OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Sexual Aggression is 1. 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
Understanding child sex offending trajectories in South Africa: from victimisation to perpetration	18
From myth to reality: sexual image abuse myth acceptance, the Dark Tetrad, and non-consensual intimate image dissemination proclivity	15
Prevalence of unwanted sexual experiences and their associations on university students in the United States, United Kingdom, and Ireland: a systematic review	14
Emotional intelligence in incarcerated sexual offenders with sexual sadism	12
Do popular attitudinal scales perpetuate negative attitudes towards persons who have sexually offended?	11
“I don’t really see any kind of change” – multi-perspective analysis of a circle of support and accountability for young people who have previously demonstrated harmful sexual behaviour	11
Treating an adolescent male who has engaged in intrafamilial harmful sexual behaviour: a case study	10
The impact of empathy priming on the Rape Myth Acceptance Scale for those with antisocial/psychopathic traits	10
Victim-blaming in sexual violence against sex workers: a systematic review	8
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) of young adults regarding revenge pornography in Ghana: a qualitative study	8
Empathy in paedophilia and sexual offending against children: a longitudinal extension	8
Paraphilic offending: another privilege of White men?	8
Personalised monitoring and feedback on risk-relevant features in forensic case formulation: a series of case-studies in men who have committed sexual offences	8
Thank You to 2021 Reviewers	8
An empirical examination of sexual harassment and Stockholm syndrome in relation to essential and non-essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Ensuring long-term success of personalised support for a young man with intellectual disability and harmful sexual behaviour: a Swiss case study	7
Rape myth acceptance and psychopathy as interacting predictors of rape proclivity	7
“I read about it in that book” – towards a child safe approach to literature	6
“Grieving someone who’s still alive, that’s hard”: the experiences of non-offending partners of individuals who have sexually offended – an IPA study	6
A cost–benefit analysis of a treatment program for adult males who have offended sexually	6
Comparing treatment professional’s risk and disposition judgments of child and adult sexual offences	5
Guardians: masculine honour beliefs and perceptions of men’s roles in preventing sexual violence	5
“A shoulder to lean on in hard times”: understanding the role of friendships in the lives of individuals convicted of sexual offences	5
Strong & Solid Spirit: design & development of a treatment programme for First Nations men incarcerated for sexual offences	5
A descriptive evaluation of children presenting with Technology Assisted-Harmful Sexual Behaviour (TA-HSB) within a regional Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (FCAMHS)	5

Across landscapes and lifespan: causes and solutions of gender-based violence from survivors of sexual violence against women and girls (VAWG)	5
Barriers and opportunities for gender-based violence prevention & response at universities in Sub-Saharan Africa	5
Jehovah’s witnesses response to child sexual abuse: a critique of organisational behaviour and management policies (1989–2020)	4
Hindsight bias in assessing child sexual abuse	4
Development and validation of the MIDSA-SC scale	4
“County lines” and child criminal exploitation in the UK: a secondary data analysis of focus groups with young people who attended a theatre-in-education programme	4
Aotearoa New Zealand adolescents with harmful sexual behaviours: the importance of a holistic approach when working with Rangatahi Māori	4
Masculine honour beliefs and volunteering to prevent rape versus volunteering to help women who have been raped	4
Do professionals show a bias specific to treatment for people who have sexually offended in their interpretation of ambiguous evidence?	4
Differences in Risk for Sexual Violence Protocol (RSVP) risk factors among older and adult men who have sexually offended	3
Assessing the risk of users of child sexual exploitation material committing further offences: a scoping review	3
Recognising risk: perceptions of risk factors for female children and adolescents at risk of being sexually groomed	3
Personality features of sexual offenders who committed offences against children	3
Is sex-offending treatment trauma-informed? Exploring perspectives of clinicians and clients	3
Fear of sexual assault and personal safety in young female students of Bangladesh	3
Living through the experience of sibling sexual abuse: parents’ perspectives	3
Investigating the phenomenology and plausibility of sexual fantasies and their relationship with behavioural enactment and motivation	3
Predicting recidivism: psychosocial collateral consequences among registered offenders	3
Examining sexual victimisation among LGBQT+college students in the U.S.: results from the national college health assessment	2
Behind the weapon of war: sexual violence in wartime as a reflection of social attitudes towards women in peacetime	2
Challenges of technology-mediated child sexual abuse: contrasting Irish findings with Paraguayan reality	2
The role of defendant gender on juror decision-making within a mock sex trafficking case among a jury-eligible community sample	2
Victims’ experiences of cyberflashing: an explorative study	2
Child sexual exploitation (CSE) networks: reassembling structure and activity	2
Group sexual offending in Spain: an exploratory study	2
Mental wellbeing, but not prison climate, mediates the association between autistic traits and treatment readiness among men with sexual convictions	2
Victim vs. survivor: the effect of labels and consensual sexual behaviour on observers’ perceptions of sexual assault	2
A preview of the AIM practice guidance for harmful sexual behaviour between siblings illustrated by a case series	2
Adverse childhood experiences and psychosocial functioning problems for youths who sexually harm siblings	2
Experience of sexual violence and satisfaction with life: a 20-year prospective cohort study	2
Are men who identify as a feminist less likely to sexually objectify women?: a cross-sectional study of heterosexual men	1
Associations between media exposure to sexual violence during the 2023 Israel-Hamas conflict and sexual, psychological, and relational well-being	1
The biopsychosocial experience of sexual harassment: the concomitant effects of being harassed and response choice	1
Clusters of risk associated with harmful sexual behaviour onset for children and young people: opportunities for early intervention	1
Learning from experience: psychologists’ inquiry into child sexual abuse in therapeutic settings	1
Mindfulness-based interventions for adult survivors of sexual assault: a scoping review	1
An investigation of healthcare professionals’ perspectives on the role of technology in child sexual abuse	1
Self-Determination Theory as an underpinning theory for community maintenance programs for those who have sexually offended	1
Professional responses to sibling sexual abuse	1
An inclusive typology of youths convicted of sexual or non-sexual crime	1
“Frantic online searches for help”: design considerations for an online early intervention service addressing harmful sexual behaviour	1
Adult recollections of childhood memories in individuals convicted of sexual offences: implications for narrative therapy	1
A multi-country study of image-based sexual abuse: extent, relational nature and correlates of victimisation experiences	1
An investigation of the relationship between female rape myths, child sexual abuse myths and personality disorders	1
Under pressure: identifying pathways to sexual coercion in a community sample	1
The effect of differing operational definitions on sexual recidivism rates	1
Dodging justice: characteristics of men with multiple victims who evade detection for long periods	1
Public attitudes toward teenagers with paedophilia: a qualitative examination	1
Testing the reliability of sexual aggression self-reports	1
Zero tolerance to sexual harm in schools – from broken rules to broken systems	1

Structural equation modelling in male sexual violence against women research: best practices in statistical reporting and interpretation	1
Thank You to 2024 Reviewers	1
Power, romance, and aggression in statutory rape: comparing between male adolescent perpetrators with adult perpetrators and sexually inactive adolescents	1