OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology is 3. 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
Primary mental health prevention in partners of mothers with a major mental illness: SMS4Dads	38
Exploring the impact of infant feeding patterns on the psychological well-being of adolescent mothers	18
The role of perceived social support on pregnant women’s mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	18
Pandemic-related stress in pregnant women during the first COVID-19 lockdown and neonatal development	18
One birth, two experiences: why is the prevalence of childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder four times lower in fathers than in mothers?	16
‘Would I risk it again?’ The long-term impacts of a traumatic birth, as experienced by fathers	16
Developing a new measure of retrospective body dissatisfaction: links to postnatal bonding and psychological well-being	14
The experience of oocyte donation pregnancy and early motherhood in Greece: a longitudinal, phenomenological study	13
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Psychopathological symptoms in pregnant women in Spain	13
Psychological flexibility and role satisfaction as serial mediators between dispositional mindfulness and postpartum depressive symptoms	12
Decisional conflict, anxiety, and social support among Chinese pregnant women making further prenatal testing decisions	12
Stress level and general mental state in Polish pregnant women during COVID-19 pandemic	12
Exploring parents’ experiences and holistic needs following late miscarriage: a narrative systematic review	12
Infant carrying is associated with reduced maternal repetitive negative thinking and increased maternal mental health	11
Translation and validation of the Czech Republic version of the Birth Satisfaction Scale-Revised (BSS-R)	11
Developing a text message intervention for fathers with partners experiencing perinatal depression or anxiety	10
Breastfeeding success and its relation to maternal pain, behaviour, mental health, and social support	9
Mother-infant postnatal experience and its association with maternal emotion and coping during the COVID-19 pandemic	9
The Fathers’ Fear of Childbirth Scale: a Turkish validity and reliability study	9
Psychometric properties of the Turkish version of BUMPs and its relationship with prenatal attachment	8
Maternal depression, psychosocial stress and race/ethnicity: examining barriers to breastfeeding for young mothers	8
How is a man supposed to be a man? Male childlessness– A life course disrupted	8
Maternal childhood adversity and pregnancy intentions as predictors of pregnancy happiness	8
Why mothers with midwifery-led vaginal births recommend that mode of birth: a qualitative study	7
Antenatal and postpartum depression in women who conceived after infertility treatment: a longitudinal study	7

Continuing bonds following stillbirth: protective and risk factors associated with parental bereavement adaptation	7
41st SRIP Annual Virtual Conference 8th – 10th September 2021	6
Post-traumatic stress symptoms and war-related concerns among pregnant women: The contribution of self-mastery and intolerance of uncertainty	6
Experience of early motherhood during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Germany: a single-centre before and after comparison	6
Development and psychometric properties of the Respectful Maternity Care Scale (RMCS)	6
Barriers to psychological support following early miscarriage. Perspectives of the UK-based IAPT perinatal champion	6
Increasing opportunities for networking and public engagement through SRIP Research Development Workshop Grants	6
Demographic and arrangement-based predictors of Dutch people’s attitudes towards surrogacy in various family constitutions	6
The surrogacy experience: a survey of psychosocial impacts on gestational carriers	6
The relationship between maternal function and maternal attachment of women during the postpartum period	6
Investigating prenatal perceived support as protective factor against adverse birth outcomes: a community cohort study	6
Factors associated with suicide mortality among reproductive age women: a case–control study	6
Effects of foot-massage in pregnant women with hyperemesis gravidarum on severity of nausea-vomiting and anxiety	6
The role of self-esteem on fear of childbirth and birth experience	5
Maternal childbirth-related posttraumatic stress symptoms, bonding, and infant development: a prospective study	5
A NICU stay during the pandemic: Bridging collective and subjective loss	5
The course of women’s emotions from early pregnancy to the postpartum period	5
Longitudinal reproductive healthcare pathways of transmasculine people	5
The effect of empowerment counseling on stress and self-esteem of mothers with hospitalized premature infants	5
Psychologists’ experiences of working with fear of childbirth: implications and advice for care providers	5
Monitored home-based with or without face-to-face exercise for maternal mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Midwifery care for pregnant women who live with obesity	5
Anxiety trajectories from pregnancy to one-year postpartum and their contributors during the COVID-19 pandemic	5
Self-harm thoughts among postpartum women - associated factors	5
What tools should be used to identify women in need of additional support in pregnancy?	5
Perceptions of motherhood in mothers of children with disabilities in Turkey: a qualitative study	5
How do women cope with couples’ infertility? Using language to explore elaborative processes	5
Factors related to a positive childbirth experience – a cross-sectional study	5
Associations between postpartum haemorrhage, postnatal mental health and longer term mental illness: a record-linked cohort study	4
LBTQ parents’ bonding experiences after complicated births: managing minority stress and traumatic experiences	4
Evaluating caregiver-child interactions in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review of tools and methods	4
Midwives’ perspectives and perceptions in relation to perinatal psychotic-like experiences: a qualitative study	4
Emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress during pregnancy in expectant mothers and fathers	4
Screening women for distress during pregnancy: the impact of including ‘Possibly’ as a response option	4
Psychological flexibility, birth satisfaction and postnatal trauma symptoms in women with abnormally invasive placenta	4
Reproductive timing and social egg freezing within British South Asian communities: a qualitative study	4
Efficacy of in-person versus digital mental health interventions for postpartum depression: meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	4
Personal growth in early pregnancy: the role of perceived stress and emotion regulation	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
Karitane Parenting Confidence Scale: measuring parenting self-efficacy in Portuguese mothers during the first year postpartum	3
The effect of fathers’ birth attendance on paternal attachment and the perception of parental role: a randomised controlled trial	3
Coping styles among Vietnamese people with infertility diagnosis: does type of infertility-related stress really matter?	3
Mother-child bond and its relationship with maternal postpartum depression	3
Experiences of success and failure in childbirth	3
Empathy, Theory of Mind, and psychological outcomes in early parenthood: comparing mothers, fathers, and non-parents	3
Pregnancy intendedness and happiness as predictors of maternal-foetal bonding: evidence for mediation	3
Parental experiences of subjective well-being in the context of infant sleep problems	3
The influence of being pregnant during the COVID-19 pandemic on birth expectations and antenatal bonding	3
Perinatal grief creates vulnerability to anxiety in subsequent pregnancy: the mediating role of bereavement-related guilt	3

Social support moderates the relation between childhood trauma and prenatal depressive symptoms in adolescent mothers	3
A hopeful future: a qualitative investigation of positive psychological functioning in young mothers	3
Navigating work and motherhood: exploring the link between career orientation and childbearing motivations in emerging adulthood	3
Effects of tele-education given based on the health belief model on mode of delivery tendencies in pregnant women	3
In search of the ‘like-minded’ people: pregnant women’s sense-making of their physical activity-related social experiences	3
The effect of positive psychotherapy-based training on psychological well-being and hope level in women receiving infertility: experimental study	3
Fear of childbirth among Chinese women in the third trimester and mode of delivery	3
Research on stillbirth: back and forth between the researcher’s and mother’s perspective	3
The experience of men following stillbirth: the case of Israeli bereaved fathers	3
“Living in a vacuum”: Lived experiences of maternal near-miss among women with placenta accreta spectrum	3
The effect of self-evaluation of foetal movement and position tracking on prenatal attachment and distress	3