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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)

Article	Citations
A Meta-analysis of the Relationship between Motor Skills and Executive Functions in Typically-developing Children	20
Parent Math Anxiety Predicts Early Number Talk	18
Symbolic Magnitude Understanding Predicts Preschoolers’ Later Addition Skills	17
Why Doesn’t Executive Function Training Improve Academic Achievement? Rethinking Individual Differences, Relevance, and Engagement from a Contextual Framework	17
Whether and How Knowledge Moderates Linkages between Parent–Child Conversations and Children’s Reflections about Tinkering in a Children’s Museum	17
Studying Executive Function in Culturally Meaningful Ways	17
Self-regulation in Preschool Children: Factor Structure of Different Measures of Effortful Control and Executive Functions	15
Mixed-Effects Models for Cognitive Development Researchers	14
Beliefs about Unobservable Scientific and Religious Entities are Transmitted via Subtle Linguistic Cues in Parental Testimony	13
The Structure of Processing Speed in Children and Its Impact on Reading	13
Reconciling the Context-Dependency and Domain-Generality of Executive Function Skills from a Developmental Systems Perspective	12
Supporting Children’s Second-order Recursive Thinking and Advanced ToM Abilities: A Training Study	11
Subtle Increments in Socioeconomic Status and Bilingualism Jointly Affect Children’s Verbal and Nonverbal Performance	11
Children’s Poverty Exposure and Hot and Cool Executive Functions: Differential Impacts of Parental Financial Strain	11
The Propensity to Learn Shared Cultural Knowledge from Social Group Members: Selective Imitation in 18-month-olds	11
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	11
An Ecological Systems Perspective on Individual Differences in Children’s Performance on Measures of Executive Function	11
A Cross-Cultural Study of Theory of Mind Using Strange Stories in School-Aged Children from Australia and Mainland China	10
Testing What You’re Told: Young Children’s Empirical Investigation of a Surprising Claim	10
Children Simultaneously Learn Multiple Dimensions of Information during Shared Book Reading	9
Rethinking Executive Functions in Mathematical Cognition	8
Mother-Child Reminiscing and First-Graders’ Emotion Competence in a Low-Income and Ethnically Diverse Sample	8
The Role of Non-symbolic and Symbolic Skills in the Development of Early Numerical Cognition from Preschool to Kindergarten Age	7
Learning Improper Fractions with the Number Line and the Area Model	7
Boosting Children’s Persistence through Scientific Storybook Reading	7

