OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Loss & Trauma 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Structural Analysis of Social Representations of COVID-19 Among Health Professionals	183
Virtuousness and Posttraumatic Growth after Traumatic Loss: Latent Profile Analysis	28
Moving from the Environment of Death to the Environment of the Living	26
The Ukrainian Population’s War Losses and Their Psychological and Physical Health	24
Exploring Art’s Role in a Multimodal Group Intervention for Combat Veterans: Facilitators’ Perspective	23
COVID-19 Pandemic-Specific PTSD: Risk and Protective Factors Among University Students	21
Bereavement for Companion Animals: Intensity, Moderating Variables, and Effects on Wellbeing	18
Mindfulness as a Mediator in The Relationship Between Resilience and Posttraumatic Growth*	16
Intergenerational Trauma in Phenomenological Research—A Systematic Review	16
Psychological Effects of Exposure to Terrorism Among Frontline Healthcare Workers	16
Family Death During Upbringing and Maladaptive Personality Traits	15
Meaning Making and Meaning Made Relating to Longevity Among Taiwanese Indigenous People	14
PTSD, Anxiety, and Depressive Reactions Among Iranian Adolescent Girls After Community Trauma	14
Italian Grief and Meaning Reconstruction Inventory (GMRI): Exploratory, Confirmatory and Network Analyses	13
Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Response to COVID-19–Related Adverse Events in Hispanic Individuals	12
Professional Growth from Painful Experiences: Developing the Posttraumatic Growth Scale for Workers	12
Wartime Caregivers Survival Guilt: The Emotional Landscape of Conflict Among Therapists During War	11
Understanding Suicides through the Processes of Bereaved Relatives: A Phenomenological Study	10
Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Post-Tornado Distress among Persons with Disabilities	10
A Mixed-Methods Study: The Role of Faith in Druze Facing Child Loss	10
Mental Health Outcomes Among Public Social Workers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories	10
Depression and Quality of Life among Ukrainian Adults Relocated to Russia	10
Lived Experiences of Combat-Related Amputees: A Phenomenological Study	10
Predicting Psychopathology in Jewish Ultra-Orthodox IPV Survivors: A Machine Learning Approach	10
The Social Arts in War-Related Loss and Trauma: The Case of Israel	10

The Stability of Mental Health During War: Survey Data from Ukraine	9
The Generational Trauma Card: A Tool to Educate on Intergenerational Trauma Transmission	9
Losing a Kidney to Save a Life: Meaning Making of Bereaved Altruistic Kidney Donors Post-Donation	9
Trauma Practice: A Cognitive Behavioral Somatic Therapy	9
Posttraumatic Stress Related to Orlando Nightclub Shooting: LGBTQ Identity and Media Use	9
Intervention Development for People with Muscle Dysmorphia Symptoms: Best Practice and Future Recommendations	8
Daughter Adjustment to Life Following the Death of Their Mother: Scoping Review	8
The Impact of the Russian–Ukrainian War and Relocation on Civilian Refugees	7
Impact of Unpaid Domestic Work and Violence on Bangladeshi Women during COVID-19	7
Post-Traumatic Growth Following Bereavement Among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	7
Can ChatGPT Substitute Human Companionship for Coping with Loss and Trauma?	7
The Emotional Cost of Surgery: Distress Among Surgeons After Patient Deaths	7
Experiences of Amputees Living in Containers Following the February 6 Kahramanmaraş-Centered Earthquake	7
Health Consequences of Violence Directed at Children in Iran: Need for Global Health Action	7
Body Perception and Social Touch Preferences in Times of Grief	6
Educator Secondary Traumatic Stress in the Pandemic’s Wake: Buoying Teacher Holistic Health	6
World Assumptions Mediate Associations Between Polytrauma With Psychological Symptoms in Kenyan Adolescents	6
The Effects of Torture in the Context of COVID-19 and Continuous Type III Trauma’s Variants: The Peri-Post Type III Trauma Mental Health Syndrome in Syrian Torture Survivors	6
