OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Cognition and 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
Advancing Developmental Science via Unmoderated Remote Research with Children	51
Children’s Understanding and Use of Four Dimensions of Social Status	24
Assessing the Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance of the Test of Emotion Comprehension (TEC): A Large Cross-Sectional Study with Children Aged 3-10 Years	19
Children’s Math Anxiety Predicts Their Math Achievement Over and Above a Key Foundational Math Skill	17
A Meta-analysis of the Relationship between Motor Skills and Executive Functions in Typically-developing Children	15
Patterns of Development in Children’s Scientific Reasoning: Results from a Three-Year Longitudinal Study	15
Parent Math Anxiety Predicts Early Number Talk	14
Associations of 3-year-olds’ Block-building Complexity with Later Spatial and Mathematical Skills	14
Symbolic Magnitude Understanding Predicts Preschoolers’ Later Addition Skills	14
Whether and How Knowledge Moderates Linkages between Parent–Child Conversations and Children’s Reflections about Tinkering in a Children’s Museum	14
Why Doesn’t Executive Function Training Improve Academic Achievement? Rethinking Individual Differences, Relevance, and Engagement from a Contextual Framework	12
Self-regulation in Preschool Children: Factor Structure of Different Measures of Effortful Control and Executive Functions	11
Studying Executive Function in Culturally Meaningful Ways	10
The Structure of Processing Speed in Children and Its Impact on Reading	10
Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Theory of Mind and Executive Functions	10
Reconciling the Context-Dependency and Domain-Generality of Executive Function Skills from a Developmental Systems Perspective	10
Questions – And Some Answers – About Young Children’s Questions	9
Beliefs about Unobservable Scientific and Religious Entities are Transmitted via Subtle Linguistic Cues in Parental Testimony	9
An Ecological Systems Perspective on Individual Differences in Children’s Performance on Measures of Executive Function	9
Lexical Processing of Nouns and Verbs at 36 Months of Age Predicts Concurrent and Later Vocabulary and School Readiness	9
The Propensity to Learn Shared Cultural Knowledge from Social Group Members: Selective Imitation in 18-month-olds	9
A Cross-Cultural Study of Theory of Mind Using Strange Stories in School-Aged Children from Australia and Mainland China	8
Science Conversations during Family Book Reading with Girls and Boys in Two Cultural Communities	8
Children’s Poverty Exposure and Hot and Cool Executive Functions: Differential Impacts of Parental Financial Strain	8
Supporting Children’s Second-order Recursive Thinking and Advanced ToM Abilities: A Training Study	8

Subtle Increments in Socioeconomic Status and Bilingualism Jointly Affect Children’s Verbal and Nonverbal Performance	8
Enduring Positivity: Children Of Incarcerated Parents Report More Positive Than Negative Emotions When Thinking about Close Others	7
Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical Cognition	7
Selective Social Belief Revision in Young Children	7
Age Affects Strategic But Not Spontaneous Recall in 35- and 46-Month-old Children	7
Constructing Ideas of the Supernatural	7
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	7
Exploring the Neural Basis of Selective and Flexible Dimensional Attention: An fNIRS Study	7
Testing What You’re Told: Young Children’s Empirical Investigation of a Surprising Claim	7
Contributions of Reading Comprehension Subskills to Arithmetic Word-Problem Solving among Chinese Primary School Students	6
Mixed-Effects Models for Cognitive Development Researchers	6
Boosting Children’s Persistence through Scientific Storybook Reading	6
The Role of Non-symbolic and Symbolic Skills in the Development of Early Numerical Cognition from Preschool to Kindergarten Age	5
Eye Tracking Lateralized Spatial Associations in Early Childhood	5
Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes in Early Childhood	5
Intergenerational Features of Math Skills: Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Magnitude Comparison and Written Calculation in Mothers and Children	5
