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

Article	Citations
Correction	47
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos	43
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	41
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	30
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	27
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	25
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	23
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	22
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	15
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	15
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	14
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	14
Making Sense of Data: Identifying Children’s Strategies for Data Comparisons	10
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	10
Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children	10
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	8
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	8
Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	7
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	7
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	7
Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children	7
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	7
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	6
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	6
Behavioral Dynamics in a Persistence Task: An Experimental Test of Persistence and Cheating during the Puzzle Box Task	6

School-Delivered Intervention Research: Lessons Learned from the BLOCS Project	6
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	6
Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children	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
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence	5
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China	5
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	5
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	5
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	5
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	5
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	5
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	4
Is What Mickey Mouse Says Impossible? Informant Reality Status and Children’s Beliefs in Extraordinary Events	4
Children Remember Foods Disliked by Others Better Than Foods Liked by Others	4
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	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	4
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	4
The Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	4
Developmental Changes in Children’s Object Insertions during Play	4
Generic Language and Reporting Practices in Developmental Journals: Implications for Facilitating a More Representative Cognitive Developmental Science	4
Selective Attention (SA) and Perceptual Inhibition (PI) Throughout the Lifespan	4
Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization	4
Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers	4
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	4
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	4
Examining Temporal Memory and Flexible Retrieval of Conventional Time Knowledge across Middle to Late Childhood	3
How Well Do 5- to 7- Year-Old Children Remember the Spatial Structure of a Room?	3
Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms	3
Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance	3
Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children	3
Value-Driven Selectivity and Redundancy in Children’s Cognitive Offloading Decisions	2
Predicting Marginalized Students’ Mathematics Achievement in High School	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
English-Learning 12-Month-Olds Do Not Map Function-Like Words to Objects	2
Bayesian Tools of the Trade for Developmental Psychologists: A Quick-Start Guide Using JASP	2
Self-Recognition Before a Screen-Mirror Between 15 Months and 6 Years, The Contribution of Eye-Tracking and a New Protocol	2
How Competition between Action Representations Affects Object Perception during Development	2
Children’s Sensitivity to Difficulty and Reward Probability When Deciding to Take on a Task	2
Can Preschoolers Recognize the Facial Expressions of People Wearing Masks and Sunglasses? Effects of Adding Voice Information	2
Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity	2
Relationship Between Inhibitory Skills and Numerical Momentum in Infancy	1
Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland	1
The Development of Working Memory: Sex Differences in Accuracy and Reaction Times	1
Finger Counting Is Not a Dead End: Early Finger Use as a Marker of Arithmetic Development	1
Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Accuracy and Preference for Mental-State Reasoning	1
The Influence of Context and Player Comments on Preschoolers’ Social and Partner-Directed Communicative Behavior	1
Math Talk to Infants During Everyday Home Activities: Contextual Cues to Words About Number, Space, and Magnitude	1

Knowledge and source type influence children’s skepticism of misinformation	1
Child Development and Climate Change: An Introduction to the Special Issue	1
Lexical Access Speed and the Development of Phonological Recoding during Immediate Serial Recall	1
Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories	1
Racial Stereotype Application in 4-to-8-Year-Old White American Children: Emergence and Specificity	1
Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science	1
Age-Related Changes in Search Strategies in a Cancellation Task from Childhood to Adolescence	1
Contextual Information Shifts Young Children’s Understanding of Gender Constancy	1
The Association between Approximate Number Sense (ANS) and Math Achievement Depends on the Format of the ANS Test	1
Direct Assessments of Social Skills Can Complement Teacher Ratings in Predicting Children’s Academic Achievement	1
Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical Cognition	1
Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task	1
A Review of “How You Say it”	1
Children’s and Adults’ Attribution of Moral Judgments to Human and Supernatural Agents	1
The Role of Narrative Structure in Scaffolding Children’s Recall	1
Children’s Interpretation of “Before” And “After” For Consecutive and Non-Consecutive Numbers and Events	1
The Development of Children’s Autobiographical and Deliberate Memory Through Mother–Child Reminiscing	1
Latent Profiles of Executive Functioning Predict Adolescent Styles of Social Information Processing	1
Observing the Developmental Progression of Pretend Play across the Preschool Years	1
Executive Function and Theory of Mind in Children Living in Poverty: A Short-term Longitudinal Study	1
Verbal Explanations and Item Choices as Joint Indices of Children’s Episodic Foresight	1
That’s not the One I Wanted: Feedback Improves 5-Year-olds’ Communicative Perspective-Taking	1
Positive Future Expectancies: When Hopeful Thinking Contributes to Happiness in Children	1
Interrelations Between Acuity of the Approximate Number System and Symbolic Skills in Preschool Children	1
Speed and Accuracy Training Affects Young Children’s Cognitive Control	1
Why Doesn’t Executive Function Training Improve Academic Achievement? Rethinking Individual Differences, Relevance, and Engagement from a Contextual Framework	1
Steps in Theory-of-Mind Development in Hong Kong Cantonese-Speaking Children with and without Autism	1
We Cannot Ignore the Signs: The Development of Equivalence and Arithmetic for Students from Grades 3 to 4	1
Bridging the Divide: Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions	1
Young Children’s Science Learning from Narrative Books: The Role of Text Cohesion and Caregivers’ Extratextual Talk	1