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

Article	Citations
Longitudinal associations between critical consciousness, school racial climate, and belonging in school	30
Much hypothesized, rarely tested: Public preschool attendance predicts executive functioning skills in 3rd grade	18
Educating teachers to enact the science of learning and development	15
Unique and joint contributions of behavioral and emotional self-regulation to school readiness	12
Empowering community-changers: Developing civic efficacy in elementary classrooms	11
Development and validation of the Critical Reflection Scale for youth in China: Factor structure and measurement invariance across age, gender, and sexual orientation	10
Validity studies of a parent-completed social-emotional measure in a representative sample in China	10
Coping and emotion regulation in response to social stress tasks among young adolescents with and without social anxiety	9
The role of trajectories of stress and social support in underrepresented students’ educational outcomes	9
The emerging techno-microsystem and its longitudinal influences on Chinese young children’s behavior problems	9
Program quality instrument for youth (PQI-youth): validation of a brief, self-report measure	9
Growth of shared book reading in the first two years and its effects on children’s development	9
Using the orthogenetic principle to explore the ontogeny of the positive development of Ugandan youth	8
The role of rapport in eliciting children’s truthful reports	7
Premenstrual symptoms and the 5Cs: The moderating role of physical exercise and the mediating role of body satisfaction	7
Promoting youth social-emotional development through animal-assisted interventions: A qualitative analysis of special education students’ perspectives	6
Interview and child factors that influence children’s true disclosures of a parent’s versus a stranger’s wrongdoing	6
Engaging purpose in college: a person-centered approach to studying purpose in relation to college experiences	6
Relational social capital and educational equity among middle-school students: a person-centered analysis	5
Don’t sleep on identity: Longitudinal associations between identity and sleep quality in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds	5
Social support preferences of adolescents exploring career purpose	5
Mixed evidence concerning the effects of the hopeful mindset among mother and child in low-income families in Singapore	5
Socioeconomic disparities in early language development in two Norwegian samples	4
Daily links between leisure activities, stress, and well-being during the transition to university	4
Duration of poverty and Ghanaian children’s learning and executive function outcomes	4

Developmental assets and positive youth development: an examination of gender differences in Spain	4
The home language environment and early childhood development: a LENA study from rural and peri-urban China	4
Social change, cultural evolution, weaving apprenticeship, and development: informal education across three generations and 42 years in a Maya community	4
Breaking the chains? The effects of training a shelter dog in prison on criminal behavior and recidivism	4
Linking homelessness in secondary school to postsecondary and early labor market outcomes in Maryland using a continuum of risk framework	4
How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China	4
The perceived adultism scale: Initial validation of an instrument measuring youth experiences of age-based oppression	3
The influence of deviant peer association on dual systems model development: the protective role of resistance to peer influence	3
Validation of the French-Canadian Version of the Positive Youth Development Scale-Short Form (PYD-SF)	3
Empathy in an ecosystem: A longitudinal study examining contributions of summer camp and school experiences to empathy during early adolescence	3
The effectiveness of interventions for youth that activate the social network: a meta-analytic study	3
Gratitude as a moral virtue: a psychometric evaluation of the Gratitude Assessment Questionnaire in Chinese children	3
An exploration of the relationship between school poverty rates and students’ perceptions of empowerment: student-staff relationships, equitable roles, & classroom sense of community	3
Longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school engagement in early elementary school years: Gender differences	3
Lifespan perspective on self-compassion: Insights from age-groups and gender comparisons	3
Intentional self-regulation among young adults: Investigating the structure of selection, optimization, and compensation among West Point Cadets	2
The roles of ethnic identity and stressors in natural mentoring support among Latinx adolescents	2
Revised Socialization of Lying Questionnaire: a reflection of parent moral identity?	2
The intersection of perceptions of classroom openness with civic engagement among young urban adolescents in science classroom	2
Conducting virtual assessments in developmental research: COVID-19 restrictions as a case example	2
Impulse control moderates the association between substance use and substance use-related consequences among justice-system-involved youth	2
Back to school: Teachers’ initial perceptions of students’ executive function behaviors are important for teacher–student relationships and executive function development	2
Pathways to community leadership: Transitions, turning points, and generational continuity	2
The age-graded effects of psychosocial maturity on legal socialization across the adolescent developmental course in youth offenders	2
The utility of the birthday prompt in narrative practice with maltreated and non-maltreated 4- to 9-year-old children	2
Organized civic and non-civic activities as predictors of academic GPA in high school students	2
Perceptions of a caring school climate and mental well-being: a one-way street? Results from a random intercept cross-lagged panel model	2
Parental and contextual influences on religious transmission in adolescence	2
Promoting fourth-grade students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness through service-learning	1
“Literacy is everywhere!”: using digital technology to broaden how parents view the home literacy environment	1
COVID-19 lockdown and early vocabulary development: insights from Saudi households	1
Paradox of aging: Differential effects of social network types on mental health in midlife and older adults	1
The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood	1
Unraveling the complexity of children’s thinking about poverty: Upper elementary school children’s perspectives on its causes and solutions	1
What predicts children’s perceptions of intergroup connections within the classroom?: A social networks-based approach	1
Purpose development in the context of higher education	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
Factors that promote positive Chinese youth development: a qualitative study	1
Academic outcomes in a national afterschool program: The role of program experiences and youth sustained engagement	1
Afterschool engagement: a mixed methods approach to understanding profiles of youth engagement	1
Becoming self-sufficient: a longitudinal person-centered analysis of financial identity and adult status during emerging adulthood	1
The interactive roles of religion, parenting, and sex communication in adolescent sexual risk-taking	1
Individual, family, peer, and religious community predictors of adolescent religious deidentification	1
Threat and deprivation as distinct predictors of posttraumatic stress and depression symptoms in first and second generation Latinx youth	1
The effects of a two-generation English as a second language (ESL) intervention on immigrant parents and children in Head Start	1
Parental socialization goals and behaviors for appreciation, parents’ own appreciation, and children’s appreciation: a longitudinal study of Chinese parent–child dyads	1
Socialization of lying scale: development and validation of a parent measure of socialization of truth and lie-telling behavior	1
Sibling and pet relationships: links with adversity and adjustment in pre-adolescence	1
The role of prenatal depression and infant negative emotionality on maternal mind-mindedness	1
Validation of a youth social capital scale Informed by positive youth development	1