OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Adolescent Research is 2. 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
What and How We See Matters: Critical Theories for Anti-Racist Adolescent Research	50
“Like They’re My Same People. They’ve Probably Been in My Shoes. . .”: Community-Based Organizations’ Role in Fostering Social and Organizational Ties for Latino/x Immigrant Youth	42
Development of Youth leadership Through Community-Based Participatory Action Research During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Korean American Adolescents	28
Knowledge and Perceptions on Menstrual Hygiene Management Among School-Going Adolescent Girls in South Sudan	26
Using QuantCrit to Advance an Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Applications to Mixture Modeling	24
Something You Can See, Hear, and Feel: A Descriptive, Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Youths’ Articulations About Racism	22
“No Way! Like Only Hispanics are Illegal”: Examining the Racialized Psychosocial Development of Migrant “Illegality” Across Immigrant Groups in the United States	22
Describing an Online Co-development Process of VAWG Prevention Intervention Activities With Young High School Learners, in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	21
Goals for Adolescent Participation in Organized Youth Programs: Views From Adolescent-Parent Dyads	19
Individual, Social and Environmental Influences on Sleep in Latino Pre-Adolescents: A Qualitative Analysis	17
“They See Sex as Something That’s Reproductive and Not as Something People Do for Fun”: Shortcomings in Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Socialization from Adults	16
“My Story Started When I was Younger. . .”: A Qualitative Analysis of Youth’s Differential Journeys Away From School	15
The Formation and Benefits of Natural Mentoring for African American Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Qualitative Study	15
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study Among 12-to-18-Year-Olds	15
“Whatever You Become, Just Be Proud of It.” Uncovering the Ways Families Influence Black and Latino Adolescent Boys’ Postsecondary Future Selves	14
Taking a Critical Look at Adolescent Research on Black Girls and Women: A Systematic Review	14
“I Personally Wouldn’t Know Where to Go”: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Mental Health Services	12
“It Just Felt Nice to be Able to Scream”: A Qualitative Examination of the Experiences of College Students Participating in the Black Lives Matter Movement	11
Understanding Latinx Child Farmworkers’ Reasons for Working: A Mixed Methods Approach	11
A Qualitative Study of Social Media and Electronic Communication among Canadian Adolescent Female Soccer Players	11
Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Youth Digital Well-Being Research: Identifying Notable Developments, Persistent Gaps, and Future Directions	11
What do Teachers do to Show They Care? Learning From the Voices of Early Adolescents	10
The Role of Family Ethnic Socialization and Generational Status in White Adolescents’ Ethnic-Racial Identity Development	10
“Everybody Knows Everybody”: Adolescents’ Perceptions of What Helps Them Succeed in a Rural Title I School	10
“I Get to See Another Day”: Examining Where Black and Latinx Youth From Economically Disenfranchised Chicago Neighborhoods Find Happiness	10

A Qualitative Investigation of Leisure Engagement and Health Benefits Among North Korean Adolescent Refugees	10
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in the UK: A Qualitative Study	9
Culturally and Contextually Relevant Definitions of the Five Cs	9
Positive School Climate and Emotional Engagement: A Mixed Methods Study of Chinese Students as Ethnocultural Minorities in Malaysian Secondary Schools	9
“Imagine Growing Up Thinking the US is the Best Opportunity”: Immigrant Origin Youth of Color Supporting the Black Lives Matter Movement on Twitter	9
Perceptions of Service Efficacy Among Young Adults with Childhood Histories of Conduct Problems	9
Evaluation of the Effectiveness of an Empathy Training on Empathy Skills, Life Satisfaction, and Relationship Quality for Chinese Adolescents and Their Mothers: A Mixed Methods Study	9
Anti-Racism Education and Training for Adult Mentors Who Work With BIPOC Adolescents	8
“He Knows Me as a Person”: Navigating Cultural Dynamics in Relational Pathways Towards Positive Youth-Adult Relationships in Youth Programs	8
Challenges and Coping: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Youth in Germany	8
“I Have Moments Where I Am Down, But It Has Made Me Resilient”: Mental Health Strengths Among Youth At-Risk for and Living with HIV	8
Domesticating Paralinguistic Digital Affordances in Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Parent-adolescent Relationships: A Relational Perspective	8
A Mixed Method Investigation of Associations Between Caregiver Attachment and Natural Mentoring Relationships Among Black Adolescents	8
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice	8
Concrete and Abstract Dimensions of Diverse Adolescents’ Social-Emotional Meaning-Making, and Associations With Broader Functioning	7
Feasibility of a Pilot Virtual National Young Adult Wellbeing Network: Using Art to Heal	7
Adolescence Outside the Restricted Zone: A Narrative Study of Nuclear Disaster Response Trajectories intertwining with Life (TiL)	7
Benefits and Challenges of Adolescents’ Participation in Organized Activities for Mexican-origin Families	7
Toward an Indigenizing, Anti-Colonial Framework for Adolescent Development Research	7
Learning From Youth: Using Positive Outcomes to Evaluate Summer Youth Employment Programs	7
The Lived Experiences of Highly Mobile Military Adolescents in Search of Their Identity: An Interpretive Phenomenological Study	7
Sexual Experiences and Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	7
Adolescent Perspectives on the Impact of Peers and Social Media on Active Travel and Physical Activity: A Mixed Methods Study	7
A Qualitative Inquiry of Associations Between Family Environment and Suicidality for Transgender Youth Experiencing Homelessness	6
“Making Choices for Yourself”: A Qualitative Visual Methods Study on Adolescent Boys’ Autonomy in Physical Activity	6
