OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 38. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	151
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	131
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	117
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	102
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	94
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	81
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	69
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	68
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	66
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	64
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	63
Long-term memory and subjective forgetting: A longitudinal study	62
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	61
Child maltreatment, parent-child relationship quality, and parental monitoring in relation to adolescent behavior problems: Disaggregating between and within person effects	58
Risk factors and outcomes in preterm versus full-term infants with abusive head trauma: A retrospective comparative study	57
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	57
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	53
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	53
Research on the trajectory and influential factors of poly-victimization: A longitudinal study of Chinese adolescents	51
Violence among adolescents: A study of overlapping of bullying, cyberbullying, sexual harassment, dating violence and cyberdating violence	49
Risk and protective factors for children's psychopathology in the context of domestic violence – A study using nationally representative longitudinal survey data	48
Evaluating digital mental health interventions for Middle East and North Africa children and adolescents affected by armed conflict: A systematic review	47
How do young people potentially affected by child welfare endangerment use a messenger-based psychosocial chat counseling service?	46
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	46
Application of the data quality framework to administrative data on child maltreatment	45

A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	45
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	45
Exploring youth voices in a pre-college program: Implications for policy, practice & research	44
“Instead of just taking my baby, they could've actually given me a chance”: Experiences with plans of safe care among birth parents impacted by perinatal substance use	44
Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood: A latent class analysis and time-varying effect model	43
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	43
Posttraumatic growth, spiritual damage, and psychosocial and mental health problems in survivors of clergy-perpetrated child sexual abuse: A mixed methods approach	42
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	42
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	42
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	41
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	40
Maternal adverse childhood experiences, child resilience factors, and child mental health problems: A multi-wave study	39
Trauma behind the keyboard: Exploring disparities in child sexual abuse materials exposure and mental health factors among investigators and forensic examiners – A network analysis	39
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	38
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	38
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	38