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

Article	Citations
Understanding of Autonomy in Russian Youth: An Interview Study	44
Perceptions of Service Efficacy Among Young Adults with Childhood Histories of Conduct Problems	44
“It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project	37
“It’s a Feeling That Makes You do Anything”: Youth’ Narratives of Love and Experiences of Victimization in Their Romantic Relationships	26
Colombian Adolescents’ Perceptions of Autonomy and Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services: An Ethical Analysis	24
Funds of Identity: Implications for Belonging Among Ethnically and Racially Minoritized Emerging Adult College Students	23
Youth Experiences in Authoring Action: The Impact of an Arts-Based Youth Program on Youth Development	23
Four Pillars of Help-Seeking Attitudes: Emotional, Societal, Cognitive, and Relational Insights From New Zealand Youth	20
Transition to Fatherhood Among Muslim Adolescents in Thailand: A Grounded Theory	19
College Students’ Anticipated Bystander Intervention Actions Against Male Supremacism: “Something More Needs to be Done”	18
“A Little Bit Closer”: A Mixed Method Analysis of the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of Adolescent Parents	17
Understanding the Protective Role of Adolescent-Adult Relationships Among Minoritized Youths in Neighborhoods Impacted by Community Violence	13
Mentors’ Supporting Approaches of Mentees’ Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies	13
Negotiating Emerging Adulthood With Master and Counter Narratives: Alcohol-Related Identity Trajectories Among Emerging Adults in Performance-Oriented Neoliberal Society	13
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in the UK: A Qualitative Study	13
Engaging Historically Marginalized Youth in Participatory Research: A Practical Guide to Promote Cultural Specificity in Measurement Validation	12
Interpersonal Curiosity and its Association With Social and Emotional Skills and Well-Being During Adolescence	12
“No Way! Like Only Hispanics are Illegal”: Examining the Racialized Psychosocial Development of Migrant “Illegality” Across Immigrant Groups in the United States	11
Critical Reflection and Cognitive Empowerment among Youth Involved in Community Organizing	11
Using QuantCrit to Advance an Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Applications to Mixture Modeling	10
Mexican American Adolescents’ Conversations About Goals: The Centrality of Financial Aspiration to Career and Educational Pursuit	9
Digitally Mediated Racial-Ethnic Socialization Among Black/African American Emerging Adults and Their Caregivers	9
“The Talk” Tells the Story: A Qualitative Investigation of Parents’ Racial Socialization Competency With Black Adolescents	9
The Sexual Landscape of Youth: How Adolescents From the U.S. Make Sense of Sexting	8
“Like They’re My Same People. They’ve Probably Been in My Shoes. . .”: Community-Based Organizations’ Role in Fostering Social and Organizational Ties for Latino/x Immigrant Youth	8

What and How We See Matters: Critical Theories for Anti-Racist Adolescent Research	8
Positive School Climate and Emotional Engagement: A Mixed Methods Study of Chinese Students as Ethnocultural Minorities in Malaysian Secondary Schools	8
Using Photovoice to Explore Teen Parents’ Perspectives on Raising Healthy Children	8
Intertwined Development of Adolescents’ Interest Pursuits	8
“I Really Want to Do Something”: How Civic Education Activities Promote Thinking Toward Civic Purpose Among Early Adolescents	8
Knowledge and Perceptions on Menstrual Hygiene Management Among School-Going Adolescent Girls in South Sudan	8
Development of Youth leadership Through Community-Based Participatory Action Research During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Korean American Adolescents	8
Doing Anti-Racist Scholarship With Adolescents: Empirical Examples and Lessons Learned	8
The Long-Term Impact of Multisystemic Therapy: An Experiential Study of the Adolescent-Young Adult Life Transition	7
Experiences of Puberty and Puberty Blockers: Insights From Trans Children, Trans Adolescents, and Their Parents	7
Youth-Led Antiracism Research: Making a Case for Participatory Methods and Creative Strategies in Developmental Science	7
“You Can Do So Much Better Than What They Expect”: An Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography on School Integration With Newcomer Youth	7
Something You Can See, Hear, and Feel: A Descriptive, Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Youths’ Articulations About Racism	7
“After the School Day, What’s Next?”: Exploring Refugee Youths’ Engagement in After-School Programs	7
Anti-Racism Education and Training for Adult Mentors Who Work With BIPOC Adolescents	6
“Why Don’t They Just Move Closer?”: Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in YPAR About Food Security	6
Describing an Online Co-development Process of VAWG Prevention Intervention Activities With Young High School Learners, in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	6
Exploring the “Social” in Social Media: Adolescent Relatedness—Thwarted and Supported	6
The Formation and Benefits of Natural Mentoring for African American Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Qualitative Study	6
Motivating Positive Youth Outcomes Through Proximal, Relevant, and Attainable Inspirational Figures	6
What Do Peers Think About Sexting? Adolescents’ Views of the Norms Guiding Sexting Behavior	6
Gender Norms and Culture in Asian-Canadian Adolescent Boys’ Anticipating Dating Relationships	6
The Social Negotiations of “Girls Like Us”: What Text-Messaging Dyadic Interactions Reveal About the Lives of Queer, Lesbian, and Bisexual Girls Living in the United States	6
How Transgender Adolescents Experience Expressing Their Gender Identity Around New People: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	6
“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	5
Domesticating Paralinguistic Digital Affordances in Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Parent-adolescent Relationships: A Relational Perspective	5
The “Othering” of Latina Girls in School Sport Contexts	5
A Mixed Method Investigation of Associations Between Caregiver Attachment and Natural Mentoring Relationships Among Black Adolescents	5
A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Adolescents’ Beliefs About the Causes of Depression	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
The What, Why, and How of Adolescent Interpersonal Goal Setting Following a Growth Mindset Intervention	5
“It’s Easy to Feel Alone, But When You Have Community, it Makes [College] a Lot Easier”: First-generation Students’ Academic and Psychosocial Adjustment Over the First Year of College	5
Exploring Pathways to Purpose in Scouts	5
Breasts, Butts, and Thighs—Oh My! Weight Spurt and Body Image Messages in Girls’ Puberty Books	5
“They See Sex as Something That’s Reproductive and Not as Something People Do for Fun”: Shortcomings in Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Socialization from Adults	5
To Lead at 17: Teenage Girls Leadership in the Scouts	4
A mixed Methods Study of Multilevel Factors Influencing Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls in Uganda	4
Exploring Black and Latinx Adolescents’ Beliefs About Achievement, Resistance, and Activism	4
Making Meaning of Peace: A Study of Adolescents in Bogota, Colombia	4
Exploring Late Adolescents’ Experiences with Career-Related Messages on Entertainment TV and in Social Media in Belgium: A Focus Group Study	4
Challenges and Coping: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Youth in Germany	4
“We’re All Equal” But Not Really: Perceptions of Racial Inequity Among Racial-Ethnic Minoritized Youth in the U.S	4
Enabling Young People from Informal Urban Communities to Exercise Their Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Practice-Based Study	4
A Critical Race Theory of Psychology as Praxis: Proposing and Utilizing Principles of PsyCrit	4
The Effectiveness of a Synchronous Online Mindfulness-Based Intervention on the Attentional Control and Mindfulness of Turkish Late Adolescents: A Mixed Methods Study	4
Adolescents’ Experiences of a Developmental Coaching and Outdoor Adventure Education Program: Using Constructive-Developmental Theory to Investigate Individual Differences in Adolescent Meaning-Making	4
Individual, Social and Environmental Influences on Sleep in Latino Pre-Adolescents: A Qualitative Analysis	4
Goals for Adolescent Participation in Organized Youth Programs: Views From Adolescent-Parent Dyads	4
Normative Sexual Health Development in Non-Normative Circumstances: Exploring Healthy Intimate Relationships Among Young People in Foster Care	4
Youths’ Perceptions of Features of a Museum-Based Youth Development Program That Create a Supportive Community Context: A Qualitative Case Study	4