Mathematics Clusters Reveal Strengths and Weaknesses in Adolescents’ Mathematical Competencies, Spatial Abilities, and Mathematics Attitudes	5
Three-year-olds’ Perspective-taking in Social Interactions: Relations with Socio-cognitive Skills	5
Children’s Evaluations of Informants and their Surprising Claims in Direct and Overheard Contexts	5
The Role of Theory of Mind and Wishful Thinking in Children’s Moralizing Concepts of the Abrahamic God	5
Mother-Child Reminiscing and First-Graders’ Emotion Competence in a Low-Income and Ethnically Diverse Sample	5
Selective Trust and Theory of Mind in Brazilian Children: Effects of Socioeconomic Background	4
What Supports the Development of Children’s Prospective Memory? Examining the Relation between Children’s Prospective Memory, Memory Strategy Use, and Parent Scaffolding	4
20-month-olds Use Social Categories to Make Inductive Inferences about Agents’ Preferences	4
Metacognitive Monitoring and Control in Children’s Prospective Memory	4
Executive Function and Theory of Mind in Children Living in Poverty: A Short-term Longitudinal Study	4
The Development of Executive Function: Mechanisms of Change and Functional Pressures	4
Children Simultaneously Learn Multiple Dimensions of Information during Shared Book Reading	4
Learning Improper Fractions with the Number Line and the Area Model	4
Bilingual Infants are More Sensitive to Morally Relevant Social Behavior than Monolingual Infants	4
Language First: Deaf Children from Deaf Families Spontaneously Anticipate False Beliefs	4
The Girl Was Watered by the Flower: Effects of Working Memory Loads on Syntactic Production in Young Children	4
Beliefs about Origins and Eternal Life: How Easy Is Formal Religious Theory Development?	4
Left Digit Effects in Numerical Estimation across Development	4
The Role of Partnerships to Shift Power Asymmetries in Research with Vulnerable Communities: Reflections from an Early Childhood Development Project in South Africa	3
Self-projection in Early Development: Preschoolers’ Reasoning about Changes in Their Future and Past Preferences	3
Measuring Implicit Gender Stereotypes Using the Preschool Auditory Stroop	3
Children’s Sensitivity to Difficulty and Reward Probability When Deciding to Take on a Task	3
Collaborative Inquiry or Teacher Talk? Parent Guidance during a Science-Related Activity in Mexican-Heritage Families from Two Schooling Groups	3
A First Theoretical Model of Self-Directed Cognitive Control Development	3
Children’s and Adults’ Attribution of Moral Judgments to Human and Supernatural Agents	3
The Future of Research on Executive Function and Its Development: An Introduction to the Special Issue	3
Toys or Math Tools: Do Children’s Views of Manipulatives Affect Their Learning?	3
Studying the Development of Navigation Using Virtual Environments	2
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	2
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	2
Iconic Realism or Representational Disregard? How Young Children and Adults Reason about Pictures and Objects	2
Maternal and Paternal Teaching in a Naturalistic Home Environment	2
Examining Temporal Memory and Flexible Retrieval of Conventional Time Knowledge across Middle to Late Childhood	2
Children’s Use of Generic Labels, Discreteness, and Stability to Form a Novel Category	2

The Implied Shape of an Object in Adults’ and Children’s Visual Representations	2
Omniscience, Preexistence, Doubt and Misdeeds	2
Deafness and Theory of Mind Performance: Associations among Filipino Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults	2
The Relations among Theory of Mind, Inhibitory Control, and Aggressive Behavior in 4-Year-Old Children – A Multi-Measure Multi-Informant Approach	2
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence	2
How Competition between Action Representations Affects Object Perception during Development	2
Steps in Theory-of-Mind Development in Hong Kong Cantonese-Speaking Children with and without Autism	2
Investigating the Associations between Family Alliance and Executive Functioning in Middle Childhood	2
Culture, Emotion Socialization and Children’s Inhibitory Control	2
Children’s Concern for Equity and Ownership in Contexts of Individual-based and Group-based Inequality	2