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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Child Maltreatment 2023 Article of the Year	51
A Qualitative Analysis of the Effects of COVID-19 on Home Visiting Service Provision	41
“I Want Everybody to Know as Much of My Life Story as They Can”: Life Stories of Former Foster Youth	25
Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Section of Child Maltreatment Editorial Board	22
Ten Years Later: An Updated Critical Look at Trauma Informed Care Among Agencies and Systems Serving Youth and Their Families	18
The Relationship Between Child Welfare Service Receipt and Adult and Child Outcomes: Evidence From the Regional Partnership Grants Program	18
Mandatory Reporting: What’s the Empirical Evidence Base? A Systematic Scoping Review	18
Testing the Appropriateness of Social Disorganization Theory in the Study of Neighborhood Factors and Rural Child Maltreatment	18
Prenatal and Infant Reports and Child Protection Involvement: A Longitudinal Cohort Study	16
Child Maltreatment During the Pandemic	16
Moderators of Mental Health Outcomes Following Childhood and Adolescent Image-Based Sexual Abuse	15
Children’s Elaborated Responses to Yes-No Questions in Forensic Interviews About Sexual Abuse	15
Intimate Partner Violence and Children’s Health After Parental Separation: Development and Psychometric Testing of the HELP-T Scale	14
Black Moms Matter: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Barriers to Service Utilization at a Children’s Advocacy Center Following Childhood Abuse	13
Perinatal Health Profiles Associated With Removal From the Home and Subsequent Child Protective Services Report in Maltreated Infants	13
Development and Performance of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network Trauma-Informed Organizational Assessment	12
When Empathy Helps and Hurts: Non-Linear Associations Between Early Childhood Maltreatment History, Empathy and Self-Harm Thoughts	12
Early Childhood Income Instability and Mental Health in Adolescence: Parenting Stress and Child Maltreatment as Mediators	11
Child Maltreatment, the Law, and Two Types of Error	10
A Multimethod Exploration of the COVID-Era Transition to Virtual Hearings in Child Welfare Court Cases	10
Caseworker Visitation After Reunification and Children’s Reentry Into Foster Care: A Survival Analysis	10
Caregiver Psychological Maltreatment Behaviors Toward Children on TikTok	10
Call for Editorial Board Nominations	9
Home Visiting and Child Welfare Involvement: A Matched Comparison Group Study	8
Introduction: COVID-19 Related Professional Challenges, Innovations, and Implications for Child Maltreatment Victims	8

Factors Associated with Child Removal Among American Indian and Alaska Native People in an Alcohol Intervention Study	8
Prevalence of Suspected Medical Child Abuse in the School Setting: A Study of School Nurses	8
Child Maltreatment Among Children in Out-of-Home Care: Secondary Analysis of NCANDS and AFCARS Data	7
Upstream but Uneven: The Mismatch Between Structural Risk and Child Maltreatment Prevention Service Allocation in Texas	7
The role of maltreatment risk in the interplay between maternal and child’s empathy over time	7
Mental Health Service Use Among Young People From Families With Different Intergenerational Patterns of Child Protection Contact	7
Subtle Forms of Reluctance in Commercially Sexually Exploited Adolescents’ Responses when Questioned by the Police and at Trial	6
What About the Children? Co-Occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Parental Separation	6
Substance Use-Associated Infant Maltreatment Report Rates in the Context of Complex Prenatal Substance Use Policy Environments	6
Factors Associated With Permanency for Children in Out-Of-Home Placement: A Survival Analysis	6
Acknowledgement of Child Maltreatment’s 2023 External Reviewers The Editors	6
Intergenerational (Dis)continuity of Child Maltreatment: Variation by Parents’ Childhood Victimization Experiences and Sex	6
Public Knowledge and Attitudes About the Nature and Impact of Child Emotional Abuse: A Systematic Review	6
Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Section of Child Maltreatment Editorial Board	6
Call for Papers: Special Issue: The Family First Prevention Services Act (FFPSA): Policy, Implementation, Equity, and Outcomes	6
Telehealth Delivery of the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention is Associated With Reduced Posttraumatic Stress in Children and Caregivers	6
Validation of the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) in the Context of Trauma-Focused Treatment	6
Measurement Models of Child Maltreatment and Associations With Suicidal Ideation Endorsement by Youth in Foster Care: A Multiverse Analytic Approach	5
The Impact of Child Maltreatment and Adverse Childhood Experiences on Problematic Alcohol Use in a Nationally Representative Survey of Youth	5
Acceptability and Utility of Telehealth Group Services for Youth Problematic Sexual Behaviors in Rural Communities: Caregiver, Youth, and Clinician Insights	5
Impact of Children’s Presence on Police Responses to Domestic Violence Call Situations	5
Note: The Review Process for the Drake (2024) Commentary and the Palusci (2024) Response	5
Maternal History of Childhood Maltreatment and Brain Responses to Infant Cues Across the Postpartum Period	5
Professional Perceptions of Problematic Sexual Behavior in Children	5
School Closure and Child Maltreatment During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Preventable Emergency Department Utilization Among Patients With Foster Care History Compared to Patients Without Foster Care History	5
State Policy Levers for Reducing Early Childhood Maltreatment: The Importance of Family Planning and Economic Support Policies	5
Childhood Maltreatment, Executive Function, and Suicide Attempts in Adolescents	5
A Pilot Proof-of-Concept Study of Telehealth-Based Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Autistic Youth: Initial Evidence of Efficacy and Acceptability	5
The Impact of Data Suppression on Re-Identification Risk and Data Access in the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System	5
Adolescence Does Not Divert Sex Offending Adolescents of Color from Criminal Legal System Involvement	5
“Locked in a Jail Cell in Your Own Home”: Child Maltreatment Investigators’ Perspectives of COVID-19’s Effects on Maltreated Children	5
Associations Between Medication for Opioid Use Disorder and Family Functioning in Child Welfare-Involved Families	4
Successful Criminal Prosecutions of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Abuse of Minors: A Comparative Analysis	4
Structured Topic Modeling of Child Fatal Injury Narratives Using Machine Learning with County-Level Demographic Indicators to Strengthen Prevention Strategies	4
Profiles of Childhood Adversity, Strengths, and Wellbeing in Adulthood	4
Estimating Surveillance Bias in Child Maltreatment Reporting During Home Visiting Program Involvement	4
Perinatal Intervention Desires of New Fathers Who Have a History of Child Maltreatment: A Mixed Methods Study	4
Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Dissociative Symptomatology: Moderation by Autonomic Regulation	4
Adults’ Ability to Detect the Pseudotemporal Problem when Children Give “I Don’t Know” Responses	4
Patterns of Protective Factors Following Childhood Maltreatment and Youth Developmental Outcomes	4
Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Happiness of Nursing Students: A Mixed Methods Study	4
Pathways of Intergenerational Risk: Examining the Association Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Socio-Emotional and Behavioral Concerns at 8 Years of Age	4
Going Home: Predictors of Reunification and Reentry in Dutch Child Protection Cases	4
Acknowledgement of Child Maltreatment’s 2022 External Reviewers	4
Child Maltreatment Re-report, Substantiation, and Foster Care Placement: A Latent Class Analysis of Child, Caregiver, and Household Risk Factors Across Screened-In and Screened-Out Cases	4
From Maltreatment to Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: The Relevance of Emotional Maltreatment	4