OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Infant and Child Development is 2. 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 2020-03-01 to 2024-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Early childhood education and care (ECEC) during COVID‐19 boosts growth in language and executive function	43
Changing the conversation: A culturally responsive perspective on executive functions, minoritized children and their families	38
Six solutions for more reliable infant research	36
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	26
Adolescent loneliness, stress and depressive symptoms during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The protective role of friends	24
Beyond bias to Western participants, authors, and editors in developmental science	20
The role of empathy in children's costly prosocial lie‐telling behaviour	17
It matters how you start: Early numeracy mastery predicts high school math course‐taking and college attendance	16
Why most psychological research findings are not even wrong	15
Should infant psychology rely on the violation‐of‐expectation method? Not anymore	15
Teacher–child interaction quality and children's self‐regulation in toddler classrooms in Finland and Portugal	14
Preschoolers' extension and export of information from realistic and fantastical stories	13
Researching race‐ethnicity in race‐mute Europe	13
Best practices for addressing missing data through multiple imputation	12
Dispositional playfulness in young children: A cross‐sectional and longitudinal examination of the psychometric properties of a new child self‐reported playfulness scale and associations with social b	11
Great expectations: The construct validity of the violation‐of‐expectation method for studying infant cognition	11
The relationship between emergent drawing, emergent writing, and visual‐motor integration in preschool children	10
Three‐component mathematics for students	9
Father–newborn vocal interaction: A contribution to the theory of innate intersubjectivity	9
A nuanced look into youth journeys of gender transition and detransition	9
Understanding the costs and benefits of politics among adolescents within a sociocultural context	9
Co‐creating developmental science	9
Father–child literacy teaching activities as a unique predictor of Chinese preschool children's word reading skills	9
Digital diet: A 21st century approach to understanding digital technologies and development	8
Conceptualizing, defining, and assessing pragmatic language impairment in clinical settings: A scoping review	7

The role of mother's prenatal substance use disorder and early parenting on child social cognition at school age	7
Children's concepts of personal values	7
Adapting open science and pre‐registration to longitudinal research	7
Understanding the development of honesty in children through the domains‐of‐socialization approach	7
Young children's lying and early mental state understanding	6
Developmental psychologists should adopt citizen science to improve generalization and reproducibility	6
An open developmental science will be more rigorous, robust, and impactful	6
Seven‐year‐olds' references to internal states when playing with toy figures and a video game	6
Stability and prediction of motor performance and cognitive functioning in preschoolers: A latent variable approach	6
Open developmental science: An overview and annotated reading list	6
Depression moderates maternal response to preschoolers' positive affect	6
Differences in how mothers and fathers support children playfulness	6
Predicting child problem behaviour at school age: The role of maternal sensitivity, child temperament and theory of mind	6
Relations between shyness and psychological adjustment in Chinese children: The role of friendship quality	6
Advancing credibility in longitudinal research by implementing open science practices: Opportunities, practical examples, and challenges	6
Shyness and social–emotional development among Chinese children: A systematic review and meta‐analysis	6
Longitudinal associations between metaphor understanding and peer relationships in middle childhood	5
Fear not of cognition in context	5
A three‐wave study on the development of prosocial behaviours across toddlerhood: The role of socialization	5
Peer ethnic/racial socialization in adolescence: Current knowledge and future directions	5
The relationship of theory of mind and maternal emotional expressiveness with aggressive behaviours in young Japanese children: A gender‐differentiated effect	5
Attachment security to mothers and fathers: A meta‐analysis on mean‐level differences and correlations of behavioural measures	5
Mothers' and children's depression is linked through children's perceptions of attachment security	5
The influence of parental warmth and stress on reading through approaches to learning: Racial/ethnic variation	5
Theory of mind at school: Academic outcomes and the influence of the school context	5
Genetic syndromes, neuroconstuctivism and replicable research; challenges and future directions	5
A scoping review of Singapore parenting: Culture‐general and culture‐specific functions of parenting styles and practices	5
Can a robot lie? Young children's understanding of intentionality beneath false statements	4
Developmental data science: How machine learning can advance theory formation in Developmental Psychology	4
Open science considerations for descriptive research in developmental science	4
Youth experiences of racism and family ethnic‐racial socialization in Germany: What we (don't) know	4
Maternal depressive symptoms and early childhood temperament before and during the COVID‐19 pandemic in the United Kingdom	4
Some considerations for the developmental origin of the principle of fairness	4
