OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 35. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Stress and parenting during the global COVID-19 pandemic	798
Child Maltreatment during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Consequences of Parental Job Loss on Psychological and Physical Abuse Towards Children	285
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	142
Increased proportion of physical child abuse injuries at a level I pediatric trauma center during the Covid-19 pandemic	114
Disparities in adverse childhood experiences by race/ethnicity, gender, and economic status: Intersectional analysis of a nationally representative sample	95
COVID-19 and violence against children: A review of early studies	95
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence	84
Is the psychological impact of exposure to COVID-19 stronger in adolescents with pre-pandemic maltreatment experiences? A survey of rural Chinese adolescents	81
Using social media data for assessing children’s exposure to violence during the COVID-19 pandemic	78
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) research: A bibliometric analysis of publication trends over the first 20 years	75
Telemental health for child trauma treatment during and post-COVID-19: Limitations and considerations	71
Data-informed recommendations for services providers working with vulnerable children and families during the COVID-19 pandemic	69
Child maltreatment and the development of psychopathology: The role of developmental timing and chronicity	66
Violence against children during COVID-19: Assessing and understanding change in use of helplines	61
A spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on child abuse and neglect in the city of Los Angeles, California	59
Reporting of child maltreatment during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic in New York City from March to May 2020	58
Systematic review and critical appraisal of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire — Short Form (CTQ-SF)	58
Children’s participation: A new role for children in the field of child maltreatment	56
Characterizing adverse childhood experiences among children and adolescents with prenatal alcohol exposure and Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder	52
Parenting stress among new parents before and during the COVID-19 pandemic	51
Child maltreatment reports and Child Protection Service responses during COVID-19: Knowledge exchange among Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Israel, and South Africa	50
In the trauma-informed care trenches: Teacher compassion satisfaction, secondary traumatic stress, burnout, and intent to leave education within underserved elementary schools	49
Vicarious traumatization among child welfare and child protection professionals: A systematic review	49
Adverse childhood events and cognitive function among young adults: Prospective results from the national longitudinal study of adolescent to adult health	48
COVID-19: Differences in sentinel injury and child abuse reporting during a pandemic	46

A network approach to parental burnout	46
Material hardship and parenting stress among grandparent kinship providers during the COVID-19 pandemic: The mediating role of grandparents’ mental health	45
Recipients of children’s and adolescents’ disclosures of childhood sexual abuse: A systematic review	43
Child welfare in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic—Emerging evidence from Germany	41
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child protective services caseworkers and administrators	38
A systematic review and meta-analysis of trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy for children and adolescents	38
COVID-19-related fear and stress among individuals who experienced child abuse: The mediating effect of complex posttraumatic stress disorder	37
The global challenge of the neglect of children	37
The Adverse Childhood Experiences – International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ) in community samples around the world: A systematic review (part I)	37
Examining adverse childhood experiences among Native American persons in a nationally representative sample: Differences among racial/ethnic groups and race/ethnicity-sex dyads	36
Physical health, school performance and delinquency: A comparative study of left-behind and non-left-behind children in rural China	35
Positive childhood experiences can moderate the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adolescent depression and anxiety: Results from a cross-sectional survey	35