OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of European Journal of Developmental Psychology 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Nonlinearities in theory-of-mind development: New evidence from Dutch and Italian boys and girls	42
Loneliness profiles, attachment security, and friendship quality in adolescence	31
Psychometric properties of the flourishing scale in Italian adolescents	21
Longitudinal antecedents and consequences of ethnic, cyber and offline victimization	15
Assessing children’s perceptions of the co-parenting relationship: preliminary validity of an adapted version of the co-parenting relationship scale	15
The interoceptive sensibility in middle childhood: the Italian validation of the Self-Awareness Questionnaire	14
Does pubertal status potentiate the developmental links between maternal parenting and internalizing problems?	12
Self- disclosure on social networking sites, loneliness and psychological distress among adolescents: The mediating effect of cyber victimization	12
Developmental trajectory of the forward testing effect: The role of reset-of-encoding	12
Adolescents’ perceptions of Student and Teacher/Staff Defending Against Stigma-Based Peer Victimization	12
Empathy questionnaire for children and adolescents: Italian validation	10
Loneliness as a double-edged sword: an adaptive function with maladaptive consequences	10
Medical gender reassignment in minors – why are we cautious in Finland?	9
“Never mind”: social class differences in children’s developing emotion attributions to procedural justice outcomes	9
Assessing intergroup disgust sensitivity: psychometric properties of an adolescent version of the Intergroup Disgust Sensitivity Scale	9
Zooming in on everyday ethnic-racial discrimination: a review of experiencing sampling methodology studies in adolescence	8
Narcissism and the risk of exercise addiction in youth: the impact of problematic social media use and fitspiration exposure	8
The origins of hypothesis testing: Young children’s developing understanding of information seeking compared to effect production	8
Transition to emerging adulthood during the COVID-19 pandemic: Changes in anxiety and the role of inclusion/exclusion experiences	8
The pleasure of thinking in human development	7
Role of narcissism and empathy in the relationship between parental attachment and moral response patterns	7
Strength of children’s European identity: findings from majority and minority groups in four conflict-affected sites	7
Psychometric quality of student–teacher relationship drawings among young children in the Netherlands and China	7
Bringing it all together: a lifetime of work on the developmental tasks of adolescence	6
Label superiority effect on emotional voices in young children	6

Bias-based harassment and bullying: addressing mechanisms and outcomes for possible interventions	6
Special section in honour of the emeritus status given to Dr. Luc Goossens	6
From environment to genes… and back to the environment	5
Homophobic cyberbullying involvement and academic outcomes among LGBTQIA adolescents: moderating effect of perceived social support from Gay-Straight Alliances	5
Portuguese validation of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire short version in youth: Validity, reliability and invariance across gender and age	5
Gender similarities and differences in non-suicidal self-injury in an adolescent clinical sample	5
Correction	4
The integrative model of ICT effects on Adolescents’ well-being (iMEW): The synthesis of theories from developmental psychology, media and communications, and health	4
The association between social/legal and perceptual aspects of ethnicity and ethnic bullying and victimization	4
Children’s relationship problems and the role of adaptive functioning, emotion dysregulation and parental cognitive restructuring	4
Zooming in on proximal life domains: A literature review on family, peer, and school dynamics in adolescents’ acculturation and psychosocial adjustment	4
Psychological tests for expectant parents and young children in the Nordic countries: A review of the evidence	4
Does screen time during early childhood affect adolescent aggressive behaviour?: The moderated mediating role of parenting stress and language ability	4
In memoriam: Professor Jaana Katariina “Kata” Salmela-Aro (1961–2025)	4
The Development of Gender Stereotypes about Academic Aptitude among European French and North African French Boys	4
Impact of type of storybook character on Children’s costly sharing behavior	4
BDNF Val66Met polymorphism moderates negative symptom expression of bully victimization through resilience in Taiwanese youth	3
Mindfulness and romantic relationship quality: mediating effects on different facets of anger	3
Global challenges for developmental psychology: fostering future-oriented, cooperative, and collective efforts	3
Portuguese Validation of the Climate Change Attitude Survey: Psychometric Properties and Relations with Positive Youth Development	3
Development and validation of the short parent–child emotion communication questionnaire	3
Parental conflict and child behaviour problems: the role of parenting behaviours and child temperament	3
Autonomy in adolescence: a conceptual, developmental and cross-cultural perspective	3
A matter of style? Parenting behaviors of mothers of typically-developing children, children with mild intellectual disability, and deaf or hard-of-hearing children	3
Children’s gender identification beyond binary categories predicts their prosocial behaviour	3