OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Developmental Review is 14. 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 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Does child-mother attachment predict and mediate language and cognitive outcomes? A series of meta-analyses	70
Do infants have agency? – The importance of control for the study of early agency	68
Resolving ambiguity: Broadening the consideration of risky decision making over adolescent development	57
Contributions of motor skill development and physical activity to the ontogeny of executive function skills in early childhood	55
Understanding why infant-directed speech supports learning: A dynamic attention perspective	50
Butterfly effects in perceptual development: A review of the ‘adaptive initial degradation’ hypothesis	46
Where language meets attention: How contingent interactions promote learning	40
Neural hyperscanning in caregiver-child dyads: A paradigm for studying the long-term effects of facilitated vs. disrupted attention on working memory and executive functioning in young children	36
Developmental pathways linking obesity risk and early puberty: The thrifty phenotype and fetal overnutrition hypotheses	34
Editorial Board	31
Editorial Board	31
A unified framework of parental socialization of executive function development	30
Connecting learning environments to learning: Two examples from children’s mathematics	29
Evaluating associations between parental mind-mindedness and children’s developmental capacities through meta-analysis	28
A meta-analysis of word learning in autistic and neurotypical children: Distinguishing noun-referent mapping, retention, and generalisation	27
A person-centered approach to examining effects on the interaction between cognitive control & language development	27
Theoretical advances in research on the development of risk taking	26
Editorial Board	25
Development of prejudice against immigrants and ethnic minorities in adolescence: A systematic review with meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	25
A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts	22
Judith Rich Harris and child development: 25 years after The Nurture Assumption	20
Varieties of Number-Line Estimation: Systematic Review, Models, and Data	20
Chronicle of deceit: Navigating the developmental cognitive landscape from childhood fabrications to prolific adulthood artistry	20
Understanding the role of testimony in children’s moral development: Theories, controversies, and implications	19
Maternal mentalizing and quality of interactive behavior with their infant in the first year postpartum: A meta-analysis	19

Correlates and antecedents of theory of mind development during middle childhood and adolescence: An integrated model	18
Bereft and Left: The interplay between insecure attachment, isolation, and neurobiology	16
Editorial Board	16
Editorial Board	16
Rejection sensitivity and negative urgency: A proposed framework of intersecting risk for peer stress	15
Editorial Board	15
Learning to imitate facial expressions through sound	14
Spontaneous verbal recall: A new look at the mechanisms involved in episodic memory retrieval in young children	14
How age and culture influence cognition: A lifespan developmental perspective	14
Arithmetic thinking as the basis of children's generative number concepts	14