OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Behavioral Development is 3. 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 2021-10-01 to 2025-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Can language modulate perceptual narrowing for faces? Other-race face recognition in infants is modulated by language experience	150
Emotion understanding in internationally adopted children and children in residential care: Developmental periods and mediation by language	43
Does negative parenting behavior lead to later peer victimization? A longitudinal co-twin control study	35
Intergenerational effect of childhood food insecurity: Maternal food insecurity in childhood and child hair cortisol	33
Multiple child caregivers and multiple cognitive caregiving practices: Associations with early childhood development in 51 low- and middle-income countries	30
Prediction from early childhood vocabulary to academic achievement at the end of compulsory schooling in Denmark	23
Parental regulation of parent and child screen-based device use	22
Association of prospective memory and social wellbeing in midlife to old age in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	20
Comparing primary caregiver and teacher ratings of mental health in preschool children	18
Prospective associations between peer victimization in adolescence and parental stress and self-efficacy: Self-esteem and internalizing problems as pathways	18
Investigating the developmental timing of self-regulation in early childhood	17
Maturation or disruption? Conscientiousness development in the transition into adolescence	15
Introduction to the special section on social norms and behavioral development	15
Discrimination and sense of purpose: Taking an intergenerational lens	15
Family obligation moderates longitudinal associations between parental psychological control and adjustment of urban adolescents	14
Development of ambiguity aversion from early adolescence to adulthood: New insights from the Ellsberg paradox	14
Admitting to bullying others or denying it: Differences in children’s psychosocial adjustment and implications for intervention	14
Dynamic patterns of affect-biased attention in children and its relationship with parenting	13
Romantic attachment styles, harsh parenting behavior, and children’s emotional reactivity: A process model	12
Longitudinal associations between popularity, peer acceptance, and academic performance in adolescents	12
Parent emotional regulation: A meta-analytic review of its association with parenting and child adjustment	11
Reciprocal associations between child disclosure, parental solicitation, and behavior problems during middle childhood	11
Age differences and profiles in pro-environmental behavior and eco-emotions	11
Growing up in Victoria, Australia, in the midst of the climate emergency	11
Adolescent-directed racial-ethnic socialization: Developmental processes that contribute to adolescents’ ability to provide racial-ethnic socialization within immigrant family contexts	10

A lifespan psychological perspective on solitude	10
A mediation analysis to disentangle relations between maternal education and early child development	10
A cultural comparison of children’s emotion knowledge: Data from two cultures	10
Self-regulation and academic achievement among Singaporean young children: A cross-cultural comparison in a multicultural Asian society	10
Assessing peer influence and susceptibility to peer influence using individual and dyadic moderators in a social network context: The case of adolescent alcohol misuse	9
Dynamics of parenting and children’s coping: Bidirectional effects between parent motivational support and children’s academic coping during late childhood and early adolescence	9
Exploring the autonomous-relatedness model: Parental goals and preschoolers’ prosocial development during cultural shifts	9
Self-reported shyness and social and school adjustment in children and adolescents	9
Promoting adolescent adjustment by intervening in ethnic-racial identity development: Opportunities for developmental prevention science and considerations for a global theory of change	8
The globalization and localization of moral values: A cultural-developmental study of adolescents and their parents	8
Perceived stress trajectories from age 25 to 50 years	7
Individual differences in retirement savings: The role of future self-continuity and numeracy	7
How far does the apple fall from the tree? A cross-sectional study of the relationship between child and parent self-regulation mediated by parenting practices	7
Child-to-parent violence and parent mental health: A systematic review	7
What does it mean to be susceptible to influence? A brief primer on peer conformity and developmental changes that affect it	7
Impact of a school-based social skills training program on parent–child relationships and parent attitudes toward school	6
Bidirectional relationships between emotion understanding and executive functions in young children: A latent change score modeling study	6
Children draw favorite peers close to them in pictures: Longitudinal evidence from picture-drawing task and social network analyses	6
Parents’ perfectionistic tendencies predicted early relationship skills: Children’s forgiveness as a mediator	6
Inter-relations between mind-mindedness, maternal communicative style in the context of attachment distress, and infant–mother attachment security	5
Accommodative coping and preparation for age-related changes: Results from a four-wave panel study	5
Latent growth curve analyses of emotional awareness and emotion regulation in early and middle adolescence	5
Cultivating child prosocial behavior in dynamic family systems: The distinct role of family conflict and parental monitoring	5
Prospective associations of prosocial behavior and aggression with social preference: Moderation by classroom levels of peer-perceived liking and disliking by the teacher	5
Choosing friends based on similarity or popularity? Friendship preferences of children exhibiting bullying and defending in late childhood	5
Influence of parenting styles on children’s development of externalizing behaviors: The role of resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia	5
Responses to social inequality across the life span: The role of social status and upward mobility beliefs	4
Linking persistence and executive functions with later academic achievement	4
Moral emotions in early childhood: Validation of the Moral Emotions Questionnaire (MEQ)	4
Normative views and resource distribution behavior in childhood: Dissociated at the group level, but associated at the individual level	4
Alone with my phone? Examining beliefs about solitude and technology use in adolescence	4
Associations among symbolic functioning, joint attention, expressive communication, and executive functioning of children in rural areas	4
Reliability and validity of the responsive care tool for children 0–3 years old in a rural, South Asian setting	4
The relationship between momentary affect and working memory performance among older couples	4
Early career gender differences in job burnout trajectories in Finland: Roles of work, family, and financial resources	4
Children’s subjective socioeconomic status and their sharing decisions: The role of the recipient’s neediness	4
Opioid exposure in gestation, postnatal adversity, and preschool-age cognitive functioning	4
What she believes or what she says? The relation between maternal social dominance orientation, right-wing authoritarianism, mental state talk, and children’s theory of mind	4
Facial emotion recognition and social-emotional problems in middle childhood: Assessment of directional effects	3
Maintaining physical activity in older adults: The importance of health-specific control strategies	3
Parent–child conversations about refugee newcomers are associated with children’s refugee-specific prosociality	3
The quality of early caregiving and teacher-student relationships in grade school independently predict adolescent academic achievement	3
Editorial coda	3
Do adolescent and young adult sexters and non-sexters have distinct value orientations?	3
Measuring communication openness within adoptive families: The psychometric properties of the multi-informant Adoption Communication Openness Scale	3
The role of ISSBD in developmental science: Views of Past Presidents	3
Functional connectivity markers of prematurity at birth predict neurodevelopmental outcomes at 6, 12, 24, and 36 months	3
The Adult Prosocialness Behavior Scale: A reliability generalization meta-analysis	3
Self-concept at different stages of life: How do early and late adolescents and young, middle-aged, and older adults describe themselves?	3
Positive transactional processes from age 3 to 15: Social competence, maternal parenting, and fathers’ support for mothers	3

How is mental health associated with adolescent alpha-amylase and cortisol reactivity and coordination?	3
Longitudinal pathways between maternal depression, parenting behaviors, and early childhood development: A mediation analysis	3
The role of maternal depressive symptoms and maternal engagement as mechanisms between intimate partner violence exposure during infancy and social functioning in middle childhood	3