OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child Indicators Research is 4. 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
Supporting Early Childhood Development through Multi-dimensional Service Delivery in South Africa	96
Policy Recommendations from an Empirical Study of an Online Foster Care Community	46
Unveiling the Economic Determinants of Child Labour in Africa: A Comprehensive Study of 37 Countries	46
Investing in the Future: The Economic Costs of Child Malnutrition and the Role of Socioeconomic Determinants in Ethiopia	36
COVID-19 Pandemic and the Second Lockdown: The 3rd Wave of the Disease Through the Voice of Youth	24
Associations of Perceived School and Year Group Climate with Mental Health Among Children Aged 7-to-11 Years	22
Effect of Socioeconomic Status of Parents on Nutrition Habits Among Children: Türki̇ye Child Survey Application	21
Qualitative Research on Early Childhood Education in North Korea: Literature and Interviews with Defector Educators	21
Stigma Protection. Parents Supporting the Well-being of Transgender/Non-binary Children	21
Building Child-Friendly Cities: Role of Infringement Incidents in Policy Agenda Setting	20
Conceptualizing Social Determinants of Neighborhood Health through a Youth Lens	20
The Association Between the Material Well-Being and the Subjective Well-Being of Children in 35 Countries	20
Indicators of Child Malnutrition among Different Social Groups in West Bengal, India: An Analysis Based on National Family Health Survey (NFHS-V)	19
Examining Trends in the Child Social Exclusion Index in Australia from 2011 to 2016: Have Geographical Patterns of Disadvantage Persisted Over Time?	18
Food Insecurity Status of Afghan Refugees is Linked to Socioeconomic and Resettlement Status, Gender Disparities and Children's Health Outcomes in Iran	18
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Mental Health: When Well-Being Matters	18
Profiles of Young Children Involved with Child Protection Services in Portugal	17
Diminished Adolescent Social Well-Being During the COVID-19 Pandemic	16
Promoting Young Children’s Right to Participate in the Classroom through Picture Books	16
Is there Gender-Based Discrimination in Childhood Immunization in Ethiopia: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	16
Youth and Adolescents’ Perceptions of Violence in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Systematic Review of the Literature	16
How are Family Resources and School Resources Related to Low-Income Adolescents’ Psychological Adjustment? The Moderating Role of Belief in a Just World	15
The Full Picture: Incorporating Ecological Factors When Conducting Developmental Screening with Young Children Experiencing Homelessness	15
Subjective Well-Being of Primary and Secondary School Students During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Latent Profile Analysis	14
The Role of Parents and Peers in Cyberbullying Perpetration: Comparison among Arab and Jewish and Youth in Israel	14

Epidemiological and Psychosocial Correlates of Cognitive, Emotional, and Social Deficits among Children and Adolescents in Oman: A Literature Review	13
Assessing Child Health in India: Development and Validation of a Comprehensive Child Health Index	13
A Descriptive Study of Well-Being and Assets in Middle Childhood during the COVID-19 Pandemic in a Los Angeles County School District	13
Analysis of the Lifestyle and Psychological Well-being of Adolescents: Age-related Differences	12
Household Multidimensional Energy Poverty: Impact on Health, Education, and Cognitive Skills of Children in Ghana	12
Examining the Psychometric Properties of the Family Affluence Scale in Norwegian Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children Surveys: Implications for Time Trend Analysis	12
Building a Set of Indicators to Assess Migrant Children's Integration in Europe: A Co-Creation Approach	11
Opportunities for Happiness and Its Determinants Among Children in China: A Study of Three Waves of the China Family Panel Studies Survey	11
The Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Construction of the Family Affluence Scale: Findings from 16 Countries	11
An Individual-Specific Approach to Multidimensional Child Poverty in India: a Study of Regional Disparities	10
Differences in Subjective and Psychological Well-Being of Romanian Adolescents over a Four-Year Period and its Relationship with Free Time	10
Youth Emotional Experiences during COVID-19: Relations with Internalizing Problems and Social Support	10
Deliberation, Polarization, and Emotion: A Deliberative Process about Climate Change with Young Participants	10
