OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Developmental Psychology 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
Loneliness profiles, attachment security, and friendship quality in adolescence	80
Balancing online and offline worlds: leisure contexts and Positive Youth Development in adolescence	71
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents	42
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale	36
Properties of the teacher-report Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire and Dysregulation Profile in Italian preschoolers	22
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization	21
Three decades of ‘Dutch Protocol’ research has not produced reliable evidence	16
Youth prevention in a changing society	15
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?	13
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire	12
The psychometric properties of the parent-reported reactive-proactive aggression Questionnaire	10
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization	10
Innovations of the journal	10
Medical gender reassignment in minors – why are we cautious in Finland?	10
Zooming in on everyday ethnic-racial discrimination: a review of experiencing sampling methodology studies in adolescence	9
Between interest and activism: a person-centred approach to political participation among Greek adolescents	9
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences	9
“Never mind”: social class differences in children’s developing emotion attributions to procedural justice outcomes	9
Assessing intergroup disgust sensitivity: psychometric properties of an adolescent version of the Intergroup Disgust Sensitivity Scale	8
Real-world evidence in transgender medicine: whose evidence, and for what?	8
Factors related to internet gaming disorder: comparing reports of adolescents and their parents in Türkiye and the United Kingdom	8
Transition to emerging adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in anxiety and the role of inclusion/exclusion experiences	8
Narcissism and the risk of exercise addiction in youth: the impact of problematic social media use and fitspiration exposure	7
The pleasure of thinking in human development	7
The origins of hypothesis testing: Young children’s developing understanding of information seeking compared to effect production	7

Testing auditory social cognition precursors in 12-month-old infants through remote videoconference setting	6
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites	6
Highly sensitive children and pro-environmental behaviours: the mediating role of connectedness to nature	6
Is “rapid-onset” gender dysphoria in adolescence a new clinical phenomenon?	5
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns	5
The Dutch approach for transgender adolescents; past, present and future perspectives	5
Bias-based harassment and bullying: addressing mechanisms and outcomes for possible interventions	5
Peer pressure and adolescents’ bullying perpetration: Anger rumination as a mediator and frustrated interpersonal needs as a moderator	5
Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China	5
Special section in honour of the emeritus status given to Dr. Luc Goossens	5
Label superiority effect on emotional voices in young children	5
Mental rotation of 3D objects is linked to motor skills in preschoolers	5
Relationship between imaginary companions and everyday behaviours in Japanese preschoolers	5
Bringing it all together: a lifetime of work on the developmental tasks of adolescence	5
Gender similarities and differences in non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample	4
Correction	4
The integrative model of ICT effects on Adolescents’ well-being (iMEW): The synthesis of theories from developmental psychology, media and communications, and health	4
Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development	4
Visual preferences for biological motion following the stepping reflex in five-month-old infants	4
In memoriam: Professor Jaana Katariina “Kata” Salmela-Aro (1961–2025)	4
Homophobic cyberbullying involvement and academic outcomes among LGBTQIA adolescents: moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances	4
Does screen time during early childhood affect adolescent aggressive behaviour?: The moderated mediating role of parenting stress and language ability	4
Development and validation of the short parent–child emotion communication questionnaire	4
From environment to genes… and back to the environment	4
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior	4
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization	4
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates negative symptom expression of bully victimization through resilience in Taiwanese youth	4
Zooming in on proximal life domains: A literature review on family, peer, and school dynamics in adolescents’ acculturation and psychosocial adjustment	4