OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Sexuality Research and Social Policy is 5. 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
The Barriers That Adolescents and Young Adults with Endometriosis Experience in the United States: A Conceptual Review and Model	41
Sex Workers’ Everyday Security in the Netherlands and the Impact of COVID-19	40
Evaluation of the Transfer of Training for a Sexual Assault Resistance Program Enhanced with Sexuality Education	36
Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Validation of the Minority Stress Scale Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Individuals in Croatia	34
The Attitudes and Participation of Men in Making Decisions About the Voluntary Interruption of Pregnancy	34
How do Young People Feel About a BrAC Limit for Consenting to Sex After Consuming Alcohol?	34
Correction to: Outness Profiles and Mental Health in Brazilian Lesbian Women: a Cluster Analysis	32
Correction to: “Please Teach Students that Sex is a Healthy Part of Growing Up”: Australian Students’ Desires for Relationships and Sexuality Education	26
Attitudes Toward HIV-Positive Status Disclosure Among U=U-Aware Sexual and Gender Minority Individuals in the USA: a Consensual Qualitative Research Approach	26
Motivations to Start and Stop Using Sexual Networking Applications Among Adolescent Sexual Minority Men	25
Mental Health Disparities Between Lesbian Mothers and Heterosexual Parents: the Mediating Role of Positivity	25
Marriage Equality and Activity Limitations Among Older Adults in Same-Sex Relationships	23
Does Self-Concept Clarity Relate to Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Gay Men? The Mediating Effects of Sexual Orientation Concealment and Gay Community Connectedness	23
Othering and Marginalizing the “Queer” in Rwanda: Findings from Public Perceptions and Lived Experiences of LGBT People	21
Longitudinal Risk Profiles for Physical, Psychological, and Sexual Dating Aggression: a Latent Profile Analysis with Spanish Adolescents	20
Sexual Well-Being in Older Adults: a Qualitative Study with Older Adults from Portugal and Slovenia	20
Have You Heard the News? The Effects of Exposure to News About Recent Transgender Legislation on Transgender Youth and Young Adults	19
“They are Giving Folks Permission to Discriminate and Hate”: A 4-Year Longitudinal Analysis of Perceived Impact of the Trump Administration on LGBTQ + Individuals and Relationships, 2017–2020	18
Trans Bans Expand: Anti-LGBTIQ+ Lawfare and Neo-fascism	17
The Role of Family Support and Dyadic Adjustment on the Psychological Well-being of Transgender Individuals: An Exploratory Study	17
Beyond the Risk Discourse: Photovoice as Critical-Pedagogical Tool of Sexuality Education for Adolescents	17
What Prosecutors and the Police Should Do About Underreporting of Anti-LGBTQ Hate Crime	17
Child Psychological Adjustment in Planned Gay Father Families: A Meta-analysis	16
“There’s no reason to do monogamy”: Evidence for and Characteristics Associated with a Strong Desire for Consensual Nonmonogamy	16
The Experience of Sexual Desire Among Male Adolescents in Malaysia Detained for Sexual Intercourse with an Underage Partner: An Exploration Using the Incentive Theory of Sexual Motivations	16

Relationship between Religion and Public Attitudes toward Same-Sex Marriage: Examining the role of Traditional Chinese Religions through a Case Study of Hong Kong	16
The Relationship Between Trait Emotional Intelligence and Sexting in Adolescence	16
Predictors of Engagement in Abortion-Related Activism Before and After the Nomination of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh	15
Sexual Behavior: Challenges for Prevention and Control Among Medical Students in Mexico	15
“I Wish They Would Have a Class for Parents About Talking to Their Kids About Sex”: College Women’s Parent–child Sexual Communication Reflections and Desires	15
“Love the sin, hate the sinner”: Attitudes Towards Sexuality Among Mainline and Evangelical Protestants in the USA	15
Relationship Between use of Dating apps and Sociodemographic Variables, Sexual Attitudes, and Sexual risk Behaviors	14
Perceived Impact of Marriage and Concerns About the Future of Marriage Equality: A Mixed-Methods Study of LGBTQ+ Married Individuals in the United States	14
Opinions About Abortion Among Reproductive-Age Women in Ohio	14
“What I’m Trying to Say Is That Some Nurses Are Good While Some Are Not Good”: Diverse Attitudes of Health Workers Providing Sexual and Reproductive Health Services to Young People in Nigeria	14
