OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child Maltreatment 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Infant and Pre-birth Involvement With Child Protection Across Australia	37
Dimensions of Child Maltreatment in Australians With a History of Out-of-Home Care	35
The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis	35
Child Abuse Pediatricians Assess a Low Likelihood of Abuse in Half of 2890 Physical Abuse Consults	24
Child Maltreatment During the Pandemic	24
Clinical Consultation During a Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Community-Based Learning Collaborative: Examination of Consultation Content, Consultative Strategies, and Provider Engagement	20
Adolescent Neglect and Health Risk	19
A Qualitative Analysis of the Effects of COVID-19 on Home Visiting Service Provision	19
Intergenerational Pathways Linking Mothers’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Children’s Social-Emotional Problems	18
Practice Analysis: Developing a Content Outline for the Child Abuse Pediatrics Certification Exam	18
The Enduring Importance of Parenting: Caregiving Quality and Fear-Potentiated Startle in Emerging Adults With a Child Maltreatment History	17
Ophthalmologists’ Attitudes, Knowledge, and Willingness to Report Child Abuse	17
The Influence of Authority Role and Victim Gender on Perceptions of Female-Perpetrated Child Sexual Abuse	16
Are Home Evictions Associated with Child Welfare System Involvement? Empirical Evidence from National Eviction Records and Child Protective Services Data	16
Statutory Threshold Wording is Associated with Child Maltreatment Reporting	15
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Provisions and Child Maltreatment Report Rates: County-Level Analysis of US National Data From 2016 to 2018	14
Introduction: Special Collection of Medical and Health-Related Research	13
The Relationship Between Temperature and Temporal Patterns and Incidence of Abusive Head Trauma in a Midwest Region Hospital	12
Successful Criminal Prosecutions of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Abuse of Minors: A Comparative Analysis	11
Children’s Elaborated Responses to Yes-No Questions in Forensic Interviews About Sexual Abuse	11
Childcare Subsidy Employment and Copayment Requirements and Child Maltreatment	11
Identification of Child Survivors of Sex Trafficking From Electronic Health Records: An Artificial Intelligence Guided Approach	10
Improving Outcomes for Families of Children With Medical Needs Known to Child Welfare: A Nurse Care Coordination Program	10
Differential Response and the Reduction of Child Maltreatment and Foster Care Services Utilization in the U.S. From 2004 to 2017	10
Individual and Organizational Factors Associated With Intent to Leave the Job and Public Child Welfare Field Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic	9

State Policy Levers for Reducing Early Childhood Maltreatment: The Importance of Family Planning and Economic Support Policies	8
The Effects of Socioeconomic Contextual Factors on Racial Differences in CFSR-3 Permanency Outcomes	8
Adolescence Does Not Divert Sex Offending Adolescents of Color from Criminal Legal System Involvement	8
Testing the Appropriateness of Social Disorganization Theory in the Study of Neighborhood Factors and Rural Child Maltreatment	8
Relationship Between Childhood Abuse and Body Mass Index in Young Adulthood: Mediated by Depression and Anxiety?	8
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual and Community Factors Associated With Case Dispositions Following Child Maltreatment Investigations	8
Child Maltreatment 2023 Article of the Year	7
Maltreatment in Childhood and Perceived Partner Responsiveness in Adult Romantic Relationships: A Dyadic Daily Diary and Longitudinal Study	7
Examining Foster Care Outcomes for American Indian Children in the Context of the Indian Child Welfare Act	7
Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Dissociative Symptomatology: Moderation by Autonomic Regulation	7
“Locked in a Jail Cell in Your Own Home”: Child Maltreatment Investigators’ Perspectives of COVID-19’s Effects on Maltreated Children	7
In Memoriam	7
Note: The Review Process for the Drake (2024) Commentary and the Palusci (2024) Response	7
Association Between Child Maltreatment and Substance Use Disorder Across Emerging Adulthood	7
Impact of Children’s Presence on Police Responses to Domestic Violence Call Situations	6
Child Witnesses Productively Respond to “How” Questions About Evaluations but Struggle With Other “How” Questions	6
