OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Adolescent Research is 4. 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 2020-05-01 to 2024-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Gender and Sexual Identity in Adolescence: A Mixed-Methods Study of Labeling in Diverse Community Settings	29
Using QuantCrit to Advance an Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Applications to Mixture Modeling	26
The Mental Health Effects of Student Activism: Persisting Despite Psychological Costs	24
What Do Peers Think About Sexting? Adolescents’ Views of the Norms Guiding Sexting Behavior	21
“Oh, You’re Pretty for a Dark-Skinned Girl”: Black Adolescent Girls’ Identities and Resistance to Colorism	21
Improving Mental Health Among Transgender Adolescents: Implementing Mindful Self-Compassion for Teens	18
On Being the First: The Role of Family in the Experiences of First-Generation College Students	16
How to Be an Antiracist: Youth of Color’s Critical Perspectives on Antiracism in a Youth Participatory Action Research Context	15
Acknowledging Bias and Pursuing Protections to Support Anti-Racist Developmental Science: Critical Contributions of Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory	14
Anti-Racism Education and Training for Adult Mentors Who Work With BIPOC Adolescents	13
Adolescent Experience With Parental Cancer and Involvement With Medical Professionals: A Heuristic Phenomenological Inquiry	11
Does Purpose Grow Here? Exploring 4-H as a Context for Cultivating Youth Purpose	10
Loneliness From the Adolescent Perspective: A Qualitative Analysis of Conversations About Loneliness Between Adolescents and Childline Counselors	10
Youth-Led Antiracism Research: Making a Case for Participatory Methods and Creative Strategies in Developmental Science	10
“Estaba bien chiquito” (I Was Very Young): The Transition to Adulthood and “Illegality” of the Mexican and Central American 1.25 Generation	10
Doing Anti-Racist Scholarship With Adolescents: Empirical Examples and Lessons Learned	9
Parent Support of Mexican-Descent High School Adolescents’ Science Education: A Culturally Grounded Framework	8
“That’s How Revolutions Happen”: Psychopolitical Resistance in Youth’s Online Civic Engagement	7
“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	7
Resistance Capital: Cultural Activism as a Gateway to College Persistence for Minority and First-Generation Students	7
Familial Interdependence, Socioeconomic Disadvantage, and the Formation of Familial Mentoring Relationships Within Black Families	7
School Citizenship Education Through YPAR: What Works? A Mixed-Methods Study in Italy	7
“Will My Young Adult Years be Spent Socially Distancing?”: A Qualitative Exploration of Adolescents’ Experiences During the COVID-19 UK Lockdown	6
“A Little Bit Closer”: A Mixed Method Analysis of the Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Lives of Adolescent Parents	6
“People Are Demanding Justice”: Pandemics, Protests, and Remote Learning Through the Eyes of Immigrant Youth of Color	6

“Whatever You Become, Just Be Proud of It.” Uncovering the Ways Families Influence Black and Latino Adolescent Boys’ Postsecondary Future Selves	6
“My Mentor Thinks That I can Be Someone Amazing”: Drawing Out Youths’ Passions and Purpose	6
How is Trait Self-Compassion Used During Appearance-Related Distress by Late Adolescents and Emerging Adults With Positive or Negative Body Image? A Qualitative Study	6
An Integrative Model for the Development of Anti-Racist Behavior in White Adolescents	6
“I Really Want to Do Something”: How Civic Education Activities Promote Thinking Toward Civic Purpose Among Early Adolescents	6
“Down Woodward”: A Case Study of Empowering Youth to See and Disrupt Segregation Using Photovoice Methods	5
The Development of Critical Consciousness in Adolescents of Color Attending “Opposing” Schooling Models	5
“Smile!”: Emotion Performance as a Strategy for Belonging in Junior High School	5
Engage, Ignore, Stand Up: Exploring How (and Why) Early Adolescents Respond to Sexual Harassment	5
Experiences of Puberty and Puberty Blockers: Insights From Trans Children, Trans Adolescents, and Their Parents	5
Concrete and Abstract Dimensions of Diverse Adolescents’ Social-Emotional Meaning-Making, and Associations With Broader Functioning	5
Making Meaning of Peace: A Study of Adolescents in Bogota, Colombia	5
“The Talk” Tells the Story: A Qualitative Investigation of Parents’ Racial Socialization Competency With Black Adolescents	5
The Long-Term Impact of Multisystemic Therapy: An Experiential Study of the Adolescent-Young Adult Life Transition	5
A Clash of Sexual Gender Norms and Understandings: A Qualitative Study of Homosexual, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Adolescents’ Experiences in Junior High Schools	5
Sociopolitical Development as Emotional Work: How Young Organizers Engage Emotions to Support Community Organizing for Transformative Racial Justice	5
Challenges and Coping: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Youth in Germany	5
Colombian Adolescents’ Perceptions of Autonomy and Access to Sexual and Reproductive Health Care Services: An Ethical Analysis	5
A Qualitative Approach to Understanding the Relationship Between Mothers’ and Daughters’ Body Image and Physical Activity Levels	4
“It’s like an elephant in the room with my family”: LGBTQ+ College Students’ Identity Expression During the COVID-19 Pandemic	4
A Critical Race Theory of Psychology as Praxis: Proposing and Utilizing Principles of PsyCrit	4
Instrumental Mentoring for Young Adults: A Multi-Method Study	4
Exploring the “Social” in Social Media: Adolescent Relatedness—Thwarted and Supported	4
“After the School Day, What’s Next?”: Exploring Refugee Youths’ Engagement in After-School Programs	4
Negotiating Emerging Adulthood With Master and Counter Narratives: Alcohol-Related Identity Trajectories Among Emerging Adults in Performance-Oriented Neoliberal Society	4
Sexual and Gender Diverse Young Adults’ Perception of Behaviors that are Supportive and Unsupportive of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identities	4
“Girls May Bleed Through Pads Because of Demerits”: Adolescent Girls’ Experiences With Menstruation and School Bathrooms in the U.S.A.	4
“That’s Just a Part of Growing Up”: A Study of Non-formal Educators’ Lay Theories of Adolescence	4
“Why Don’t They Just Move Closer?”: Adolescent Critical Consciousness Development in YPAR About Food Security	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
The Formation and Benefits of Natural Mentoring for African American Sexual and Gender Minority Adolescents: A Qualitative Study	4
Youth Experiences in Authoring Action: The Impact of an Arts-Based Youth Program on Youth Development	4
Something You Can See, Hear, and Feel: A Descriptive, Exploratory Mixed-Methods Analysis of Youths’ Articulations About Racism	4
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	4
A Qualitative Exploration of How Transgender and Non-binary Adolescents Define and Identify Supports	4
Processes and Manifestations of Digital Resilience: Video and Textual Insights From Sexual and Gender Minority Youth	4
“They See Sex as Something That’s Reproductive and Not as Something People Do for Fun”: Shortcomings in Adolescent Girls’ Sexual Socialization from Adults	4
Experiences and Perceived Benefits of a Youth Skateboarding Program in South Africa: From the Physical to Emotional and Beyond	4
“You Can Do So Much Better Than What They Expect”: An Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography on School Integration With Newcomer Youth	4
What and How We See Matters: Critical Theories for Anti-Racist Adolescent Research	4
Digital Media as Sites for Cultural Identity Development: The Case of Hmong American Emerging Adults	4