A Mixed Methods Study of Sexuality Education Experiences and Preferences Among Bisexual, Pansexual, and Queer (Bi+) Male Youth	13
Antecedent Ideological Profiles and Negative Socio-political Outcomes of LGBTQ+ Conspiracy Beliefs	13
Responding to “Don’t Say Gay” Laws in the US: Research Priorities and Considerations for Health Equity	12
Putting the “Comprehensive” in Comprehensive Sexuality Education: a Review Exploring Young Adult Literature as a School-based Intervention	12
Perceptions of Mothers’ Competence and Morality: the Role of Attribution of Responsibility, Gender Role Beliefs, and Sexual Prejudice	12
Bias-Motivated Physical or Verbal Violence Among Men Who Have Sex with Men: Findings from the Lisbon Cohort of MSM	11
The Gender-Specific Binegativity Scale: Validation in a Spanish Sample of University Students and Proposal of a Brief Version	11
Balancing Community and Research Needs in Gender Measurement Decisions	11
“I Wish I Had Been Told the Truth Sooner”: The Sexuality Education College Women Wish They Had	11
Religiosity as a Protective Factor for Bullying Victimization and Substance Use in the USA: Examining Differences for Heterosexual and Sexual Minority African American Adolescents in Chicago’s Southsi	11
Precarious Employment: A Neglected Issue Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Workers	11
A Multilevel Model to Assess the Effectiveness of an Affective-Sexual Education Program for People with Intellectual Disabilities: the Influence of Participants’ Characteristics	11
“Take It Easy, I’ll Tell You if There’s Something Wrong”: Young Cisgender Heterosexual Men and Sexual Communication During Casual Sex in Australia	11
“There’s no roadmap for this”: Asexual and Aromantic Students’ Healthy Intimate Relationships	11
Comparison of Sexual Violence Perpetration Rates Among Gay, Lesbian and Heterosexual Cisgender Adults	11
Acculturation and Sexual Attitudes: a Systematic Review	11
Sexuality Education in the Digital Age: Modelling the Predictors of Acceptance and Behavioural Intention to Access and Interact with Sexuality Information on Social Media	11
Who Counts as a Sexual Subject? The Impact of Ableist Rhetoric for People with Intellectual Disability in Sweden	11
Online Sex Education Based on the Good Enough Sex Model on Newlywed Couples: A Protocol for Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial Comparing Male Partner Involvement	11
Investigation of Adherence to Immunosuppressive Therapy, Perceived Spousal Support and Sexual Dysfunction in Female Liver Recipients	11
Accessing Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Chile: Women with Disabilities and Their Experience with Gynaecological and Obstetric Violence	10
Inconsistent Condom Use and Risk Taking Among People Who Inject Drugs in Saveh: Finding from a Cross-Sectional Study in Iran	10
How Social Support Affirms Identity in LGBQ Adults: A Qualitative Exploration	10
Queer Space: Toilet Provision, Access and Inclusion in the West Midlands	10
An Analysis of Mpox Communication on Reddit vs Twitter During the 2022 Mpox Outbreak	10
“It Was a Complete Violation of Everything”: LGBT + Veterans’ Experiences of Discrimination and Oppression Through the Exemptive UK Military “Gay Ban” Policy	10
Possible Consequences of the Criminalization of Sex Work in Spain, Inferred from COVID-19 Lockdown Measures	9
Sexual Orientation, Homophobic Attitudes, and Self-Perceived Pornography Addiction	9
From Digital Health Literacy to a Digital and Data Capabilities Approach to Sexual Health	9
Sexting Behaviors Before and During COVID-19 in Italian and Colombian Young Adults	9
Early Contraception and Continuity of Maternal Health Care in Primiparous Adolescents and Young Adults from Low- and Middle-Income Countries: the Case of Mexico	9
Ethnic Disparities in Effective Coverage of Maternal Healthcare in Mexico, 2006–2018: a Decomposition Analysis	9
Towards a Transnational Sexual Health Research and Policy Agenda: the European Sexual Medicine Network Delphi Study	9
A Qualitative Study of First HIV Test Experiences Among Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents	9
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Among Donor-Conceived Offspring in the U.S. National Longitudinal Lesbian Family Study from Adolescence to Adulthood	9
Access to Sexual Health Services and Support for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: an Australian Cross-sector Survey	9
Sexual Pleasure Matters (Especially for Women) — Data from the German Sexuality and Health Survey (GeSiD)	9
The Dynamics of Intimate Relations in Residential Settings for People with Intellectual Disabilities: Social Workers’ Perspective	8
Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Syphilis Co-Infection in China: a Retrospective Observational Study	8
Changes in Online Sexual Activities During the Lockdown Caused by COVID-19 in Spain: “INSIDE” Project	8

Stressor Appraisals and Moderating Role of Forgiveness, Social Support, and Resilience as Adaptive Coping in Stress and Depression Among Older Sexual Minorities	8
Breaking Down the Dams: An Ecological Systems Lens on Dental Dams Using Qualitative Methods	8
Genitourinary Pain, Sexual Distress, and Quality of Sexual Life in Women with and without Vulvodynia	8
How Artistic Actions Can Foster Sensitivity to Equality in Diversity in Public University Participants and Observers	8
Internalized Homonegativity and Demoralization Syndrome in Chinese Gay Men: The Mediating Role of Sexual Orientation Concealment and Sense of Self	8
Homophobic Verbal and Bullying Victimization: Overlap and Emotional Impact	8
The Sexual Orientation Microaggression Inventory Short Form (SOMI-SF): Validation in Three Samples of Racially/Ethnically Diverse Sexual Minority Youth	8
Facilitators and Barriers to Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) Provision in a Midwest College Health Center: A Mixed-Method Study	8
Framing the Windows of Prostitution: Unfolding Histories in Amsterdam’s Redesign of Its Famous Red-Light District	8
Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Among Sexual Minority People and Associated Factors: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Studies	7
Social Rejection, Family Acceptance, Economic Recession, and Physical and Mental Health of Sexual Minorities	7
The Impact of Anti-discrimination Legislation on Transgender People within the USA	7
Implicit Gender Role Theory, Gender System Justification, and Voting Behavior: A Mixed-Method Study	7
Why Report? Sex Workers who Use NUM Opt out of Sharing Victimisation with Police	7
Do We Care? Portuguese Healthcare Professionals’ Practices and Related Barriers to Addressing Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy and the Postpartum Period	7
Embarrassment, Shame, and Reassurance: Emotion and Young People’s Access to Online Sexual Health Information	7
“Don’t Say Gay”: Implications for Outness and Desire to Move Among LGBTQ + Parents in Florida	7
LGBTQI + Refugees’ and Asylum Seekers’ Mental Health: A Qualitative Systematic Review	7
Body Uneasiness and Dissatisfaction Among Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Persons	7
Spanish Older LGBT+ Adults: Satisfaction with Life and Generativity	7
Long-Term Singlehood in Sexual Minority Adults: the Role of Attachment and Minority Stress	7
Uncertainty and Confusion Regarding Transgender Non-discrimination Policies: Implications for the Mental Health of Transgender Americans	7
Examining the Additive Effect of HIV-Related Stress and General Life Stress on Depression and Anxiety-Related Functional Impairment Among HIV-Positive Sexual Minority Men	7
Associations Between Sex Education Types and Sexual Behaviors Among Female Adolescents: a Secondary Data Analysis of the National Survey of Family Growth 2011–2019	7
Perceived Impact of the Overturning of Roe v. Wade on Queer Parents’ Reproductive and Sexual Lives	7
What Is the Patriarchy Doing in Our Bed? Violent Sexual-Affective Experiences Among Youth	7
Sexual Stigma and Mental Health of LGB Older Adults: A Systematic Scoping Review	7
Association Between Knowledge, Attitude, Social Contact and Social Distance Practices with Regard to the LGBT Community Among Heterosexual Individuals Living in the Punjab State of India	6
Sexual Initiation Before Age 14 and Co-Occurrence of Health Risk Behaviors Among Brazilian Adolescents: Data from the National School Health Survey 2015	6
Coming out Experiences and Disclosure gap in Three Age Cohorts of Portuguese Cisgender Sexual Minority Men	6
Exploring the Underlying Social Conservative Mechanisms of Trans-negativity in a Convenient Greek Sample	6
The Nature and Impact of Informal Mental Health Support in an LGBTQ Context: Exploring Peer Roles and Their Challenges	6
Sexual Shame and Associations with Social Evaluation Among Chinese Adults: The Effect of Mianzi and Negative Body Consciousness	6
Inclusive School Policies and Practices and the Well-Being of LGBTQ + Students in Portugal	6
Interactive Effects of Minority Stress and Pressure to Get Married on Mental Health Symptoms among Sexual Minority Individuals in China	6
Preferences for Gender Affirming Treatment and Associated Factors Among Transgender People in Sweden	6
