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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Linking Quality and Quantity of Parental Linguistic Input to Child Language Skills: A Meta‐Analysis	113
Children’s screen and problematic media use in the United States before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic	64
Paternal Sensitivity and Children’s Cognitive and Socioemotional Outcomes: A Meta‐Analytic Review	64
The state of evidence for social and emotional learning: A contemporary meta‐analysis of universal school‐based SEL interventions	63
Global estimates of the implications of COVID‐19‐related preprimary school closures for children’s instructional access, development, learning, and economic wellbeing	58
The Longitudinal Relationship Between Conversational Turn‐Taking and Vocabulary Growth in Early Language Development	57
Corporal Punishment and Elevated Neural Response to Threat in Children	48
Parental sensitivity and child behavioral problems: A meta‐analytic review	47
A Little Autonomy Support Goes a Long Way: Daily Autonomy‐Supportive Parenting, Child Well‐Being, Parental Need Fulfillment, and Change in Child, Family, and Parent Adjustment Across the Adaptation to	47
Can guidance during play enhance children’s learning and development in educational contexts? A systematic review and meta‐analysis	44
Infant exuberant object play at home: Immense amounts of time‐distributed, variable practice	43
Interpersonal Neural Synchrony During Father–Child Problem Solving: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study	42
Longitudinal Trajectories, Social and Individual Antecedents, and Outcomes of Problematic Internet Use Among Late Adolescents	39
Lying and Theory of Mind: A Meta‐Analysis	39
The Development of Advanced Theory of Mind in Middle Childhood: A Longitudinal Study From Age 5 to 10 Years	39
Child Language Difficulties and Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Meta‐Analysis	38
Family Structure, Family Instability, and Child Psychological Well‐Being in the Context of Migration: Evidence From Sequence Analysis in China	34
Early Constraints on the Imagination: The Realism of Young Children	34
Skill, Thrill, and Will: The Role of Metacognition, Interest, and Self‐Control in Predicting Student Engagement in Mathematics Learning Over Time	33
Developmental Relations Between Home Literacy Environment, Reading Interest, and Reading Skills: Evidence From a 3‐Year Longitudinal Study	31
Comparing Automatic and Manual Measures of Parent–Infant Conversational Turns: A Word of Caution	30
Advancing scholarship on anti‐racism within developmental science: Reflections on the special section and recommendations for future research	29
The impact of the COVID‐19 pandemic on child and adolescent development around the world	29
The Role of Immigration Background, Intergroup Processes, and Social‐Cognitive Skills in Bystanders’ Responses to Bias‐Based Bullying Toward Immigrants During Adolescence	29
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children	27

School Cultural Socialization and Academic Performance: Examining Ethnic‐Racial Identity Development as a Mediator Among African American Adolescents	27
Interrupting the Pathway From Discrimination to Black Adolescents’ Psychosocial Outcomes: The Contribution of Parental Racial Worries and Racial Socialization Competency	27