The Development of Executive Function: Mechanisms of Change and Functional Pressures	7
Constructing Ideas of the Supernatural	7
Intergenerational Features of Math Skills: Symbolic and Non-Symbolic Magnitude Comparison and Written Calculation in Mothers and Children	7
Three-year-olds’ Perspective-taking in Social Interactions: Relations with Socio-cognitive Skills	7
Eye Tracking Lateralized Spatial Associations in Early Childhood	6
Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes in Early Childhood	6
Metacognitive Monitoring and Control in Children’s Prospective Memory	6
Contributions of Reading Comprehension Subskills to Arithmetic Word-Problem Solving among Chinese Primary School Students	6
The Future of Research on Executive Function and Its Development: An Introduction to the Special Issue	6
The Role of Theory of Mind and Wishful Thinking in Children’s Moralizing Concepts of the Abrahamic God	6
Mathematics Clusters Reveal Strengths and Weaknesses in Adolescents’ Mathematical Competencies, Spatial Abilities, and Mathematics Attitudes	6
Left Digit Effects in Numerical Estimation across Development	6
Children’s Sensitivity to Difficulty and Reward Probability When Deciding to Take on a Task	5
Selective Trust and Theory of Mind in Brazilian Children: Effects of Socioeconomic Background	5
Beliefs about Origins and Eternal Life: How Easy Is Formal Religious Theory Development?	5
The Role of Partnerships to Shift Power Asymmetries in Research with Vulnerable Communities: Reflections from an Early Childhood Development Project in South Africa	5
What Supports the Development of Children’s Prospective Memory? Examining the Relation between Children’s Prospective Memory, Memory Strategy Use, and Parent Scaffolding	5
A First Theoretical Model of Self-Directed Cognitive Control Development	5
Executive Function and Theory of Mind in Children Living in Poverty: A Short-term Longitudinal Study	5
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	5
The Development of Working Memory: Sex Differences in Accuracy and Reaction Times	4
The Girl Was Watered by the Flower: Effects of Working Memory Loads on Syntactic Production in Young Children	4
Generic Language and Reporting Practices in Developmental Journals: Implications for Facilitating a More Representative Cognitive Developmental Science	4
20-month-olds Use Social Categories to Make Inductive Inferences about Agents’ Preferences	4
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	4
Toys or Math Tools: Do Children’s Views of Manipulatives Affect Their Learning?	4
Examining Temporal Memory and Flexible Retrieval of Conventional Time Knowledge across Middle to Late Childhood	3
Using Accuracy and Response Times to Assess Inhibitory Control in Kindergarten Children: An Analysis with Explanatory Item Response Models	3
Children’s and Adults’ Attribution of Moral Judgments to Human and Supernatural Agents	3
The Development of Children’s Autobiographical and Deliberate Memory Through Mother–Child Reminiscing	3
Observing the Developmental Progression of Pretend Play across the Preschool Years	3
The Origins of Theory of Mind in Infant Social Cognition: Investigating Longitudinal Pathways from Intention Understanding and Joint Attention to Preschool Theory of Mind	3
Studying the Development of Navigation Using Virtual Environments	3
Steps in Theory-of-Mind Development in Hong Kong Cantonese-Speaking Children with and without Autism	3
Collaborative Inquiry or Teacher Talk? Parent Guidance during a Science-Related Activity in Mexican-Heritage Families from Two Schooling Groups	3
An Observational Study of Children’s Problem Solving during Play with Friends	3
Broadening Convenience Samples to Advance Theoretical Progress and Avoid Bias in Developmental Science	3
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence	3
Behavioral Dynamics in a Persistence Task: An Experimental Test of Persistence and Cheating during the Puzzle Box Task	3
Self-projection in Early Development: Preschoolers’ Reasoning about Changes in Their Future and Past Preferences	3
Young Children’s Saving and Their Episodic Future Thinking	3
Measuring Implicit Gender Stereotypes Using the Preschool Auditory Stroop	3
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	2
Attentional Shifting Mediates the Relationship between Parenting and Working Memory	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
Sharing a Common Language Affects Infants’ Pupillary Contagion	2
Culture and Gender Influence Self-Construal in Mother-Preschooler Reminiscing	2
I Want to Know about My Train! Factors Driving Children’s Motivation to Learn about Individuals	2

The Emergence and Development of Future-Oriented Cognition in Toddlerhood: The Contribution of Cognitive and Language Abilities	2
Omniscience, Preexistence, Doubt and Misdeeds	2
Is What Mickey Mouse Says Impossible? Informant Reality Status and Children’s Beliefs in Extraordinary Events	2
The Relations among Theory of Mind, Inhibitory Control, and Aggressive Behavior in 4-Year-Old Children – A Multi-Measure Multi-Informant Approach	2
How Competition between Action Representations Affects Object Perception during Development	2
Maternal Reminiscing and Children’s Socioemotional Development: Evidence from a Large Pre-Birth Longitudinal Cohort Study, Growing Up in New Zealand	2
Lexical Access Speed and the Development of Phonological Recoding during Immediate Serial Recall	2
Early Childhood Educators’ Math Anxiety and Its Relation to Their Pedagogic Actions in Swedish Preschools	2
Maternal and Paternal Teaching in a Naturalistic Home Environment	2
Can Preschoolers Recognize the Facial Expressions of People Wearing Masks and Sunglasses? Effects of Adding Voice Information	2
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	2