Psychological Distress and Perceived Stress Outcomes of Anxieties Related to COVID-19 and Russia’s Attack on Ukraine	6
List of Reviewers	6
Military Widows’ Experiences of Social Isolation, Loneliness and Unmet Social Needs	6
The Role of Comorbidity in Understanding Traumatic Sequelae Among Ukrainian War Refugees	5
Dispositional and Contextual Predictors of Forgiveness in Adults with Limb Amputation	5
Understanding Post-Traumatic Growth in Adolescent Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse	5
Final Editorial (2023)	5
When a Loss is Unavoidable: The Endowment Effect in Intimate Relationships	5
Correlates of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the Aftermath of the February 2023 Earthquake in Turkey	5
Enhancing Posttraumatic Growth Using EEG Neurofeedback: Feasibility Case Studies with Healthy Trauma-Exposed Adults	5
“Burned into my Brain:” Trauma Anniversary Reactions Examined from a Qualitative Perspective	5
“Under Lock and Key”: Paternal Bereavement Following Child’s Suicide, a Case Study	5
Emotion-Focused Therapy’s Empty-Chair Task for Complicated Grief: An Open Trial	5
Meaning Integration and Grief Trajectories Within in the First Two Years Among Chinese: Latent Growth Modeling	5
Indonesian Suicide Loss Survivors’ Perceived Facilitators and Barriers to Self-Healing	5
Narrative Means to Recovery Ends. Novel Psychoactive Substance Users in Early Recovery	5
Grief, Partner Support, Posttraumatic Growth among Women with Pregnancy Loss in Korea	5
Shared Personal Trauma: Extending the Literature on Clinician Trauma	5
From the Screen to the Streets: Technology-Facilitated Violence Against Public Health Professionals	4
War-Related Life-Making Landscapes: Ukrainian Context	4
Bereavement-Related Needs and Their Relation to Mental Health Symptoms Among Adults Bereaved by Suicide and Fatal Overdose	4
Opening Editorial 2023: Receiving the Baton	4
Update: Civilian Refugees of the Russian–Ukrainian War	4
Grief and Trauma in the Archives	4
Trauma Autoethnography as a Therapy Process	4
Construction and Validation of a Muslim Religious Trauma Scale	4
Here and Now: The Effects of Mindfulness on Habitual Social Media Usage	4
Grief and Belief: Relationships Between Prolonged Grief, Existential Nihilism, and Well/Illbeing	4
Coregulatory Responsive Strategies in Bereaved Parents	4
Emotion Regulation, Parenting, and Adjustment to Chronic Stress in Conflict Zones	4
The LAST Letter: Creation of a Meaning-Making Tool Following the Death of a Loved One	4
Traumatic Brain Injury Training Program Value to Caregivers of Law Enforcement Officers, Fire Fighters and Veterans	4

Psychological Resilience Following Disasters: A Study of Adolescents and Their Caregivers	4
Environmental Defenders in the Philippines: Ecological Grief, Loss, Trauma, Hope, and Protection	4
Adherence to Gender Roles on PTSD Symptoms of Hurricane Harvey Survivors	4
Childhood Trauma as a Mediator of Intergenerational PTSD Symptom Transmission in Rwanda: A Cross-Sectional Study	4
Group-Based Positive Psychological Intervention in Bereaved Chinese Parents: Randomized Controlled Trial	4
Mental Health Services for Unaccompanied Children in the United States	4
Complicated Grief, PTSD, and PTG in Bereaved Family: Moderating Effect of Resilience and Family Support	3
Second Editorial 2026: Focusing on Loss – Updating Aims and Scope	3
Influence of Daily Coping on Psychological Stress: A Multilevel Modeling Approach	3
Disenfranchized Grief and Collective Resilience Following an Organizational Trauma of Leadership Loss	3
Watch Out!: Exploring the Role of Social-Media Exposure to Political Violence Over-Time	3
Grief after Pandemic Loss: Factors Affecting Grief Experiences (the CO-LIVE Study)	3
Dimensions of Post-Traumatic Growth Resulting from Parental Divorce among Young Iranian Women	3
Bereaved Military Families: Relationships and Identity	3
Effectiveness of a Group Counseling Intervention for Turkish University Students with Childhood Trauma	3
