OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of British Journal of Developmental Psychology is 1. 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
Cumulative stressor exposure and cognitive functioning in late childhood: The role of inflammation	54
Children's attitudes about transgender identity disclosure and concealment	29
The profiles of parent–child attachment network and its influence on longitudinal adolescent problematic mobile phone use: Based on random intercept latent transition analysis	26
The Contextualized Emotion Regulation Survey for Adolescents (CERSA): How does emotion regulation vary according to context?	25
The influence of valence and relationship on children's verification of gossip	23
Profiles of sibling relationships among Chinese adolescents: The contribution of parental differential treatment of siblings	20
Ageist attitudes are already evident in pre‐ and early‐school children: A multi‐method examination	18
Intergenerational transition of successful ageing through familism across three nested generations	16
Parental scaffolding and children's math ability: The type of activities matters	14
Social–emotional competencies and psychological well‐being across secondary school transition	11
Examining associations between foundational and complex mathematics skills in people with Down syndrome and typically developing children	11
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Editorial acknowledgement	11
Editorial Acknowledgement	11
Transformative tales: The role of story videos on children's reasoning about transgender identities	10
Infant behavioural effects of smartphone interrupted parent‐infant interaction	9
The influence of socioeconomic status and appearance‐reality understanding on pre‐schoolers' sharing and generosity	9
Domain‐general scientific reasoning abilities in kindergarten independently predict the mathematics ability of elementary school children	8
Using behavioural network mapping to investigate dyadic play in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia	8
Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: Is imagining reward pay‐off helpful?	8
Self‐processing and social functioning in autistic preschoolers	7
Emotion dysregulation and symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence: Bidirectional longitudinal associations and the antecedent role of parent–child attachment	7
Exploring the relationship between personality traits and locus of control in early adolescence. Does gender play a role?	7
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The development of ambivalent sexism: Proposals for an expanded model	7

Media exposure and preschoolers' social‐cognitive development	6
Development of subjective well‐being and its relationship with self‐esteem in early adolescence	6
The last pink straw: Children's and parents' judgements about gender nonconformity	6
The influence of semantics on long‐term visual memory capacity in children and adults	6
Identity development and adjustment during emerging adulthood from a gender perspective	6
The self‐reference effect in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	6
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The impact of short‐form video overuse on prosocial and aggressive behaviours in children aged 3–6: The parallel mediating roles of empathy and emotion regulation	6
School achievement in the Brazilian rural Amazon: An analysis of the interaction among motor, cognitive and environmental factors	6
Primary school children rate children with autism negatively on looks, speech and speech content	5
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Unlocking narratives: Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and reading comprehension	5
Low mood, worry and mind wandering in children	5
Children's sympathy moderates the link between their attentional orientation and ethical guilt	5
Zoti's Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood	4
Older adults' name–face association learning is facilitated for names with high‐frequency first syllables	4
Why do children and adults believe others apologize?	4
Being helpful to other‐gender peers: School‐age children's gender‐based	4
Building connections through play: Influences on children's connected talk with peers	4
Effects of prematurity and socio‐economic status on early life language exposure: A video coding study	4
How children understand aha‐experiences in problem solving	4
Harnessing the power of nature exposure to mitigate adolescents' Internet addiction: A chain mediation model	3
The link between early adolescents' gender discrimination and gender attitudes about peers: Does gender similarity matter?	3
Individual differences in empathy‐related responses in early childhood: A person‐centred approach	3
White American transgender adults' retrospective reports on the social and contextual aspects of their gender identity development	3
Parental reflective functioning and internalizing symptoms predict altruistic prosocial behaviour in children	3
Exploring the trajectories of problematic smartphone use in adolescence: Insights from a longitudinal study	3
Relations between mind‐mindedness, stress and parent–child relationship quality in parents of children with a history of mental health or behavioural difficulties	3
Narratives of preterm and full‐term preschool‐aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions	3
Recognizing the future utility of a solution: When do children choose to retain and share an object to solve a future problem?	3
Developmental changes in the efficiency of attentional networks in very preterm children during the transition from preschool to school	3
Materialism as a catalyst, not a compensation: A cross‐lagged panel network analysis of psychological insecurity in migrant and non‐migrant children	3
Contributions of cognitive flexibility, inhibition and number label knowledge to numerical equivalence in 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children	3
Moderating effect of attachment to parents on the association between bullying and self‐esteem among early adolescents aged 10 to 12	3
Coping strategies employed by transgender youth with higher and lower quality of life	3
Attrition in a large‐scale habituation task administered at home	3
