OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child Maltreatment is 6. 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
The Perfect Storm: Hidden Risk of Child Maltreatment During the Covid-19 Pandemic	96
Healing Interpersonal and Racial Trauma: Integrating Racial Socialization Into Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for African American Youth	82
Experiences With COVID-19 Stressors and Parents’ Use of Neglectful, Harsh, and Positive Parenting Practices in the Northeastern United States	56
How COVID-19 Is Placing Vulnerable Children at Risk and Why We Need a Different Approach to Child Welfare	46
Association of State-Level Earned Income Tax Credits With Rates of Reported Child Maltreatment, 2004–2017	37
A Systematic Review and Synthesis of Trauma-Informed Care Within Outpatient and Counseling Health Settings for Young People	36
Child Sexual Abuse and Risk of Revictimization: Impact of Child Demographics, Sexual Abuse Characteristics, and Psychiatric Disorders	32
Higher Levels of Harsh Parenting During the COVID-19 Lockdown in the Netherlands	29
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Child Protection System Referrals and Responses in Colorado, USA	26
On Racial Disparities in Child Abuse Reports: Exploratory Mapping the 2018 NCANDS	25
Social Cohesion and Informal Social Control as Mediators Between Neighborhood Poverty and Child Maltreatment	22
Informant Discrepancies in Child Maltreatment Reporting: A Systematic Review	19
Spillover and Crossover Effects: Mothers’ and Fathers’ Intimate Partner Violence, Parent-Child Aggression Risk, and Child Behavior Problems	18
Parental Exposure to Childhood Maltreatment and Offspring’s Mental Health: Investigating Pathways Through Parental Adversity and Offspring Exposure to Maltreatment	16
Child Maltreatment, Early Adult Substance Use, and Mediation by Adolescent Behavior Problems	15
Childhood Maltreatment and Eating Disorders: A Prospective Investigation	15
Child Maltreatment Investigations in Canada: Main and Moderating Effects of Primary Caregiver Cognitive Impairment	15
A Systematic Review of Controlled-Trials for PTSD in Maltreated Children and Adolescents	15
Co-Reporting of Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: The Likelihood of Substantiations and Foster Care Placements	14
Prenatal Substance Exposure and Child Maltreatment: A Systematic Review	14
What Proportion of Foster Care Children Do Not Have Child Protective Services Reports? A Preliminary Look	14
Risk Factors for Child Death During an Intimate Partner Homicide: A Case-Control Study	13
Parent-Focused Sexual Abuse Prevention: Results From a Cluster Randomized Trial	13
Patterns of Maternal Childhood Maltreatment and Disrupted Interaction Between Mothers and Their 4-Month-Old Infants	13
Integrating Animal-Assisted Therapy Into TF-CBT for Abused Youth With PTSD: A Randomized Controlled Feasibility Trial	13

Harsh Parenting and Child Brain Morphology: A Population-Based Study	13
Connected After Care: Youth Characteristics, Policy, and Programs Associated With Postsecondary Education and Employment for Youth With Foster Care Histories	12
Public Opinion About Adverse Childhood Experiences: Social Stigma, Attribution of Blame, and Government Intervention	12
The Co-Occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence in Families: Effects on Children’s Externalizing Behavior Problems	12
Sibling Separation and Placement Instability for Children in Foster Care	11
What Does Child Protective Services Investigate as Neglect? A Population-Based Study	11
School Absenteeism Associated With Child Protection System Involvement, Maltreatment Type, and Time in Out-of-Home Care	11
Poverty and Economic Pressure, Financial Assistance, and Children’s Behavioral Health in Kinship Care	11
Assessing Changes in Parent Sensitivity in Telehealth and Hybrid Implementation of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up During the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Child Maltreatment During School and Childcare Closure Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic	10
Predictors of Adoption and Guardianship Dissolution: The Role of Race, Age, and Gender Among Children in Foster Care	10
Childhood Abuse and Cognitive Function in a Large Cohort of Middle-Aged Women	10
Socio-Ecological Predictors of Resilience Development Over Time Among Youth With a History of Maltreatment	10
An Attachment-Based Parental Capacity Assessment to Orient Decision-Making in Child Protection Cases: A Randomized Control Trial	10
Assessing, Consulting, Reporting Heuristics in Professional Decision-Making Regarding Suspected Child Maltreatment in Community Healthcare Services	10
Intergenerational Transmission of Abusive Parenting: Role of Prospective Maternal Distress and Family Violence	9
Factors Associated With Caregiver–Child Symptom Concordance Among Trauma-Exposed Children	9
Earlier Contact with Child Protection Services Among Children of Parents With Criminal Convictions and Mental Disorders	9
Leveraging Administrative Data to Better Understand and Address Child Maltreatment: A Scoping Review of Data Linkage Studies	9
Inequities in Child Protective Services Contact Between Black and White Children	9
Child Protective Services Guidelines for Substantiating Exposure to Domestic Violence as Maltreatment and Assigning Caregiver Responsibility: Policy Analysis and Recommendations	9
From Child Welfare to Jail: Mediating Effects of Juvenile Justice Placement and Other System Involvement	8
Children With Intellectual Disability and Victimization: A Logistic Regression Analysis	8
Variation in States’ Implementation of CAPTA’s Substance-Exposed Infants Mandates: A Policy Diffusion Analysis	8
Distinguishing Characteristics and Disparities in Child Protective Services-Investigated Maltreatment by Fathers	8
The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis	8
Children’s Signaling of Incomprehension: The Diagnosticity of Practice Questions During Interview Instructions	7
Adolescent Neglect and Health Risk	7
Modeling the Adverse Childhood Experiences Questionnaire–International Version	7
Intergenerational Pathways Linking Mothers’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Children’s Social-Emotional Problems	7
Suppositional Wh-Questions About Perceptions, Conversations, and actions are More Productive than Paired Yes-No Questions when Questioning Maltreated Children	7
Reasonable Efforts? Child Maltreatment Investigations and Service Referrals of Parents With Ascribed Cognitive Impairments in Canada	7
Using a Person-Centered Approach to Identify Patterns of Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse in Women: Associations With Mental Health	6
From Maltreatment to Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: The Relevance of Emotional Maltreatment	6
Differential Response and the Reduction of Child Maltreatment and Foster Care Services Utilization in the U.S. From 2004 to 2017	6
State Child Welfare Policies and the Measurement of Child Maltreatment in the United States	6
Patterns of Child Maltreatment and the Development of Conflictual Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships: An Examination of Mechanisms and Gender Moderation	6
Cascades of Risk Linking Intimate Partner Violence and Adverse Childhood Experiences to Less Sensitive Caregiving During Infancy	6
Time Dimension of Childhood Adversities and Externalizing Behavior Among Children of Teen Mothers: Sensitive Period Hypothesis vs. Accumulation Hypothesis	6
Pathways From Parental Substance Use to Child Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors in a Child Protective Services Sample	6