OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Behavioral Development is 3. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language	69
What’s best about best friends: Higher-ranked friend nominations are more stable and more likely to be reciprocated than lower-ranked nominations	42
Early life grandmother caregiving trajectories and child development: A longitudinal study	40
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark	35
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study	29
Bias of retrospective reporting to combat missingness in longitudinal research	26
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries	24
Intergenerational effect of childhood food insecurity: Maternal food insecurity in childhood and child hair cortisol	20
Predicting daily fluctuations in multidimensional subjective age among adults aged 19 to 84 years	19
A scoping review of the role of mindful parenting in youth’s emotional, behavioral, and social adjustment, coping, and emotion regulation	18
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways	18
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children	17
Psychometric Evidence of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools for Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	17
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	17
Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens	16
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use	16
Maturation or disruption? Conscientiousness development in the transition into adolescence	15
Dynamic patterns of affect-biased attention in children and its relationship with parenting	13
Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood	13
Romantic attachment styles, harsh parenting behavior, and children’s emotional reactivity: A process model	13
Introduction to the special section on social norms and behavioral development	13
Development of ambiguity aversion from early adolescence to adulthood: New insights from the Ellsberg paradox	12
Personality disorder in young people: Development, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment	12
Early-life family relationships, children’s mental health trajectories, and their prospective associations with adolescent distrust and social isolation	11
Admitting to bullying others or denying it: Differences in children’s psychosocial adjustment and implications for intervention	11

Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions	11
The Moderating Role of Child Temperament in the Face of Parental Distress During Covid-19: Associations with Long-Term Social-Emotional Functioning	11
Family obligation moderates longitudinal associations between parental psychological control and adjustment of urban adolescents	11
Should we turn a deaf ear or take responsibility? The bystander effect in helping behavior of young children	9
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents	9
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency	9
A mediation analysis to disentangle relations between maternal education and early child development	9
The link between co-rumination and mood problems in victimized adolescents: A daily diary study	9
Occupational and familial long-term effects of gender role attitudes	8
Self-regulation and academic achievement among Singaporean young children: A cross-cultural comparison in a multicultural Asian society	8
A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude	8
Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood	8
The promotion of independence and interdependence in parent–child interactions across two cultures: Associations with maternal socialization goals	7
The five Cs as a model of positive human development: Extending a model of positive youth development to young and middle-aged adults	7
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures	7
Cross-lagged relationship between interpersonal closeness, early language skills and emotion understanding among toddlers	7
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change	7
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts	7
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts	6
Temperament, Prosociality, and Cultural Differences in Declarative Pointing: A Multi-Method Study	6
Bidirectional relationships between emotion understanding and executive functions in young children: A latent change score modeling study	6
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents	6
Maternal discipline in the moment: Within-person fluctuations in maternal self-efficacy, attributions, and intended disciplinary responses in the context of challenging toddler behavior	6
Parenting approaches and feelings of autonomy among adolescents in two cultures	6
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents	6
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence	6
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years	6
How far does the apple fall from the tree? A cross-sectional study of the relationship between child and parent self-regulation mediated by parenting practices	6
Child-to-parent violence and parent mental health: A systematic review	5
Parents’ social comparisons online, distress, and self-efficacy: A longitudinal examination of predictors and effects	5
Reliability and validity of the responsive care tool for children 0–3 years old in a rural, South Asian setting	5
Classroom social status norms and bullying dynamics: A latent profile analysis of popularity, likability, and rejection norms	5
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in preschoolers and mental health outcomes in adolescence	5
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school	5
Individual differences in retirement savings: The role of future self-continuity and numeracy	5
Young White children’s allocation and punishment behaviors toward White and Black peers: Individual and parental factors	5
Parents’ perfectionistic tendencies predicted early relationship skills: Children’s forgiveness as a mediator	5
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher	4
The effects of youth civic participation on well-being: Results from a seven-wave longitudinal study	4
Choosing friends based on similarity or popularity? Friendship preferences of children exhibiting bullying and defending in late childhood	4
Influence of parenting styles on children’s development of externalizing behaviors: The role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia	4
Improved responsive caregiving and home learning environment through a relational home visitation program: Delayed control group comparison	4
What she believes or what she says? The relation between maternal social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, mental state talk, and children’s theory of mind	4
Latent growth curve analyses of emotional awareness and emotion regulation in early and middle adolescence	4
Cultivating child prosocial behavior in dynamic family systems: The distinct role of family conflict and parental monitoring	4
Accommodative coping and preparation for age-related changes: Results from a four-wave panel study	4
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security	4
The relationship between momentary affect and working memory performance among older couples	4
Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses	4
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool-age cognitive functioning	4

Measuring communication openness within adoptive families: The psychometric properties of the multi-informant Adoption Communication Openness Scale	3
Parent–child conversations about refugee newcomers are associated with children’s refugee-specific prosociality	3
Biopsychosocial pathways from early adversity to depression: Potential mechanisms and implications for intervention	3
Editorial coda	3
How is mental health associated with adolescent alpha-amylase and cortisol reactivity and coordination?	3
Positive transactional processes from age 3 to 15: Social competence, maternal parenting, and fathers’ support for mothers	3
Do adolescent and young adult sexters and non-sexters have distinct value orientations?	3
Longitudinal Paths Between Parenting, Internalizing Symptoms, and Different Forms of Prosocial Behavior	3
Linking persistence and executive functions with later academic achievement	3
Perceiving expectations for active aging in the context of age-related gains and losses	3
Self-concept at different stages of life: How do early and late adolescents and young, middle-aged, and older adults describe themselves?	3
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	3
The role of maternal depressive symptoms and maternal engagement as mechanisms between intimate partner violence exposure during infancy and social functioning in middle childhood	3
Early career gender differences in job burnout trajectories in Finland: Roles of work, family, and financial resources	3
Theory-of-mind training improves children’s resistance to being lured away by strangers	3
Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level	3
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence	3
The role of ISSBD in developmental science: Views of Past Presidents	3
Facial emotion recognition and social-emotional problems in middle childhood: Assessment of directional effects	3
Fathers matter—the relationship between paternal parenting and children’s externalizing and internalizing problems: A systematic review	3
Longitudinal pathways between maternal depression, parenting behaviors, and early childhood development: A mediation analysis	3
The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement	3
Functional connectivity markers of prematurity at birth predict neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months	3
Associations among symbolic functioning, joint attention, expressive communication, and executive functioning of children in rural areas	3
Maintaining physical activity in older adults: The importance of health-specific control strategies	3
Children’s subjective socioeconomic status and their sharing decisions: The role of the recipient’s neediness	3