OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Adolescent Research is 2. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender and Sexual Identity in Adolescence: A Mixed-Methods Study of Labeling in Diverse Community Settings	39
The Mental Health Effects of Student Activism: Persisting Despite Psychological Costs	38
Using QuantCrit to Advance an Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Applications to Mixture Modeling	31
What Do Peers Think About Sexting? Adolescents’ Views of the Norms Guiding Sexting Behavior	24
Improving Mental Health Among Transgender Adolescents: Implementing Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens	22
“Oh, You’re Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl”: Black Adolescent Girls’ Identities and Resistance to Colorism	21
On Being the First: The Role of Family in the Experiences of First-Generation College Students	21
How to Be an Antiracist: Youth of Color’s Critical Perspectives on Antiracism in a Youth Participatory Action Research Context	19
Anti-Racism Education and Training for Adult Mentors Who Work With BIPOC Adolescents	17
Acknowledging Bias and Pursuing Protections to Support Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Critical Contributions of Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory	16
Youth-Led Antiracism Research: Making a Case for Participatory Methods and Creative Strategies in Developmental Science	14
Loneliness From the Adolescent Perspective: A Qualitative Analysis of Conversations About Loneliness Between Adolescents and Childline Counselors	13
“That’s How Revolutions Happen”: Psychopolitical Resistance in Youth’s Online Civic Engagement	11
Adolescent Experience With Parental Cancer and Involvement With Medical Professionals: A Heuristic Phenomenological Inquiry	11
Doing Anti-Racist Scholarship With Adolescents: Empirical Examples and Lessons Learned	10
School Citizenship Education Through YPAR: What Works? A Mixed-Methods Study in Italy	10
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice	9
Challenges and Coping: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Youth in Germany	9
“People Are Demanding Justice”: Pandemics, Protests, and Remote Learning Through the Eyes of Immigrant Youth of Color	9
Resistance Capital: Cultural Activism as a Gateway to College Persistence for Minority and First-Generation Students	8
Familial Interdependence, Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and the Formation of Familial Mentoring Relationships Within Black Families	8
Exploring the “Social” in Social Media: Adolescent Relatedness—Thwarted and Supported	8
Experiences of Puberty and Puberty Blockers: Insights From Trans Children, Trans Adolescents, and Their Parents	8
The Development of Critical Consciousness in Adolescents of Color Attending “Opposing” Schooling Models	8
“It’s Better Saying I Look Fat Instead of Saying You Look Fat”: A Qualitative Study of U.K. Adolescents’ Understanding of Appearance-Related Interactions on Social Media	8

“Will My Young Adult Years be Spent Socially Distancing?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Adolescents’ Experiences During the COVID-19 UK Lockdown	7
An Integrative Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Behavior in White Adolescents	7
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in the UK: A Qualitative Study	7
“The Talk” Tells the Story: A Qualitative Investigation of Parents’ Racial Socialization Competency With Black Adolescents	7
What do Teachers do to Show They Care? Learning From the Voices of Early Adolescents	7
“Whatever You Become, Just Be Proud of It.” Uncovering the Ways Families Influence Black and Latino Adolescent Boys’ Postsecondary Future Selves	7
“I Really Want to Do Something”: How Civic Education Activities Promote Thinking Toward Civic Purpose Among Early Adolescents	7
Youth Experiences in Authoring Action: The Impact of an Arts-Based Youth Program on Youth Development	7
A Qualitative Inquiry of Associations Between Family Environment and Suicidality for Transgender Youth Experiencing Homelessness	7
Concrete and Abstract Dimensions of Diverse Adolescents’ Social-Emotional Meaning-Making, and Associations With Broader Functioning	7
“A Little Bit Closer”: A Mixed Method Analysis of the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of Adolescent Parents	7
The Long-Term Impact of Multisystemic Therapy: An Experiential Study of the Adolescent-Young Adult Life Transition	7
