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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
“They Told Me What I Was Before I Could Tell Them What I Was”: Black Girls’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Development Within Multiple Worlds	27
Gender and Sexual Identity in Adolescence: A Mixed-Methods Study of Labeling in Diverse Community Settings	27
Using QuantCrit to Advance an Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Applications to Mixture Modeling	23
Autonomy, Social Inequality, and Support in Chinese Urban and Rural Adolescents’ Reasoning About the Chinese College Entrance Examination (Gaokao)	22
What Do Peers Think About Sexting? Adolescents’ Views of the Norms Guiding Sexting Behavior	21
“Oh, You’re Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl”: Black Adolescent Girls’ Identities and Resistance to Colorism	20
The Mental Health Effects of Student Activism: Persisting Despite Psychological Costs	18
Improving Mental Health Among Transgender Adolescents: Implementing Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens	17
On Being the First: The Role of Family in the Experiences of First-Generation College Students	15
Anti-Racism Education and Training for Adult Mentors Who Work With BIPOC Adolescents	13
Acknowledging Bias and Pursuing Protections to Support Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Critical Contributions of Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory	13
How to Be an Antiracist: Youth of Color’s Critical Perspectives on Antiracism in a Youth Participatory Action Research Context	13
“Estaba bien chiquito” (I Was Very Young): The Transition to Adulthood and “Illegality” of the Mexican and Central American 1.25 Generation	10
Loneliness From the Adolescent Perspective: A Qualitative Analysis of Conversations About Loneliness Between Adolescents and Childline Counselors	10
Adolescent Experience With Parental Cancer and Involvement With Medical Professionals: A Heuristic Phenomenological Inquiry	10
Youth-Led Antiracism Research: Making a Case for Participatory Methods and Creative Strategies in Developmental Science	9
Doing Anti-Racist Scholarship With Adolescents: Empirical Examples and Lessons Learned	9
Alternate Approaches to Coping in Latinx Adolescents From Immigrant Families	7
“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	7
“That’s How Revolutions Happen”: Psychopolitical Resistance in Youth’s Online Civic Engagement	7
Parent Support of Mexican-Descent High School Adolescents’ Science Education: A Culturally Grounded Framework	7
Familial Interdependence, Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and the Formation of Familial Mentoring Relationships Within Black Families	7
Resistance Capital: Cultural Activism as a Gateway to College Persistence for Minority and First-Generation Students	7
Does Purpose Grow Here? Exploring 4-H as a Context for Cultivating Youth Purpose	7
“People Are Demanding Justice”: Pandemics, Protests, and Remote Learning Through the Eyes of Immigrant Youth of Color	6

School Citizenship Education Through YPAR: What Works? A Mixed-Methods Study in Italy	6
“My Mentor Thinks That I can Be Someone Amazing”: Drawing Out Youths’ Passions and Purpose	6
“Will My Young Adult Years be Spent Socially Distancing?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Adolescents’ Experiences During the COVID-19 UK Lockdown	6
“A Little Bit Closer”: A Mixed Method Analysis of the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of Adolescent Parents	6
“Whatever You Become, Just Be Proud of It.” Uncovering the Ways Families Influence Black and Latino Adolescent Boys’ Postsecondary Future Selves	6
“I Really Want to Do Something”: How Civic Education Activities Promote Thinking Toward Civic Purpose Among Early Adolescents	6
Challenges and Coping: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Youth in Germany	5
Negotiating Emerging Adulthood With Master and Counter Narratives: Alcohol-Related Identity Trajectories Among Emerging Adults in Performance-Oriented Neoliberal Society	5
“I’ve seen my friend get chopped”: The Influence of Peer Networks on Exposure to Violence Among Homeless Young Adults	5
Engage, Ignore, Stand Up: Exploring How (and Why) Early Adolescents Respond to Sexual Harassment	5
“The Talk” Tells the Story: A Qualitative Investigation of Parents’ Racial Socialization Competency With Black Adolescents	5
The Development of Critical Consciousness in Adolescents of Color Attending “Opposing” Schooling Models	5
“Down Woodward”: A Case Study of Empowering Youth to See and Disrupt Segregation Using Photovoice Methods	5
The Long-Term Impact of Multisystemic Therapy: An Experiential Study of the Adolescent-Young Adult Life Transition	5
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	5
Sexual and Gender Diverse Young Adults’ Perception of Behaviors that are Supportive and Unsupportive of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities	4
“It’s like an elephant in the room with my family”: LGBTQ+ College Students’ Identity Expression During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
An Integrative Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Behavior in White Adolescents	4
Instrumental Mentoring for Young Adults: A Multi-Method Study	4
Experiences and Perceived Benefits of a Youth Skateboarding Program in South Africa: From the Physical to Emotional and Beyond	4
What and How We See Matters: Critical Theories for Anti-Racist Adolescent Research	4
A Clash of Sexual Gender Norms and Understandings: A Qualitative Study of Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Adolescents’ Experiences in Junior High Schools	4
“That’s Just a Part of Growing Up”: A Study of Non-formal Educators’ Lay Theories of Adolescence	4
“Smile!”: Emotion Performance as a Strategy for Belonging in Junior High School	4
Exploring the “Social” in Social Media: Adolescent Relatedness—Thwarted and Supported	4
Helping Teens Overcome Anxiety Episodes in Project Work: The Power of Reframing	4
