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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Validity studies of a parent-completed social-emotional measure in a representative sample in China	22
Growth of shared book reading in the first two years and its effects on children’s development	22
Educating teachers to enact the science of learning and development	14
The role of rapport in eliciting children’s truthful reports	12
How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China	11
Parental and contextual influences on religious transmission in adolescence	10
Empathy in an ecosystem: A longitudinal study examining contributions of summer camp and school experiences to empathy during early adolescence	10
Longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school engagement in early elementary school years: Gender differences	10
Validation of a youth social capital scale Informed by positive youth development	9
Paradox of aging: Differential effects of social network types on mental health in midlife and older adults	9
Do adults think talking to children about race is appropriate? Experimental evidence of the effects of race, age, and messaging	8
Does entering early childhood education as a toddler benefit language and social development until age seven? A propensity score analysis	8
Development and initial validation of a camper-counselor relationship scale	7
Delayed gratification predicts behavioral and academic outcomes: Examining the validity of the delay-of-gratification choice paradigm in Singaporean young children	7
Does variation in early childhood education matter more for dual language learners’ than for monolingual children’s language development?	7
Psychometric validity and measurement invariance of positive youth development in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
Perceived discrimination and poor children’s executive function: the different roles of self-esteem and perceived social support	6
Moral reasoning among children in India: The intersection of culture, development, and social class	6
An assessment of when moral stories promote children’s honesty	6
Breaking the chains? The effects of training a shelter dog in prison on criminal behavior and recidivism	5
Engaging purpose in college: a person-centered approach to studying purpose in relation to college experiences	5
Don’t sleep on identity: Longitudinal associations between identity and sleep quality in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds	5
The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood	5
Back to school: Teachers’ initial perceptions of students’ executive function behaviors are important for teacher–student relationships and executive function development	5
Relational social capital and educational equity among middle-school students: a person-centered analysis	5

Deeper engagement with live theater increases middle school students’ empathy and social perspective taking	5
Conducting virtual assessments in developmental research: COVID-19 restrictions as a case example	5
An exploration of the relationship between school poverty rates and students’ perceptions of empowerment: student-staff relationships, equitable roles, & classroom sense of community	5
Program quality instrument for youth (PQI-youth): validation of a brief, self-report measure	5
The age-graded effects of psychosocial maturity on legal socialization across the adolescent developmental course in youth offenders	4
Intentional self-regulation among young adults: Investigating the structure of selection, optimization, and compensation among West Point Cadets	4
Becoming self-sufficient: a longitudinal person-centered analysis of financial identity and adult status during emerging adulthood	4
Promoting fourth-grade students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness through service-learning	4
Familismo , respeto , and caballerismo : Cultural values as buffers against links between psychological distress and U.	4
Purpose development in the context of higher education	4
The importance of both individual differences and dyadic processes in children’s emotion expression	4
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Longitudinal associations among American adolescents’ civic engagement and family and school characteristics	3
Heterogeneity in the development of differential reinforcement: examining predictive power of definitions and differential association from a social learning perspective	3
Social-emotional learning intervention effects: the role of universal versus indicated implementation settings	3
“The most important part of empathy is…being able to help”: Empathy definitions and teaching practices in middle school	3
Electronic media exposure, parental language input, and child vocalizations in rural and peri-urban China	3
A qualitative exploration of Latinx immigrant young adults’ experiences with anti-immigration policies and the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement	3
Financial behaviors, financial satisfaction, and goal attainment among college-educated young adults: A mediating analysis with latent change scores	2
Late-adult fathers’ experiences of parenting across the lifespan	2
Longitudinal associations between critical consciousness, school racial climate, and belonging in school	2
The intersection of perceptions of classroom openness with civic engagement among young urban adolescents in science classroom	2
COVID-19 lockdown and early vocabulary development: insights from Saudi households	2
Black and latinx adolescents’ developing understandings about poverty, inequality, and opportunity	2
Development and initial testing of the critical reflection on sexism scale (CROSS) among young adults in the U.S.	2
Direct and moderating impacts of the CARE mindfulness-based professional learning program for teachers on children’s academic and social-emotional outcomes	2
Promoting youth social-emotional development through animal-assisted interventions: A qualitative analysis of special education students’ perspectives	2
From an asset-based approach: Prospective associations of strength-based parenting, gratitude, and adolescent friendship quality	2
The interactive roles of religion, parenting, and sex communication in adolescent sexual risk-taking	2
Thriving amidst adversity: longitudinal psychological well-being and economic mobility in the Puerto Rican climate diaspora	2
Organized civic and non-civic activities as predictors of academic GPA in high school students	2
Protective effect of parental monitoring on early-to-mid adolescents displaying high-level and increasing aggressive behavior	2
Unique and joint contributions of behavioral and emotional self-regulation to school readiness	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
Correction	1
Examining critical anti-racism action as a buffer of the link between discrimination and mental health outcomes	1
Youth activism: developing sociopolitical synergy across interest, knowledge, and involvement	1
Gratitude as a moral virtue: a psychometric evaluation of the Gratitude Assessment Questionnaire in Chinese children	1
Duration of poverty and Ghanaian children’s learning and executive function outcomes	1
Multilingualism and malleability of verbal abilities: Parents’ practices and beliefs about learning two languages in early childhood	1
Differences in daily lie-telling patterns from adolescence to older adulthood	1
Calibrating temper loss severity in the transition to toddlerhood: Implications for developmental science	1
Adolescent motivations to abstain from sex and alcohol: a self-determination theory approach	1
Associations between adolescent alcohol use and neurocognitive functioning in young adulthood	1
Socioeconomic disparities in early language development in two Norwegian samples	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
Development and validation of the Critical Reflection Scale for youth in China: Factor structure and measurement invariance across age, gender, and sexual orientation	1
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study	1
How do mothers’ pre-pandemic emotion regulation skills and pandemic-related anxiety predict their children’s sadness regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic?	1

Volunteering in three cohorts of Czech adolescents: the socialization roles of family, school, and associations	1
Differential growth trajectories of behavioral self-regulation from early childhood to adolescence: Implication for youth domain-general and school-specific outcomes	1
Who’s to blame? How subtle negative messages about outgroups contribute to ethnic prejudice development in middle to late childhood	1
The role of prenatal depression and infant negative emotionality on maternal mind-mindedness	1
Lifespan perspective on self-compassion: Insights from age-groups and gender comparisons	1
Using the orthogenetic principle to explore the ontogeny of the positive development of Ugandan youth	1
Adverse childhood experiences, discrimination, and substance use among Latino/a/Hispanic youth	1
Does implying peer knowledge during an interview promote truthful disclosures from peer disclosure recipients and witnesses?	1