Critical Reflection and Cognitive Empowerment among Youth Involved in Community Organizing	6
Digital Media as Sites for Cultural Identity Development: The Case of Hmong American Emerging Adults	6
How is Trait Self-Compassion Used During Appearance-Related Distress by Late Adolescents and Emerging Adults With Positive or Negative Body Image? A Qualitative Study	6
Exploring Youths’ Cannabis Health Literacy Post Legalization: A Qualitative Study	6
The Formation and Benefits of Natural Mentoring for African American Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Qualitative Study	6
Something You Can See, Hear, and Feel: A Descriptive, Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Youths’ Articulations About Racism	6
“Those are the Spaces Where I Feel Seen and Fully Understood”: Digital Counterspaces Fostering Community, Resistance, and Intersectional Identities Among Latinx LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults	6
“It’s like an elephant in the room with my family”: LGBTQ+ College Students’ Identity Expression During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
How Mentors Contribute to Latinx Adolescents’ Social Capital in the Sciences	6
“They See Sex as Something That’s Reproductive and Not as Something People Do for Fun”: Shortcomings in Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Socialization from Adults	6
A Clash of Sexual Gender Norms and Understandings: A Qualitative Study of Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Adolescents’ Experiences in Junior High Schools	6
“Girls May Bleed Through Pads Because of Demerits”: Adolescent Girls’ Experiences With Menstruation and School Bathrooms in the U.S.A.	6
“Smile!”: Emotion Performance as a Strategy for Belonging in Junior High School	6
A Qualitative Exploration of How Transgender and Non-binary Adolescents Define and Identify Supports	5
Experiences and Perceived Benefits of a Youth Skateboarding Program in South Africa: From the Physical to Emotional and Beyond	5
Instrumental Mentoring for Young Adults: A Multi-Method Study	5
“That’s Just a Part of Growing Up”: A Study of Non-formal Educators’ Lay Theories of Adolescence	5
Age, Autonomy, and Authority of Knowledge: Discursive Constructions of Youth Decision-Making Capacity and Parental Support in Transgender Minors’ Accounts of Healthcare Access	5
Making Meaning of Peace: A Study of Adolescents in Bogota, Colombia	5
Race Talk During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Emerging Adults’ Critical Consciousness and Racial Identity in Context	5
Processes and Manifestations of Digital Resilience: Video and Textual Insights From Sexual and Gender Minority Youth	5
“Why Don’t They Just Move Closer?”: Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in YPAR About Food Security	5
“After the School Day, What’s Next?”: Exploring Refugee Youths’ Engagement in After-School Programs	5
Incongruent Impressions: Teacher, Parent, and Student Perceptions of Two Black Boys’ School Experiences	4
Taking a Critical Look at Adolescent Research on Black Girls and Women: A Systematic Review	4
Exploring Late Adolescents’ Experiences with Career-Related Messages on Entertainment TV and in Social Media in Belgium: A Focus Group Study	4
Positive School Climate and Emotional Engagement: A Mixed Methods Study of Chinese Students as Ethnocultural Minorities in Malaysian Secondary Schools	4
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Empathy Training on Empathy Skills, Life Satisfaction, and Relationship Quality for Chinese Adolescents and Their Mothers: A Mixed Methods Study	4
If They Only Disrespect Us a Little, and the Story is Interesting, I Keep Watching: Navigation of Ethnic Media Gratifications by Latino Teens	4
Toward an Indigenizing, Anti-Colonial Framework for Adolescent Development Research	4
Sexual Experiences and Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	4
Negotiating Emerging Adulthood With Master and Counter Narratives: Alcohol-Related Identity Trajectories Among Emerging Adults in Performance-Oriented Neoliberal Society	4
What and How We See Matters: Critical Theories for Anti-Racist Adolescent Research	4
Mid-Adolescents’ Social Media Use: Supporting and Suppressing Autonomy	4
The Cost of Early Independence: Unmet Material Needs Among College Students With Homelessness or Foster Care Histories	4
“I Personally Wouldn’t Know Where to Go”: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Mental Health Services	4
