OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Youth & Society 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sexual Minority Status and Academic Achievement During the Transition to Adolescence Among Youth With Childhood Conduct Problems	50
Mechanisms of Driving Adolescents’ Adjustment in Behavior: A Developmental Systems Approach	31
Attachments or Affiliations? The Impact of Social Media on the Quality of Peer Relationships—A Qualitative Study Among Norwegian High School Students	24
Exploring the Multidimensions of Wellbeing that Latinx Youth Experienced When they Engaged in Critical Action Toward Anti-Immigrant Politics	23
Private Tutoring, Sleep Time, and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescent Students in China	20
The Transition to In-Person Schooling Following the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Qualitative Study Among Latinx Adolescents	18
Sexting Behavior Predictors Vary With Addressee and the Explicitness of the Sexts	16
Bidirectional Relationships Between Cyberbystanders’ Roles, Cyberbullying Perpetration, and Justification of Violence	14
Latinx Adolescent Perspectives on the Effects of United States Immigration Policy on Wellbeing	13
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Race/Ethnicity, and Suicidality Among Florida High School Students	13
TikTok Too Much? A Qualitative Investigation of Adolescent TikTok Use, Motivation, and Consequences	12
Bullying Victimization and Weapon Carrying: A Partial Test of General Strain Theory	12
Raising a Politically Engaged Generation: When Parental Influence Matters Most	11
Disinterested and Disillusioned? Information and Political Engagement Practices of Young People From Disadvantaged Backgrounds	11
From Context to Perception to Behavior: Predicting Delinquency With the Parental Support-Perceived Parental Competence Cross-Lag	11
Academic Self-esteem as a Buffer Between Negative Youth Experiences and Academic Achievement in African American Adolescents	10
Youth Mental Health Help-Seeking Information Needs and Experiences: A Thematic Analysis of Reddit Posts	9
Exploring the School-Based Support for Youths Who Head Households in Limpopo Province, South Africa	9
Comparing the Depressive Health Profiles Among U.S. Adolescents Who Have Been School Disciplined and School Policed: A Person-Centered Approach	9
Recreational Cannabis Legalization and Adolescent Sexual Risk Behaviors	9
School-Based Discrimination and Social-Emotional Learning Among Latinx Youth: The Moderating Role of School Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion	8
“I Feel Like You Don’t Need Dysphoria to be Trans.”: Emerging Understandings of Gender Dysphoria Among Transgender and Gender Diverse Adolescents	8
Relations Between Developmental Assets and Youth Gun Violence	8
Distal and Proximal Stressors Associated With Substance Use among Youth Experiencing Homelessness: The Influence of Race	8
Race Differences in Youths’ Attitudes Toward Arming Teachers: Investigating the Role of Procedural Justice	8

Creative and Expressive Arts in a Young Adult Problem-Solving Court and Its Influence on Participant Experience and Outcomes	8
“It Makes Them Want to Suffer in Silence Rather Than Risk Facing Ridicule”: Youth Perspectives on Mental Health Stigma	8
Liminal Participation: Young People’s Practices in the Public Sphere Between Exclusion, Claims of Belonging, and Democratic Innovation	8
Discrimination and Risky Health Behaviors: Examining the Association between Sources of Gender Discrimination and Tobacco Use Among Adolescent Girls	7
Contributions of Violence Exposure and Traumatic Stress Symptoms to Physical Health Outcomes in Incarcerated Adolescents	7
Mediation Analysis of Internalized Homophobia, Self-esteem and Mental Health in Adolescent Sexual Minority Men: A Repeated Measures Study	7
A study Comparing Text-Based WhatsApp and Face-to-Face Interviews to Understand Early School Dropout	7
Introduction to the Special Issue: European Rural NEETs: A Snapshot	7
“It’s Like Getting Someone Who’s Been Hit by a Car to Run a Speed Awareness Course”: How Young Activists in the UK Make Sense of Personal, Collective and Institutional Agency	7
Scrutinising the Exceptionalism of Young Rural NEETs: A Bibliometric Review	7
Unsolicited Sexts and Unwanted Requests for Sexts: Reflecting on the Online Sexual Harassment of Youth	6
The Age of the Smartphone: An Analysis of Social Predictors of Children’s Age of Access and Potential Consequences Over Time	6
Adolescent Perceptions of Teen Suicide: Implications from Focus Groups	6
Chinese Adolescents’ Belief in a Just World: Social Class and Age Disparities	6
Self-Disclosure, Self-concept, and Friendship’s Perceived Functions among Aggressive and Popular Adolescents	6
What About the Kids? Examining the Visitation-Recidivism Relationship Among Incarcerated Juveniles	6
Needs of Youth and Parents From Multi-Problem Families in the Search for Youth-Initiated Mentors	6
A Sociological Approach to the Adolescent Pregnant in Low-Income Population of the Gran Mendoza, Argentina	6
From Adolescence to Adulthood: Examining Future Orientation Trajectories and Their Influencing Factors Among Serious Juvenile Offenders	6
Cyberbullying and PIU Among Adolescents Before and During COVID-19 Pandemic: The Association With Adolescents Relationships	6
Pathways from School Belonging to Problematic Online Game Use among Chinese Adolescents: The Mediating Roles of Emotional Symptoms and the Moderating Role of Physical Exercise	5
Social Capital and the Higher Education Academic Achievement: Using Cross-Classified Multilevel Models to Understanding the Impact of Society on Educational Outcomes	5
Do You Know What Fake News Is? An Exploration of and Intervention to Increase Youth’s Fake News Literacy	5
Fostering Youth-Enabling Environments: A Participatory Affordance-Capability Framework for the Development and Use of Youth-Engaged Environmental Assessments	5
Navigating Intersectionality and Positionality Within Black and Latinx Youth Organizing Spaces	5
Community Gender Norms and Gender Gaps in Adolescent Agency in Nepal	5
The Mediation of Family Context and Youth Depressive Symptoms by Adolescent Emotion Regulation	5
A Longitudinal Cohort Study of Adolescent Social Network Positions and Lifetime Daily Smoking and Nicotine Dependence	5
Fear of Missing Out and Sexting Among Adolescents: Risk Behaviors and Mental Health Outcomes	5
The Impact of COVID-19 Restrictions on Perceived Health and Wellbeing of Young Australian Sport and Physical Activity Participants	4
Cyber-Ostracism, Depression, and Adolescents’ Cyberbullying Perpetration: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis	4
Addressing Students’ Educational Aspirations Through Information Provision: Evidence From Ecuador	4
Social Norms of Pregnancy and Pregnancy Attitudes Among Youth Experiencing Homelessness	4
Assessing Longitudinal Impacts of Mentor Role on Youth Outcomes	4
“In the Moment I Wanted to Kill Myself, and Then After I Didn’t”: A Qualitative Investigation of Suicide Planning, Method Choice, and Method Substitution Among Adolescents Hospitalized Following a Sui	4
Youth in Group Home Care: An Investigation of Negative Peer Influence and Youth Antisocial Behavior	4
“They Slow Me Down”: Peer Relationships, School Fights, and the Criminalization of Black Adolescent Development Through School Discipline Policies	4
The Adolescent Self-System and Academic Achievement: Youth Predictors of College Enrollment	4
The Impact of Education on Youth Employability: The Case of Selected Southeastern European Countries	4