant women: The contribution of self-mastery and intolerance of uncertainty	8
A meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the preferences of perinatal women for mental health screening	8
Effects of maternal perinatal stress and child temperament on mother-child peek-a-boo play	8
Why mothers with midwifery-led vaginal births recommend that mode of birth: a qualitative study	8
Factors associated with suicide mortality among reproductive age women: a case–control study	8
Partnering with partners: a quality improvement project in perinatal intensive outpatient programming	8
Phenomenological review of depression in women experiencing infertility: an explanatory sequential mixed-methods design systematic review	7
Psychological interventions to improve parental wellbeing after fetal abnormality diagnosis: a systematic scoping review	7
Development and psychometric properties of the Respectful Maternity Care Scale (RMCS)	7
Discussing sexuality, contraception, family planning, pregnancy and parenthood in mental healthcare	7
Gender and sexual diversity over the life cycle in families formed through assisted reproduction	7
What tools should be used to identify women in need of additional support in pregnancy?	7
Stage-based bereavement support for parents after stillbirth: an umbrella review	7
Demographic and arrangement-based predictors of Dutch people’s attitudes towards surrogacy in various family constitutions	7
Effects of foot-massage in pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum on severity of nausea-vomiting and anxiety	7
Anxiety trajectories from pregnancy to one-year postpartum and their contributors during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
A NICU stay during the pandemic: Bridging collective and subjective loss	6
The role of self-esteem on fear of childbirth and birth experience	6
The surrogacy experience: a survey of psychosocial impacts on gestational carriers	6
Self-harm thoughts among postpartum women - associated factors	6
Integrated care for pregnant women with psychiatric and psychosocial problems; patients’ and healthcare providers’ perspectives	6
Barriers to psychological support following early miscarriage. Perspectives of the UK-based IAPT perinatal champion	6
Associations between personality traits, depressive symptoms, parental stress, and caregiver responsiveness in mothers of infants	6
Midwifery care for pregnant women who live with obesity	6
Perceptions of motherhood in mothers of children with disabilities in Turkey: a qualitative study	6
Perinatal mental health practitioners’ experiences supporting mothers with Emotionally Unstable Personality Disorder: a qualitative study	6
Effect of transformative learning-based antenatal education on childbirth fear, traumatic birth perception, and childbirth preparedness	6
Maternal childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms, bonding, and infant development: a prospective study	6
The course of women’s emotions from early pregnancy to the postpartum period	5
Factors related to a positive childbirth experience – a cross-sectional study	5
Reproductive timing and social egg freezing within British South Asian communities: a qualitative study	5
To build a family: exploring preferred paths to parenthood among plurisexual individuals without children	5
Body image and eating habits during pregnancy and postpartum: themes and suggestions for maternal healthcare	5
Rebalancing the narrative: integrating benevolent childhood experiences into developmental and perinatal research	5
Longitudinal reproductive healthcare pathways of transmasculine people	5
An evaluation of a trauma-focused group intervention for women accessing a maternal mental health service	5
Associations between postpartum haemorrhage, postnatal mental health and longer term mental illness: a record-linked cohort study	5
Psychologists’ experiences of working with fear of childbirth: implications and advice for care providers	5
How do women cope with couples’ infertility? Using language to explore elaborative processes	5
Fertility decision-making after an experience of first-onset postpartum psychosis	5
Emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress during pregnancy in expectant mothers and fathers	5
Experiences of success and failure in childbirth	4
Evaluating caregiver-child interactions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of tools and methods	4
Pregnancy intendedness and happiness as predictors of maternal-foetal bonding: evidence for mediation	4
Validation of the Hebrew Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised for partners of birthing women in Israel	4
Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale: measuring parenting self-efficacy in Portuguese mothers during the first year postpartum	4
“Being in the zone” makes a difference: flow, birth experience, birth duration, and postpartum Stress	4

Efficacy of in-person versus digital mental health interventions for postpartum depression: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	4
LBTQ parents’ bonding experiences after complicated births: managing minority stress and traumatic experiences	4
Which support matters when? Relational functioning and posttraumatic stress in NICU parents	4
Parental experiences of subjective well-being in the context of infant sleep problems	4
COVID-19-Related worries mediate the association between attachment orientation and elevated depression levels at 21-month postpartum	4
Feelings, thoughts and experiences of fathers in the early postpartum period: a phenomenological study	4
Posttraumatic stress symptoms in sexual minority and majority women after difficult births: a cross-sectional study	4
Prevalence, influencing factors of postpartum depression among parents and the moderating role of empathy	4
The effect of fathers’ birth attendance on paternal attachment and the perception of parental role: a randomised controlled trial	4
The effect of positive psychotherapy-based training on psychological well-being and hope level in women receiving infertility: experimental study	4
Impact of expectation, catastrophizing, and self-compassion on labour pain experiences among Portuguese women	4
Research on stillbirth: back and forth between the researcher’s and mother’s perspective	4
Midwives’ perspectives and perceptions in relation to perinatal psychotic-like experiences: a qualitative study	4
In search of the ‘like-minded’ people: pregnant women’s sense-making of their physical activity-related social experiences	4