OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Child Development is 11. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions	495
The N2 During Preschool: Temporal Stability and a Test of Bidirectional Effects With Maternal Emotion Characteristics in a White, European-American Sample	145
A Pre-registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context	54
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33	50
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task	46
Strengthening parental self-efficacy and resilience: A within-subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents	46
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard-of-hearing children	46
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	39
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game	38
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children	38
Children's Understanding of How Past Experience Shapes Future Expectations	37
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors	36
Language development beyond the here-and-now: Iconicity and displacement in child-directed communication	36
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe	35
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development	34
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy	32
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence	31
Learning apps at home prepare children for school	30
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study	30
Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood	28
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Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects	27
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio-cognitive development?	27
Issue Information	27
Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child-to-Caregiver Ratio	27

How does caregiver–child conversation during a scientific storybook reading impact children's mindset beliefs and persistence?	26
Learning Variability Network Exchange (LEVANTE): A Global Framework for Measuring Children's Learning Variability Through Collaborative Data Sharing	25
DNA methylation variation after a parenting program for child conduct problems: Findings from a randomized controlled trial	24
Language-specific phonological skills and the relationship with reading accuracy in Sylheti-English sequential bilinguals	23
Latent profiles of children's shyness: Behavioral, affective, and physiological components	23
Mother–child collaboration in an Indigenous community: Changing and enduring across generations	23
Longitudinal links between maternal cultural socialization, peer ethnic-racial discrimination, and ethnic-racial pride in Mexican American youth	23
Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts	23
The development of early numeracy in deaf and hard of hearing children acquiring spoken language	22
Childhood poverty, immune cell aging, and African Americans' insulin resistance: A prospective study	22
Genetic and environmental contributions to individual differences in visual attention and oculomotor control in early infancy	22
Mothers speak less to infants during detected real-world phone use	22
Issue Information	21
A meta-analysis of forgiveness education interventions’ effects on forgiveness and anger in children and adolescents	21
Peer victimization and empathy for victims of bullying: A test of bidirectional associations in childhood and adolescence	21
The role of accuracy in children's judgments of experts' knowledge	20
Are victims of bullying primarily social outcasts? Person-group dissimilarities in relational, socio-behavioral, and physical characteristics as predictors of victimization	20
Childcare Center Attendance During the Covid-19 Pandemic: Boosting Cognitive and Language Development	20
Does early child negative emotionality moderate the association between maternal stimulation and academic readiness and achievement?	20
Sibling effects on problem and prosocial behavior in childhood: Patterns of intrafamilial “contagion” by birth order	20
Mechanisms and pathways linking kindergarten behavior problems with mid-life employment earnings for males from low-income neighborhoods	20
Supporting child and family resilience in the face of political violence: Evidence from a home visit parenting program	20
The Comprehensive Assessment of Theory of Mind (CAT): A Novel Measure of 3- to 8-Year-Old Children's Theory of Mind and an Evaluation of Mental-State Scaling	19
Parent emotional support alters the association between parent–child interbrain synchrony and interaction quality	19
Are mobile phone ownership and age of acquisition associated with child adjustment? A 5-year prospective study among low-income Latinx children	19
Interparental conflict dimensions and children's psychological problems: Emotion recognition as a mediator	19
Language brokering profiles of Mexican-origin adolescents in immigrant communities: Social-cultural contributors and developmental outcomes	19
How a Preschool Intervention Affected High School Outcomes: Longitudinal Pathways in a Randomized-Controlled Trial	19
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Preschoolers rely on rich speech representations to process variable speech	18
Issue Information	18
How do socioeconomic attainment gaps in early mathematical ability arise?	18
Utility of the social skills improvement system–rating scales for capturing dynamic social constructs: Evidence using the measurement model of derivatives	18
EEG Theta Power in Bangladeshi Children: Associations With Early Experiences and Cognitive Outcomes	18
Metamemory for involuntary autobiographical memories and semantic mind-pops in 5-, 7- and 9-year-old children and young adults	18
Priming group identities affects children's resource distribution among groups	17
Developmental patterns of affective attention across the first 2 years of life	17
Examining the effectiveness of a video-based parent–child program on executive functions for children 5 to 6 years old: A randomized controlled trial	17
Viewing Teens as Responsible in Family: Implications for Chinese Youth's Academic and Social Adjustment	17
Anti-phasic oscillatory development for speech and noise processing in cochlear implanted toddlers	17
Material hardship and telomere length in children	17
Correction to Girls are good at STEM: Opening minds and providing evidence reduces boys' stereotyping of girls' STEM ability	17
Parents' responses to children's math performance in early elementary school: Links with parents' math beliefs and children's math adjustment	17
Medium-term protective effects of quality early childhood education during the COVID-19 pandemic in Ghana	17
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Cascading effects of Chinese American parents' COVID-19 racial discrimination and racial socialization on adolescents' adjustment	17
Parents’ daily involvement in children’s math homework and activities during early elementary school	16
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Six-Year-Olds, but Not Younger Children, Consider the Probability of Being Right by Chance When Inferring Others' Knowledge	16
Gene–environment interplay linking perceived parental supervision and peer drunkenness with Chinese adolescent alcohol initiation	16

Earning More Points!: The Impact of Value on Children's Memory and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies	16
