OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy 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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Stories of aloneness in childhood	26
Founder ownership and system‐justifying beliefs in relation to perception toward Black Lives Matter and other social movements	20
Climate change threats and affective polarization. Exploring the role of negative emotional reactions	15
Should health communication regarding COVID‐19 emphasize self‐ or other‐focused impacts of mitigation behaviors? Insights from two message matching studies	14
Issue Information	11
Anti‐immigration policies of the trump administration: A review of Latinx mental health and resilience in the face of structural violence	11
Understanding the link between home displacement and indication of PTSD in collective trauma: Community resilience as a mediator	11
Editorial	10
Does framing climate change policies to fit with epistemic needs for predictability reduce conservatives’ opposition?	9
Gun attitudes and opinions of self‐defense laws among college students	9
The role of religious coping to overcome mental distress and anxiety during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An integrative review	9
Nudging to handwash during the pandemic – The use of visual priming and salience	8
How much do we need college admission tests?	8
Hate crime law associations with mental health and discrimination experiences among transgender and gender diverse adults	8
Reducing gender economic inequality: Exploring the role of emotions and gender hierarchy	7
A measure of positive and negative perception of migration: Development and psychometric properties of the Positive and Negative Perception of Immigrants Scale (PANPIS)	7
Health consequences of a death threat: How terrorist attacks impact drinking	7
How do neoliberals vote? Power‐based asymmetries in hierarchy‐enhancement	7
Issue Information	7
A critical activist orientation predicts lower latent ableist bias	7
LGBTQ+ conspiracy beliefs and collective actions: Factors and processes that (de)motivate support for LGBTQ+ equality	6
“They really care about you, they really build relationships”: Care and justice in a community organization	6
When political elites talk, citizens reply. Affective polarization through temporal orientation and intergroup emotions	6
He's to blame, she is lying: Judgments of child sex trafficking survivors	5
Expectancy violations after moral transgressions: Exploring the role of moral disengagement on online vindictive word of mouth	5

Experimental testing of three categorization‐based interventions to reduce prejudice and discrimination against the unvaccinated in the aftermath of COVID‐19	5
Countering anti‐democratic policies in democracies: The importance of value‐oriented citizenship	5
Realigning individual behavior with societal values: The role of planning in injunctive‐norm interventions aimed at increasing voter turnout	5
“Our voice as a legacy”: Trauma, resilience, and post‐traumatic growth among people living with long‐term HIV	5
Worker‐organization goal misalignment and support for collective action	5
Issue Information	4
Extending the rejection‐identification model: The protective role of multiple identities to cope with discrimination for lesbians	4
Coping with the stigma of mental illness: An interpretive descriptive study of out‐patients in a public mental health hospital in Ghana	4
When longing goes wrong: Nostalgia can cause a preference for harmful aspects of the past	4
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What is justice? A qualitative exploration with college students who endured parental incarceration or parental substance use	4
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“Make me great again” – Vicarious exclusion and coping strategies in the loss of the 2024 U.S. presidential election	4
The effects of official reporting and perceived deservingness on evaluations of sexual harassment responses	4
A matter of trust? Analyzing the relationship between attitudes toward COVID‐19 countermeasures and right‐wing ideology in Germany	4
Issue Information	4
Plotting against justice: Conspiracy theory endorsement and opposition to criminal justice reform	4
Ideological orientations, intergroup stereotypes, and opposition to permanent supportive housing	4
The identities of employed students: Striving to reduce distinctiveness from the typical student	4
Exploring disparities in research through the lens of epistemic exclusion: A focus on Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy	4
The interaction between individual traits and societal factors in predicting abortion stigma	4
Development and validation of the Abolitionist Ideology Scale with abolitionist‐identifying and nationally representative samples	3
Employment, collective action, and satisfaction: the moderating role of acceptance of inequality	3
Acknowledgment of collective victimization: Findings from four contexts of historical victimization	3
Influence falling income inequality for social stability: Case study of four European countries	3
Identifying hate speech in societal context: When psychological factors are more important than contents	3
Victim‐survivors’ proposed solutions to addressing image‐based sexual abuse in the U.S.: Legal, corporate, educational, technological, and cultural approaches	3
The core of division: Examining how essentialist views of the U.S. underlie right‐wing authoritarianism, social dominance orientation, and nationalism	3
A majority group perspective on the association between perceived national identification of minority groups and minority helping	3
Call it what it is: Does the framing of sex crimes impact jury decision making?	3
Issue Information	3
One nation, under war: Did the language of Fox News and MSNBC converge during the invasion of Ukraine?	3
The baggage and the benefits that travel with the F word: Transnational feminism and its discontents	3
COVID‐19 and K‐12 teachers: Associations between mental health, job satisfaction, perceived support, and experiences of ageism and sexism	3
Gains and losses for humans and the environment: Effects of social identity and message prospect framing on pro‐environmental behaviors	2
Perceived discrimination and self‐esteem of left‐behind children: The mediating effect of grit	2
Issue Information	2
Negative media representations of young people during COVID related national lockdown increases young people's perceived stress	2
The status‐related stress scale (SRSS): Measuring opportunity constraints and precarity among Asian adults in the United States with F‐1, J‐1, or H‐1B status	2
A mixed method examination of support for two college sexual assault mandatory reporting policy approaches	2
Issue Information	2
Addressing the gender environmentalism gap: The role of universalism, self‐construal, and perceived urbanization in shaping environmental prioritization	2
