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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Interpersonal Curiosity and its Association With Social and Emotional Skills and Well-Being During Adolescence	46
“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	38
What and How We See Matters: Critical Theories for Anti-Racist Adolescent Research	29
The Long-Term Impact of Multisystemic Therapy: An Experiential Study of the Adolescent-Young Adult Life Transition	24
Doing Anti-Racist Scholarship With Adolescents: Empirical Examples and Lessons Learned	24
Using Photovoice to Explore Teen Parents’ Perspectives on Raising Healthy Children	23
Youth-Led Antiracism Research: Making a Case for Participatory Methods and Creative Strategies in Developmental Science	21
Something You Can See, Hear, and Feel: A Descriptive, Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Youths’ Articulations About Racism	20
“I Really Want to Do Something”: How Civic Education Activities Promote Thinking Toward Civic Purpose Among Early Adolescents	20
Critical Reflection and Cognitive Empowerment among Youth Involved in Community Organizing	18
How the COVID-19 Pandemic Affected Young People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing in the UK: A Qualitative Study	15
Engaging Historically Marginalized Youth in Participatory Research: A Practical Guide to Promote Cultural Specificity in Measurement Validation	14
“The Talk” Tells the Story: A Qualitative Investigation of Parents’ Racial Socialization Competency With Black Adolescents	14
Colombian Adolescents’ Perceptions of Autonomy and Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services: An Ethical Analysis	13
The Sexual Landscape of Youth: How Adolescents From the U.S. Make Sense of Sexting	13
College Students’ Anticipated Bystander Intervention Actions Against Male Supremacism: “Something More Needs to be Done”	12
Positive School Climate and Emotional Engagement: A Mixed Methods Study of Chinese Students as Ethnocultural Minorities in Malaysian Secondary Schools	12
“After the School Day, What’s Next?”: Exploring Refugee Youths’ Engagement in After-School Programs	12
Experiences of Puberty and Puberty Blockers: Insights From Trans Children, Trans Adolescents, and Their Parents	11
Understanding the Protective Role of Adolescent-Adult Relationships Among Minoritized Youths in Neighborhoods Impacted by Community Violence	11
Mentors’ Supporting Approaches of Mentees’ Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies	10
“You Can Do So Much Better Than What They Expect”: An Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography on School Integration With Newcomer Youth	10
Funds of Identity: Implications for Belonging Among Ethnically and Racially Minoritized Emerging Adult College Students	9
Four Pillars of Help-Seeking Attitudes: Emotional, Societal, Cognitive, and Relational Insights From New Zealand Youth	9
Digitally Mediated Racial-Ethnic Socialization Among Black/African American Emerging Adults and Their Caregivers	9

Mexican American Adolescents’ Conversations About Goals: The Centrality of Financial Aspiration to Career and Educational Pursuit	9
“It Validates Her Identity”: A Mixed Methods Approach to Examining Culture, Context, and Family Engagement in an Urban Afterschool Program for Black and Hispanic Girls	8
Negotiating Emerging Adulthood With Master and Counter Narratives: Alcohol-Related Identity Trajectories Among Emerging Adults in Performance-Oriented Neoliberal Society	8
Gender Norms and Culture in Asian-Canadian Adolescent Boys’ Anticipating Dating Relationships	8
“It’s a Feeling That Makes You do Anything”: Youth’ Narratives of Love and Experiences of Victimization in Their Romantic Relationships	8
Understanding of Autonomy in Russian Youth: An Interview Study	8
“It Helped Me Feel Like a Researcher”: Reflections on a Capacity-Building Program to Support Teens as Co-Researchers on a Participatory Project	8
Intertwined Development of Adolescents’ Interest Pursuits	8
Transition to Fatherhood Among Muslim Adolescents in Thailand: A Grounded Theory	8
Perceptions of Service Efficacy Among Young Adults with Childhood Histories of Conduct Problems	8
