OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Youth and Adolescence is 26. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Purpose Trajectories During Middle Adolescence: The Roles of Family, Teacher, and Peer Support	97
Sexual Minority Identity and Risky Alcohol Use: the Moderating Role of Aggressive Behavior	70
Nonlinear Moderation Effect of Vagal Regulation on the Link between Childhood Trauma and Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms	56
Adolescents’ Frequency of Alcohol Use and Problems from Alcohol Abuse: Integrating Dating Partners with Parent and Peer Influences	55
Life Stress and Cyberbullying: Examining the Mediating Roles of Expressive Suppression and Online Disinhibition	52
Parenting Behaviors and Family Conflict as Predictors of Adolescent Sleep and Bedtime Media Use	50
Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Parental Psychological Control and Depressive Symptoms: The Roles of Individual Self-esteem and Peer Clique Support Norms	47
How Perceptions of the Accuracy of Parental Praise and Criticism Link With Child Adjustment: The Mediating Role of Perfectionism	47
Anxiety, Sleep Problems, and Vigorous Physical Activity: Bidirectional Associations from Early Adolescence to Early Adulthood in Swedish Adolescents	46
Prosocial Video Game Content, Empathy and Cognitive Ability in a Large Sample of Youth	43
Positive and Negative Leadership in Late Childhood: Similarities in Individual but Differences in Interpersonal Characteristics	43
A Time of Great Change: How Parents, Friends, and Classmates Shape Adolescents’ Attitudes towards the Gender Division of Labor	39
Longitudinal Relationships Between School Climate, Academic Achievement, and Gaming Disorder Symptoms Among Chinese Adolescents	38
Perceived Teacher Discrimination and Depressive Feelings in Adolescents: The Role of National, Regional, and Heritage Identities in Flemish Schools	37
Longitudinal Associations between Adolescents’ Character Attributes and Civic Actions	36
Longitudinal Relationships Among Child School Engagement, Parental Monitoring, and Child Prosocial Behavior: A Child-Parent Synergistic Mechanism	35
Non-Suicidal Self-Injury in Adolescence: The Role of Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities and COVID-19-Related Stress	33
Callous-Unemotional Traits, Moral Disengagement, and Prosocial and Bullying Behaviors in Adolescence: Disentangling Between- and Within-Person Associations	31
Identifying Defender Subgroups and Their Classroom Distribution Patterns in Chinese Adolescents: A Social-Ecological Multilevel Latent Profile Analysis	30
Interethnic Climate and Psychological Adjustment in High School: The Role of School Belonging and Ethnic Identity	30
Bullying Victimization and Comorbid Patterns of PTSD and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Random Intercept Latent Transition Analysis	29
Contextual Influence of School-Level Gender Role Attitudes and Sexual Prejudice on Allyship, Bullying, and Internalized Homonegativity	29
Neighborhood Disadvantage, Parenting, and Adolescent Internalizing Symptoms in Mexican-Origin Families: Moderating Role of Discrimination	28
Negative Affect, Sensation Seeking, and Adolescent Substance Use Development: The Moderating Role of Executive Function	28
Serial Cascade Effects of Relative Deprivation and Anger Rumination on the Development of Social Aggression Over 2.5 Years in Emerging Adults	28

Testing Reciprocal Associations between Parenting and Youth’s Motivational Resources of Career Decision-Making Agency during the Postsecondary Transition	27
Developmental Trajectories of Friendship Homophily, Racial/Ethnic Identity Commitment, and Intergroup Bias Across Middle School	26
The Comparative Roles of Mentor Self-Efficacy and Empathy in Fostering Relationship Quality with Youth	26