Communicative gestures in 7–12‐month infants: A phylogenetic comparative approach	4
Infant and Child Development: A journal for open, transparent and inclusive science from prenatal through emerging adulthood	4
Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, family care plans and infants with prenatal substance exposure: Theoretical framework and directions for future research	4
Effect of HEG biofeedback on selected cognitive functions—Randomized study in children with ADHD and neurotypical children	4
“I definitely feel like a scientist”: Exploring science identity trajectories among Latinx students in a critical race theory‐informed undergraduate research experience	4
Proving and improving the reliability of infant research with neuroadaptive Bayesian optimization	4
Performance patterns and strategy use in number line estimation among preschool children with different spontaneous focusing on numerosity tendencies	4
The role of emotion regulation in the relationship between pretense and executive function in early childhood: For whom is the relationship strongest?	4
Habituation, part II. Rethinking the habituation paradigm	3
Do toddlers prefer that agents help similar or dissimilar needy agents?	3
Mutual identification promotes children's generosity	3
Direct effects of visual skills and working memory on Chinese character reading in young children	3
Comparison of U.S. and Tajik infants' time in containment devices	3
Predictors of preschool language environments and their relations to children's vocabulary	3
Children's connectedness and shared meanings strategies during play with siblings and friends	3
Open and reproducible practices in developmental psychology research: The workflow of the WomCogDev lab as an example	3
Caregiver perspectives of risk and protective factors influencing early childhood development in low‐income, urban settings: A social ecological perspective	3

Yucatec Maya mothers' ethnotheories about learning to help at home	3
Observed and reported coparenting and toddlers' adaptive functioning	3
Associations between quality of parent–child relationships and children's gender typicality: A 4‐year longitudinal study	3
Why not both? Using multiple measures to improve reliability in infant studies	3
Experimenter identity: An invisible, lurking variable in developmental research	3
The impact of gossip valence on children's attitudes towards gossipers	3
Preterm‐born children's development: A bioecological perspective	3
Understanding the effects of rhythmic coordination on children's prosocial behaviours	3
Measures of infant self‐regulation during the first year of life: A systematic review	3
The advantage of real objects over matched pictures in infants' processing of the familiar size of objects	3
Maternal sensitivity and warmth in Singapore: Cultural insights from comparing the Ainsworth and Emotional Availability Scales	2
Children's judgements of positive claims people make about themselves	2
Security of attachment and trust beliefs in close others during middle childhood	2
Some considerations for social cognition assessment in children	2
Reading to bilingual preschoolers: An experimental study of two book formats	2
‘But what is the mechanism?’: Demystifying the ever elusive ‘developmental mechanism’	2
Using insights from personality dynamics to move developmental metatheory forward: Integrating insights from relational developmental systems metatheory and whole trait theory	2
Infant placement and language exposure in daily life	2
Towards a Haudenosaunee developmental science: Perspectives from the Two Row Wampum	2
Socialization of children's experience and expression of pride	2
Having the talk when our little ones just learned to walk: Racial socialization with young children in contemporary times	2
Exact arithmetic, computational estimation and approximate arithmetic are different skills: Evidence from a study with 5‐year‐olds	2
Reliable developmental research: Not only for infancy	2
Attention profiles following preterm birth: A review of methods and findings from infancy to adulthood	2
Mentalizing strategies for navigating the social world in adolescence	2
Irrelevant actions, goal demotion and explicit instruction: A study of overimitation	2
No age differences? No problem	2
Clarifying the unique effects of pre‐ and postnatal depression on pre‐schoolers' adjustment	2
Negative childhood experiences and health inequalities among adults over 45: Evidence from China	2
The myth of normative development	2
Alternative perspectives: Relations between belief reasoning and ambiguous figure perception in bilingual children	2
I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures	2
Maternal emotion dysregulation and physiological concordance in mother‐preschooler dyads	2
Exploring the experiences of autistic pupils through creative research methods: Reflections on a participatory approach	2
Current perspectives in developmental science: Introduction to the special issue	2
Relationship between fine/gross motor skills and language and math development in Colombian Caribbean children: A study in Barranquilla	2
Infants in Dutch daycare: Exploring fine‐grained dimensions of temperament	2
Gender‐based reasoning about novel toys: The role of child and parental factors	2
Parent personality and children's inattention/hyperactivity problems are related via early caregiving	2
Effects of maternal picture book knowledge on language development of 15‐month olds	2
Predicting early reading fluency based on preschool measures of low‐level visual temporal processing: A possible mediation by high‐level visual temporal processing skills	2
An investigation of children's empathic dispositions and behaviours across seven countries	2
The challenges of improving infant research methods	2