Youth Experiences in Authoring Action: The Impact of an Arts-Based Youth Program on Youth Development	4
A Qualitative Exploration of How Transgender and Non-binary Adolescents Define and Identify Supports	4
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice	4
“They See Sex as Something That’s Reproductive and Not as Something People Do for Fun”: Shortcomings in Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Socialization from Adults	4
“Why Don’t They Just Move Closer?”: Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in YPAR About Food Security	4
Colombian Adolescents’ Perceptions of Autonomy and Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services: An Ethical Analysis	4
Youths’ Perceptions of Features of a Museum-Based Youth Development Program That Create a Supportive Community Context: A Qualitative Case Study	3
Sexual Experiences and Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	3
Experiences of Puberty and Puberty Blockers: Insights From Trans Children, Trans Adolescents, and Their Parents	3
Something You Can See, Hear, and Feel: A Descriptive, Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Youths’ Articulations About Racism	3
Digital Media as Sites for Cultural Identity Development: The Case of Hmong American Emerging Adults	3
What do Teachers do to Show They Care? Learning From the Voices of Early Adolescents	3
Concrete and Abstract Dimensions of Diverse Adolescents’ Social-Emotional Meaning-Making, and Associations With Broader Functioning	3
“I Personally Wouldn’t Know Where to Go”: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Mental Health Services	3
Age, Autonomy, and Authority of Knowledge: Discursive Constructions of Youth Decision-Making Capacity and Parental Support in Transgender Minors’ Accounts of Healthcare Access	3
Turning the Lens Toward Emotions: Considering HIV-Positive Adolescent Mothers in South Africa	3
“After the School Day, What’s Next?”: Exploring Refugee Youths’ Engagement in After-School Programs	3
If They Only Disrespect Us a Little, and the Story is Interesting, I Keep Watching: Navigation of Ethnic Media Gratifications by Latino Teens	3
How Mentors Contribute to Latinx Adolescents’ Social Capital in the Sciences	3
Understanding Emotion Regulation Strategies Among Youths: A Qualitative Study	3
Processes and Manifestations of Digital Resilience: Video and Textual Insights From Sexual and Gender Minority Youth	3
“You Can Do So Much Better Than What They Expect”: An Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography on School Integration With Newcomer Youth	3
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in the UK: A Qualitative Study	3
Positive School Climate and Emotional Engagement: A Mixed Methods Study of Chinese Students as Ethnocultural Minorities in Malaysian Secondary Schools	3

A Qualitative Approach to Understanding the Relationship Between Mothers’ and Daughters’ Body Image and Physical Activity Levels	3
The Cost of Early Independence: Unmet Material Needs Among College Students With Homelessness or Foster Care Histories	3
A Mixed-Methods Examination of the Unique Associations of Gender-Sexuality Alliance Involvement and Family Support on Bravery in Sexual and Gender Minority Youth	3
“I Get to See Another Day”: Examining Where Black and Latinx Youth From Economically Disenfranchised Chicago Neighborhoods Find Happiness	2
Collaborative Agency in Civic and Community Engagement: Narratives of College Students Working Toward Generative Partnerships	2
The Role of Family Ethnic Socialization and Generational Status in White Adolescents’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Development	2
From One Generation to the Next: Hmong American Adolescents’ Views of Maternal Racial Socialization	2
Exploring Pathways to Purpose in Scouts	2
In-Between: Late-Arriving Teens in Adult Education Programs Navigating Child and Adult Immigrant Narratives	2
The Formation and Benefits of Natural Mentoring for African American Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Qualitative Study	2
Learning From Youth: Using Positive Outcomes to Evaluate Summer Youth Employment Programs	2
Toward Generalized Concern: The Development of Compassion and Links to Kind Orientations	2
Confirmation of a Reconceptualized Definition and Measure of Adolescent Risk Behavior: Adolescent Viewpoints	2
Race Talk During the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: Emerging Adults’ Critical Consciousness and Racial Identity in Context	2
“Girls May Bleed Through Pads Because of Demerits”: Adolescent Girls’ Experiences With Menstruation and School Bathrooms in the U.S.A.	2
Chinese Youth’s Reported Social and Moral Transgressions and Strategies for Self-Correction	2
Responding to Teenagers’ Emotional Meltdowns: How Outward Bound Instructors Facilitate Development of Anxiety Management Skills	2
Exploring Late Adolescents’ Experiences with Career-Related Messages on Entertainment TV and in Social Media in Belgium: A Focus Group Study	2
Toward an Indigenizing, Anti-Colonial Framework for Adolescent Development Research	2
Critical Reflection and Cognitive Empowerment among Youth Involved in Community Organizing	2
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	2
Incongruent Impressions: Teacher, Parent, and Student Perceptions of Two Black Boys’ School Experiences	2
Students’ Beliefs About the Nature of Intelligence (Mindset)	2
“They Try and Break Us But They Can’t”: The Cultural Ethos Youth of Color Engage and Rely on to Persevere and Navigate Racial Stressors in the U.S. Public Education System	2
Making Meaning of Peace: A Study of Adolescents in Bogota, Colombia	2
Perspectives of Youth With LGBTQ+ Parents: Feelings of Openness and Acceptance Toward Others, Oneself, and Family	2
“We’re All Equal” But Not Really: Perceptions of Racial Inequity Among Racial-Ethnic Minoritized Youth in the U.S	2
Exploring Youths’ Cannabis Health Literacy Post Legalization: A Qualitative Study	2