Complex Trauma Exposure and Placement Stability among Systems-Impacted Black and Latinx Youth: The Mediating Role of Multisystemic Strengths	6
Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Section of Child Maltreatment Editorial Board	6
What Does Child Protective Services Investigate as Neglect? A Population-Based Study	6
Effects of COVID on Mandated Child Abuse Reporting Among Nurses: The Mediating Role of Compassion Fatigue	6
“I Want Everybody to Know as Much of My Life Story as They Can”: Life Stories of Former Foster Youth	6
Preventable Emergency Department Utilization Among Patients With Foster Care History Compared to Patients Without Foster Care History	6
Youth Reported Perpetrators of Victimization Within a Foster Care Sample	5
Describing Coercion in the Courtroom: The Influence of Language and Maltreatment Severity on Jurors’ Perceptions of Child Witnesses	5
Understanding the Mediation Effect of Social Cohesion on the Relationship Between Material Hardship and Child Maltreatment by Poverty Spells	5
Longitudinal Impacts of Housing Cost Burden on Physical and Psychological Aggression of Children From Age 3 to 15	5
Assessing Changes in Parent Sensitivity in Telehealth and Hybrid Implementation of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Impact of Safe@Home on Placement and Permanency Outcomes: Results of a Quasi-Experimental Study	5
A Review of Screened-Out Families and Child Protective Services Involvement: A Missed Opportunity to Prevent Future Maltreatment With Community-Based Services	5
Leveraging Administrative Data to Better Understand and Address Child Maltreatment: A Scoping Review of Data Linkage Studies	5
The Role of Protective Adults in Mitigating Health Outcomes Linked to Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse	5
Stability of Treatment Effects and Caregiver-Reported Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents	5
Next Steps in Untangling the Web of Violence: A Research Agenda	4
Polyvictimization and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Trauma-Exposed, Clinic-Referred Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System	4
Child Maltreatment, the Law, and Two Types of Error	4
Examining an In-Home Behavioral Parent Training Protocol Among Parents Who Use Substances Involved Child Welfare: Effectiveness of SafeCare	4
Considerations and Determinants of Discharge Decisions among Prenatal Substance Exposed Infants	4
Maternal Reports to the Child Protection System: A Longitudinal Analysis of Multiple Children	4
Characteristics of Child Sexual Abuse Material in Peer-to-Peer Networks and Predictors of its Severity: Insights From Filenames	4
Contrasting Methods of Measurement in Spatial Analyses Examining the Alcohol Environment and Child Maltreatment	4
Caregiver Psychological Maltreatment Behaviors Toward Children on TikTok	4
What Happens When Child Abuse Pediatricians and CPS Investigators Collaborate? A Study of the Multidisciplinary Pediatric Education and Evaluation Consortium	4
Child Welfare Outcomes After Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up Intervention Participation: A Quasi-Experimental Study	4
Relevance of Routine Abdominopelvic Ultrasound in Suspected Child Abuse in Children Under 2 years of Age: Review of 15 years of Experience	4
Child Fatalities Resulting From Caregiver Behavior: A Public Health Approach to Child Maltreatment Classification	4
Pseudotemporal Invitations: 6- to 9-year-Old Maltreated Children’s Tendency to Misinterpret Invitations Referencing “Time” as Solely Requesting Conventional Temporal Information	4
Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Happiness of Nursing Students: A Mixed Methods Study	4
Rates of Emotional Disturbance Among Children in Foster Care: Comparing Federal Child Welfare Data and Medicaid Records in Two States	4
Child Maltreatment Prevention Service Cases are Significantly Reduced During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Investigation Into Unintended Consequences of Quarantine	4
Patterns of Child Maltreatment and the Development of Conflictual Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships: An Examination of Mechanisms and Gender Moderation	4

The Co-Occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: A Commentary on the Special Issue	4
Examining Housing Instability Among Females Who Are System-Involved: Comparing Females With and Without Histories of Commercial Sexual Exploitation	4
Corrigendum to “The Relationship Between Temperature and Temporal Patterns and Incidence of Abusive Head Trauma in a Midwest Region Hospital”	4