OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 32. 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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The mental functioning of school-age children in Poland since the outbreak of war in Ukraine and during the subsequent refugee crisis	118
The moderating role of social media motives in the relationship between screen usage and cybervictimization	95
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	95
Life-course trajectories of children through the U. S foster care system	84
Neglecting the impact of childhood neglect: A scoping review of the relation between child neglect and emotion regulation in adulthood	79
Violence Exposure and Trauma Screener for Youth (VETSY)	75
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence	72
Characteristics that predict exposure to and subsequent intentional viewing of child sexual abuse material among a community sample of Internet users	61
Exploring the relationship between adverse childhood experiences and HPV vaccination in a national sample of adults	59
Does mental contamination mediate the association between childhood trauma and obsessive-compulsive symptoms in adults?	58
Underlying mechanisms of change in the effects of cognitive behavior therapy on posttraumatic stress disorders among Chinese children: Results from a randomized controlled trial	58
Longitudinal associations between childhood victimization and neuroticism from middle childhood to early adolescence	56
“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	52
Facilitators and barriers to Children's Advocacy Center-based multidisciplinary teamwork	50
“Who maltreats? Distinct pathways of intergenerational (dis)continuity of child maltreatment”	48
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	46
Childhood maltreatment, parenting style and anxiety in Chinese youths: A case-control study	44
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	43
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	38
Effect sizes and effect size benchmarks in family violence research	38
Deviations in criminal filings of child abuse and neglect during COVID-19 from forecasted models: An analysis of the state of Oklahoma, USA	37
Hospitalization for physical child abuse: Associated medical factors and medical history since birth	37
Adverse childhood experiences and sleep disorders among Tunisian adolescents: The mediating role of internet addiction	36
Examining relationships between positive and adverse childhood experiences with physical and mental health indicators in a low-income adult sample	35
Associations between childhood maltreatment and educational, health and economic outcomes among middle-aged Chinese: The moderating role of relative poverty	34

Psychological resilience and daily stress mediate the effect of childhood trauma on depression	34
Educational strengths and functional resilience at the start of primary school following child maltreatment	34
Adverse childhood experiences and positive psychotic symptoms: A nationally representative study in Singapore	33
Does screening for maternal ACEs in prenatal care predict pregnancy health risk above and beyond demographic and routine mental health screening?	33
Associations between adverse childhood experiences and substance use: A meta-analysis	33
Psychological maltreatment: Definition and reporting barriers among American professionals in the field of child abuse	33
Experiences of Canadian mental health providers in identifying and responding to online and in-person sexual abuse and exploitation of their child and adolescent clients	33
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	32
Social and demographic characteristics of child maltreatment fatalities among children ages 5–17 years	32
So close yet so different: Neighborhood inequality and child maltreatment	32
Comparisons of violence exposure within and across contexts in predicting depression among Chinese children and adolescents	32
Cooperative guardian offenders and sentencing outcomes: Evidence from criminal sentencing documents of child trafficking crime in China	32