OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Cognition and Development 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos	55
No Evidence for Associations Among Minimal Self Facets or with Attachment in Early Childhood: A Registered Report	53
Correction	48
Authoritative Parenting and Children’s Executive Functioning: Considering Children’s Biological Sensitivity	37
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	37
The Links Between Spatial and Math Skills in Preterm and Full-Term Children	32
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	29
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	28
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	18
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	18
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	18
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	18
Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children	14
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	12
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	11
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	10
Making Sense of Data: Identifying Children’s Strategies for Data Comparisons	9
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	9
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	8
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	8
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	8
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	8
Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	7
Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children	7
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	7

Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	7
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	7
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	7
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence	6
School-Delivered Intervention Research: Lessons Learned from the BLOCS Project	6
Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children	6
The Role of Different Types of Anthropomorphism in Children’s Biology Learning from Stories	6
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	5
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	5
The Origins of Theory of Mind in Infant Social Cognition: Investigating Longitudinal Pathways from Intention Understanding and Joint Attention to Preschool Theory of Mind	5
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	5
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China	5
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	5
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	5
Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers	5
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	5
Children Remember Foods Disliked by Others Better Than Foods Liked by Others	4
Selective Attention (SA) and Perceptual Inhibition (PI) Throughout the Lifespan	4
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	4
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	4
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses	4
Framing the Past: Mothers’ Interpretive Style During Reminiscing is Associated with Children’s Interpretation and Memory of Ambiguous Experiences	4
Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization	4
6-To-8 Year-Old Children Adjust Their Linguistic Generalizations Based on Distributional Cues	4
The Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	4
The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis	3
Generic Language and Reporting Practices in Developmental Journals: Implications for Facilitating a More Representative Cognitive Developmental Science	3
Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms	3
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	3
Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance	3
Children’s Sensitivity to Difficulty and Reward Probability When Deciding to Take on a Task	3
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
Examining Temporal Memory and Flexible Retrieval of Conventional Time Knowledge across Middle to Late Childhood	3
Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children	3
The Influence of Context and Player Comments on Preschoolers’ Social and Partner-Directed Communicative Behavior	2
That’s not the One I Wanted: Feedback Improves 5-Year-olds’ Communicative Perspective-Taking	2
Direct Assessments of Social Skills Can Complement Teacher Ratings in Predicting Children’s Academic Achievement	2
Memories of COVID-19: Emotional Content of Children’s Memories and Their Current Well-Being	2
Can Preschoolers Recognize the Facial Expressions of People Wearing Masks and Sunglasses? Effects of Adding Voice Information	2
Value-Driven Selectivity and Redundancy in Children’s Cognitive Offloading Decisions	2
Predicting Marginalized Students’ Mathematics Achievement in High School	2
Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical Cognition	2
Positive Future Expectancies: When Hopeful Thinking Contributes to Happiness in Children	2
Finger Counting Is Not a Dead End: Early Finger Use as a Marker of Arithmetic Development	2
Verbal Explanations and Item Choices as Joint Indices of Children’s Episodic Foresight	2
The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals	2
A Training Targeting Caregivers’ Responsiveness Promotes Index-Finger Pointing in 12-Month-Old Infants	2
Math Talk to Infants During Everyday Home Activities: Contextual Cues to Words About Number, Space, and Magnitude	2
Interrelations Between Acuity of the Approximate Number System and Symbolic Skills in Preschool Children	2

Understanding the Role of Executive Functions in Academic Skills: A Primer on Measurement and Study Design	2
Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task	2
Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland	2
Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Accuracy and Preference for Mental-State Reasoning	2
Bayesian Tools of the Trade for Developmental Psychologists: A Quick-Start Guide Using JASP	2
Following Spoken Instructions in School-Aged Children and Young Adults: Does Giving More Time or Repeating Instructions Help?	2
English-Learning 12-Month-Olds Do Not Map Function-Like Words to Objects	2
Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity	2
Investigating Children’s Noun Learning in Uganda	2
Racial Stereotype Application in 4-to-8-Year-Old White American Children: Emergence and Specificity	1
Why Doesn’t Executive Function Training Improve Academic Achievement? Rethinking Individual Differences, Relevance, and Engagement from a Contextual Framework	1
Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy	1
Young Children’s Science Learning from Narrative Books: The Role of Text Cohesion and Caregivers’ Extratextual Talk	1
The Development of Working Memory: Sex Differences in Accuracy and Reaction Times	1
Knowledge and source type influence children’s skepticism of misinformation	1
Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science	1
Lexical Access Speed and the Development of Phonological Recoding during Immediate Serial Recall	1
Steps in Theory-of-Mind Development in Hong Kong Cantonese-Speaking Children with and without Autism	1
The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall	1
Speed and Accuracy Training Affects Young Children’s Cognitive Control	1
Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events	1
Executive Function and Theory of Mind in Children Living in Poverty: A Short-term Longitudinal Study	1
Cultural Variation in Parental Use of Relational Language: Chinese-Immigrant and European-American Families with 3-Year-Olds	1
The Development of Children’s Autobiographical and Deliberate Memory Through Mother–Child Reminiscing	1
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories	1
Child Development and Climate Change: An Introduction to the Special Issue	1
We Cannot Ignore the Signs: The Development of Equivalence and Arithmetic for Students from Grades 3 to 4	1
Age-Related Changes in Search Strategies in a Cancellation Task from Childhood to Adolescence	1
A Review of “How You Say it”	1
Contextual Information Shifts Young Children’s Understanding of Gender Constancy	1
Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Predict Adolescent Styles of Social Information Processing	1
Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions	1