OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant and Child Development 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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
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Goldilocks and the home mathematics environment: Parents' rate activities ‘too easy,’ ‘just right,’ or ‘too hard’ across early development	99
Longitudinal associations between attachment representations coded in the adult attachment interview in late adolescence and perceptions of romantic relationship adjustment in adulthood	71
We need to talk about validity – A commentary on “Six solutions for more reliable infant research” from the viewpoint of an early executive functions researcher	62
The relationship between oral language and storytelling prosody in preschool children	59
An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties scale in Turkey: Implications for other non‐WEIRD countries	39
Caregiver Beliefs About Childhood Development and Schooling Outcomes: A Qualitative Study in Mahikeng, South Africa	36
Leveraging Eye‐Tracking Technology to Understand How Young Children Solve a Mental Rotation Task	34
Does surgency moderate the relationship between parenting and children's aggression in middle childhood?	31
Black‐Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization	23
Learning in Dos Idiomas: The Impact of Codeswitching on Children's Noun and Verb Learning	22
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends	21
The health costs associated with “looking forward to success”: Educational expectations and children's health	20
Fulfilling the promise of applied developmental science: Is it time to reconsider our approach?	20
Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood	18
Reliability and replicability in infant research: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)	16
Acting and Practising Together: Modulations of the Joint Simon Effect in 6‐ to 8‐Year‐Old Children	14
The dynamic functions of social cues during children's word learning	13
Pre‐K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences	13
Issue Information	13
Examining the indirect role of perceived normativeness in the association between collectivistic values and psychological control of Turkish mothers	12
Preschool children's high‐frequency heart rate variability during low and high emotional challenge in relation to their self‐regulation	12
Gender attitudes and gender discrimination among ethnically and geographically diverse young children	12
Perspectives on the impact of generative AI on early‐childhood development and education	11
How Well Do Children Remember Fast‐Mapped Words? A Pre‐Registered Meta‐Analysis of Retention Following the Mutual Exclusivity Response	11

How Linguistic Labels and Objects Types Shape Inductive Reasoning in Chinese Preschool Children Aged 3 to 5 Years	11
The Story of Sickness: Improving Children's Sick Face Perception	11
Temperament and behaviour problems in children: A multilevel analysis of cross‐cultural differences	11
Mediators of the relation of family income with adolescent behaviour problems and cognitive achievement: Material hardship, parent distress, and parent support	10
Infant‐directed communication in Tanna, Vanuatu and Vancouver, Canada	10
Identifying developmental adaptations to early‐life stress	10
The Indonesian version of Ages and Stages Questionnaire III accuracy compared to Bayley Scales of Infant Development III	10
“I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory‐informed undergraduate research experience	10
Will power serve for oneself or others? An exploratory study toward 6‐ to 9‐year‐old Chinese children	9
Impact of decision‐making autonomy and social distance on young Chinese children's sharing behaviour	9
Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example	9
It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course‐taking and college attendance	9
Don't look any further: How a model's linguistic group membership limits exploration and discovery in preschool children	8
Life satisfaction trajectories among junior high school students in China: The role of parent–child communication	8
Do mother's socialization goals in early childhood predict children's later self?	8
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The Marshmallow Test as a Screening Instrument: Sensitivity and Specificity of a Delay of Gratification Task for Later ADHD and Conduct Problems	7
Issue Information	7
Anxiety, Depression, and Behavioural Problems Among US Children and Adolescents, 2016–2022	7
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I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures	7
The role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: A systematic review	7
Do preschoolers always trust the majority? The influence of familiarity and expertise of a dissenter in a Chinese sample	7
Child refugee's social skills and resilience: Moderating effects of time in refugee camp, parental education, and preschool attendance	7
Defining Parent Responsiveness: A Systematic Review‐Based Theoretical Model	7
Trauma is not the whole story: Trajectories of responses to childhood disasters intertwining with Life following the Indian Ocean tsunami	7
The role of the natural history museum in promoting word learning for young children	7
Understanding the relation between socioeconomic status and elementary science achievement: A quantile regression approach	7
Toddler teachers' responses to tantrums and relations to successful resolutions	7
Preschool language exposure and use: A comparison study of dual‐language learners and English monolingual children	7
Dyslexia is not a gift, but it is not that simple	7
Who Should Play the Instrument?: Effects of Pitch and Loudness on Children's Gender Associations With Musical Instruments	7
‘The system is unfair’: Uncontrollable attributions for inequality predict more equitable giving in adolescents	7
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‘When my mummy and daddy aren't looking at me when I do my maths she helps me’; Children can be taught to create imaginary companions: An exploratory study	6
The cost–benefit trade‐off in young children's overimitation behaviour	6
Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research	6
The other side of false belief: Constructing the objectivity of reality	6
Associations among family socioeconomic status, parenting and sustained attention for socioeconomically disadvantaged children at age 5 years	6
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions	6
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Variability in parenting behaviours during play and during mealtimes with toddlers	6
Latent profiles of infant negative affect and respiratory sinus arrhythmia during the still‐face paradigm: The role of maternal sensitivity	6
Children's preferences of the colour composition of art paintings	6
Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue	5
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum	5
Prevalence, risk and protective factors of substance use amongst adolescents living in peri‐urban communities in Abuja, Nigeria	5
Analysing infant data at the group‐ or individual‐level: The impact of measurement error on sophisticated analyses	5

Beliefs, practices and support needs of preschool teachers toward shy‐withdrawn behaviours	5
Utilising Non‐Nutritive Sucking in Developmental Language Research: Past, Current and Future	4
Exploring Sibling Cooperation Across Cultures: Indigenous Yurakaré and Polish Urban Children	4
Childhood fantasy play relates to adult socio‐emotional competence	4
Toddlers' emotion vocalizations during peer conflicts and contingent teacher interventions in early care and education settings	4
Maternal distress and body mass index in preschoolers living in families experiencing low‐income	4
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life	4
Testing prosodic development with the Headturn Preference Procedure: A test‐retest reliability study	4
Math Anxiety, Activities, and Skills: Evidence From US Latine Families	4
Temperament ratings by parents and teachers as predictors of non‐verbal ability in Argentinean preschoolers	4
Use them or lose them: Are manipulatives needed to assess numeracy and geometry performance in preschool?	4
The developing of executive function skills through culturally organized autonomy and helping	4
Inhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood: Exploring the burdens and benefits of high self‐control	4
Can we predict non‐response in developmental tasks? Assessing the longitudinal relation between toddlers' non‐response and early academic skills	4
Spanking and parental verbal aggression during early childhood: Association with later academic achievement and the mediating role of executive function	4
Performance during object retrieval tasks in young children with and without Down syndrome: A pilot study	4
Black American adolescent's efficacy in the face of discrimination	4
The seventh solution: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein, Bergmann, and Savalei (2022)	4
Bayesian sample size planning for developmental studies	4
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition	4
Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)	4