OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of International Journal for the Psychology of Religion 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Religiousness and Minority Stress in Conservatively Religious Sexual Minorities: Lessons from Latter-day Saints	15
Adolescent Religious Motivation: A Self-Determination Theory Approach	11
Content Matters: Perceptions of the Science-Religion Relationship	10
Deconversion Processes and Quality of Life among Polish Adolescents: The Mediating Role of Social Support	10
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Religious Motivation: Retrospect and Prospect	9
Awe, Group Cohesion, and Religious Self-Sacrifice	9
Czech Out the Atheists: A Representative Study of Religiosity in the Czech Republic	9
Intellectual Humility in the Psychology of Religion and Spirituality	8
The Existential Quest: Doubt, Openness, and the Exploration of Religious Uncertainty	8
Beliefs and Experiences Involving God, the Devil, Spirits, and Fate: Social, Motivational, and Cognitive Predictors	8
Religiosity from Age 12 to 20: Stability, Change, and Bidirectional Effects of Attendance, Prayer, and Salience	7
Anxiety Enhances Recall of Supernatural Agents	7
Temporal Associations between Religiosity and Subjective Well-Being in a Nationally Representative Australian Sample	5
Psychedelic Science of Spirituality and Religion: An Attachment-Informed Agenda Proposal	5
An Analytic Cognitive Style Negatively Predicts a More Literal but Not a More Symbolic Religiosity Type	4
Writing About Gratitude Toward God Produces Differential Content and Outcomes Compared to Gratitude Toward Other Benefactors Among U.S. Adults	4
Competing Forces Account for the Stability and Evolution of Religious Beliefs	4
No Longer Religious, but Still Spending Money Religiously: Religious Rituals and Community Influence Consumer Behavior among Religious Dones	4
Evidence for the Brief Mysticism Scale: Psychometric Properties, and Moderation and Mediation Effects in Predicting Spiritual Self-Identification	4
Assessing the Religion-Health Relationship: Introduction to the Meta-analysis by Garssen et al., and Two Commentaries	4
Deconversion and Identity Formation in Adolescents: The Role of Internal Dialogs and Religiousness of Parents	4
The Interplay of Religious and Nonreligious Meaning-Making on Psychological Well-Being in Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients	4
Mystical and Ego-Dissolution Experiences in Ayahuasca and Jurema Holistic Rituals: An Exploratory Study	4
Spiritual Coping, Emotional Responses to Existential Challenges, and Character Strengths: Revision and Validation of the Using Private Prayer for Coping Scale (UPPC-R)	3
Is There a Dark Side to Humility? Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Evidence for Existential Costs of Humility	3

Do Psychedelic Trips Open the Door to Messages from God, Spirits, Transcendent Realities, or the Devil? Links with Attitudes About Psychedelics, Opinions About Legalization, and Interest in Personal U	3
Muslim Verbal and Active Prayer (MVAP): Measurement and Psychological Functioning of Supplications in Islam	3
Do Empathetic People Have Strong Religious Beliefs? Survey Studies with Large Japanese Samples	3
How Do Religiosity and National Identity Relate to Cosmopolitanism? An Empirical Study Using Representative Samples in Christian, Muslim, and Buddhist Societies	3
Spiritual Experiences in Soulmate Relationships: Qualitative and Network Analysis of the Mystical Bond	3
The Impact of Changes in Religion on Health Among Sexual Minority Mormons	3
Studying Close Entity Encounters of the Psychedelic Kind: Insights from the Cognitive Evolutionary Science of Religion	2
Positive Association Between Ritual Performance and Perceived Objectivity of Moral Norms	2
Psychedelics and the Entropic Brain Beyond the Self	2
Identity Centrality, Social Identity Threat, and Differences in Concealment between Religious Minorities and Nonreligious Individuals	2
Religious Identity Formation of Filipino Canadian Youth: Exploring Cluster Differences in Religiosity and Mental Health	2
Let God Judge Between Me and Thee: Activating God-Related Concepts Increases Overconfidence in Chinese Han and Bai People	2
The Nontheistic Sacred: The Psychological Functions of Metal Music and Artifacts	2
Enriching the Common Core of Mystical Experience: A Qualitative Analysis of Interviews with Daoist Monks and Nuns	2