OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Development is 28. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development	405
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children	127
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard-of-hearing children	121
A Pre-registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context	72
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions	54
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe	51
The N2 During Preschool: Temporal Stability and a Test of Bidirectional Effects With Maternal Emotion Characteristics in a White, European-American Sample	48
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors	45
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game	45
Children's Understanding of How Past Experience Shapes Future Expectations	45
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence	42
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33	40
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	40
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task	38
Strengthening parental self-efficacy and resilience: A within-subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents	38
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”	37
Language development beyond the here-and-now: Iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication	36
Learning apps at home prepare children for school	34
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy	34
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study	34
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial	34
Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child-to-Caregiver Ratio	34
School readiness losses during the COVID-19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children	30
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes	29
Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects	28

Issue Information	28
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio-cognitive development?	28
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