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Unveiling social–emotional excellence: A network perspective on social–emotional skills in children and adolescents	3
The interaction of negative parenting and DRD2 gene rs1799732 polymorphism on self‐control in chil	3
Generous descriptive norms change children's pre‐existing decisions and expectations about sharing behaviour	3
Boy's math performance, compared to girls', jumps at age 6 (in the ELFE 's data at least)	3
Children's developing understanding of economic inequality and their place within it	3
Cognitive offloading bias in primary and secondary school students and its relationship with metacognitive monitoring	3
New insights and approaches to early learning	2
High school and university students' reasoning about decision‐making autonomy and parental authority legitimacy in child–mother conflicts	2
Background context affects word‐object mapping	2
Inhibitory deficits and symptoms of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: How are they related to effortful control?	2
Picture book reading improves children's learning understanding	2
Early childhood educators' mental state language and children's theory of mind in the preschool setting	2
Early language outcomes in Argentinean toddlers: Associations with home literacy, screen exposure and joint media engagement	2

The role of executive functions in young children's static and sustained inattentional blindness	2
Susceptibility of ADHD children to memory error production on a DRM task	2
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Changes in sleep patterns in adolescents are more associated with pubertal indicators than age: A perfect storm with a dash of hormones	2
From spatial to social competence: The association between spatial ability and prosocial behaviour in childhood	2
Childhood emotion reactivity and regulation as predictors of sleep quality: A longitudinal study	2
Adolescents' perceptions of using likes, comments, and other reactions—A qualitative investigation	2
Self‐concept clarity and envy as mediators between upward social comparison on social networking sites and subjective well‐being	2
I help, therefore, I am? – A registered report on longitudinal inter‐relations of the three‐dimensional moral self‐concept and prosocial behaviours in preschool children	2
Developmental trajectories of visual temporal integration and segregation in children with and without developmental dyslexia	2
When intergroup contact correlates with gender‐prejudice beliefs of emerging adults	2
Children in Multicultural Malaysia Prefer Their Ingroup Over an Outgroup but Imitate Indiscriminately	2
Preschoolers' retrospective and prospective judgements of immanent justice following distributive actions	2
Adolescent chronic pain links parental rejection to young adult biopsychosocial problems	2
Development and validation of a short form for the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices using a machine learning approach	2
The impact of well‐groomed appearance on children's epistemic trust decision	2
Preliminary development of a brief parent‐report gender identity alignment/distress screener for children	2
Predicting developmental outcomes in middle childhood from early life language and parenting experiences	2
Engagement, preference and identity: Proposing a developmental engagement framework	2
Parental warmth predicts more child pro‐social behaviour in children with better emotion regulation	2
The effect of competition on children's merit‐based resource allocation: The difference between interpersonal and intergroup competition	2
The effects of model age and familiarity on children's reproduction of ritual behaviour	1
Issue Information	1
Gender stereotypes and goal congruity for adolescents' preferred career and highly gender‐stereotyped occupations	1
Investigating associations between parent engagement and toddlers' mathematics performance	1
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Issue Information	1
Two‐year‐olds selectively seek help, but not based on helper maturity	1
Trust issues: Adolescents' epistemic vigilance towards online sources	1
Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence	1
Early markers of literacy and numeracy in Chinese children: The roles of counting and rapid automatized naming	1
Family income and parental investment: Linking with primary math achievement in Bangladesh	1
Older adults' decision‐making following bad advice	1
Issue Information	1
Actions versus Words: Exploring the contributions of working memory and motoric coding in children's instruction following using a dual‐task paradigm	1
Parenting reflectivity and mind‐mindedness as unique predictors of children's attachment security and social–emotional development	1
Editorial acknowledgement	1
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Differential effects of maternal‐ and paternal‐adolescent attachments on friendship security and intimacy	1
Construction play frequency and relations with spatial ability and mathematics performance	1
The role of theory of mind, group norms and intentionality in children's and adolescents' moral evaluations of a misinformer	1
Childhood maltreatment and anxiety and depression among Chinese adolescents: A moderated mediation model of intolerance of uncertainty and Behavioural inhibition system	1
Human's moral judgements towards different social actors: A cross‐sectional study	1
A cross‐cultural study of children's graphic representations of men‐ and women‐dominated occupations	1
Categorization of second language accents by bilingual and multilingual listeners	1
Children's perceptions of social class discrimination: The role of age and situational factors in evaluating fairness	1
Introduction to the special issue on gender diversity in development	1
How do autistic people view their empathic capacity?	1
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Satisfying personal preference or being considerate? The protagonist's preference matters in children's evaluation of social mindfulness	1
A systematic review of school‐based interventions to promote digital resilience in children	1
Loneliness trajectories and psychological distress in youth: Longitudinal evidence from a population‐based sample	1
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Training kindergarten children on learning from their mistakes	1