OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Child Maltreatment is 1. 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
Infant and Pre-birth Involvement With Child Protection Across Australia	37
Dimensions of Child Maltreatment in Australians With a History of Out-of-Home Care	35
The Association Between Child Maltreatment and Loneliness Across the Lifespan: A Systematic Review and Multilevel Meta-Analysis	35
Child Abuse Pediatricians Assess a Low Likelihood of Abuse in Half of 2890 Physical Abuse Consults	24
Child Maltreatment During the Pandemic	24
Clinical Consultation During a Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Community-Based Learning Collaborative: Examination of Consultation Content, Consultative Strategies, and Provider Engagement	20
Adolescent Neglect and Health Risk	19
A Qualitative Analysis of the Effects of COVID-19 on Home Visiting Service Provision	19
Intergenerational Pathways Linking Mothers’ Adverse Childhood Experiences and Children’s Social-Emotional Problems	18
Practice Analysis: Developing a Content Outline for the Child Abuse Pediatrics Certification Exam	18
Ophthalmologists’ Attitudes, Knowledge, and Willingness to Report Child Abuse	17
The Enduring Importance of Parenting: Caregiving Quality and Fear-Potentiated Startle in Emerging Adults With a Child Maltreatment History	17
The Influence of Authority Role and Victim Gender on Perceptions of Female-Perpetrated Child Sexual Abuse	16
Are Home Evictions Associated with Child Welfare System Involvement? Empirical Evidence from National Eviction Records and Child Protective Services Data	16
Statutory Threshold Wording is Associated with Child Maltreatment Reporting	15
Evidence-Based Home Visiting Provisions and Child Maltreatment Report Rates: County-Level Analysis of US National Data From 2016 to 2018	14
Introduction: Special Collection of Medical and Health-Related Research	13
The Relationship Between Temperature and Temporal Patterns and Incidence of Abusive Head Trauma in a Midwest Region Hospital	12
Successful Criminal Prosecutions of Sex Trafficking and Sexual Abuse of Minors: A Comparative Analysis	11
Children’s Elaborated Responses to Yes-No Questions in Forensic Interviews About Sexual Abuse	11
Childcare Subsidy Employment and Copayment Requirements and Child Maltreatment	11
Identification of Child Survivors of Sex Trafficking From Electronic Health Records: An Artificial Intelligence Guided Approach	10
Improving Outcomes for Families of Children With Medical Needs Known to Child Welfare: A Nurse Care Coordination Program	10
Differential Response and the Reduction of Child Maltreatment and Foster Care Services Utilization in the U.S. From 2004 to 2017	10
Individual and Organizational Factors Associated With Intent to Leave the Job and Public Child Welfare Field Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic	9

State Policy Levers for Reducing Early Childhood Maltreatment: The Importance of Family Planning and Economic Support Policies	8
The Effects of Socioeconomic Contextual Factors on Racial Differences in CFSR-3 Permanency Outcomes	8
Adolescence Does Not Divert Sex Offending Adolescents of Color from Criminal Legal System Involvement	8
Testing the Appropriateness of Social Disorganization Theory in the Study of Neighborhood Factors and Rural Child Maltreatment	8
Relationship Between Childhood Abuse and Body Mass Index in Young Adulthood: Mediated by Depression and Anxiety?	8
A Multilevel Analysis of Individual and Community Factors Associated With Case Dispositions Following Child Maltreatment Investigations	8
Child Maltreatment 2023 Article of the Year	7
Maltreatment in Childhood and Perceived Partner Responsiveness in Adult Romantic Relationships: A Dyadic Daily Diary and Longitudinal Study	7
Examining Foster Care Outcomes for American Indian Children in the Context of the Indian Child Welfare Act	7
Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Dissociative Symptomatology: Moderation by Autonomic Regulation	7
“Locked in a Jail Cell in Your Own Home”: Child Maltreatment Investigators’ Perspectives of COVID-19’s Effects on Maltreated Children	7
In Memoriam	7
Note: The Review Process for the Drake (2024) Commentary and the Palusci (2024) Response	7
Association Between Child Maltreatment and Substance Use Disorder Across Emerging Adulthood	7
“I Want Everybody to Know as Much of My Life Story as They Can”: Life Stories of Former Foster Youth	6
Preventable Emergency Department Utilization Among Patients With Foster Care History Compared to Patients Without Foster Care History	6