Exploring the Relationship between Mindfulness and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents: The Role of Social Competence and Self-Esteem	10
Understanding Primary School Enrollment in the Free Education Era Through Large-Scale from Punjab, Pakistan: Roadblocks to Meeting the Sustainable Development Goal	10
Correction to: Investigation of the Psychological Well-Being of Preschool Children, their Parents, and Teachers	9
Locked Down: The Gendered Impact of Social Support on Children’s Well-Being Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic	9
The Relationship Between Coronavirus Phobia and Life Satisfaction Among Adolescents in the Post-Pandemic Period	9
Public Health and Children’s Subjective Well-Being	9
Adolescent Hope: An Exploratory Investigation of Individual and Family Correlates by Racial/Ethnic Groups	9
A Qualitative Study on Adolescents’ Perceptions and Understandings of Flourishing in the Western Cape, South Africa	9
Problematic Smartphone Use among Young People and the Use of Additional Social Networking Software—an Example from Bosnia and Herzegovina	9
Participation, Leisure and Social Networks as Key Factors in the Inclusion of Young Unaccompanied Migrants	8
Learning in a Pandemic: Primary School children’s Emotional Engagement with Remote Schooling during the spring 2020 Covid-19 Lockdown in Ireland	8
Who Experiences Greater Happiness When Dining Together? A Study of the Relationship Between Dining with Family Members and the Mental Health of Chinese Students	8
Children’s Criminal Perception; Lessons from Neurolaw	8
Children’s Participation in Decision Making within the Family Context of Yoruba Culture	8
The Health Inequality of Children in China: A Regression-Based Decomposition Analysis	8
Gender, Paid Work, and Mental Health of Adolescents and Young Adults in Resource-Poor Settings of India	8
Psychometric Properties of the Community Sense Scale in the Classroom in a sample of Chilean students	8
Identifying Important Factors to Prevent Juvenile Delinquency among Male and Female Adolescents: an Exploratory Analysis Using the LASSO Regression Algorithm in the Korean Children and Youth Panel Sur	7
Access to material resources and the subjective well-being of children in Brazil and Chile	7
Developing, Implementing and Critiquing an Evaluation Framework to Assess the Extent to Which a Child’s Right to be Heard is Embedded at an Organisational Level	7
Clustering of Wellbeing, Engagement and Academic Outcomes in Australian Primary Schools	7
Children’s Lived Experiences of Wellbeing at School in England: a Phenomenological Inquiry	7
The Birth Cohorts Difference in Depression	7
Differential Effects of Parents’ Education on Adolescent Well-being Outcomes	7
Chronic Conditions, School Participation and Quality of Life of Portuguese Adolescents: Highlights from the Health Behavior in School aged Children study - HBSC 2018	7
Is Democracy Associated with Reduction of Poverty, Child Mortality and Child Deprivation in Low-income Countries?	7
Life Satisfaction, Bullying, and Feeling Safe as a Protective Factor for Chilean and Brasilian Adolescents	7
Barriers and Enablers to Data-Based Decision Making in Australian Place-Based Community Initiatives: A Qualitative Study Informed by the COM-B Model and Theoretical Domains Framework	6
World Child Well-Being Index: A Multidimensional Perspective	6
Longitudinal Study of the Psychosocial Effects of Political Participation by Children: the ‘Ágora Infantil’ Programme	6
The Perspective of School-Age Adolescents on Cyberbullying in Türkiye: A Qualitative Study	6
Integration, Social Competence and Life Satisfaction: the Mediating Effect of Resilience and Self-Esteem in Adolescents	6
Life Satisfaction and Character Strenghs in Ecuatorian Adolescents	6
Adverse Childhood Experiences and Substance Use Among Korean College Students: Different by Gender?	6
Social and Emotional Wellbeing Among Young People; the Mitigating Role of Ecological Domains	6
Child Well-Being in Latin America: contributions to child indicators research	6
Psychological Well-Being and Social Competence During Adolescence: Longitudinal Association Between the Two Phenomena	6

Bullying, Family Support, and Life Satisfaction in Adolescents of Single-Parent Households in 42 Countries	6
Access to Potentially Harmful Online Content and Psychological Distress in Australian Older Adolescents: a Population-Based Study	6
Subjective Well-Being of Young People in Therapeutic Residential Care from a Gender Perspective	6
Differences and Similarities in Youth Social-emotional Competence Measurement Between North American and East Asian Countries: Exploratory Graph Analysis using the OECD Survey on Social and Emotional	5
