OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant and Child 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 2020-10-01 to 2024-10-01.)

Article	Citations
Publishing child development research from around the world: An unfair playing field resulting in most of the world's child population under‐represented in research	58
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) during COVID‐19 boosts growth in language and executive function	54
Changing the conversation: A culturally responsive perspective on executive functions, minoritized children and their families	48
Six solutions for more reliable infant research	45
Beyond bias to Western participants, authors, and editors in developmental science	35
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends	32
Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation	31
It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course‐taking and college attendance	23
Teacher–child interaction quality and children's self‐regulation in toddler classrooms in Finland and Portugal	22
Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong	22
Researching race‐ethnicity in race‐mute Europe	22
Should infant psychology rely on the violation‐of‐expectation method? Not anymore	20
A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition	17
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition	14
Three‐component mathematics for students	12
Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context	11
Understanding the development of honesty in children through the domains‐of‐socialization approach	10
Advancing credibility in longitudinal research by implementing open science practices: Opportunities, practical examples, and challenges	10
The relationship between emergent drawing, emergent writing, and visual‐motor integration in preschool children	10
Comparison of U.S. and Tajik infants' time in containment devices	10
Digital diet: A 21st century approach to understanding digital technologies and development	9
Co‐creating developmental science	9
Father–newborn vocal interaction: A contribution to the theory of innate intersubjectivity	9
The role of mother's prenatal substance use disorder and early parenting on child social cognition at school age	8
Differences in how mothers and fathers support children playfulness	8

An open developmental science will be more rigorous, robust, and impactful	8
Predicting child problem behaviour at school age: The role of maternal sensitivity, child temperament and theory of mind	8
Adapting open science and pre‐registration to longitudinal research	8
Longitudinal associations between metaphor understanding and peer relationships in middle childhood	7
Developmental data science: How machine learning can advance theory formation in Developmental Psychology	7
Attachment security to mothers and fathers: A meta‐analysis on mean‐level differences and correlations of behavioural measures	7
Conceptualizing, defining, and assessing pragmatic language impairment in clinical settings: A scoping review	7
Relations between shyness and psychological adjustment in Chinese children: The role of friendship quality	7
Shyness and social–emotional development among Chinese children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	7
Developmental psychologists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility	7
Peer ethnic/racial socialization in adolescence: Current knowledge and future directions	7
Proving and improving the reliability of infant research with neuroadaptive Bayesian optimization	7
Maternal depressive symptoms and early childhood temperament before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom	6
A scoping review of Singapore parenting: Culture‐general and culture‐specific functions of parenting styles and practices	6
Seven‐year‐olds' references to internal states when playing with toy figures and a video game	6
Can a robot lie? Young children's understanding of intentionality beneath false statements	6
The influence of parental warmth and stress on reading through approaches to learning: Racial/ethnic variation	6
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions	6
A three‐wave study on the development of prosocial behaviours across toddlerhood: The role of socialization	6
No age differences? No problem	6
Communicative gestures in 7–12‐month infants: A phylogenetic comparative approach	5
Youth experiences of racism and family ethnic‐racial socialization in Germany: What we (don't) know	5
Mothers' and children's depression is linked through children's perceptions of attachment security	5
Why not both? Using multiple measures to improve reliability in infant studies	5
Open developmental science: An overview and annotated reading list	5
Reading to bilingual preschoolers: An experimental study of two book formats	5
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, family care plans and infants with prenatal substance exposure: Theoretical framework and directions for future research	5
Predictors of preschool language environments and their relations to children's vocabulary	5
Dyslexia is not a gift, but it is not that simple	5
Some considerations for the developmental origin of the principle of fairness	5
Theory of mind at school: Academic outcomes and the influence of the school context	5
Fear not of cognition in context	5
Yucatec Maya mothers' ethnotheories about learning to help at home	5
The role of fathers in children's emotion regulation development: A systematic review	5
Habituation, part II. Rethinking the habituation paradigm	5
“I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory‐informed undergraduate research experience	5
Measures of infant self‐regulation during the first year of life: A systematic review	4
Keeping track of language: Can monolingual and bilingual infants associate a speaker with the language they speak?	4
Inhibitory control and problem solving in early childhood: Exploring the burdens and benefits of high self‐control	4
Caregiver perspectives of risk and protective factors influencing early childhood development in low‐income, urban settings: A social ecological perspective	4
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective	4
The myth of normative development	4
The advantage of real objects over matched pictures in infants' processing of the familiar size of objects	4
Is sleep longitudinally related to children's achievement, executive function and classroom behaviour?	4
Mentalizing strategies for navigating the social world in adolescence	4
Do toddlers prefer that agents help similar or dissimilar needy agents?	4
Infant and Child Development: A journal for open, transparent and inclusive science from prenatal through emerging adulthood	4
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum	4
Effect of HEG biofeedback on selected cognitive functions—Randomized study in children with ADHD and neurotypical children	4
Children's connectedness and shared meanings strategies during play with siblings and friends	4

Relationship between fine/gross motor skills and language and math development in Colombian Caribbean children: A study in Barranquilla	4
Open science considerations for descriptive research in developmental science	4
The impact of theory of mind and executive function on math and reading abilities: A longitudinal study	4
An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries	4
Irrelevant actions, goal demotion and explicit instruction: A study of overimitation	3
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life	3
Experimenter identity: An invisible, lurking variable in developmental research	3
Understanding the effects of rhythmic coordination on children's prosocial behaviours	3
I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures	3
Children's judgements of positive claims people make about themselves	3
The developing of executive function skills through culturally organized autonomy and helping	3
Caregiving antecedents of secure base script knowledge inferred from the Adult Attachment Interview: A comparative, pre‐registered analysis	3
Exploratory study of best friendship dissolution characteristics and psychological difficulties during early adolescence	3
Biomarker adoption in developmental science: A data‐driven modelling of trends from 90 biomarkers across 20 years	3
Decentering whiteness: Rethinking the instruction of undergraduate research methods within developmental science	3
Observed and reported coparenting and toddlers' adaptive functioning	3
Additive and synergistic relations of early mother–child and caregiver–child interactions and socioeconomic outcomes in adulthood	3
The challenges of improving infant research methods	3
Egocentric and allocentric spatial memory in young children: A comparison with young adults	3
The dynamic functions of social cues during children's word learning	3
Preschool language exposure and use: A comparison study of dual‐language learners and English monolingual children	3
Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example	3
A person‐centered approach in developmental science: Why this is the future and how to get there	3
Parents' perceptions of the quality of infant sleep behaviours and practices: A qualitative systematic review	3
Direct effects of visual skills and working memory on Chinese character reading in young children	3
Are we all on the same page? Subfield differences in open science practices in psychology	3
Associations between quality of parent–child relationships and children's gender typicality: A 4‐year longitudinal study	3
Attention profiles following preterm birth: A review of methods and findings from infancy to adulthood	3
Mutual identification promotes children's generosity	3