Impact of Children’s Presence on Police Responses to Domestic Violence Call Situations	6
Child Witnesses Productively Respond to “How” Questions About Evaluations but Struggle With Other “How” Questions	6
Complex Trauma Exposure and Placement Stability among Systems-Impacted Black and Latinx Youth: The Mediating Role of Multisystemic Strengths	6
Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Section of Child Maltreatment Editorial Board	6
What Does Child Protective Services Investigate as Neglect? A Population-Based Study	6
Effects of COVID on Mandated Child Abuse Reporting Among Nurses: The Mediating Role of Compassion Fatigue	6
Youth Reported Perpetrators of Victimization Within a Foster Care Sample	5
Describing Coercion in the Courtroom: The Influence of Language and Maltreatment Severity on Jurors’ Perceptions of Child Witnesses	5
Understanding the Mediation Effect of Social Cohesion on the Relationship Between Material Hardship and Child Maltreatment by Poverty Spells	5
Longitudinal Impacts of Housing Cost Burden on Physical and Psychological Aggression of Children From Age 3 to 15	5
Assessing Changes in Parent Sensitivity in Telehealth and Hybrid Implementation of Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up During the COVID-19 Pandemic	5
Impact of Safe@Home on Placement and Permanency Outcomes: Results of a Quasi-Experimental Study	5
A Review of Screened-Out Families and Child Protective Services Involvement: A Missed Opportunity to Prevent Future Maltreatment With Community-Based Services	5
Leveraging Administrative Data to Better Understand and Address Child Maltreatment: A Scoping Review of Data Linkage Studies	5
The Role of Protective Adults in Mitigating Health Outcomes Linked to Childhood Physical and Sexual Abuse	5
Stability of Treatment Effects and Caregiver-Reported Outcomes: A Meta-Analysis of Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Children and Adolescents	5
Corrigendum to “The Relationship Between Temperature and Temporal Patterns and Incidence of Abusive Head Trauma in a Midwest Region Hospital”	4
Next Steps in Untangling the Web of Violence: A Research Agenda	4
Polyvictimization and Psychosocial Outcomes Among Trauma-Exposed, Clinic-Referred Youth Involved in the Juvenile Justice System	4
Child Maltreatment, the Law, and Two Types of Error	4
Examining an In-Home Behavioral Parent Training Protocol Among Parents Who Use Substances Involved Child Welfare: Effectiveness of SafeCare	4
Considerations and Determinants of Discharge Decisions among Prenatal Substance Exposed Infants	4
Maternal Reports to the Child Protection System: A Longitudinal Analysis of Multiple Children	4
Characteristics of Child Sexual Abuse Material in Peer-to-Peer Networks and Predictors of its Severity: Insights From Filenames	4
Contrasting Methods of Measurement in Spatial Analyses Examining the Alcohol Environment and Child Maltreatment	4
Caregiver Psychological Maltreatment Behaviors Toward Children on TikTok	4
What Happens When Child Abuse Pediatricians and CPS Investigators Collaborate? A Study of the Multidisciplinary Pediatric Education and Evaluation Consortium	4
Child Welfare Outcomes After Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up Intervention Participation: A Quasi-Experimental Study	4
Relevance of Routine Abdominopelvic Ultrasound in Suspected Child Abuse in Children Under 2 years of Age: Review of 15 years of Experience	4
Child Fatalities Resulting From Caregiver Behavior: A Public Health Approach to Child Maltreatment Classification	4
Pseudotemporal Invitations: 6- to 9-year-Old Maltreated Children’s Tendency to Misinterpret Invitations Referencing “Time” as Solely Requesting Conventional Temporal Information	4
Childhood Traumatic Experiences and Happiness of Nursing Students: A Mixed Methods Study	4
Rates of Emotional Disturbance Among Children in Foster Care: Comparing Federal Child Welfare Data and Medicaid Records in Two States	4
Child Maltreatment Prevention Service Cases are Significantly Reduced During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Longitudinal Investigation Into Unintended Consequences of Quarantine	4

Patterns of Child Maltreatment and the Development of Conflictual Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships: An Examination of Mechanisms and Gender Moderation	4
The Co-Occurrence of Child Maltreatment and Intimate Partner Violence: A Commentary on the Special Issue	4