Music with Displaced Dyads: Ukrainian Parents’ Perspectives on a Music Therapy Group	3
Assumptive Worldviews and Prolonged Grief Disorder in Terror-bereaved Family Members – The Mediator’s Role of Coping Flexibility and Adjustment Disorder	3
The Linear and Non-Linear Association between Trauma, Dissociation, Complex PTSD, and Executive Function Deficits: A Longitudinal Structural Equation Modeling Study	3
Mama Papua: Narratives of Gendered Trauma, Forest Loss, and Food Estate Policy	3
Unraveling: An Autoethnography of Suicide and Renewal	3
Doing Dignity: Ethical Praxis and the Politics of Care	3
Mindfulness and Relaxation Interventions Reduce Depression, Negative Affect and Stress in Widow(er)s	3
Navigating Perinatal Loss: Role of Rumination in Posttraumatic Growth	3
Mitigating Injury Survivors’ PTSD Symptoms by Strengthening Self-Compassion and Trauma Coping Self-Efficacy	3
Automated Sentiment Analysis of Online Comments on Domestic Murder-Suicide News	3
COVID-19 Relates to Both PTSD and PTG in a Non-clinical Population, Why?	3
Art Therapists’ Perceptions of Emergency Open Studios in a Shared Traumatic Reality	3
Predicting PTSD Symptoms After COVID-19 Lockdown in Shanghai: A Stress-Vulnerability Model	3
Evidence from Bereaved Families of Women Soldiers- Loss and Moral Trauma	3
When Mindfully Aware, Giving Social Support Reduces Pandemic Stress	2
Family of Origin Stress, Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms, and Resource Loss for Couples During COVID-19: A Longitudinal Analysis	2
Experience of Miscarriage versus Stillbirth: Differences in Fear of Childbirth, Adjustment Disorder, and Optimism	2
Meanings of Continuing Bonds in Bereaved Costa Rican Men: A Mixed-Methods Study	2
When Growth Takes Time: Differentiated Trajectories of Posttraumatic Growth After Pandemic Bereavement	2
Loss, Trauma, and the Future for College Students during Super Typhoon Rai	2
Ecological Grief in Filipino Youth	2
A review of “ The Routledge International Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth ”	2
The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Psychoeducation on Parental Psychology After Leukemia Diagnosis	2
Investigating Differences in Sleep Disturbance, Dissociation, and Anxiety Due to the Severity and Timing of Betrayal Trauma Experienced	2
War Impact on the Well-Being of Ukrainian Female Healthcare Professionals	2
Resilience and Loss During the Iron-Swords War: The Importance of Coping Strategies	2
Narrating and Navigating through Miscarriage, Stigma, and Identity Changes	2
Trauma in Urban Sierra Leone: Exploring Its Sociocultural, Historical, and Political Context	2
Suicidality Among Bereaved Families After the Sewol Ferry Disaster: A Longitudinal Study	2
Coping After Violent Loss: A Systematic Literature Review and Organizing Model	2
List of Reviewers	2
Letter to the Editor: Parenting Dilemmas During and After Traumatic Experiences	2
“Grief Lasts Longer Than Sympathy”: Qualitatively Examining Disenfranchised Grief in Young Widowhood	2
Modeling Firefighter Work State, Satisfaction and Well-Being	2
Unbinding Time: Pregnancy, Loss, and Narrative Time	2
Child Marriage and Intimate Partner Violence in India: A National Study	2
Stressful Life Events among Women Living Homeless in Argentina	2
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) Impact on Minors’ Life: A Qualitative Study with Children of ALS Patients in Italy	2
Persistence and Psychological Predictors of ICD-11 Complex PTSD: A Six-Month Longitudinal Study in Hong Kong	2
Arab Arts Therapists in Israel’s Education System: Experiences of Challenge and Coping Amid the October 2023 War	2
Turkish Version of the Psychological Responses to Grief Before Loss of Health Scale	2
Improving Grief Counseling: Enhancing the Education and Confidence of Psychology Graduate Students	2
Reflection of a Researcher from the Narratives of Near-Death Experience	2
A Hidden Crisis: Associations Between Overdose Bereavement, Substance Use, and Mental Health	2