OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Death Studies is 27. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: A brief mental health screener for COVID-19 related anxiety	1006
COVID-19 burnout, COVID-19 stress and resilience: Initial psychometric properties of COVID-19 Burnout Scale	175
Measuring anxiety related to COVID-19: A Turkish validation study of the Coronavirus Anxiety Scale	150
COVID-19 severity, self-efficacy, knowledge, preventive behaviors, and mental health in Turkey	139
Adaptation and evaluation of Turkish version of the fear of COVID-19 Scale	124
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and mental health problems: A meta-analysis	116
Factor analysis of the COVID-19 Perceived Risk Scale: A preliminary study	112
Validation of the Korean version of the obsession with COVID-19 scale and the Coronavirus anxiety scale	67
Perceived fear of COVID-19 infection according to sex, age and occupational risk using the Brazilian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale	64
Pandemic Grief Scale: A screening tool for dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss	64
Subjective vitality and loneliness explain how coronavirus anxiety increases rumination among college students	52
Suicide risk during the lockdown due to coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Colombia	51
Social isolation and the mitigation of coronavirus anxiety: The mediating role of meaning	50
Circumstances of the death and associated risk factors for severity and impairment of COVID-19 grief	49
Grief literacy: A call to action for compassionate communities	45
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning	42
Coronaphobia among healthcare professionals in Mexico: A psychometric analysis	41
Do fear of COVID-19 and religious coping predict depression, anxiety, and stress among the Arab population during health crisis?	38
COVID-19 Phobia in the United States: Validation of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-SE)	37
Fear of COVID-19 scale: Validity, reliability and factorial invariance in Argentina’s general population	36
COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh and associated psychological problems: An online survey	33
Fear of death in the shadow of COVID-19: The mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between neuroticism and death anxiety	32
Fatal prescriptions: Immigration detention, mismedication, and the necropolitics of uncare	29
Culture and grief: Ethnographic perspectives on ritual, relationships and remembering	28
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the fear of COVID-19 scale in seven Latin American countries	27

Are deaths from COVID-19 associated with higher rates of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) than deaths from other causes?	27
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: New psychometric evidence for the Spanish version based on CFA and IRT models in a Peruvian sample	27