Experiences and Perceived Benefits of a Youth Skateboarding Program in South Africa: From the Physical to Emotional and Beyond	4
The Experience of Maternity Group Homes: A Qualitative Study of Mothers and Providers	4
Elevating Student Voices and Addressing Their Needs: Using Youth Participatory Action Research to Improve School Climate During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
Understanding Emotion Regulation Strategies Among Youths: A Qualitative Study	3
Narratives of Puerto Rican Middle School Students Regarding School Context and Identity: Contradictions and Possibilities	3
“I Wanna at Least Give Back so They Could Have an Idea of Doing Right”: A Culturally Relevant Approach to Understanding Black Adolescent Males’ Moral Development	3
“I Have Moments Where I Am Down, But It Has Made Me Resilient”: Mental Health Strengths Among Youth At-Risk for and Living with HIV	3
An Integrative Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Behavior in White Adolescents	3
A Cannabis Crossroads: The Impact of Risk Interpretation on Cannabis-Related Behaviors Among Canadian Youth	3
School Citizenship Education Through YPAR: What Works? A Mixed-Methods Study in Italy	3
A Scoping Review of Arts-Based Interventions with Community Based Participatory Research Approaches for Addressing Mental Health Amongst Adolescents in the United States	3
Schoolwork With Purpose: A Mixed Methods Study on Youths’ Perspective on What Makes Learning Meaningful	3
The R and R of Purpose in College Students: Refining and Redefining Purpose Over Time	3
“My Story Started When I was Younger. . .”: A Qualitative Analysis of Youth’s Differential Journeys Away From School	2
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study Among 12-to-18-Year-Olds	2
“Whatever You Become, Just Be Proud of It.” Uncovering the Ways Families Influence Black and Latino Adolescent Boys’ Postsecondary Future Selves	2
“I Personally Wouldn’t Know Where to Go”: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Mental Health Services	2
Processes and Manifestations of Digital Resilience: Video and Textual Insights From Sexual and Gender Minority Youth	2
Challenges and Strategies in Working with Latine Adolescents in a Math Enrichment Afterschool Activity	2
Taking a Critical Look at Adolescent Research on Black Girls and Women: A Systematic Review	2
Young People’s Coping Strategies When Dealing With Their Own and a Friend’s Symptoms of Poor Mental Health: A Qualitative Study	2
Loneliness From the Adolescent Perspective: A Qualitative Analysis of Conversations About Loneliness Between Adolescents and Childline Counselors	2
Adolescent Females’ Dyadic Conversations About Body, Weight, and Appearance	2
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice	2
The Mental Health Effects of Student Activism: Persisting Despite Psychological Costs	2
Generation Z’s Challenges to Financial Independence: Adolescents’ and Early Emerging Adults’ Perspectives on Their Financial Futures	2
“He Knows Me as a Person”: Navigating Cultural Dynamics in Relational Pathways Towards Positive Youth-Adult Relationships in Youth Programs	2
Adolescent Dilemmas About Viewing Pornography and Their Efforts to Resolve Them	2