OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Behavioral Development is 4. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Children’s peer rejection trajectories and Internet gaming addiction: A five-wave growth mixture model	112
Can changing schools help peer-victimized students escape their plight? A mixed-methods study	28
Assessing peer influence and susceptibility to peer influence using individual and dyadic moderators in a social network context: The case of adolescent alcohol misuse	25
Change over time in interactions between unfamiliar toddlers	23
Editorial coda	22
Adolescent personality development as a longitudinal marker for burnout and happiness in emerging adulthood	18
Parental psychological control and emotional well-being among emerging adults: The moderating role of parent-oriented self-construals	18
Children consider “who” and “what” when reasoning about rule changes: A comparative study of children from two cultures	16
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents	16
Depicting emotions for a male or for a female audience: Do children adapt the content of their drawings to the audience gender?	13
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language	12
Children’s domain-specific self-evaluations and global self-worth: A preregistered cross-cultural meta-analysis	12
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence	12
Configural properties of face portraits change between childhood and adulthood	12
Advanced scaling and modeling of children’s theory of mind competencies: Longitudinal findings in 4- to 6-year-olds	11
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning: Developmental concepts and statistical implications	11
Dynamic change meets mechanisms of change: Examining mediators in the latent change score framework	11
Can language modulate perceptual narrowing for faces? Other-race face recognition in infants is modulated by language experience	11
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark	11
Playing minds: Parental pretend play input and infants’ vocabulary development	11
Subjective perceptions of age-related gains buffer negative associations of perceived age-related losses with health, well-being, and engagement	11
The Japanese empathy questionnaire (EmQue) for preschool children: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across gender	11
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures	11
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents	11
Character attributes scale: An integrative idiographic and differential approach to measuring character	10

Challenging the exclusion of immigrant peers	10
Perceived parental expectations and their role in academic and psychosocial functioning	10
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts	8
The interchangeability of liking and friend nominations to measure peer acceptance and friendship	8
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study	8
Is more information always better? Associations among parents’ online information searching, information overload, and self-efficacy	8
The associations between sibling influence and perception of sibling relationship quality among adolescents: The moderating role of birth order	8
The role of mothers’ child-based self-worth in their parenting practices	8
Applying the human component model of parenting to other primates: Developmental patterns of mother-child interactions across primate species	8
Civic science education for youth-driven water security: A behavioral development approach to strengthening climate resilience	8
The association between school burnout, school connectedness, and bullying victimization: A longitudinal study	7
On the microfoundations of the link between classroom social norms and behavioral development	7
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways	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
The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children	7
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use	6
The role of perceived social support in mitigating the impact of parenting stress on children’s effortful control	6
Cultural contributors to negative emotionality: A multilevel analysis from the Joint Effort Toddler Temperament Consortium	5
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	5
Evaluating a longitudinal multilevel mediation model of self-concept clarity, hope, and subjective well-being in adolescents	5
Prospective associations of maternal stressors with child psychosocial problems through the occurrence of child physical abuse and changes in family dynamics	5
Birth family contact from childhood to adulthood: Adjustment and adoption outcomes in adopted young adults	5
War exposure prior to conception: Longitudinal associations between maternal emotional distress and child sleep 10 years later	5
The mediating role of loneliness on relations between face-to-face and virtual interactions and psychological well-being across age: A 21-day diary study	5
Persistence on challenging tasks mediates the relationship between childhood poverty and mental health problems	5
Impact of language familiarity on abstract pattern recognition in 9- to 12-month-old infants	4
Climate change and youth development: A view of an emerging field	4
Individual differences in theory of mind and children’s advanced scientific reasoning in elementary school	4
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school	4
Development of the forgiveness schema among young children and adolescents: A multinational comparison	4
Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults	4
Evidence for similar conceptual progress across diverse cultures in children’s understanding of emotion	4
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children	4
Parental warmth moderates the relation between children’s lying and theory-of-mind	4
Profiles of climate change distress and climate denialism during adolescence: A two-cohort longitudinal study	4