OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Abuse & Neglect is 36. 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial: Letter from Christine Wekerle, the outgoing editor-in-chief of child abuse & neglect	106
Effectiveness of the caregiver support intervention on child psychosocial wellbeing among Syrian refugees in Lebanon: Mediation and secondary analysis of a Randomized Controlled Trial	92
Child torture victimization: Review of criminal statutes and medico-legal issues	87
Building police capability in child protection in Kenya	77
The role of fellowship experience in decreasing burnout for child abuse pediatricians	76
Association between rumination and drug craving in Chinese male methamphetamine use disorder patients with childhood trauma	61
In their own words: Child and adolescent perceptions of caregiver stress during early COVID-19	56
Professional and informal help-seeking among low-income adolescents exposed to violence in the community and at school	56
Cyberbullying involvement, parental support, and cannabis use among adolescents	55
Child maltreatment and substances use throughout adolescence and adulthood: Data from a Brazilian Birth Cohort	52
Facility dogs during police investigative interviews: Does it decrease children’s reluctance?	51
Risk factors and outcomes in preterm versus full-term infants with abusive head trauma: A retrospective comparative study	51
“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	51
A pilot study of the adverse childhood experiences-dimensions questionnaire (ACE-DQ): Associations with depression	50
Nuances in the effect of types of intimate partner violence on aspects of child development: Evidence from the Philippines	49
An integrated review of social information processing as a mechanism in the association between maltreatment and depression among youth of color	48
The prevalence of emotional abuse in children living in Sub-Saharan Africa – A systematic review	48
“Knock me down a little bit more”: Support networks of parents impacted by the child welfare system, a mixed methods study	48
Adverse childhood experiences and all-cause mortality risk in adulthood	47
Explaining child maltreatment and aggression among Chinese drug user: The mediating and moderating roles of drug craving and impulsivity	47
Are different types of childhood adversities correlated within and across time? A comparison of data on adversity co-occurrence from three longitudinal birth cohort studies	46
Peer victimization, environmental and psychological distress, and academic performance among children in China: A serial mediation model moderated by migrant status	46
Juvenile parricide in Turkey: Forensic psychiatric perspectives on child abuse, family violence, and fatal outcomes	45
Adverse childhood experiences and depressive symptoms across adolescence and adulthood: A latent class analysis and time-varying effect model	42
Long-term memory and subjective forgetting: A longitudinal study	41

Application of the data quality framework to administrative data on child maltreatment	41
Adverse childhood experiences and adult outcomes using a causal framework perspective: Challenges and opportunities	41
Impact of COVID-19 lockdown: Domestic and child abuse in Bridgend	41
Primary emotional systems, childhood trauma, and suicidal ideation in youths with bipolar disorders	41
Contact with mothers for children in out-of-home-care: Group-based trajectory modelling from the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study (POCLS)	40
The longitudinal relationship between childhood trauma and adolescents' externalizing problems: A moderated mediation model	40
A response to Evangelist et al., 2023	39
Child maltreatment and emergency department visits: a longitudinal birth cohort study from infancy to early adulthood	38
A dyadic analysis of childhood violence exposure through parental discipline in a population-based cohort	38
Developing quality standards for community-based online child sexual exploitation and abuse interventions	37
‘Just’ prevention of child sexual abuse: A critique and call to action	36