OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Genetic Psychology 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Understanding Children’s Accuracy in Recognizing Facial Expressions of Pain	49
The Role of Emotion Dysregulation and Self-Esteem in the Relationships Between Parenting Styles and Adolescents’ Impostor Feelings: A Multiple Mediation Model by Parent and Child Gender	19
Profiles of Peer-Rejected Individuals: Their Attitudes toward the Intellectual Disability Population and the Mediating Role of Resilience	19
Evaluating Links between Social Withdrawal Motivations and Indices of Psychosocial Adjustment among Norwegian Emerging Adults	18
Preliminary Findings on the Use of Array Comparative Genomic Hybridization in Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder in Qatar: A Case Series Study	17
Risk Factors for Substance Use across the Lifespan	17
Parenting Styles and Moral Disengagement in Young Adults: The Mediating Role of Attachment Experiences	16
The Intervening Roles of Shame and Guilt in Relations between Parenting and Prosocial Behavior in College Students	13
Parental Phubbing and Adolescent Depression: The Role of Parental Involvement and Adolescent Grit	12
Gender-Specific Patterns of Relations among Acculturative Stress, Family Processes, and Prosocial Behaviors in Latinx Youth	10
Responses to Infantile Cuteness Explain the Link between Autistic Traits and Reduced Maternal Attachment	10
Development of Emotion Recognition from Facial Expressions with Different Eye and Mouth Cues in Japanese People	9
The Role of Participant Immigrant Background and Gender in Middle School Youth’s Responses to Actual and Hypothetical Experiences of Bias-Based Bullying	9
Comparison of Adulthood Criteria Endorsed by Emerging Adults and Their Parents in Greece: A Mixed-Method Study	8
Parental Emotion Socialization and Children’s Emotional Skills and Socio-Emotional Functioning in Early Childhood in Türkiye and the United States	8
Contextual Influences on Happiness Across Life Stages: A Commentary on Baytemir and Şimşir Gökalp (2025)	8
Adolescent Peer Relationship Difficulties, Prosociality, and Parental Emotion Socialization: Moderating Roles of Adolescent Gender	7
Moderating Effects of Teacher–Child Relationship on the Association Between Unsociability and Play Behaviors	7
Family Socioeconomic Status and Adolescents’ Academic Shame: The Chain Mediator Effect of Self-Control and Gratitude	7
Are Adolescents With Higher Self-Esteem More Prosocial? Exploring the Moderating Effect of Self-Compassion in Different Genders	6
Ethnic-Racial Identity, Social Transactions in the Classroom and Academic-Related Outcomes: Gender Matters	6
Thriving Amidst Adversity. Insights from an Interview with Professor Rodrigo Cárcamo	6
Coping Strategies and Social Skills of School-Aged Children: Association with Performance-Based Measures and Behavioral Ratings of Executive Function	6
Associations Between Maternal Negative Affectivity and Young Children’s Disruptive Behavior Problems: The Mediating Effect of Callous-Unemotional Traits	6
A Parallel Process Growth Curve Analysis of Teacher-Student Relationships and Academic Achievement	5

Moderating Effects of Mindfulness in the Relation between Bullying Victimization and Sleep Disturbance in Chinese Children: Sex Differences	5
Child Cognitive Flexibility and Maternal Control: A First Step toward Untangling Genetic and Environmental Contributions	5
Women Should Stay Home: Saudi Children’s and Adolescents’ Reasoning About Husband’s Authority Over Wife	5
Empathy and Theory of Mind in Preschoolers	5
Exploring the Quality of School Experiences in Children Raised by Two Lesbian Mothers in Italy Through Children’s Narratives	5
Relations of Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Psychological (Mal)Adjustment with Forgiveness and Vengeance among Bangladeshi Young Adults	5
Nurturing Kindness in a Complex World: Professor Tina Malti’s Developmental Insights on Socioemotional Development	5
Exploring Psychosocial Traits Across Italian Current Gamers, Non-Current Gamers, and Non-Gamers	5
Celebrity Worship Among Adolescents is Driven by Neuroticism, Avoidant Identity Style, and Need to Belong	5
The Relationship Between Empirical Avoidance, Anxiety, Difficulty Describing Feelings and Internet Addiction Among College Students: A Moderated Mediation Model	4
Teacher-Assessed Linguistic and Social Abilities in Chinese Children’s Reading Acquisition: A Longitudinal Study	4
What Children and Adolescents Know and Need to Learn about Cancer	4
Links between Best Friendship, Romantic Relationship, and Psychological Well-Being in Emerging Adulthood	4
Describing Disclosure of Cybervictimization in Adolescents from the United Kingdom: The Role of Age, Gender, Involvement in Cyberbullying, and Time Spent Online	4
Insights from a Developmental Psychologist: Going Against the Grain	4
A Short-Term Longitudinal Examination of the Relation of Forms of Antipathy Relationships to Children’s Loneliness, Peer Optimism, and Peer Sociability Behaviors	4
The Influence of Genetic and Environmental Factors on Anxiety among Chinese Adolescents: A Twin Study	4
Direct and Indirect Paths between Parental Marital Conflict and Children’s Sibling Conflict in Chinese Families	3
Stakeholders’ Perceptions of Students with Disabilities Inclusion in Nursing Education in the United Arab Emirates	3
The Effects of Genetic Changes and Neuroinflammation on Loneliness Feelings and Social Isolation: A Systematic Review	3
Does the Frontal Brain Electrical Activity Mediate the Effect of Home Executive Function Environment and Screen Time on Children’s Executive Function?	3
Relations among Parental Acceptance-Rejection and Forgiveness and Vengeance: A Comparison between Pakistani Madrassa and Public School Students	3
Longitudinal Exploration of Binding Ability across Early Childhood: The Differential Contribution of Hits and False Alarms	3
Executive Function and Social Media Addiction in Female College Students: The Mediating Role of Affective State and Stress	3
Four-Year-Olds Share General Knowledge and Use Generic Language When Teaching	3
Relative Effectiveness of Morphological Analysis Training and Context Clue Training on Multidimensional Vocabulary Knowledge	3
The Roles of Authenticity in Relationships and Attachment in Adolescents’ Prosocial Experiences	3
One-Hundred and Thirty-One Years of Developmental Science Published in the Journal of Genetic Psychology	3
Similarities and Differences in Popular Peers in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood	3
Development in Context: Commonalities and Specificities	3
Childhood Shyness and Negative Social Cognitions in Emerging Adulthood: Adolescent Negative Peer Experiences as Moderators	3
A Kind Mind: Enhancing Socio-Emotional Skills in German Preschool Children Through the Mindfulness-Based Kindness Curriculum	3