The complex associations between scientific reasoning and advanced theory of mind	16
White adolescents' racial contexts: Associations with critical action	16
Children's moral evaluations of and behaviors toward people who are curious about religion and science	16
Letter–speech sound integration in typical reading development during the first years of formal education	16
Infants and toddlers leverage their understanding of action goals to evaluate agents who help others	16
Co-rumination between friends: Considering the roles of outcome expectations, relationship provisions, and perceptions of problems	16
Is Attachment and Biobehavioral Catch-up effective for parents with insecure attachment states of mind?	16
Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children	16
Automatic Extraction of Meaning From Visual Number Symbols Detected by Frequency-Tagged EEG in Children	15
Effects of homicide timing on test scores: Quasi-experimental evidence from two cities in Colombia	15
Efficacy of a cultural adaptation of the Identity Project intervention among adolescents attending multiethnic classrooms in Italy: A randomized controll	15
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development	15
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother-infant interactions	15
A family systems investigation on couple emotional intimacy, parent–child relationships, and child social skills in middle childhood	15
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery	15
Adolescents' Race Consciousness Strengthens Broader Awareness of Societal Inequality	15
The development of commitment: Attention for intention	15
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events	14
Trajectories and predictors of adolescent purpose development in self-driven learning	14
A counting intervention promotes fair sharing in preschoolers	14
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations	14
Frontal asymmetry assessed in infancy using functional near-infrared spectroscopy is associated with emotional and behavioral problems in early childhood	14
“Some people will tell jokes to you; some people be racist:” A mixed-method examination of racist jokes and adolescents’ well-being	14
Maternal depression, parenting, and child psychological outcomes in the context of maternal pain	14
The future is present in the past: A meta-analysis on the longitudinal associations of parent–adolescent relationships with peer and romantic relationships	14
Seeking versus receiving help: How children integrate suggestions in memory decisions	14
Pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting	14
Dynamic self-regulation and coregulation of respiratory sinus arrhythmia in mother–child and father–child interactions: Moderating effects of proximal and distal stressors	13
Multimodal Measurement of Pubertal Development: Stage, Timing, Tempo, and Hormones	13
Distressing testing: A propensity score analysis of high-stakes exam failure and mental health	13
Conceptualizing adverse childhood experiences as a latent factor: Tests of measurement invariance across five racial and ethnic groups	13
Developments in Children's Evaluations of and Reasoning About Disability-Related Accommodations	13
Need for Cognition Predicts Academic Interest Development but Not the Other Way Around: A Longitudinal Study of Secondary School Students	13
Cutting It Too Fine? The Factor Structure of Fine Motor Skills From Ages 5 to 10 Years	13
A robot is watching me!: Five-year-old children care about their reputation after interaction with a social robot	13
Parent–adolescent communication in a digital world: A 100-day diary study	13
Seeing awe: How children perceive awe-inspiring visual experiences	13
Attention to novelty interferes with toddlers' emerging memory decision-making	13
Investigating if high-quality kindergarten teachers sustain the pre-K boost to children's emergent literacy skill development in North Carolina	13
Antecedents to and outcomes associated with teacher–child relationship perceptions in early childhood: Further evidence for child-driven effects	13
Theoretical and Quantitative Disconnect When Modeling Adverse Childhood Experiences Using a Common Factor Framework: An Argument for Causal Indicator Models in Stressor Research	13
Do home mathematical activities relate to early mathematical skills? A systematic review and meta-analysis	13
A Cross-Cultural Analysis of Infants' Spatial Attention on the Infant Orienting With Attention (IOWA) Task	13
Issue Information	13
Popularity and Academic Adjustment in the United States and China: A Meta-Analytic Study	12
Trajectories of socially anxious behavior from age 5 to 13: Temperamental and sociocognitive pathways	12
“Plan chunking” expands 3-year-olds' ability to complete multiple-step plans	12
In their own words: Finding meaning in girls' experiences of puberty	12
Developmental trajectories of Korean and heritage language proficiencies and their association with maladjustment among Korean multicultural adolescents	12
Do reflection prompts promote children's conflict monitoring and revision of misconceptions?	12
“Oh, the places you'll go”: The psychological consequences of omission and misrepresentation for Native children	12
Family-level profiles of parental reactions to emotions: Longitudinal associations with multi-informant reports of adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms	12
Developmental changes in the structure of shyness and internalizing symptoms from early to middle childhood: A network analysis	12
Delay of gratification and adult outcomes: The Marshmallow Test does not reliably predict adult functioning	12
Early-life threat and deprivation: Are children similarly affected by exposure to each?	11
Bidirectional associations between nightly sleep and daily happiness and negative mood in adolescents	11
Margarita glasses and high heels: How attention to shape, age, and vocabulary impacts children's recognition of typical and atypical exemplars	11
Emotions or cognitions first? Longitudinal relations between executive functions and emotion regulation in childhood	11
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Fathers' Food Parenting Practices and Children's Diets	11
Self-regulation and comprehension in shared reading: The moderating effects of verbal interactions and E-book discussion prompts	11
Foster Care Entry and Later Academic Achievement Among Infants Involved With Child Protective Services	11
Strong cultural connectedness buffers urban American Indian children from the negative effects of stress on mental health	11
Early childhood naps initiate emotional memory processing in preparation for enhanced overnight consolidation	11
An exploration of the domain specificity of maternal sensitivity among a diverse sample in the infancy period: Unique paths to child outcomes	11
Links Between Child Executive Function and Adjustment: A Three-Site Study	11
Connecting the tots: Strong looking-pointing correlations in preschoolers' word learning and implications for continuity in language development	11
Critical, active, and well adapted: Antecedents and consequences of adolescents' critical consciousness profiles	11
24-Hour movement behaviors and executive functions in preschoolers: A compositional and isotemporal reallocation analysis	11