OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 35. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	93
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	84
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	78
A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	76
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	68
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	63
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	63
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	54
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	52
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	48
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	47
Child maltreatment and substances use throughout adolescence and adulthood: Data from a Brazilian Birth Cohort	47
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	45
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	44
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	44
What drives change in children receiving telephone-delivered Common Elements Treatment Approach (t-CETA)? A multiple n = 1 study with Syrian refugee children and adolescents in Lebanon	43
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	43
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	41
Professional and informal help-seeking among low-income adolescents exposed to violence in the community and at school	41
Dimensions of family stress and repetitive nonsuicidal self-injury in adolescence: Examining the interactive effects of impulsivity and emotion dysregulation	41
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	41
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	41
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	41
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	40
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	40

A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	40
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	40
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	39
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study	37
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	37
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	37
Supporting resilience among young people at risk of child abuse in Ethiopia: The role of social system alignment	36
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	36
Trauma behind the keyboard: Exploring disparities in child sexual abuse materials exposure and mental health factors among investigators and forensic examiners – A network analysis	36
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	36
Child maltreatment and emergency department visits: a longitudinal birth cohort study from infancy to early adulthood	35
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	35