OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Applied Developmental Science is 3. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Growth of shared book reading in the first two years and its effects on children’s development	32
The role of rapport in eliciting children’s truthful reports	22
Educating teachers to enact the science of learning and development	14
Validity studies of a parent-completed social-emotional measure in a representative sample in China	12
How does the family environment affect toddlerhood language and cognitive development? Evidence from peri-urban China	12
Parental and contextual influences on religious transmission in adolescence	11
Empathy in an ecosystem: A longitudinal study examining contributions of summer camp and school experiences to empathy during early adolescence	11
Longitudinal associations between teacher-student relationships and school engagement in early elementary school years: Gender differences	11
Does entering early childhood education as a toddler benefit language and social development until age seven? A propensity score analysis	10
Paradox of aging: Differential effects of social network types on mental health in midlife and older adults	10
Validation of a youth social capital scale Informed by positive youth development	10
Do adults think talking to children about race is appropriate? Experimental evidence of the effects of race, age, and messaging	9
Does variation in early childhood education matter more for dual language learners’ than for monolingual children’s language development?	9
Development and initial validation of a camper-counselor relationship scale	9
Perceived discrimination and poor children’s executive function: the different roles of self-esteem and perceived social support	8
Delayed gratification predicts behavioral and academic outcomes: Examining the validity of the delay-of-gratification choice paradigm in Singaporean young children	7
Deeper engagement with live theater increases middle school students’ empathy and social perspective taking	6
Don’t sleep on identity: Longitudinal associations between identity and sleep quality in adolescents with different cultural backgrounds	6
Psychometric validity and measurement invariance of positive youth development in the Philippines during the COVID-19 pandemic	6
An assessment of when moral stories promote children’s honesty	6
Program quality instrument for youth (PQI-youth): validation of a brief, self-report measure	6
Moral reasoning among children in India: The intersection of culture, development, and social class	6
Engaging purpose in college: a person-centered approach to studying purpose in relation to college experiences	6
Purpose development in the context of higher education	5
Breaking the chains? The effects of training a shelter dog in prison on criminal behavior and recidivism	5

Relational social capital and educational equity among middle-school students: a person-centered analysis	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
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
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
Becoming self-sufficient: a longitudinal person-centered analysis of financial identity and adult status during emerging adulthood	4
Familismo , respeto , and caballerismo : Cultural values as buffers against links between psychological distress and U.	4
Social-emotional learning intervention effects: the role of universal versus indicated implementation settings	4
The age-graded effects of psychosocial maturity on legal socialization across the adolescent developmental course in youth offenders	4
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree: Longitudinal associations among American adolescents’ civic engagement and family and school characteristics	4
Electronic media exposure, parental language input, and child vocalizations in rural and peri-urban China	4
Late-adult fathers’ experiences of parenting across the lifespan	3
Children’s self-control as an antecedent of adolescent prosociality and adult civic engagement	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
Heterogeneity in the development of differential reinforcement: examining predictive power of definitions and differential association from a social learning perspective	3
Protective effect of parental monitoring on early-to-mid adolescents displaying high-level and increasing aggressive behavior	3
Promoting youth social-emotional development through animal-assisted interventions: A qualitative analysis of special education students’ perspectives	3
“The most important part of empathy is…being able to help”: Empathy definitions and teaching practices in middle school	3
Direct and moderating impacts of the CARE mindfulness-based professional learning program for teachers on children’s academic and social-emotional outcomes	3