OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 37. 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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	120
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	107
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	96
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	86
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	79
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	65
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	60
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	60
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	57
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	56
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	56
A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	55
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	53
Long-term memory and subjective forgetting: A longitudinal study	53
Juvenile parricide in Turkey: Forensic psychiatric perspectives on child abuse, family violence, and fatal outcomes	52
Professional and informal help-seeking among low-income adolescents exposed to violence in the community and at school	52
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	51
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	51
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation	49
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	48
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	47
Are different types of childhood adversities correlated within and across time? A comparison of data on adversity co-occurrence from three longitudinal birth cohort studies	45
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	45
Trauma behind the keyboard: Exploring disparities in child sexual abuse materials exposure and mental health factors among investigators and forensic examiners – A network analysis	45
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	43

In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-19	43
Application of the data quality framework to administrative data on child maltreatment	43
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	42
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	42
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	40
The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia	40
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	39
Child maltreatment and emergency department visits: a longitudinal birth cohort study from infancy to early adulthood	38
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	38
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	38
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	37
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	37
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	37
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	37