Full or Empty: Examining Perceptions and Implications of Solitude as a Psychological Space	6
You Have to Look at the Whole Picture: A Qualitative Examination of Critical Social Analysis Among Racially Minoritized Adolescents	6
“We’re not anti-police…We’re anti-police brutality”: An Exploration of Black College Freshmen’s Perception of Police Brutality on Social Media	6
Adolescents’ Perception About the Relationship Between Self-Reported Smartphone Addiction and Emotional and Behavioral Problems During the COVID-19 Pandemic	6
Identity Formation and Post-Traumatic Growth Among Central American Immigrant Youth	5
Mexican American Adolescents’ Conversations About Goals: The Centrality of Financial Aspiration to Career and Educational Pursuit	5
Critical Reflection and Cognitive Empowerment among Youth Involved in Community Organizing	5
“It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project	5
The Sexual Landscape of Youth: How Adolescents From the U.S. Make Sense of Sexting	5
Digitally Mediated Racial-Ethnic Socialization Among Black/African American Emerging Adults and Their Caregivers	5
Mentors’ Supporting Approaches of Mentees’ Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies	5
Perceptions of School Life and Academic Success of Adolescents With Asthma	5
“You Can Do So Much Better Than What They Expect”: An Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography on School Integration With Newcomer Youth	5
Understanding of Autonomy in Russian Youth: An Interview Study	5
Experiences of Puberty and Puberty Blockers: Insights From Trans Children, Trans Adolescents, and Their Parents	5
“Why Don’t They Just Move Closer?”: Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in YPAR About Food Security	4
Exploring Late Adolescents’ Experiences with Career-Related Messages on Entertainment TV and in Social Media in Belgium: A Focus Group Study	4
Exploring Black and Latinx Adolescents’ Beliefs About Achievement, Resistance, and Activism	4
Experiences and Perceived Benefits of a Youth Skateboarding Program in South Africa: From the Physical to Emotional and Beyond	4
Age, Autonomy, and Authority of Knowledge: Discursive Constructions of Youth Decision-Making Capacity and Parental Support in Transgender Minors’ Accounts of Healthcare Access	4
Narratives of Puerto Rican Middle School Students Regarding School Context and Identity: Contradictions and Possibilities	4
“I Wanna at Least Give Back so They Could Have an Idea of Doing Right”: A Culturally Relevant Approach to Understanding Black Adolescent Males’ Moral Development	4
Elevating Student Voices and Addressing Their Needs: Using Youth Participatory Action Research to Improve School Climate During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
“It’s Better Saying I Look Fat Instead of Saying You Look Fat”: A Qualitative Study of U.K. Adolescents’ Understanding of Appearance-Related Interactions on Social Media	4
Master Narratives surrounding Rural Emerging Adult Migration: Resources for Postsecondary Decision-making in Rural Communities	4

Incongruent Impressions: Teacher, Parent, and Student Perceptions of Two Black Boys’ School Experiences	3
Engagement with Master and Alternative Narratives of Gender and Sexuality Among LGBTQ+ Youth in the Digital Age	3
An Integrative Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Behavior in White Adolescents	3
Moving From Passion to Purpose: A STEM-Focused After-school Program’s Influence on Purpose Outcomes	3
Sites of Sanctuary: Examining Blackness as “Something Fugitive” Through the Tactical Use of Ethnic Clubs by Haitian Immigrant High School Students	3
Loneliness From the Adolescent Perspective: A Qualitative Analysis of Conversations About Loneliness Between Adolescents and Childline Counselors	3
Establishing a Reciprocal and Recursive Relationship Between Sociopolitical Development and Wellbeing for Early Emerging Adult College Students When “There Was a lot Happening in Both the World. . . a	3
Exploring Youths’ Cannabis Health Literacy Post Legalization: A Qualitative Study	3
“There wasn’t any build up to it, it was just like, now you have to go over.” Disengagement during the Child to Adult Community Mental Health Service Transition	3
Now and Then: Examining Students’ Concerns About the Primary-Secondary School Transition	2
Parent-Child Conversations About Inequality: Perpetuating or Disrupting an Inequitable Status Quo	2
Engaging Historically Marginalized Youth in Participatory Research: A Practical Guide to Promote Cultural Specificity in Measurement Validation	2
Funds of Identity: Implications for Belonging Among Ethnically and Racially Minoritized Emerging Adult College Students	2
The Relational Domains of Adolescence: Changes and Possibilities During COVID Era	2
Reasons for Premature Closure of a Mentoring Relationship: A Qualitative Study of Mentoring Youth With a Visual Impairment	2
Volunteering Trajectories and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Persistent, Emergent, and Former Volunteers and Personal, Moral, and Prudential Reasoning	2
Mid-Adolescents’ Social Media Use: Supporting and Suppressing Autonomy	2
Traveling a Hard Road: Rites of Passage to Adulthood for Females of Haitian Descent Living in the Dominican Republic	2
Gender Norms and Culture in Asian-Canadian Adolescent Boys’ Anticipating Dating Relationships	2
Space for Self-Care? Adolescents’ Rationales for Being Physically Active	2
What Protects At-Risk Young People in India From Using and Abusing Substances? A Photo-Led Study of Lived Experience	2
“Those are the Spaces Where I Feel Seen and Fully Understood”: Digital Counterspaces Fostering Community, Resistance, and Intersectional Identities Among Latinx LGBTQ+ Emerging Adults	2
The Long-Term Impact of Multisystemic Therapy: An Experiential Study of the Adolescent-Young Adult Life Transition	2
Intertwined Development of Adolescents’ Interest Pursuits	2
“That’s How Revolutions Happen”: Psychopolitical Resistance in Youth’s Online Civic Engagement	2
Understanding the Protective Role of Adolescent-Adult Relationships Among Minoritized Youths in Neighborhoods Impacted by Community Violence	2
Culture, Coping, and Racial Discrimination Stress Among Chinese American Youth: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study	2