OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 41. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic	732
Child Maltreatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Consequences of Parental Job Loss on Psychological and Physical Abuse Towards Children	265
Child maltreatment and depression: A meta-analysis of studies using the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire	237
Effects of maltreatment on coping and emotion regulation in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic review	139
Do suicide rates in children and adolescents change during school closure in Japan? The acute effect of the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic on child and adolescent mental health	131
Increased proportion of physical child abuse injuries at a level I pediatric trauma center during the Covid-19 pandemic	104
COVID-19 and violence against children: A review of early studies	86
Questioning the use of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) questionnaires	83
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), peer victimization, and substance use among adolescents	83
Trends in Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the United States	80
“I never told anyone until the #metoo movement”: What can we learn from sexual abuse and sexual assault disclosures made through social media?	78
Is the psychological impact of exposure to COVID-19 stronger in adolescents with pre-pandemic maltreatment experiences? A survey of rural Chinese adolescents	74
Disparities in adverse childhood experiences by race/ethnicity, gender, and economic status: Intersectional analysis of a nationally representative sample	72
Frequencies and patterns of adverse childhood events in LGBTQ+ youth	71
Using social media data for assessing children’s exposure to violence during the COVID-19 pandemic	67
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence	66
Investigating the association between bullying victimization and suicidal ideation among adolescents: Evidence from the 2017 Youth Risk Behavior Survey	64
Telemental health for child trauma treatment during and post-COVID-19: Limitations and considerations	62
Data-informed recommendations for services providers working with vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic	60
Childhood maltreatment and prosocial behavior among Chinese adolescents: Roles of empathy and gratitude	59
The influence of adverse and advantageous childhood experiences during adolescence on young adult health	57
Reporting of child maltreatment during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in New York City from March to May 2020	56
Preventing child sexual abuse: A systematic review of interventions and their efficacy in developing countries	56
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Executive Function Difficulties in Children: A Systematic Review	55
Violence against children during COVID-19: Assessing and understanding change in use of helplines	55

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) research: A bibliometric analysis of publication trends over the first 20 years	54
It’s not “Just poverty”: Educational, social, and economic functioning among young adults exposed to childhood neglect, abuse, and poverty	52
Polyvictimization and psychopathology among children and adolescents: A systematic review of studies using the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire	51
A spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on child abuse and neglect in the city of Los Angeles, California	49
Mediating effect of neuroticism and negative coping style in relation to childhood psychological maltreatment and smartphone addiction among college students in China	47
Parenting stress among new parents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	46
Children’s participation: A new role for children in the field of child maltreatment	46
Parenting interventions to prevent violence against children in low- and middle-income countries in East and Southeast Asia: A systematic review and multi-level meta-analysis	45
Child maltreatment and the development of psychopathology: The role of developmental timing and chronicity	45
Characterizing adverse childhood experiences among children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder	45
In the trauma-informed care trenches: Teacher compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and intent to leave education within underserved elementary schools	44
Prevalence of child maltreatment in the Netherlands: An update and cross-time comparison	43
Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents’ mental health	42
Pediatrics adverse childhood experiences and related life events screener (PEARLS) and health in a safety-net practice	42
COVID-19: Differences in sentinel injury and child abuse reporting during a pandemic	41
Strengthening the predictive power of screening for adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) in younger and older children	41
Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa	41
A network approach to parental burnout	41