Examining Housing Instability Among Females Who Are System-Involved: Comparing Females With and Without Histories of Commercial Sexual Exploitation	4
Pathways of Intergenerational Risk: Examining the Association Between Maternal Adverse Childhood Experiences and Child Socio-Emotional and Behavioral Concerns at 8 Years of Age	3
Contamination in Observational Research on Child Maltreatment: A Conceptual and Empirical Review With Implications for Future Research	3
Sometimes, Only Some Siblings Go to Foster Care: Exploring Split Sibling Groups in a Nationwide Sample	3
Intervening With Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-Up to Reduce Behavior Problems Among Children Adopted Internationally: Evidence From a Randomized Controlled Trial	3
From Maltreatment to Psychiatric Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: The Relevance of Emotional Maltreatment	3
Acknowledgement of Child Maltreatment’s 2022 External Reviewers	3
Maternal Childhood Maltreatment History and Child Behavior Problems: Developmental Patterns and Mediation via Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Parenting Behavior	3
Early Childhood Income Instability and Mental Health in Adolescence: Parenting Stress and Child Maltreatment as Mediators	3
Concurrent Childhood Experiences Impact Underage Substance Use	3
Estimating Surveillance Bias in Child Maltreatment Reporting During Home Visiting Program Involvement	3
Call for Editorial Board Nominations	3
Changing Profiles of Youth Referred for Commercial Sexual Exploitation before and since the Onset of COVID-19 in the United States	3
Black Moms Matter: A Qualitative Approach to Understanding Barriers to Service Utilization at a Children’s Advocacy Center Following Childhood Abuse	3
Is the Affordable Care Act Medicaid Expansion Associated With Reported Incidents of Child Sexual Abuse?	3
Predictors of Prosecutorial Decisions in Reports of Child Sexual Abuse	3
Higher Levels of Harsh Parenting During the COVID-19 Lockdown in the Netherlands	3
Perinatal Health Profiles Associated With Removal From the Home and Subsequent Child Protective Services Report in Maltreated Infants	3
Perinatal Intervention Desires of New Fathers Who Have a History of Child Maltreatment: A Mixed Methods Study	3
Testing a QuantCrit-Informed Approach to the Empirical Study of Race/Ethnicity and Child Maltreatment	3
Call for Papers: Special Issue of Child Maltreatment: Legal Responses to Child Maltreatment	2
Maternal History of Child Maltreatment and Household Chaos: Examining the Mediating Role of Maternal and Child Psychopathology	2
Graduate Student/Postdoctoral Fellow Section of Child Maltreatment Editorial Board	2
The Prevalence and Patterns of Maltreatment, Childhood Adversity, and Mental Health Disorders in an Australian Out-Of-Home Care Sample	2
Rating the Honesty of White and Black Children via Implicit and Explicit Measures: Implications for Child Victims in the Criminal Justice System	2
Relations Between Psychological Maltreatment by Teachers and Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Elementary School Students: The Roles of Self-Esteem and Sex	2
Screening for and Responding to Suicidality Among Youth Presenting to a Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC)	2
Introduction: COVID-19 Related Professional Challenges, Innovations, and Implications for Child Maltreatment Victims	2
Predictors of Maternal Recidivism in the Child Protection System	2
Connected After Care: Youth Characteristics, Policy, and Programs Associated With Postsecondary Education and Employment for Youth With Foster Care Histories	2
Glimpsing the Iceberg: Parent-Child Physical Aggression and Abuse	2
Caseworker Visitation After Reunification and Children’s Reentry Into Foster Care: A Survival Analysis	2
Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Longitudinal Study of Disclosures and Denials	2
Prenatal Substance Exposure and Infant Discharge Placement: Results From the ACT NOW Study	2
Child Welfare System Involvement Among Children With Medical Complexity	2
Delivery and Impact of Foster Parent Training: Similarities and Differences for Relative and Non-Relative Foster Parents	2
Risk and Protective Factors Associated with Adverse Childhood Experiences in Vulnerable Families: Results of a Randomized Clinical Trial of SafeCare®	2
Explaining Risk Factors for Successful Family Supervision Orders: Families with Intellectual Disabilities in Child Protection in the Netherlands	2
Introduction to the Special Issue on the Intersection of Intimate Partner Violence and Child Maltreatment	2