A Critical Race Theory of Psychology as Praxis: Proposing and Utilizing Principles of PsyCrit	4
Colombian Adolescents’ Perceptions of Autonomy and Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services: An Ethical Analysis	4

But He Loves Me: Teens’ Comments about Healthy and Unhealthy Romantic Relationships	4
Sexual and Gender Diverse Young Adults’ Perception of Behaviors that are Supportive and Unsupportive of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities	4
A Qualitative Study of Social Media and Electronic Communication among Canadian Adolescent Female Soccer Players	3
The Role of Family Ethnic Socialization and Generational Status in White Adolescents’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Development	3
Young People’s Coping Strategies When Dealing With Their Own and a Friend’s Symptoms of Poor Mental Health: A Qualitative Study	3
Exploring Pathways to Purpose in Scouts	3
Interpersonal Curiosity and its Association With Social and Emotional Skills and Well-Being During Adolescence	3
Perspectives of Youth With LGBTQ+ Parents: Feelings of Openness and Acceptance Toward Others, Oneself, and Family	3
Engagement with Master and Alternative Narratives of Gender and Sexuality Among LGBTQ+ Youth in the Digital Age	3
Understanding Emotion Regulation Strategies Among Youths: A Qualitative Study	3
“You Can Do So Much Better Than What They Expect”: An Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography on School Integration With Newcomer Youth	3
“It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project	3
Toward Generalized Concern: The Development of Compassion and Links to Kind Orientations	3
In-Between: Late-Arriving Teens in Adult Education Programs Navigating Child and Adult Immigrant Narratives	3
Youths’ Perceptions of Features of a Museum-Based Youth Development Program That Create a Supportive Community Context: A Qualitative Case Study	3
Knowledge and Perceptions on Menstrual Hygiene Management Among School-Going Adolescent Girls in South Sudan	3
Chinese Youth’s Reported Social and Moral Transgressions and Strategies for Self-Correction	2
The What, Why, and How of Adolescent Interpersonal Goal Setting Following a Growth Mindset Intervention	2
Gender Norms and Culture in Asian-Canadian Adolescent Boys’ Anticipating Dating Relationships	2
“¿Y tu novio? Where’s Your Boyfriend?”: A Cultural-Ecological Analysis of Latinas’ Narratives of Teen Dating Experiences	2
“How Am I Supposed to Act?”: Adapting Bronfenbrenner’s Ecological Systems Theory to Understand the Developmental Impacts of Multiple Forms of Violence	2
Confirmation of a Reconceptualized Definition and Measure of Adolescent Risk Behavior: Adolescent Viewpoints	2
Understanding Latinx Child Farmworkers’ Reasons for Working: A Mixed Methods Approach	2
Adolescent Dilemmas About Viewing Pornography and Their Efforts to Resolve Them	2
“We’re All Equal” But Not Really: Perceptions of Racial Inequity Among Racial-Ethnic Minoritized Youth in the U.S	2
Development of Youth leadership Through Community-Based Participatory Action Research During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Korean American Adolescents	2
“We’re not anti-police…We’re anti-police brutality”: An Exploration of Black College Freshmen’s Perception of Police Brutality on Social Media	2
Responding to Teenagers’ Emotional Meltdowns: How Outward Bound Instructors Facilitate Development of Anxiety Management Skills	2
“I Get to See Another Day”: Examining Where Black and Latinx Youth From Economically Disenfranchised Chicago Neighborhoods Find Happiness	2
The Lived Experiences of Highly Mobile Military Adolescents in Search of Their Identity: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study	2
Sites of Sanctuary: Examining Blackness as “Something Fugitive” Through the Tactical Use of Ethnic Clubs by Haitian Immigrant High School Students	2
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study Among 12-to-18-Year-Olds	2
“No Way! Like Only Hispanics are Illegal”: Examining the Racialized Psychosocial Development of Migrant “Illegality” Across Immigrant Groups in the United States	2
Perceptions of School Life and Academic Success of Adolescents With Asthma	2
A Qualitative Investigation of Leisure Engagement and Health Benefits Among North Korean Adolescent Refugees	2
From One Generation to the Next: Hmong American Adolescents’ Views of Maternal Racial Socialization	2
Learning From Youth: Using Positive Outcomes to Evaluate Summer Youth Employment Programs	2