OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Psychology & Sexuality is 3. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Developing and piloting an online articulated thoughts in simulated situations (ATSS) paradigm to explore drinking to cope among sexual minorities	49
Workplace harassment as a moderator of sexual minority employees’ minority stress and psychological distress	32
Understanding the distribution of recent deliberate self-harm among young LGBTQ+ australians	22
Asexual individuals report high preferences for femininity in male and female faces	18
Bereavement in older age in LGBTIQ adults	17
Regulatory focus and perceived safety with casual partners: implications for perceived risk and casual sex intentions during the COVID-19 pandemic	12
Compassion and gender diversity: evaluation of an online compassion-focused therapy group in a gender service	12
Self-injury in young bisexual people: a micro-longitudinal investigation (SIBL) of rumination and binegativity on non-suicidal self-injury	11
Ideological beliefs and gender essentialism: relations to individual and normative opposition to same-sex parent families	11
Self-compassion as a mediator of the relationship between social support and identity affirmation in sexual minority adults	11
The virility-fertility tradeoff: effects of fatherhood on (precarious) masculinity, sexual esteem, and sexual depression	11
Sexual-specific disgust sensitivity mechanisms in homonegativity and transnegativity; the mediating role of right-wing authoritarianism (RWA)	10
A sexual empowerment process predicting heterosexual women’s sexual pleasure	10
“When men were men”: the effects of Gender Nostalgia on bias against trans men and women	10
Measuring sexual self-concept: a methodological review	9
The impact of transgender minority stress and emotion regulation on suicidality and self-harm	9
Behavioural responses to SOGIE-based harassment among university students: a qualitative study on bystander intervention in the Philippines	9
Parameters of masturbation: effects of gender and sexual orientation	9
A “social cure” for minority stress? Individual and collective identity strategies on the mental health outcomes of lesbian and gay people	8
Associations between subcategories of disgust sensitivity and homonegativity: examining intergroup contact as a moderator	8
‘You’re straight until proven gay’ – a qualitative exploration of identity development among gay men who have ‘come-out’ as ‘late bloomers’	8
The investment model of commitment: examining asexual and aromantic populations using confirmatory and exploratory factor analysis	8
For sex, ulterior motives or relief: a latent profile analysis of individuals who sext their relationship partner(s)	7
What the hell are you doing? A PRISMA systematic review of psychosocial precursors of slut-shaming in adolescents and young adults	7
Pain characteristics, sexual script flexibility, and penetration control cognitions in those experiencing anodyspareunia	7

Closeness and distance: relationships and sexuality during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States	6
Exploring the prevalence and characteristics of self-labelled identity, coping, and mental health among BDSM-practicing adults in the United States	6
Systematic review of queer and minority identities in romantic relationships research	6
Attachment buffers against the association between childhood sexual abuse, depression, and substance use problems among transgender women: a moderated-mediation model	5
Development and validation of a measure of attitudes towards sex doll ownership	5
Is the sexual sensation seeking scale a reliable instrument? addressing multiple factor structures in a Colombian sample	5
Why men don’t say no: sexual compliance and gender socialization in heterosexual men	5
Examining the orgasm gap in a diverse sample with mixed methods	5
Prejudice against gender and sexual diversity among soldiers of the Brazilian army	5
Narrative processing of anti-LGBTQ+ victimisation: exploring themes of redemption and meaning	5
The integration of queer-related curriculum in psychology training in Aotearoa/New Zealand: a survey with programme directors	5
Fisting intimacy: The sexual scripting of intimacy in gay men’s anal fisting	4
Ambiguity tolerance and desire to practice or actual involvement in various types of consensual non-monogamy	4
Transgender and gender expansive emerging adults: the moderating role of thwarted belongingness on mental health	4
Different impacts of traditional bullying and cyberbullying in Chinese LGB adolescents and young adults: a moderated mediation analysis	4
The moderating role of ambivalent sexism in the relationship between multidimensional heterosexism and attitudes towards same-sex parenting: an exploratory analysis with clinical implications	4
A qualitative double perspective investigation of the psychosocial implications of discrimination and coping strategies of gay men in Tunisia	4
Fat fuckers and fat fucking: a feminine ethic of care in sex therapy	4
To feel safe inside and out: The effect of self-compassion and social safeness underlie the relationship between parental invalidation and borderline features in sexual minority adults	4
Motives for security and sexual activity among single individuals at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Collective resistance as a means to healing. A narrative participatory study with sexual minority refugee & asylum-seeking people	4
Lay theories of decreasing homophobia in the UK among an older heterosexual cohort	4
Holding hands: LGBTQ people’s experiences of public displays of affection with their partner(s)	3
Effects of transgender identity labels on perceptions of gender minorities	3
‘Why are PrEP gays always like this … ’: psychosocial influences on U.K.-based men who have sex with men’s perceptions and use of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis	3
‘An impossible dream’? Non-binary people’s perceptions of legal gender status and reform in the UK	3
Sexual consent attitudes mediate gender differences in responsibility attributions for a heterosexual date rape scenario	3
Fear of being single moderates the link between relationship status and psychological or sexual well-being	3
‘The short answer is just that they’re fun’: recreational fear and queer joy in haunted attractions	3
Associations with LGBTQ+ mental health disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Social-psychological and socio-structural correlates of negative attitudes towards asexuals’ parenting rights	3
The interaction between perceived chronological age and physical sexual development in attractiveness judgements made by people who are attracted to children	3
Shame as a moderator of attachment and sexual satisfaction	3
”I don’t want to say the wrong thing”: mental health professionals’ narratives of feeling inadequately skilled when working with gender diverse adults	3