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 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)

Article	Citations
Growth of shared book reading in the first two years and its effects on children’s development	55
The role of rapport in eliciting children’s truthful reports	20
Educating teachers to enact the science of learning and development	17
Empathy in an ecosystem: A longitudinal study examining contributions of summer camp and school experiences to empathy during early adolescence	15
Longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school engagement in early elementary school years: Gender differences	14
Validation of a youth social capital scale Informed by positive youth development	13
Parental and contextual influences on religious transmission in adolescence	13
How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China	13
Development and initial validation of a camper-counselor relationship scale	12
Do adults think talking to children about race is appropriate? Experimental evidence of the effects of race, age, and messaging	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
Psychometric validity and measurement invariance of positive youth development in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	10
An assessment of when moral stories promote children’s honesty	9
Perceived discrimination and poor children’s executive function: the different roles of self-esteem and perceived social support	9
Delayed gratification predicts behavioral and academic outcomes: Examining the validity of the delay-of-gratification choice paradigm in Singaporean young children	9
Latino caregivers’ culture-specific reasons and enacted language practices for raising bilingual children	8
Don’t sleep on identity: Longitudinal associations between identity and sleep quality in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds	7
Parental cultural socialization and critical consciousness in two samples of BIPOC and White adolescents	7
Deeper engagement with live theater increases middle school students’ empathy and social perspective taking	7
Program quality instrument for youth (PQI-youth): validation of a brief, self-report measure	7
Back to school: Teachers’ initial perceptions of students’ executive function behaviors are important for teacher–student relationships and executive function development	6
An exploration of the relationship between school poverty rates and students’ perceptions of empowerment: student-staff relationships, equitable roles, & classroom sense of community	6
Engaging purpose in college: a person-centered approach to studying purpose in relation to college experiences	6
The age-graded effects of psychosocial maturity on legal socialization across the adolescent developmental course in youth offenders	5

The development and psychometric properties of a scalable digital measure of social and emotional wellbeing for middle childhood	5
Becoming self-sufficient: a longitudinal person-centered analysis of financial identity and adult status during emerging adulthood	5
Electronic media exposure, parental language input, and child vocalizations in rural and peri-urban China	4
Social-emotional learning intervention effects: the role of universal versus indicated implementation settings	4
Heterogeneity in the development of differential reinforcement: examining predictive power of definitions and differential association from a social learning perspective	4
Promoting fourth-grade students’ autonomy, competence, and relatedness through service-learning	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	4
Purpose development in the context of higher education	4
Familismo , respeto , and caballerismo : Cultural values as buffers against links between psychological distress and U.	4
Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement	4
“The most important part of empathy is…being able to help”: Empathy definitions and teaching practices in middle school	3
Protective effect of parental monitoring on early-to-mid adolescents displaying high-level and increasing aggressive behavior	3
Unique and joint contributions of behavioral and emotional self-regulation to school readiness	3
From an asset-based approach: Prospective associations of strength-based parenting, gratitude, and adolescent friendship quality	3
Late-adult fathers’ experiences of parenting across the lifespan	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 qualitative exploration of Latinx immigrant young adults’ experiences with anti-immigration policies and the COVID-19 pandemic	3
Longitudinal associations between critical consciousness, school racial climate, and belonging in school	3
A mixed methods study of natural mentoring relationships and loneliness in emerging adulthood	3
Rubbing off on each other: Applying a developmental science perspective to variance in primal world beliefs by family and culture	3
Promoting youth social-emotional development through animal-assisted interventions: A qualitative analysis of special education students’ perspectives	3
Organized civic and non-civic activities as predictors of academic GPA in high school students	3
Correction	2
Thriving amidst adversity: longitudinal subjective well-being and economic mobility in the Puerto Rican climate diaspora	2
Unraveling the complexity of children’s thinking about poverty: Upper elementary school children’s perspectives on its causes and solutions	2
Black and latinx adolescents’ developing understandings about poverty, inequality, and opportunity	2
Does implying peer knowledge during an interview promote truthful disclosures from peer disclosure recipients and witnesses?	2
Development and validation of a self-report measure of summer camp counselor burnout	2
Adverse childhood experiences, discrimination, and substance use among Latino/a/Hispanic youth	2
Development and initial testing of the critical reflection on sexism scale (CROSS) among young adults in the U.S.	2
The interactive roles of religion, parenting, and sex communication in adolescent sexual risk-taking	2
Exploring multidimensional approaches to learning during early childhood in Ghana	2
Volunteering in three cohorts of Czech adolescents: the socialization roles of family, school, and associations	2
Who’s to blame? How subtle negative messages about outgroups contribute to ethnic prejudice development in middle to late childhood	2
Multilingualism and malleability of verbal abilities: Parents’ practices and beliefs about learning two languages in early childhood	2
Differential growth trajectories of behavioral self-regulation from early childhood to adolescence: Implication for youth domain-general and school-specific outcomes	2
Adolescent motivations to abstain from sex and alcohol: a self-determination theory approach	2
COVID-19 lockdown and early vocabulary development: insights from Saudi households	2
Associations between adolescent alcohol use and neurocognitive functioning in young adulthood	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
Differences in daily lie-telling patterns from adolescence to older adulthood	2
Prosocial behavior and school performance in the transition to adolescence: A multicultural study	1
Youth activism: developing sociopolitical synergy across interest, knowledge, and involvement	1
Lifespan perspective on self-compassion: Insights from age-groups and gender comparisons	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
Examining critical anti-racism action as a buffer of the link between discrimination and mental health outcomes	1
Using the orthogenetic principle to explore the ontogeny of the positive development of Ugandan youth	1
Duration of poverty and Ghanaian children’s learning and executive function outcomes	1

The role of prenatal depression and infant negative emotionality on maternal mind-mindedness	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
Development and validation of the Critical Reflection Scale for youth in China: Factor structure and measurement invariance across age, gender, and sexual orientation	1
Bidirectional associations between positive youth development and contribution: implications for programs and policies	1
Socioeconomic disparities in early language development in two Norwegian samples	1
White ethnic majority German young adults’ accounts of parental socialization around race, ethnicity, culture, and national identity	1
Individual, family, peer, and religious community predictors of adolescent religious deidentification	1
A model of positive Liberian youth development	1