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 2021-04-01 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
Validity studies of a parent-completed social-emotional measure in a representative sample in China	10
Development and validation of the Critical Reflection Scale for youth in China: Factor structure and measurement invariance across age, gender, and sexual orientation	10
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
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
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
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
Promoting youth social-emotional development through animal-assisted interventions: A qualitative analysis of special education students’ perspectives	6
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
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
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
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
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
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