OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Death Studies is 22. 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 2020-07-01 to 2024-07-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 burnout, COVID-19 stress and resilience: Initial psychometric properties of COVID-19 Burnout Scale	196
COVID-19 severity, self-efficacy, knowledge, preventive behaviors, and mental health in Turkey	146
The relationship between fear of COVID-19 and mental health problems: A meta-analysis	134
Pandemic Grief Scale: A screening tool for dysfunctional grief due to a COVID-19 loss	71
Validation of the Korean version of the obsession with COVID-19 scale and the Coronavirus anxiety scale	69
Perceived fear of COVID-19 infection according to sex, age and occupational risk using the Brazilian version of the Fear of COVID-19 Scale	65
Circumstances of the death and associated risk factors for severity and impairment of COVID-19 grief	54
Subjective vitality and loneliness explain how coronavirus anxiety increases rumination among college students	54
Risk factors for dysfunctional grief and functional impairment for all causes of death during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of meaning	52
Coronaphobia among healthcare professionals in Mexico: A psychometric analysis	43
COVID-19 Phobia in the United States: Validation of the COVID-19 Phobia Scale (C19P-SE)	41
Culture and grief: Ethnographic perspectives on ritual, relationships and remembering	40
Fear of COVID-19 scale: Validity, reliability and factorial invariance in Argentina’s general population	39
Do fear of COVID-19 and religious coping predict depression, anxiety, and stress among the Arab population during health crisis?	39
Fear of death in the shadow of COVID-19: The mediating role of perceived stress in the relationship between neuroticism and death anxiety	36
COVID-19 outbreak in Bangladesh and associated psychological problems: An online survey	35
Are deaths from COVID-19 associated with higher rates of prolonged grief disorder (PGD) than deaths from other causes?	34
Cross-cultural measurement invariance of the fear of COVID-19 scale in seven Latin American countries	31
Coronavirus Anxiety Scale: New psychometric evidence for the Spanish version based on CFA and IRT models in a Peruvian sample	27
COVID-19 brings a new urgency for advance care planning: Implications of death education	27
Six feet apart or six feet under: The impact of COVID-19 on the Black community	25
What do teachers think of death education?	24