OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sexual and Relationship Therapy 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
Asking for MORE: a phenomenological exploration of the dyadic coming out process in mixed orientation relationships	21
Associations between daily positive communication and sexual desire and satisfaction: an approach utilizing traditional analyses and machine learning	16
Translation, cross-cultural adaptation, and validation of ENRICH scale for marital satisfaction in Pashto	16
Found family: connection and community as transgender practitioners and researchers	15
DIADICS: a proof-of-concept study in mixed-sex couples	15
The use of sex toys in trans and nonbinary individuals’ sexuality	12
Curative kink: survivors of early abuse transform trauma through BDSM	10
Sexual satisfaction and marital intimacy in Iranian male pornography users	8
Minority stressors and psychological correlates of sexual distress among Black queer and heterosexual women	7
Editorial Introduction: Sexual and Relationship Therapy Best Article of the Year Award 2022	7
The wife, the mother, and the slut: sexual pleasure for the Filipino woman a grounded theory approach	7
Impact of Female Genital Self-Image on sexual function and associated risk factors	7
Fair play : a review	6
Sexuality was my antidepressant or anxiolytic during covid19 lockdown. Sexual behaviours as a coping strategy during the first covid-19 lockdown in France	6
From secrecy to openness: sexual satisfaction in couples from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints	6
In their own words: getting it right for kink clients	6
Educational programs and counseling models for improving postpartum sexual health: a narrative review	5
Sensate focus: addressing potential preconceived notions of black sexuality	5
Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Affirmative Consent Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Affirmative Consent ,	5
Tantra with a Twist: application of an ancient spiritual practice for modern relational communication	5
Minority stress in consensually non-monogamous individuals: mental health implications	4
Sexuality is not age-related: an interview study	4
Health, depression, and marital processes as they relate to sexual satisfaction and harmonious sexual passion: a biopsychosocial model	4
The role of partner support in infertility-related quality of life in couples seeking fertility treatment	4
Correction	4

The buffering effect of religious belief on the associations between perceived female sexual pain and partner sexual and relationship satisfaction	4
Held back by limited experience, training, and therapeutic confidence: self-perceptions of Czech mental health professionals about addressing paraphilic-related concerns	3
Sex therapy with couples experiencing infertility: an intersystem approach	3
Using spiritual discernment to heal clients wounded by religiously repressive sexual beliefs	3
Editorial introduction	3
Towards a trans inclusive practice: thinking difference differently	3
Validation of the French sexual mindfulness measure and its links with psychosexual well-being	3
Re-membering body and spirit through spiritual practices of sexual wholeness	3
Secrecy and deception: values, shame, and endorsement of hiding one’s pornography viewing	3
Age-hypogamy, emotional intelligence, sexual self-efficacy, and subjective happiness associations	3
Editorial introduction	3
Editorial Introduction	3
The end story of unconsummated marriage by male factors or honeymoon impotence: a systematic review	3
Relationship between personality traits and emotional schema with loneliness in Iranian people with gender dysphoria: the mediating role of mindfulness	3
Context of pornography consumption and sexual desire in romantic relationships	3
Exploring differences in Black heterosexual and queer women’s sexual experiences through a Black queer feminist lens	3
Needing to be “perfect” to be loved: the intersection of body dysmorphic disorder, sexual identity, and gay culture in gay men. A qualitative study	3
‘You feel like you’re drifting apart’: a qualitative study of impacts of endometriosis on sex and intimacy amongst heterosexual couples	3
Are sex therapy and God, strange bedfellows? Case studies illuminating the intersection of client sexuality with spirituality, religion, faith or belief practices	2
Having sex with partners met online among bachelors in China: application of the theory of planned behavior	2
Gender beliefs and internalized homophobia shape sexual self-labeling and partner choice in gay and bisexual men in China	2
Female sexual desire and trait-affect: the mediator role of depressed mood	2
Sexual intercourse activity and activities associated with sexual interaction in Norwegians of different sexual orientations and ages	2
Let’s talk about it: The teen’s guide to sex, relationships, and being a human	2
Transmission of sexual mores within the orthodox Jewish context and its implications for therapists	2
Sexual dysfunction in relationship obsessive compulsive disorder	2
List of reviewers	2
Men’s sexual distress: the role of body image and vulnerable narcissistic traits	2
Editorial	2
Mechanism of the association between men’s self-perceived attractiveness and sexual interest perception: the mediating paths of positive and negative mating efficacies	2
Introduction to special issue on the parenting relationship	2
Advances in theory and new information on the effect of trauma	2
Assessing and understanding body image and body satisfaction in gay and bisexual men through objectification theory	2
Asexual identity development and internalisation: a thematic analysis	1
Investigating psychometric measures of sexual wellbeing: a systematic review	1
A couples’ relationship education intervention examining sexual mindfulness and trait mindfulness	1
Longitudinal associations between attachment, differentiation of self, and couple sexual and relational outcomes	1
Sexual body self-representations, desire, and functioning in women	1
Queering the 7-eyed model of clinical supervision	1
The identity development and internalization of asexual orientation in women: an interpretative phenomenological analysis	1
Body image and sexual function in women with breast cancer	1
Relationship desire and life satisfaction among never-married and divorced men and women	1
Sexual and relationship therapy: 2023 reviewer of the year and best article of the year award	1
Clinical reviews editorial: highlighting sexual potential with sexual locations	1
Turkish validity and reliability of the Transgender Identity Survey in a population with gender dysphoria	1
Sex satisfaction – science? Or fathomed?	1
Integration of sexual and relational mental representations in autobiographical memories is associated with sexual well-being	1
Systematic literature review on comprehensive sexuality education intervention	1
Changes in sexuality and couple relationship during the COVID-19 lockdown in Portugal: findings from an online survey	1
Clinician knowledge, training, and experience working with pansexual youth	1

Sexual Integration Therapy: a sex-positive sexual health model supporting authentic sexual expression, while addressing sexual compulsivity, shame, fear and trauma	1
Review: Money Shot: the Pornhub Story	1
Male Homosexuality in Children’s Literature, 1867–1918: Young Uranians 1st edition	1
Validation of a French-Canadian adaptation of the Hurlbert Index of Sexual Assertiveness for adolescents	1
How are pornography and sexual sensation seeking related?	1
Neuroticism’s ties to relationship satisfaction: the role of conflict tactic behaviors	1
The overlooked relationship between subtle partner sexual violence and sexual dysfunction?	1
Special issue on gender diversity editorial introduction	1
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of FeelingPleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling, by adrienne maree brown. Chico, CA: AK Press, (2019). 464 pp., $20 (USA).	1
Introduction	1
Description of how men achieve multiple orgasms	1
When two is too few: Addressing polyamorous clients in therapy	1
Understanding vaginismus: a biopsychosocial perspective	1
Micro-dosing psychedelics as a plausible adjunct to psychosexual and couple’s therapy: a qualitative insight	1
Betwixt the Sheets podcast, “episode 15: feminine power: divine to demonic”: a review	1
Obesity, marital satisfaction and depression affect Iranian female sexual function	1
Editorial Introduction: Special Issue on Sexuality, Trauma, and Abuse	1