The Association Between Patterns of Trauma Exposure, Family Dysfunction, and Psychopathology Among Adolescent Females With Depressive Symptoms From Low-Income Contexts	2
Enhancing Caseworker Job Satisfaction Through Empowerment: An Innovative Tool for Employee Retention	2
Special Issue of Child Maltreatment: COVID-Related Professional Challenges, Innovations, and Implications for Child Maltreatment Victims	2
Role of Risk Taking and Inhibitory Control in Alcohol Use Among Maltreated Adolescents and Nonmaltreated Adolescents	2
Emergency Department Presentations for Injuries Following Agency-Notified Child Maltreatment: Results From the Childhood Adversity and Lifetime Morbidity (CALM) Study	2
Inequities in Child Protective Services Contact Between Black and White Children	2
School-Based Victimization Prevention Education Programs for Children and Youth With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities: A Scoping Review	1
Factors Associated with Child Removal Among American Indian and Alaska Native People in an Alcohol Intervention Study	1
Call for Papers: Special Issue: Ten Years Later: An Updated Critical Look at Trauma Informed Care (TIC) Among Agencies and Systems Serving Youth and Their Families	1
Acknowledgment of Child Maltreatment’s External Reviewers The Editors	1
Verified Human Trafficking Allegations Among Single and Dual System-Involved Children: Predicting Initial and Repeat Victimization	1
Anger and Attention Problems as Mechanisms Linking Maltreatment Subtypes and Witnessed Violence to Social Functioning Among Children in Out-of-Home Care	1
Memory Accuracy After 20 Years for Interviews About Child Maltreatment	1
Is Household Unemployment Associated With Increased Verbal and Physical Child Abuse During the COVID Pandemic?	1
Complex, Co-occurring Needs Patterns and Evidence-Based Service Planning for Families Involved in Foster Care: A Map for Research and Practice	1
Improving Outcomes for Vulnerable Children and Families: Applying what We Learned About the COVID-19 Pandemic and Child Maltreatment	1
Effects of Community-Based Wraparound Services on Child and Caregiver Outcomes Following Child Protective Service Involvement	1
Home Visiting and Child Welfare Involvement: A Matched Comparison Group Study	1
Child Maltreatment 2021 Best Article Award	1
Call for Editorial Board Nominations	1
The Development of Young Peoples’ Internalising and Externalising Difficulties Over the First Three-Years in the Public Care System	1
Contexts and Characteristics of Imaged-Based Sexual Exploitation and Abuse of Children: Incident Dynamics in a National Sample	1
Our Commitment to Promoting Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice in Child Maltreatment	1
Response to Drake (2024) “A Commentary on Recent Announcements by American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children and Child Maltreatment”	1
Receipt and Timeliness of Mental Health Assessment, Treatment, and Acute Services Following Foster Care Entry	1
Injuries Associated With Subsequent Child Maltreatment Diagnosis: By Age, Race, Gender, and Medicaid Status	1
Intergenerational Continuity of Child Maltreatment, Parenting, and Racism: Commentary on Valentino et al., (2012)	1
Gonococcal Conjunctivitis in Prepubertal Children	1
Linked Child Welfare and Medicaid Data in Kentucky and Florida Highlights Racial Disparities in Access to Care	1
A Multimethod Exploration of the COVID-Era Transition to Virtual Hearings in Child Welfare Court Cases	1
Child Maltreatment Announces New Statistical Associate Editor	1
Life Course Models of Child Maltreatment: Effects on General Psychopathology Outcomes in a Longitudinal Sample	1
Nonverbal Emotions While Disclosing Child Abuse: The Role of Interviewer Support	1
Using a Person-Centered Approach to Identify Patterns of Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence and Child Abuse in Women: Associations With Mental Health	1
Child Maltreatment and Substance Use: A Behavior Genetic Analysis	1
State Child Maltreatment Policies and Disparities in Substantiation: A Study of State-Administered Child Welfare Systems in the U.S.	1
Prospective Associations Between Early Childhood Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Middle Childhood Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology	1
Parenting, Child Maltreatment, and Social Disadvantage: A Population-Based Implementation and Evaluation of the Triple P System of Evidence-Based Parenting Support	1