OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Developmental Science 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
Longitudinal associations between critical consciousness, school racial climate, and belonging in school	27
Much hypothesized, rarely tested: Public preschool attendance predicts executive functioning skills in 3rd grade	18
Unique and joint contributions of behavioral and emotional self-regulation to school readiness	15
Empowering community-changers: Developing civic efficacy in elementary classrooms	12
Validity studies of a parent-completed social-emotional measure in a representative sample in China	10
Promoting youth social-emotional development through animal-assisted interventions: A qualitative analysis of special education students’ perspectives	10
Interview and child factors that influence children’s true disclosures of a parent’s versus a stranger’s wrongdoing	9
Development and validation of the Critical Reflection Scale for youth in China: Factor structure and measurement invariance across age, gender, and sexual orientation	8
Relational social capital and educational equity among middle-school students: a person-centered analysis	7
Growth of shared book reading in the first two years and its effects on children’s development	7
The role of trajectories of stress and social support in underrepresented students’ educational outcomes	7
Coping and emotion regulation in response to social stress tasks among young adolescents with and without social anxiety	6
How does culture show up in development? Conclusion to the spotlight series on the concept of culture	6
Engaging purpose in college: a person-centered approach to studying purpose in relation to college experiences	5
Program quality instrument for youth (PQI-youth): validation of a brief, self-report measure	5
Socioeconomic disparities in early language development in two Norwegian samples	5
The role of rapport in eliciting children’s truthful reports	4
Mixed evidence concerning the effects of the hopeful mindset among mother and child in low-income families in Singapore	4
Educating teachers to enact the science of learning and development	4
Don’t sleep on identity: Longitudinal associations between identity and sleep quality in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds	4
The emerging techno-microsystem and its longitudinal influences on Chinese young children’s behavior problems	4
Developmental assets and positive youth development: an examination of gender differences in Spain	4
Breaking the chains? The effects of training a shelter dog in prison on criminal behavior and recidivism	3
The home language environment and early childhood development: a LENA study from rural and peri-urban China	3
Linking homelessness in secondary school to postsecondary and early labor market outcomes in Maryland using a continuum of risk framework	3

The effectiveness of interventions for youth that activate the social network: a meta-analytic study	3
Daily links between leisure activities, stress, and well-being during the transition to university	3
Pathways to community leadership: Transitions, turning points, and generational continuity	3
Social change, cultural evolution, weaving apprenticeship, and development: informal education across three generations and 42 years in a Maya community	3
Parental and contextual influences on religious transmission in adolescence	3
Impulse control moderates the association between substance use and substance use-related consequences among justice-system-involved youth	3
The utility of the birthday prompt in narrative practice with maltreated and non-maltreated 4- to 9-year-old children	3
The roles of ethnic identity and stressors in natural mentoring support among Latinx adolescents	3
Duration of poverty and Ghanaian children’s learning and executive function outcomes	3
Validation of the French-Canadian Version of the Positive Youth Development Scale-Short Form (PYD-SF)	2
An exploration of the relationship between school poverty rates and students’ perceptions of empowerment: student-staff relationships, equitable roles, & classroom sense of community	2
Back to school: Teachers’ initial perceptions of students’ executive function behaviors are important for teacher–student relationships and executive function development	2
The perceived adultism scale: Initial validation of an instrument measuring youth experiences of age-based oppression	2
The intersection of perceptions of classroom openness with civic engagement among young urban adolescents in science classroom	2
Gratitude as a moral virtue: a psychometric evaluation of the Gratitude Assessment Questionnaire in Chinese children	2
Organized civic and non-civic activities as predictors of academic GPA in high school students	2
The influence of deviant peer association on dual systems model development: the protective role of resistance to peer influence	2
Socialization of lying scale: development and validation of a parent measure of socialization of truth and lie-telling behavior	2
How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China	2
Revised Socialization of Lying Questionnaire: a reflection of parent moral identity?	2
Perceptions of a caring school climate and mental well-being: a one-way street? Results from a random intercept cross-lagged panel model	2
Empathy in an ecosystem: A longitudinal study examining contributions of summer camp and school experiences to empathy during early adolescence	2
Lifespan perspective on self-compassion: Insights from age-groups and gender comparisons	2