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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change	97
Subjective perceptions of age-related gains buffer negative associations of perceived age-related losses with health, well-being, and engagement	24
Adolescent personality development as a longitudinal marker for burnout and happiness in emerging adulthood	24
Is more information always better? Associations among parents’ online information searching, information overload, and self-efficacy	20
The Japanese empathy questionnaire (EmQue) for preschool children: Psychometric properties and measurement invariance across gender	19
The associations between sibling influence and perception of sibling relationship quality among adolescents: The moderating role of birth order	17
Can language modulate perceptual narrowing for faces? Other-race face recognition in infants is modulated by language experience	16
Children’s domain-specific self-evaluations and global self-worth: A preregistered cross-cultural meta-analysis	16
The effect of implementation intentions on event-, time-, and activity-based prospective memory in typically developing children	15
Configural properties of face portraits change between childhood and adulthood	14
Advanced scaling and modeling of children’s theory of mind competencies: Longitudinal findings in 4- to 6-year-olds	13
Dynamic change meets mechanisms of change: Examining mediators in the latent change score framework	12
Assessing peer influence and susceptibility to peer influence using individual and dyadic moderators in a social network context: The case of adolescent alcohol misuse	12
The role of mothers’ child-based self-worth in their parenting practices	12
Challenging the exclusion of immigrant peers	11
Parental psychological control and emotional well-being among emerging adults: The moderating role of parent-oriented self-construals	11
Can changing schools help peer-victimized students escape their plight? A mixed-methods study	11
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents	11
Change over time in interactions between unfamiliar toddlers	11
Children’s peer rejection trajectories and Internet gaming addiction: A five-wave growth mixture model	11
Examining the predictors of prosocial behavior in young offenders and nonoffenders	11
Playing minds: Parental pretend play input and infants’ vocabulary development	10
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures	10
On the microfoundations of the link between classroom social norms and behavioral development	10
Multifinality, equifinality, and fanning: Developmental concepts and statistical implications	10

Civic science education for youth-driven water security: A behavioral development approach to strengthening climate resilience	10
The interchangeability of liking and friend nominations to measure peer acceptance and friendship	10
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark	9
Applying the human component model of parenting to other primates: Developmental patterns of mother-child interactions across primate species	9
The role of perceived social support in mitigating the impact of parenting stress on children’s effortful control	8
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence	8
Editorial coda	8
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents	8
Children consider “who” and “what” when reasoning about rule changes: A comparative study of children from two cultures	8
An ecological latent class model of adolescent risk and protective factors: Implications for substance use and depression prevention	8
Depicting emotions for a male or for a female audience: Do children adapt the content of their drawings to the audience gender?	8
Trust, forgiveness, and peace: The influence of adolescent social identity in a setting of intergroup conflict	7
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years	7
Persistence on challenging tasks mediates the relationship between childhood poverty and mental health problems	7
Introduction to the Special Section: Prosocial development in risky and vulnerable contexts	6
Parental warmth moderates the relation between children’s lying and theory-of-mind	6
Prospective associations of maternal stressors with child psychosocial problems through the occurrence of child physical abuse and changes in family dynamics	6
War exposure prior to conception: Longitudinal associations between maternal emotional distress and child sleep 10 years later	5
The association between school burnout, school connectedness, and bullying victimization: A longitudinal study	5
Exploring the role of the “Big Three” features of effective youth development programs in El Salvador: The sample case of programs of Compassion International	5
Profiles of climate change distress and climate denialism during adolescence: A two-cohort longitudinal study	5
Individual differences in theory of mind and children’s advanced scientific reasoning in elementary school	5
Birth family contact from childhood to adulthood: Adjustment and adoption outcomes in adopted young adults	5
Cultural contributors to negative emotionality: A multilevel analysis from the Joint Effort Toddler Temperament Consortium	5
Examining honesty–humility and cheating behaviors across younger and older adults	5
What does it mean to be susceptible to influence? A brief primer on peer conformity and developmental changes that affect it	5
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use	5
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school	5
Longitudinal associations between quality of out-of-school time and adolescent social skills	5
Impact of language familiarity on abstract pattern recognition in 9- to 12-month-old infants	4
Socially responsible children: A link between school climate and aggression and victimization	4
Evaluating a longitudinal multilevel mediation model of self-concept clarity, hope, and subjective well-being in adolescents	4
Validation and generalizability of machine learning prediction models on attrition in longitudinal studies	4
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	4
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	4
Evidence for similar conceptual progress across diverse cultures in children’s understanding of emotion	4