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 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
Children's preferences of the colour composition of art paintings	58
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Understanding the effects of rhythmic coordination on children's prosocial behaviours	52
Alternative perspectives: Relations between belief reasoning and ambiguous figure perception in bilingual children	48
Socialization of children's experience and expression of pride	41
Susceptibility to prosocial and antisocial influence in adolescence following mindfulness training	35
Hand preference trajectories as predictors of language outcomes above and beyond SES: Infant patterns explain more variance than toddler patterns at 5 years of age	32
Measuring morality in infancy: A scoping methodological review	26
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends	23
Is parent personality associated with adolescent outcomes for their child? A response surface analysis approach	22
Open science and metascience in developmental psychology: Introduction to the special issue	22
Bayesian sample size planning for developmental studies	20
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How do children answer questions from a physically present humanoid robot?	14
An illustration‐based developmental motor screening questionnaire for young children: Development and a Rasch analysis	12
The characteristics of Chinese anxiously withdrawn children's friendships: Quantity, quality, and protecting against loneliness	11
Goldilocks and the home mathematics environment: Parents' rate activities ‘too easy,’ ‘just right,’ or ‘too hard’ across early development	11
Analysing infant data at the group‐ or individual‐level: The impact of measurement error on sophisticated analyses	10
Understanding children's prosocial behaviour and classroom affiliative relationships: A social network analysis	10
Does surgency moderate the relationship between parenting and children's aggression in middle childhood?	10
Chinese child unsociability, maternal maladaptive parenting, and peer exclusion among preschoolers: A cross‐lagged model	9
Black‐Asian solidarity through collective racial socialization	9
The relationship between oral language and storytelling prosody in preschool children	9
The cost–benefit trade‐off in young children's overimitation behaviour	9
Examining the female‐talker default in experimental language acquisition research	9

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Evidence of the validity of the child self‐regulation & behaviour questionnaire for the Brazilian context	8
Prosocial development throughout the toddlerhood: A person‐centred approach	8
Valid points and looks: Reliability and validity go hand‐in‐hand when improving infant methods	8
Social support and end‐of‐semester depression, burnout, and adjustment in students making the transition to university	8
Association between transient financial stress during early childhood and pre‐school cognitive and socioemotional development	7
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, family care plans and infants with prenatal substance exposure: Theoretical framework and directions for future research	7
Mother–infant shared book reading in the first year of life	7
Negative childhood experiences and health inequalities among adults over 45: Evidence from China	7
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective	7
Direct effects of visual skills and working memory on Chinese character reading in young children	7
Beyond bias to Western participants, authors, and editors in developmental science	7
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Contributions of executive function to spatial thinking in young children	6
Pre‐K attendance and social development: The moderating role of kindergarten classroom experiences	6
The impact of theory of mind and executive function on math and reading abilities: A longitudinal study	6
Shyness and social–emotional development among Chinese children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
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Observed and reported coparenting and toddlers' adaptive functioning	6
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions	5
The affective, cognitive, and physiological effects of implementing antecedent‐focused emotion regulation strategies in childhood	5
We need to talk about validity – A commentary on “Six solutions for more reliable infant research” from the viewpoint of an early executive functions researcher	5
The myth of normative development	5
Individual differences in preschoolers' spatial thinking: Comprehension of dimensional adjectives and their relation to children's performance on non‐verbal spatial tasks	5
Yucatec Maya mothers' ethnotheories about learning to help at home	5
Children presume confident informants will be accurate (until proven otherwise)	5
An evaluation of the psychometric properties of the strengths and difficulties scale in Turkey: Implications for other non‐WEIRD countries	5
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life	5
Factors influencing kindergarten Families' perceptions of home–school interactions	5
Coparenting conflict moderates the association between maternal prenatal depressive symptoms and infant regulatory capacity	5
Biomarker adoption in developmental science: A data‐driven modelling of trends from 90 biomarkers across 20 years	5
Prevalence, risk and protective factors of substance use amongst adolescents living in peri‐urban communities in Abuja, Nigeria	5
A person‐centered approach in developmental science: Why this is the future and how to get there	5
An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries	4
Differential cognitive correlates in processing symbolic and situational mathematics	4
Beliefs, practices and support needs of preschool teachers toward shy‐withdrawn behaviours	4
Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation	4
Behavioural Interventions for Problematic Infant Sleeping and Cry/Fuss Behaviour: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analyses	4
Issue Information	4
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum	4
COVID‐19 pandemic impacts on kindergarteners' mental health: A qualitative study of perspectives of U.S. mothers with low income	4
Developmental psychologists should care about measurement precision	4
Differences in how mothers and fathers support children playfulness	4
Fulfilling the promise of applied developmental science: Is it time to reconsider our approach?	4
Effects of maternal picture book knowledge on language development of 15‐month olds	4
Six solutions for more reliable infant research	4
Longitudinal associations between attachment representations coded in the adult attachment interview in late adolescence and perceptions of romantic relationship adjustment in adulthood	4
Into the unknown: Maternal responsiveness influences young children's support‐giving expectations of fathers but not unfamiliar others	4
Who is a thinker? With age, higher SES American children increasingly associate social status with divisions in labour	4
Comparison of U.S. and Tajik infants' time in containment devices	4

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Predictors of child student engagement in elementary school: A mixed‐methods study exploring the role of externalising problems	3
Grounding understanding of the home numeracy environment: Within‐group variation in Latine families	3
Infancy researchers need to change the way they develop their measures: A comment on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)	3
Performance during object retrieval tasks in young children with and without Down syndrome: A pilot study	3
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The dynamic functions of social cues during children's word learning	3
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Mutual identification promotes children's generosity	3
Parent personality and children's inattention/hyperactivity problems are related via early caregiving	3
Evaluating risk factors in relation to preschool social–emotional skills using a person‐centred approach	3
Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong	3
Prescriptions from history: A case for replications that control for leading	3
Qualitative and quantitative measures of joint attention development in the first year of life: A scoping review	3
Evaluating the utility and validity of a discrimination‐specific measure of shift‐&‐persist coping	3
Digital diet: A 21st century approach to understanding digital technologies and development	3
U.S. and Chinese preschoolers' compliance and regulatory behaviours in two challenging contexts	3
Reliability and replicability in infant research: A commentary on Byers‐Heinlein et al. (2021)	3
Can we predict non‐response in developmental tasks? Assessing the longitudinal relation between toddlers' non‐response and early academic skills	3
The self‐concept questionnaire offers a multidimensional, developmentally sensitive measure of the capacity for self‐reflection in young children	3
Adaptation of the Missing Scan Task to a touchscreen format for assessing working memory capacity in children	3
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The role of interest in young children's retention of words	3
Optimal input for language development: Tailor nurture to nature	3
Exploring the cognitive development of children born to adolescent mothers in South Africa	3
Using insights from personality dynamics to move developmental metatheory forward: Integrating insights from relational developmental systems metatheory and whole trait theory	3