Development of Youth leadership Through Community-Based Participatory Action Research During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Case Study of Korean American Adolescents	8
“A Little Bit Closer”: A Mixed Method Analysis of the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of Adolescent Parents	8
Youth Experiences in Authoring Action: The Impact of an Arts-Based Youth Program on Youth Development	7
“No Way! Like Only Hispanics are Illegal”: Examining the Racialized Psychosocial Development of Migrant “Illegality” Across Immigrant Groups in the United States	7
Using QuantCrit to Advance an Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Applications to Mixture Modeling	7
Knowledge and Perceptions on Menstrual Hygiene Management Among School-Going Adolescent Girls in South Sudan	7
“It’s Easy to Feel Alone, But When You Have Community, it Makes [College] a Lot Easier”: First-generation Students’ Academic and Psychosocial Adjustment Over the First Year of College	6
Goals for Adolescent Participation in Organized Youth Programs: Views From Adolescent-Parent Dyads	6
A Mixed Method Investigation of Associations Between Caregiver Attachment and Natural Mentoring Relationships Among Black Adolescents	6
How Transgender Adolescents Experience Expressing Their Gender Identity Around New People: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis	6
Exploring Late Adolescents’ Experiences with Career-Related Messages on Entertainment TV and in Social Media in Belgium: A Focus Group Study	6
Anti-Racism Education and Training for Adult Mentors Who Work With BIPOC Adolescents	6
Breasts, Butts, and Thighs—Oh My! Weight Spurt and Body Image Messages in Girls’ Puberty Books	6
“They See Sex as Something That’s Reproductive and Not as Something People Do for Fun”: Shortcomings in Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Socialization from Adults	6
Exploring Pathways to Purpose in Scouts	6
Motivating Positive Youth Outcomes Through Proximal, Relevant, and Attainable Inspirational Figures	6
To Lead at 17: Teenage Girls Leadership in the Scouts	6
Individual, Social and Environmental Influences on Sleep in Latino Pre-Adolescents: A Qualitative Analysis	6
“Why Don’t They Just Move Closer?”: Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in YPAR About Food Security	6
Describing an Online Co-development Process of VAWG Prevention Intervention Activities With Young High School Learners, in Eastern Cape Province, South Africa	5
“We’re All Equal” But Not Really: Perceptions of Racial Inequity Among Racial-Ethnic Minoritized Youth in the U.S	5
Domesticating Paralinguistic Digital Affordances in Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Parent-adolescent Relationships: A Relational Perspective	5
The Effectiveness of a Synchronous Online Mindfulness-Based Intervention on the Attentional Control and Mindfulness of Turkish Late Adolescents: A Mixed Methods Study	5
The “Othering” of Latina Girls in School Sport Contexts	5
The Social Negotiations of “Girls Like Us”: What Text-Messaging Dyadic Interactions Reveal About the Lives of Queer, Lesbian, and Bisexual Girls Living in the United States	5
A Mixed-Methods Investigation of Adolescents’ Beliefs About the Causes of Depression	5
Adolescents’ Experiences of a Developmental Coaching and Outdoor Adventure Education Program: Using Constructive-Developmental Theory to Investigate Individual Differences in Adolescent Meaning-Making	5
The What, Why, and How of Adolescent Interpersonal Goal Setting Following a Growth Mindset Intervention	5
Experiences and Perceived Benefits of a Youth Skateboarding Program in South Africa: From the Physical to Emotional and Beyond	5
The Experience of Maternity Group Homes: A Qualitative Study of Mothers and Providers	5
Elevating Student Voices and Addressing Their Needs: Using Youth Participatory Action Research to Improve School Climate During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
The Formation and Benefits of Natural Mentoring for African American Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Qualitative Study	4
Making Meaning of Peace: A Study of Adolescents in Bogota, Colombia	4
Exploring the “Social” in Social Media: Adolescent Relatedness—Thwarted and Supported	4
Challenges and Strategies in Working with Latine Adolescents in a Math Enrichment Afterschool Activity	4
