OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 36. 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
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	137
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	127
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	105
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	91
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	81
A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	75
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	68
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	65
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	64
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	61
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	59
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	58
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	57
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	56
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	55
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	54
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	52
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	52
Trauma behind the keyboard: Exploring disparities in child sexual abuse materials exposure and mental health factors among investigators and forensic examiners – A network analysis	51
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study	49
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	46
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	43
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	43
Child maltreatment and emergency department visits: a longitudinal birth cohort study from infancy to early adulthood	41
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	40

The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia	40
Factor structure and internal consistency of the ISPCAN Child Abuse Screening Tool Parent Version (ICAST-P) in a cross-country pooled data set in nine Balkan countries	39
Violence and abuse experiences and associated risk factors during the COVID-19 outbreak in a population-based sample of Norwegian adolescents	39
“Instead of just taking my baby, they could've actually given me a chance”: Experiences with plans of safe care among birth parents impacted by perinatal substance use	39
Supporting resilience among young people at risk of child abuse in Ethiopia: The role of social system alignment	39
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	39
Changing the paradigm: Using strategic communications to promote recognition of child sexual abuse as a preventable public health problem	38
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	38
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	37
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	37
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	37
In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-19	36
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	36
What drives change in children receiving telephone-delivered Common Elements Treatment Approach (t-CETA)? A multiple n = 1 study with Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon	36
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	36
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation	36
Professional and informal help-seeking among low-income adolescents exposed to violence in the community and at school	36