OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Development is 27. 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
The beneficial effect of sleep on behavioral health problems in youth is disrupted by prenatal cannabis exposure: A causal random forest analysis of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data	212
Crying in the first 12 months of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of cross‐country parent‐reported data and modeling of the “cry curve”	88
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication	86
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task	82
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions	55
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy	50
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children	49
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game	43
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe	40
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors	40
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study	36
Children strategically conceal selfishness	35
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development	34
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial	34
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents	34
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context	32
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique	31
The N2 During Preschool: Temporal Stability and a Test of Bidirectional Effects With Maternal Emotion Characteristics in a White, European‐American Sample	31
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children	31
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33	30
Learning apps at home prepare children for school	29
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence	29
Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects	28
Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood	28
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Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?	28
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children	27