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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries	71
Identifying Longevity Profiles Among Centenarians: A Latent Profile Analysis	42
Intergenerational effect of childhood food insecurity: Maternal food insecurity in childhood and child hair cortisol	40
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark	36
Early life grandmother caregiving trajectories and child development: A longitudinal study	30
What’s best about best friends: Higher-ranked friend nominations are more stable and more likely to be reciprocated than lower-ranked nominations	27
Bias of retrospective reporting to combat missingness in longitudinal research	24
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language	22
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study	21
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children	19
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	19
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways	19
Predicting daily fluctuations in multidimensional subjective age among adults aged 19 to 84 years	17
Psychometric Evidence of Suicide Risk Assessment Tools for Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review	17
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use	17
A scoping review of the role of mindful parenting in youth’s emotional, behavioral, and social adjustment, coping, and emotion regulation	16
Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens	15
Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood	14
Maturation or disruption? Conscientiousness development in the transition into adolescence	14
Introduction to the special section on social norms and behavioral development	13
Personality disorder in young people: Development, assessment, diagnosis, and treatment	13
The Moderating Role of Child Temperament in the Face of Parental Distress During Covid-19: Associations with Long-Term Social-Emotional Functioning	12
Family obligation moderates longitudinal associations between parental psychological control and adjustment of urban adolescents	12
Early-life family relationships, children’s mental health trajectories, and their prospective associations with adolescent distrust and social isolation	12
Romantic attachment styles, harsh parenting behavior, and children’s emotional reactivity: A process model	12

Admitting to bullying others or denying it: Differences in children’s psychosocial adjustment and implications for intervention	11
Dynamic patterns of affect-biased attention in children and its relationship with parenting	11
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents	11
Development of ambiguity aversion from early adolescence to adulthood: New insights from the Ellsberg paradox	10
Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions	10
Should we turn a deaf ear or take responsibility? The bystander effect in helping behavior of young children	9
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency	9
Cross-lagged relationship between interpersonal closeness, early language skills and emotion understanding among toddlers	9
The link between co-rumination and mood problems in victimized adolescents: A daily diary study	9
Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood	9
The five Cs as a model of positive human development: Extending a model of positive youth development to young and middle-aged adults	8
A mediation analysis to disentangle relations between maternal education and early child development	8
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts	8
A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude	8
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
Maternal discipline in the moment: Within-person fluctuations in maternal self-efficacy, attributions, and intended disciplinary responses in the context of challenging toddler behavior	8
The promotion of independence and interdependence in parent–child interactions across two cultures: Associations with maternal socialization goals	7
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence	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 globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents	6
Bidirectional relationships between emotion understanding and executive functions in young children: A latent change score modeling study	6
Temperament, Prosociality, and Cultural Differences in Declarative Pointing: A Multi-Method Study	6
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts	6
Standing Against Bullying: The Role of Teachers’ Support for Victims, and School Connectedness in Bystanders’ Defending Behavior	6
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years	6
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents	6
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures	6
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school	6
Parents’ social comparisons online, distress, and self-efficacy: A longitudinal examination of predictors and effects	5
Parenting approaches and feelings of autonomy among adolescents in two cultures	5
Young White children’s allocation and punishment behaviors toward White and Black peers: Individual and parental factors	5
Child-to-parent violence and parent mental health: A systematic review	5
Classroom social status norms and bullying dynamics: A latent profile analysis of popularity, likability, and rejection norms	5
Parents’ perfectionistic tendencies predicted early relationship skills: Children’s forgiveness as a mediator	5
Improved responsive caregiving and home learning environment through a relational home visitation program: Delayed control group comparison	5
Individual differences in retirement savings: The role of future self-continuity and numeracy	5
Co-occurrence of internalizing difficulties and aggression in preschoolers and mental health outcomes in adolescence	5
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	5
Influence of parenting styles on children’s development of externalizing behaviors: The role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia	5
Choosing friends based on similarity or popularity? Friendship preferences of children exhibiting bullying and defending in late childhood	4
Longitudinal Paths Between Parenting, Internalizing Symptoms, and Different Forms of Prosocial Behavior	4
The effects of youth civic participation on well-being: Results from a seven-wave longitudinal study	4
Reliability and validity of the responsive care tool for children 0–3 years old in a rural, South Asian setting	4
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher	4
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool-age cognitive functioning	4
The relationship between momentary affect and working memory performance among older couples	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
Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses	4

Tracking Divergence of Objective and Subjective Health Across Age and Historical Time	4
Children’s subjective socioeconomic status and their sharing decisions: The role of the recipient’s neediness	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
Biopsychosocial pathways from early adversity to depression: Potential mechanisms and implications for intervention	3
How is mental health associated with adolescent alpha-amylase and cortisol reactivity and coordination?	3
Maintaining physical activity in older adults: The importance of health-specific control strategies	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
Measuring communication openness within adoptive families: The psychometric properties of the multi-informant Adoption Communication Openness Scale	3
Theory-of-mind training improves children’s resistance to being lured away by strangers	3
Do adolescent and young adult sexters and non-sexters have distinct value orientations?	3
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	3
Longitudinal pathways between maternal depression, parenting behaviors, and early childhood development: A mediation analysis	3
Positive transactional processes from age 3 to 15: Social competence, maternal parenting, and fathers’ support for mothers	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
The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement	3
Nonlinear dynamics of attrition in adolescent panels: Identifying differential dropout patterns using random survival forests	3
Facial emotion recognition and social-emotional problems in middle childhood: Assessment of directional effects	3
The role of ISSBD in developmental science: Views of Past Presidents	3
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	3
Parent–child conversations about refugee newcomers are associated with children’s refugee-specific prosociality	3
Linking persistence and executive functions with later academic achievement	3
Self-concept at different stages of life: How do early and late adolescents and young, middle-aged, and older adults describe themselves?	3
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence	3
Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level	3
Perceiving expectations for active aging in the context of age-related gains and losses	3