SESTA/FOSTA as de Facto Hate Policy: Combatting Carceral Investments and Uplifting Community-Based Solutions	6
Exploring the Association Between Sexual Agency and Intimate Relationship Violence Experienced and Perpetrated by Brazilian and Portuguese Women	6
LGB Female Veterans’ Experience of Military Service During the “Gay Ban”: A Qualitative Study	6
Investigating the Impacts of Compulsive Sexual Behaviours on Women Using Descriptive Phenomenology: A Research Agenda	6
Increases in LGB Identification Among US Adults, 2014–2021	6
Employment Loss as a Result of COVID-19: a Nationwide Survey at the Onset of COVID-19 in US LGBTQ+ Populations	6
Religiosity and Social Distance from LGBTQI+ People: The Mediating Role of Gender and LGBTQI+ Conspiracy Beliefs	5
Chemgen Study: Assessing the Consumption of Care in General Practice of Men with Sexual Relationships with Men Users of Psychoactive Products in a Sexual Context	5
Multilevel Barriers to Sexual Health Behavior Among Vulnerable Adolescent Girls in the USA	5
Sexual and Mental Health in Healthcare Workers during the COVID-19 Outbreak: Exploring the Role of Meaning-Centered Coping	5
Barriers and Facilitators for Formulation and Implementation of a Sex Education Programme in Saudi Arabia: Stakeholders’ Perspective	5
Do Not Judge Inner Experience, but Be Mindful: Dispositional Mindfulness, Internalized Sexual Stigma, and Positive Identity in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People	5
Sexual Minority Stigma and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury Among Sexual Minorities: the Mediating Roles of Sexual Orientation Concealment, Self-Criticism, and Depression	5
Understanding the Impact of EU Prostitution Policies on Sex Workers: A Mixed Study Systematic Review	5
Pelvic Pain and Sexual Function in Primiparous Pregnant Women with and without High/Severe Fear of Childbirth	5
How Is Self-Stigma Associated with Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms in Men Who Have Sex with Men? Roles of Perceived Stress and Negative Affect in a Longitudinal Study	5
Perceived Similarity to Gender Groups Scale: Validation in a Sample of Italian LGB + and Heterosexual Young Adults	5
Moderating Effect of Gender on the Relationship Between Sexual Knowledge and Sexual Activity Among Adolescents	5
Predicting Changes to Sexual Activity in Later Life: A Longitudinal Study	5
Relational Well-Being Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Young Adults in Taiwan: Before and After the Legalization of Same-Sex Marriage	5
Measuring Shame Related to Sexual Orientation: Validation of Sexual Minority—External and Internal Shame Scale (SM-EISS)	5
Mindset and Sexual Health: Does Mindset Impact Receptiveness to Sexuality Education Curricula?	5
Correction to: Paraphilic Interests: The Role of Psychosocial Factors in a Sample of Young Adults in Hong Kong	5
You, Me, and Them: Understanding Employees’ Use of Trans-Affirming Language within the Workplace	5
Mental Health Care for Transgender and Non-binary Adults: An Investigation of Affirmative Practice, Therapy Experiences and Outcomes, and Reasons for Treatment Termination	5
“This is not What God Intended”: Attitudes Toward Adoption by Same-sex Couples in Ecuador	5
Emotion Regulation and Sexual Functioning in a Dyad: A Comprehensive Literature Review	5
Online Sexual Harassment in Adolescence: A Scoping Review	5
Beyond Just Gender: Diverse Women’s Experiences and Outcomes Associated with the Receipt of Unsolicited Genital Images	5
Online Risk Practices in Spanish Adults During the COVID-19 Lockdown: Differences According to Gender, Age, and Living Situation	5
Correction to: Disabled Women, Care Regimes, and Institutionalised Homophobia: a Case Study From Poland	5
Mind the Gap! LGBTQ + Population’s Perceptions of Discrimination and of Legal Innovation	5
“Please Describe a Person who Sells Sex”: (De)humanizing Prototypic Perceptions in the USA	5
Typologies of Minority Stressors and Depressive Symptoms among LGBTQ Employees in the Workplace: A Moderated Mediation Model of Workplace Climate and Resilience	5
The Health and Well-being of Sex Workers in Decriminalised Contexts: A Scoping Review	5
Love in Quarantine: Sexting, Stress, and Coping During the COVID-19 Lockdown	5
To Talk or Not to Talk: An Analysis of Parents’ Intentions to Talk with Children About Different Sexual Topics Using the Theory of Planned Behavior	5
Requesting HIV Results Be Conveyed in-Person: Perspectives of Clinicians and People Recently Diagnosed with HIV	5
Sexuality-based Stigma and Inclusion Among Southern Protestant Religious Leaders	5