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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos	56
No Evidence for Associations Among Minimal Self Facets or with Attachment in Early Childhood: A Registered Report	55
Correction	50
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	40
The Links Between Spatial and Math Skills in Preterm and Full-Term Children	37
Authoritative Parenting and Children’s Executive Functioning: Considering Children’s Biological Sensitivity	34
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	29
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	29
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	19
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	19
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	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
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	13
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	11
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	10
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	9
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	9
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	9
Making Sense of Data: Identifying Children’s Strategies for Data Comparisons	9
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	8
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	8
Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children	8
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	7
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	7

How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	7
Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	7
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	6
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	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
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	6
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	6
The Role of Different Types of Anthropomorphism in Children’s Biology Learning from Stories	6
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China	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
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	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
Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization	4
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
6-To-8 Year-Old Children Adjust Their Linguistic Generalizations Based on Distributional Cues	4
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	4
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 Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	4
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	4
Framing the Past: Mothers’ Interpretive Style During Reminiscing is Associated with Children’s Interpretation and Memory of Ambiguous Experiences	4
Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses	4
The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis	3
Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance	3
A Training Targeting Caregivers’ Responsiveness Promotes Index-Finger Pointing in 12-Month-Old Infants	3
Generic Language and Reporting Practices in Developmental Journals: Implications for Facilitating a More Representative Cognitive Developmental Science	3
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	3
Children’s Sensitivity to Difficulty and Reward Probability When Deciding to Take on a Task	3
English-Learning 12-Month-Olds Do Not Map Function-Like Words to Objects	3
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	3
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms	3
Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children	3
Finger Counting Is Not a Dead End: Early Finger Use as a Marker of Arithmetic Development	2
Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Accuracy and Preference for Mental-State Reasoning	2
Investigating Children’s Noun Learning in Uganda	2
Predicting Marginalized Students’ Mathematics Achievement in High School	2
Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical Cognition	2
Bayesian Tools of the Trade for Developmental Psychologists: A Quick-Start Guide Using JASP	2
Contextual Information Shifts Young Children’s Understanding of Gender Constancy	2
Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland	2
Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task	2
The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals	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
Following Spoken Instructions in School-Aged Children and Young Adults: Does Giving More Time or Repeating Instructions Help?	2
The Influence of Context and Player Comments on Preschoolers’ Social and Partner-Directed Communicative Behavior	2
Executive Function and Theory of Mind in Children Living in Poverty: A Short-term Longitudinal Study	2

Verbal Explanations and Item Choices as Joint Indices of Children’s Episodic Foresight	2
Positive Future Expectancies: When Hopeful Thinking Contributes to Happiness in Children	2
Math Talk to Infants During Everyday Home Activities: Contextual Cues to Words About Number, Space, and Magnitude	2
Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity	2
Value-Driven Selectivity and Redundancy in Children’s Cognitive Offloading Decisions	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
Direct Assessments of Social Skills Can Complement Teacher Ratings in Predicting Children’s Academic Achievement	2
That’s not the One I Wanted: Feedback Improves 5-Year-olds’ Communicative Perspective-Taking	2
The Development of Working Memory: Sex Differences in Accuracy and Reaction Times	1
Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science	1
Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions	1
Lexical Access Speed and the Development of Phonological Recoding during Immediate Serial Recall	1
Children Use an Agent's Goals to Determine Event Culmination	1
Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy	1
Knowledge and source type influence children’s skepticism of misinformation	1
A Review of “How You Say it”	1
Speed and Accuracy Training Affects Young Children’s Cognitive Control	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
Why Doesn’t Executive Function Training Improve Academic Achievement? Rethinking Individual Differences, Relevance, and Engagement from a Contextual Framework	1
We Cannot Ignore the Signs: The Development of Equivalence and Arithmetic for Students from Grades 3 to 4	1
Young Children’s Science Learning from Narrative Books: The Role of Text Cohesion and Caregivers’ Extratextual Talk	1
Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events	1
Cultural Variation in Parental Use of Relational Language: Chinese-Immigrant and European-American Families with 3-Year-Olds	1
Racial Stereotype Application in 4-to-8-Year-Old White American Children: Emergence and Specificity	1
The Development of Children’s Autobiographical and Deliberate Memory Through Mother–Child Reminiscing	1
The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall	1
Steps in Theory-of-Mind Development in Hong Kong Cantonese-Speaking Children with and without Autism	1
Children Prefer Familiar Fantasy, but not Anthropomorphism, in Their Storybooks	1
Age-Related Changes in Search Strategies in a Cancellation Task from Childhood to Adolescence	1
Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Predict Adolescent Styles of Social Information Processing	1