OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Applied Developmental Science 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Growth of shared book reading in the first two years and its effects on children’s development	72
Educating teachers to enact the science of learning and development	31
Parental and contextual influences on religious transmission in adolescence	19
How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China	16
Longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school engagement in early elementary school years: Gender differences	15
Empathy in an ecosystem: A longitudinal study examining contributions of summer camp and school experiences to empathy during early adolescence	15
Validation of a youth social capital scale Informed by positive youth development	14
Reliability of a child self-regulation measure within intensive longitudinal designs: MCFA and DSEM approaches	12
Paradox of aging: Differential effects of social network types on mental health in midlife and older adults	12
Does entering early childhood education as a toddler benefit language and social development until age seven? A propensity score analysis	11
Do adults think talking to children about race is appropriate? Experimental evidence of the effects of race, age, and messaging	11
Perceived discrimination and poor children’s executive function: the different roles of self-esteem and perceived social support	10
Latino caregivers’ culture-specific reasons and enacted language practices for raising bilingual children	10
An assessment of when moral stories promote children’s honesty	10
The role of patience, religiosity, and spirituality in the search for purpose among young adults	8
Delayed gratification predicts behavioral and academic outcomes: Examining the validity of the delay-of-gratification choice paradigm in Singaporean young children	8
Deeper engagement with live theater increases middle school students’ empathy and social perspective taking	7
Psychometric validity and measurement invariance of positive youth development in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
Program quality instrument for youth (PQI-youth): validation of a brief, self-report measure	7
Parental cultural socialization and critical consciousness in two samples of BIPOC and White adolescents	6
Don’t sleep on identity: Longitudinal associations between identity and sleep quality in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds	6
Promoting fourth-grade students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness through service-learning	5
The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood	5
Purpose development in the context of higher education	5
Back to school: Teachers’ initial perceptions of students’ executive function behaviors are important for teacher–student relationships and executive function development	5

The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Longitudinal associations among American adolescents’ civic engagement and family and school characteristics	4
Familismo , respeto , and caballerismo : Cultural values as buffers against links between psychological distress and U.	4
A qualitative exploration of Latinx immigrant young adults’ experiences with anti-immigration policies and the COVID-19 pandemic	4
Social-emotional learning intervention effects: the role of universal versus indicated implementation settings	4
Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement	4
Heterogeneity in the development of differential reinforcement: examining predictive power of definitions and differential association from a social learning perspective	4
Electronic media exposure, parental language input, and child vocalizations in rural and peri-urban China	4
The importance of both individual differences and dyadic processes in children’s emotion expression	4
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture	4
Protective effect of parental monitoring on early-to-mid adolescents displaying high-level and increasing aggressive behavior	3
Organized civic and non-civic activities as predictors of academic GPA in high school students	3
Late-adult fathers’ experiences of parenting across the lifespan	3
Promoting youth social-emotional development through animal-assisted interventions: A qualitative analysis of special education students’ perspectives	3
The multidimensional online civic engagement for youth (MOCE-Y) scale: development and validation	3
Direct and moderating impacts of the CARE mindfulness-based professional learning program for teachers on children’s academic and social-emotional outcomes	3
A mixed methods study of natural mentoring relationships and loneliness in emerging adulthood	3
Longitudinal associations between critical consciousness, school racial climate, and belonging in school	3
“The most important part of empathy is…being able to help”: Empathy definitions and teaching practices in middle school	3
Profiles of youth’s values prior to postsecondary transitions: Associations with well-being and career decision-making	2
Cohort variations in the relation between socioeconomic status and early achievement: roles of policy, preschool experience, and home learning environments	2
Development and initial testing of the critical reflection on sexism scale (CROSS) among young adults in the U.S.	2
Does implying peer knowledge during an interview promote truthful disclosures from peer disclosure recipients and witnesses?	2
How do mothers’ pre-pandemic emotion regulation skills and pandemic-related anxiety predict their children’s sadness regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic?	2
Adverse childhood experiences, discrimination, and substance use among Latino/a/Hispanic youth	2
Volunteering in three cohorts of Czech adolescents: the socialization roles of family, school, and associations	2
Associations between adolescent alcohol use and neurocognitive functioning in young adulthood	2
The interactive roles of religion, parenting, and sex communication in adolescent sexual risk-taking	2
COVID-19 lockdown and early vocabulary development: insights from Saudi households	2
Differential growth trajectories of behavioral self-regulation from early childhood to adolescence: Implication for youth domain-general and school-specific outcomes	2
Correction	2
Development and validation of a self-report measure of summer camp counselor burnout	2
Multilingualism and malleability of verbal abilities: Parents’ practices and beliefs about learning two languages in early childhood	2
From an asset-based approach: Prospective associations of strength-based parenting, gratitude, and adolescent friendship quality	2
Unraveling the complexity of children’s thinking about poverty: Upper elementary school children’s perspectives on its causes and solutions	2
Exploring multidimensional approaches to learning during early childhood in Ghana	2
Thriving amidst adversity: longitudinal subjective well-being and economic mobility in the Puerto Rican climate diaspora	2
Differences in daily lie-telling patterns from adolescence to older adulthood	2
Who’s to blame? How subtle negative messages about outgroups contribute to ethnic prejudice development in middle to late childhood	2
A model of positive Liberian youth development	2
Exploring the self, others, and the world: the interplay between experiences abroad in adolescence, identity processes, and ethnic prejudice	1
Psychosocial school-based intervention among adolescents with migrant and native backgrounds: Effectiveness and experiences	1
Shifting and persisting in the face of life stressors: consequences for adolescent health	1
White ethnic majority German young adults’ accounts of parental socialization around race, ethnicity, culture, and national identity	1
Youth activism: developing sociopolitical synergy across interest, knowledge, and involvement	1
Bidirectional associations between positive youth development and contribution: implications for programs and policies	1
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study	1
Active vs. passive urbanization: Does urbanization type affect early childhood cognitive and language development? Evidence from peri-urban China	1
Visualizing holistic person-specific dynamic systems: a case example with self-efficacy and self-care behavior in emerging adults with type 1 diabetes	1
Premenstrual symptoms and the 5Cs: The moderating role of physical exercise and the mediating role of body satisfaction	1
Factorial and cultural validity of a social and emotional behavior measure in Northern Ghana	1

Mindfulness training enhances students’ executive functioning and social emotional skills	1
Lifespan perspective on self-compassion: Insights from age-groups and gender comparisons	1
The master narrative of racialized police murders: An examination of parent-child conversations among black and white parents	1
Examining critical anti-racism action as a buffer of the link between discrimination and mental health outcomes	1
The role of prenatal depression and infant negative emotionality on maternal mind-mindedness	1
Meaning making in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic: effects of purpose in life, positive reframing, acceptance, and event appraisal	1
“Paying attention gets twice the result with half the effort”: Teachers’ understanding of children’s attention in Chinese early childhood classrooms	1
Threat and deprivation as distinct predictors of posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in first and second generation Latinx youth	1
Longitudinal associations between parenting practices and children’s later decision-making competence	1
Perceptions of a caring school climate and mental well-being: a one-way street? Results from a random intercept cross-lagged panel model	1
Using the orthogenetic principle to explore the ontogeny of the positive development of Ugandan youth	1
Individual, family, peer, and religious community predictors of adolescent religious deidentification	1
Duration of poverty and Ghanaian children’s learning and executive function outcomes	1
Empowering community-changers: Developing civic efficacy in elementary classrooms	1