OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 40. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	184
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	147
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	131
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	112
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	94
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	82
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	80
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	79
Risk factors and outcomes in preterm versus full-term infants with abusive head trauma: A retrospective comparative study	71
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	67
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	65
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	64
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	62
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	59
Child maltreatment and substances use throughout adolescence and adulthood: Data from a Brazilian Birth Cohort	57
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	55
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	54
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	53
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	53
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	51
The prevalence of child sexual abuse perpetrated by leaders or other adults in religious organizations in Australia	49
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	49
“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	49
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	48
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	47

Long-term memory and subjective forgetting: A longitudinal study	46
Application of the data quality framework to administrative data on child maltreatment	45
Juvenile parricide in Turkey: Forensic psychiatric perspectives on child abuse, family violence, and fatal outcomes	45
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study	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	43
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	43
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	43
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	42
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	42
Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood: A latent class analysis and time-varying effect model	42
How do young people potentially affected by child welfare endangerment use a messenger-based psychosocial chat counseling service?	41
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	41
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation	41
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	40
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	40