| Predictors of violence and delinquency among high risk youth and youth gang members in San Salvador, El Salvador R Olate, C Salas-Wright, MG Vaughn International Social Work 55 (3), 383-401, 2012 | 94 | 2012 |
| Correlates of handgun carrying among adolescents in the United States MG Vaughn, BE Perron, A Abdon, R Olate, R Groom, LT Wu Journal of interpersonal violence 27 (10), 2003-2021, 2012 | 83 | 2012 |
| The protective effects of religious coping and spirituality on delinquency: Results among high-risk and gang-involved Salvadoran youth CP Salas-Wright, R Olate, MG Vaughn Criminal Justice and Behavior 40 (9), 988-1008, 2013 | 82 | 2013 |
| Assessing empathy in Salvadoran high-risk and gang-involved adolescents and young adults: A Spanish validation of the Basic Empathy Scale CP Salas-Wright, R Olate, MG Vaughn International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 57 (11 …, 2013 | 77 | 2013 |
| Religious coping, spirituality, and substance use and abuse among youth in high-risk communities in San Salvador, El Salvador CP Salas-Wright, R Olate, MG Vaughn Substance Use & Misuse 48 (9), 769-783, 2013 | 70 | 2013 |
| Direct and mediated associations between religious coping, spirituality, and youth violence in El Salvador CP Salas-Wrigh, R Olate, MG Vaughn, TV Tran Revista panamericana de salud publica 34, 183-189, 2013 | 42 | 2013 |
| Youth volunteer service as positive youth development in Latin America and the Caribbean AM McBride, E Johnson, R Olate, K O'Hara Children and Youth Services Review 33 (1), 34-41, 2011 | 36 | 2011 |
| Substance use, violence, and HIV risk behavior in El Salvador and the United States: cross-national profiles of the SAVA syndemic CP Salas-Wright, R Olate, MG Vaughn Victims & Offenders 10 (1), 95-116, 2015 | 30 | 2015 |
| ¿Como intervenir en los problemas de violencia y delincuencia juvenil? El fracaso de los enfoques punitivos y las posibilidades del enfonque de la salud pública R Olate, C Salas-Wright Revista de Trabajo Social (Santiago, Chile) 79, 7-21, 2010 | 30* | 2010 |
| Local institutions, social capital and capabilities: Challenges for development and social intervention in Latin America. R Olate Paper Presented at the Professor Douglass North PhD Seminar, Center for New …, 2003 | 29* | 2003 |
| A cross-national comparison of externalizing behaviors among high-risk youth and youth gang members in metropolitan Boston, Massachusetts, and San Salvador, El Salvador R Olate, C Salas-Wright, MG Vaughn Victims & Offenders 6 (4), 356-369, 2011 | 27 | 2011 |
| Preventing violence among gang-involved and high-risk youth in El Salvador: The role of school motivation and self-control R Olate, CP Salas-Wright, MG Vaughn, M Yu Deviant behavior 36 (4), 259-275, 2015 | 24 | 2015 |
| El voluntariado juvenil en América del Sur: un análisis de su orientación y formalización utilizando la teoría de los orígenes sociales de la sociedad civil R Olate Revista de Trabajo Social (Santiago, Chile) 76, 93-110, 2009 | 12 | 2009 |
| Youth volunteerism and service in the Latin America and Caribbean region: A potential strategy for social and economic development (Research Background Paper). St. Louis … L Johnson, C Benitez, AM McBride, R Olate Center for Social Development, 2004 | 9 | 2004 |
| Cigarette smoking status among Latino/Hispanic middle and high school students in the United States M Yu, PE Chavez, R Olate, C Peters Substance Use & Misuse 52 (3), 303-312, 2017 | 8 | 2017 |
| Preliminary findings on the links between violence, crime, and HIV risk among young adults with substance use disorders in El Salvador CP Salas-Wright, R Olate, MG Vaughn Journal of Substance Use 21 (1), 35-40, 2016 | 8 | 2016 |
| Youth volunteer service in Latin America and the Caribbean: A regional assessment (CSD Research Report RP 08-05) AM McBride, R Olate, L Johnson St. Louis: Center for Social Development, Washington University, 2008 | 8 | 2008 |
| Cross-national study of risky sexual behavior among gang-involved youth in metropolitan Boston and San Salvador, El Salvador B Biswas, R Olate, MG Vaughn Vulnerable Children and Youth Studies 6 (4), 309-313, 2011 | 7 | 2011 |
| Youth volunteerism in Latin America and the Caribbean: the formalization of voluntary service and the theory of social origins R Olate Washington University in St. Louis, 2007 | 7 | 2007 |
| Pobreza y reconversión laboral en la zona del carbón R Olate Revista de Trabajo Social (Santiago, Chile) 65, 45-54, 1995 | 7* | 1995 |
Michael G VaughnProfessor, Saint Louis UniversityVerified email at slu.edu