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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
The influence of valence and relationship on children's verification of gossip	39
Parental scaffolding and children's math ability: The type of activities matters	21
Moral reasoning, emotion understanding, and callous‐unemotional traits in early‐to‐middle childhood	21
The Contextualized Emotion Regulation Survey for Adolescents (CERSA): How does emotion regulation vary according to context?	20
Intergenerational transition of successful ageing through familism across three nested generations	15
Ageist attitudes are already evident in pre‐ and early‐school children: A multi‐method examination	15
Cumulative stressor exposure and cognitive functioning in late childhood: The role of inflammation	14
Children's attitudes about transgender identity disclosure and concealment	14
Editorial Acknowledgement	13
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Issue Information	12
Social–emotional competencies and psychological well‐being across secondary school transition	12
Editorial acknowledgement	12
Transformative tales: The role of story videos on children's reasoning about transgender identities	11
Witnessed inclusion improves identification of Duchenne and non‐Duchenne smiles	10
Trajectories of adolescent stressful life events and young adults’ socioeconomic and relational outcomes: Weight and depressive symptoms as mediators	10
Editorial Acknowledgement	10
The influence of socioeconomic status and appearance‐reality understanding on pre‐schoolers' sharing and generosity	10
Episodic future thinking and delay of gratification in children: Is imagining reward pay‐off helpful?	9
Emotion dysregulation and symptoms of anxiety and depression in early adolescence: Bidirectional longitudinal associations and the antecedent role of parent–child attachment	9
The development of ambivalent sexism: Proposals for an expanded model	7
Domain‐general scientific reasoning abilities in kindergarten independently predict the mathematics ability of elementary school children	7
Using behavioural network mapping to investigate dyadic play in girls with congenital adrenal hyperplasia	7
Infant behavioural effects of smartphone interrupted parent‐infant interaction	6
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The influence of semantics on long‐term visual memory capacity in children and adults	5
Media exposure and preschoolers' social‐cognitive development	4
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	4
Development of subjective well‐being and its relationship with self‐esteem in early adolescence	4
Exploring the relationship between personality traits and locus of control in early adolescence. Does gender play a role?	4
The last pink straw: Children's and parents' judgements about gender nonconformity	4
The self‐reference effect in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder	4
Age‐related qualitative differences in post‐error cognitive control adjustments	4
Self‐processing and social functioning in autistic preschoolers	4
Identity development and adjustment during emerging adulthood from a gender perspective	4
Low mood, worry and mind wandering in children	3
Unlocking narratives: Longitudinal associations between theory of mind and reading comprehension	3
Zoti's Social Toolkit: Developing and piloting novel animated tasks to assess emotional understanding and conflict resolution skills in childhood	3
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Mastering balance: The use of balance bicycles promotes the development of independent cycling	3
A bridge to [em]power: A commentary on ‘collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions’	3
Social participation arrangements and distributed human agency: A comment on “Collaboration at a microscale: Cultural differences in family interactions”	3
Primary school children rate children with autism negatively on looks, speech and speech content	3
How children understand aha‐experiences in problem solving	3
Moderating effect of attachment to parents on the association between bullying and self‐esteem among early adolescents aged 10 to 12	3
Older adults' name–face association learning is facilitated for names with high‐frequency first syllables	3
Children's sympathy moderates the link between their attentional orientation and ethical guilt	3
Building connections through play: Influences on children's connected talk with peers	3
Being helpful to other‐gender peers: School‐age children's gender‐based intergroup prosocial behaviour	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
Relations between mind‐mindedness, stress and parent–child relationship quality in parents of children with a history of mental health or behavioural difficulties	2
The link between early adolescents' gender discrimination and gender attitudes about peers: Does gender similarity matter?	2
Unveiling social–emotional excellence: A network perspective on social–emotional skills in children and adolescents	2
Early language outcomes in Argentinean toddlers: Associations with home literacy, screen exposure and joint media engagement	2
Contributions of cognitive flexibility, inhibition and number label knowledge to numerical equivalence in 3‐ to 5‐year‐old children	2
White American transgender adults' retrospective reports on the social and contextual aspects of their gender identity development	2
Coping strategies employed by transgender youth with higher and lower quality of life	2
Narratives of preterm and full‐term preschool‐aged children: Analyses of different narrative dimensions	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
Attrition in a large‐scale habituation task administered at home	2
Children's developing understanding of economic inequality and their place within it	2
Parental reflective functioning and internalizing symptoms predict altruistic prosocial behaviour in children	2
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Recognizing the future utility of a solution: When do children choose to retain and share an object to solve a future problem?	2
Developmental trajectories of visual temporal integration and segregation in children with and without developmental dyslexia	2
Harnessing the power of nature exposure to mitigate adolescents' Internet addiction: A chain mediation model	2
Cognitive offloading bias in primary and secondary school students and its relationship with metacognitive monitoring	2
Exploring the trajectories of problematic smartphone use in adolescence: Insights from a longitudinal study	2
When intergroup contact correlates with gender‐prejudice beliefs of emerging adults	1
Background context affects word‐object mapping	1
Construction play frequency and relations with spatial ability and mathematics performance	1
Human's moral judgements towards different social actors: A cross‐sectional study	1
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Categorization of second language accents by bilingual and multilingual listeners	1
Adolescents' perceptions of using likes, comments, and other reactions—A qualitative investigation	1
Commentary on Autism and the double‐empathy problem: Implications for development and mental health	1
The effects of model age and familiarity on children's reproduction of ritual behaviour	1
A cross‐cultural study of children's graphic representations of men‐ and women‐dominated occupations	1
Self‐concept clarity and envy as mediators between upward social comparison on social networking sites and subjective well‐being	1
New insights and approaches to early learning	1
Early childhood educators' mental state language and children's theory of mind in the preschool setting	1
Adolescent chronic pain links parental rejection to young adult biopsychosocial problems	1
Issue Information	1
Training kindergarten children on learning from their mistakes	1
Actions versus Words: Exploring the contributions of working memory and motoric coding in children's instruction following using a dual‐task paradigm	1
Loneliness trajectories and psychological distress in youth: Longitudinal evidence from a population‐based sample	1
Early markers of literacy and numeracy in Chinese children: The roles of counting and rapid automatized naming	1
Preliminary development of a brief parent‐report gender identity alignment/distress screener for children	1
Inhibitory deficits and symptoms of attention‐deficit hyperactivity disorder: How are they related to effortful control?	1
High school and university students' reasoning about decision‐making autonomy and parental authority legitimacy in child–mother conflicts	1
When the internet is wrong: Children’s trust in an inaccurate internet or human source	1
From spatial to social competence: The association between spatial ability and prosocial behaviour in childhood	1
The role of executive functions in young children's static and sustained inattentional blindness	1
Relationships between cognition and literacy in children with attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	1
Predicting developmental outcomes in middle childhood from early life language and parenting experiences	1
Picture book reading improves children's learning understanding	1
Development and validation of a short form for the Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices using a machine learning approach	1
Children's perceptions of social class discrimination: The role of age and situational factors in evaluating fairness	1
Young children expect pretend object identities to be known only by their partners in joint pretence	1
Family income and parental investment: Linking with primary math achievement in Bangladesh	1
Preschoolers' retrospective and prospective judgements of immanent justice following distributive actions	1
The impact of informant gender on children’s endorsement of scientific and non‐scientific information	1
Older adults' decision‐making following bad advice	1
Issue Information	1
Numeracy skills in young children as predictors of mathematical competence	1
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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	1