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice	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
What Do Peers Think About Sexting? Adolescents’ Views of the Norms Guiding Sexting Behavior	4
The R and R of Purpose in College Students: Refining and Redefining Purpose Over Time	4
“Whatever You Become, Just Be Proud of It.” Uncovering the Ways Families Influence Black and Latino Adolescent Boys’ Postsecondary Future Selves	4

“My Story Started When I was Younger. . .”: A Qualitative Analysis of Youth’s Differential Journeys Away From School	4
Challenges and Coping: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Youth in Germany	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
Taking a Critical Look at Adolescent Research on Black Girls and Women: A Systematic Review	4
Young People’s Coping Strategies When Dealing With Their Own and a Friend’s Symptoms of Poor Mental Health: A Qualitative Study	4
“I Personally Wouldn’t Know Where to Go”: Adolescents’ Perceptions of Mental Health Services	3
School Citizenship Education Through YPAR: What Works? A Mixed-Methods Study in Italy	3
Understanding Emotion Regulation Strategies Among Youths: A Qualitative Study	3
“He Knows Me as a Person”: Navigating Cultural Dynamics in Relational Pathways Towards Positive Youth-Adult Relationships in Youth Programs	3
A mixed Methods Study of Multilevel Factors Influencing Sexual Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Adolescent Girls in Uganda	3
Ambivalence in Adolescents’ Alcohol Expectancies: A Longitudinal Mixed Methods Study Among 12-to-18-Year-Olds	3
Adolescent Dilemmas About Viewing Pornography and Their Efforts to Resolve Them	3
“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	3
Normative Sexual Health Development in Non-Normative Circumstances: Exploring Healthy Intimate Relationships Among Young People in Foster Care	3
A Scoping Review of Arts-Based Interventions with Community Based Participatory Research Approaches for Addressing Mental Health Amongst Adolescents in the United States	3
Processes and Manifestations of Digital Resilience: Video and Textual Insights From Sexual and Gender Minority Youth	3
Loneliness From the Adolescent Perspective: A Qualitative Analysis of Conversations About Loneliness Between Adolescents and Childline Counselors	3
Narratives of Puerto Rican Middle School Students Regarding School Context and Identity: Contradictions and Possibilities	2
A Critical Race Theory of Psychology as Praxis: Proposing and Utilizing Principles of PsyCrit	2
A Cannabis Crossroads: The Impact of Risk Interpretation on Cannabis-Related Behaviors Among Canadian Youth	2
Enabling Young People from Informal Urban Communities to Exercise Their Right to Sexual and Reproductive Health: A Practice-Based Study	2
“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	2
The Development of Critical Consciousness in Adolescents of Color Attending “Opposing” Schooling Models	2
“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	2
Generation Z’s Challenges to Financial Independence: Adolescents’ and Early Emerging Adults’ Perspectives on Their Financial Futures	2
Master Narratives surrounding Rural Emerging Adult Migration: Resources for Postsecondary Decision-making in Rural Communities	2
Schoolwork With Purpose: A Mixed Methods Study on Youths’ Perspective on What Makes Learning Meaningful	2
Adolescent Females’ Dyadic Conversations About Body, Weight, and Appearance	2
The Mental Health Effects of Student Activism: Persisting Despite Psychological Costs	2
To Tell or Not to Tell: Disclosure Experiences and Perceived Microaggressions Among Adopted Adolescents With Lesbian, Gay, and Heterosexual Parents	2
Exploring Black and Latinx Adolescents’ Beliefs About Achievement, Resistance, and Activism	2
The New Talk: An Exploration of Caregivers’ Discussions About Pornography and Sexual Harassment with Adolescents	2
Sexual Experiences and Perspectives of Adolescents and Young Adults With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities	2
An Integrative Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Behavior in White Adolescents	2
Transitioning to University with a Mental Illness: Experiences of Youth and their Parent	2