Individual and Sociodemographic Factors Associated to Prosocial Behaviors and Academic Performance in Portuguese Preschool and Elementary School Children: Highlights from a National Study After COVID-	5
The most salient global predictors of adolescents’ subjective Well-Being: parental support, peer support, and anxiety	5
Development and Validation of the Quality of Life in the Neighborhood Questionnaire for Children 8 to 10 Years of Age (QoL-N-Kids 8–10)	5
Parenting and Adolescents’ Subjective Psychological Well-Being: Does Immigration Background Matter?	5
Does play-based experience provide for inclusiveness? A case study of multi-dimensional indicators	5
Benefits of Positive Psychology-Based Story Reading on Adolescent Mental Health and Well-Being	5
Who are the Happy Girls? Gender Comparison Using a Biopsychosocial Approach: Health Behavior School-Aged Children Study in Portugal During Covid-Pandemic	5
Measuring Overcrowding in Households with Children: Official vs. Actual Thresholds in the Ecuadorian Case	5
Rights and overall life satisfaction of 10- and 12-year-old children in three countries	5
Client Agency in Child Protection Work in Estonia: Clients’ Perspectives	5
A robust statistical tool to measure African governments’ commitment to girls’ rights: The Girl-Friendliness Index	5
The Effect of Body Image Perceptions on Life Satisfaction and Emotional Wellbeing of Adolescent Students:	5
Local Geographic Variations in Children’s School Readiness - A Multilevel Analysis of the Development Gaps in England	5
Conceptualising and Measuring Adolescents’ Hedonic and Eudemonic Wellbeing: Discriminant Validity and Dimensionality Concerns	5
Sibling Bullying, School Bullying, and Children’s Subjective Well-Being Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Indonesia	5
Recognition and Capability – Prerequisites for Empowerment for Children with Disabilities?	5
School climate, academic performance, and adolescent well-being in Korea: The roles of competition and cooperation	5
The Impact of Bodyweight on Life Satisfaction among School-Aged Children: Are the Mechanisms Gender-Based?	5
Evaluating the Role of Households' Food Security Status and Socioeconomic Determinants on Child Mortality in Nigeria	4
School Belongingness and Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Adolescents: Exploring the Influence of Meaningful School	4
Effectiveness of Social Learning Theory Based Ecological Footprint Awareness Program in 60-72-Month-Old Children: A Randomized Controlled Study	4
Play Experiences and Perceptions of Young Children Living in Disadvantaged Socioeconomic and Cultural Contexts in Turkey	4
Digitally Deprived Children in Europe	4
Subjective Well-Being and Bullying Victimisation: A Cross-National Study of Adolescents in 64 Countries and Economies	4
Beating the odds: Identifying the top predictors of resilience among Hong Kong students	4
Childhood Poverty Duration and Its Long-Term Effects on Income and Education in China: A Survival Analysis Based on CHNS Data	4
Refugee Minors’ Perspectives Explored with the Bridge Drawing and Children’s Hope Scale	4
Longitudinal Comparison of Cohorts Concerning Sense of Community of Adolescents	4
A Systematic Review of Children’s Psychological Well-Being from a Eudaimonic Perspective: a Narrative Synthesis	4
Voices from the Field: What Do Turkish Students Suggest? A Socio-Ecological Study on School Belonging	4
Inequalities in Wellbeing in Lebanese Children and Different Refugee Subpopulations: A Multidimensional Child Deprivation Analysis	4
An Enhanced Stress-Buffering Model of Social Support on Mental Health Outcomes of Low-Income Children	4
Return to School Anxiety after Covid-19 in High School Students: A Field Study in Turkey	4
Adolescents’ Psychological Well-Being Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Role of Internal and External Factors	4
Adolescent Perspectives on Distance Learning and Schools’ Impact on Subjective well-being	4
Effects of COVID-19 Restrictions on Anxiety, Sleep, and Executive Functions among Arab Israeli Children with Attentional Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder	4
Youths’ Perceptions Of The Relation Between Alcohol Consumption And Risky Sexual Behaviour in the Western Cape, South Africa: A Qualitative Study	4
Developing an index of adolescent deprivation for use in British Columbia, Canada	4
Life Quality and Factors Affecting in Primary School Students: A Multivariate Analysis	4
Assessing Child Health Disparities: Evidence from a Household-Based Health Index in Punjab, Pakistan	4