Between a prosecutor and a convicted felon? Political allegiance, abolition, and felon's rights in the context of the 2024 U.S. presidential election	2
Testing the interrelationship between area deprivation and ethnic disparities in sentencing	2
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Intersecting Identities and Ideologies: Sociodemographic Predictors of 2024 Voting Among Mexican and Cuban Americans	2
“Is voting even effective?” Examining voting and protest as an expression of dissent and their efficacy in risky contexts	2
Young university students’ cultural values, filial obligation norms, and ageism toward older people	2
Why are socioeconomic health inequalities unacceptable? Studying the influence of explanatory framings on cognitive appraisals	2
Diverse representations of physician body size, gender, and race strengthen belonging and lessen anticipated weight stigma among fat women	2

Measuring neoliberal individualism, instrumentality, and competition: Development and validation of the Neoliberal Ideological Beliefs Questionnaire (NLBQ)	2
Unvaccinated and left out: The mismatch of vaccine supply and demand during COVID‐19 as a source of interpersonal and societal exclusion	2
“I had no power whatsoever”: Graduate student survivors’ experiences disclosing sexual harassment to mandatory reporters	2
Predictors of White parents' racial socialization: Links to attributions for racial inequalities and views of White privilege	2
AI as moral cover: How algorithmic bias exploits psychological mechanisms to perpetuate social inequality	2
Living in fear: The psychological impact of the threat of sexual violence on women in India	2
An exploratory qualitative analysis of rape myths in India	2
Rethinking climate change vulnerabilities after COVID‐19: Recommendations for social science‐based interventions drawn from research on Conspiracy Theories and Diversity Science	2
Conceptualization and measurement of Islamophobia: A systematic review	2
Longitudinal associations between a health risk factor and juvenile justice placement among persistent juvenile offenders	2
United as one? Outgroup discrimination matters but so does ingroup standing in shaping solidarity among Latinx and Asian Americans	2
Prosecutors’ considerations when initiating plea bargaining	2
U.S. stereotypes of older adults living with disabilities: How perceptions vary based on gender, disability, and older age	2
“That'll be the end of the encampment, but they'll still be here”: A thematic analysis of climate‐housing narratives	2
The reproductive rights of pregnant people: Abortion attitudes and gender‐inclusive language	2
Immigrant's death at the border: Do they influence White and Latinx Americans’ belief in the American dream?	2
“Feeling out of place”: A mixed methods investigation of the impostor phenomenon among BIPOC and LGBTQ STEM college students	2
Policy whiplash: How California Title IX coordinators navigated local, state, and federal policy changes during the Trump administration	2
The Immigration‐Related Political Ideology Scale: Development, factor structure, and validity evidence	1
Focusing on fake news’ contents: The association between ingroup identification, perceived outgroup threat, analytical‐intuitive thinking and detecting fake news	1
National prostalgia is associated with decreases in ingroup protection, outgroup derogation, and support for Donald Trump's presidency	1
How social support predicts anxiety among university students during COVID‐19 control phase: Mediating roles of self‐esteem and resilience	1
Is academia for everyone? A closer look into the experiences of U.S. psychology doctoral students	1
Attitudes on affirmative action targeted to help Black and Hispanic individuals: The roles of knowledge, race, and perceived discrimination	1
When and how many: Factors associated with campus sexual assault reforms	1
Evaluating bridge‐building strategies: How direct and indirect contact with refugees in Italian welcome projects promotes positive intergroup relations	1
Investigating the white racial equilibrium and the power‐maintenance of whiteness	1
The unheard echoes of equality: perceptions of wealth inequality in the Czech Republic	1
Politicized science and rural–urban divides: Exploring how rurality in the place of residence and red and blue media use affected attitudes toward scientists before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	1
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Surveilling threat: The roles of ideology and threat perceptions in support for Islamophobic policy	1
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Between applause and arm crossing: Public reception of within‐group apologies and the role of system justification	1
From scarcity to security: Participant well‐being in the first 2 years of a basic income pilot	1
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Together or divided: How collective narcissism versus secure identity are related to solidarity between disadvantaged groups?	1
Disparities in healthcare, STI testing, and PrEP access among newcomer sexual minority men in Canada's three largest urban centers	1
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How are first‐generation students doing throughout their college years? An examination of academic success, retention, and completion rates	1
Trajectories of affective and cognitive well‐being at times of COVID‐19 containment policies in Italy	1
“I know what's best for my child”: A qualitative analysis of US cisgender‐heterosexual and LGBTQ parents’ perspectives on inclusive education policies	1
Gender and sexual minority PhD students experience epistemic exclusion in STEM	1
We the People. Who? The face of future American politics is shaped by perceived foreignness of candidates of color	1
Juvenile Records Negatively Impact Mock‐Hiring Decisions: An Examination of the Mismatch Between Record Disclosure and Background Check	1
When fear meets anger: Attitudes toward positively versus negatively evaluated pandemic policy proposals when negative emotions are competing in society	1
What makes a liberal feminist? Identifying predictors of heterosexual women and men's liberal feminist ideology	1
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What works to promote community engagement: Strategic plan for volunteering and participation in Andalusia (Spain)	1
When do election losers look to leave? National identity and ideological emigration following the 2024 U.S. presidential election	1
Social identity processes predicting post‐election 2020 ideological extremism	1
The push of political violence: How exposure to violent political action impacts perceived violence, and political support	1
Where are the men?: Investigating intersectional gender differences in postsecondary outcomes	1
Religion, politics, and climate‐protective behaviors: Insights on individual intentions in Italy	1