OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cognition and Development is 4. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos	59
Correction	57
The Links Between Spatial and Math Skills in Preterm and Full-Term Children	54
Authoritative Parenting and Children’s Executive Functioning: Considering Children’s Biological Sensitivity	44
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	43
No Evidence for Associations Among Minimal Self Facets or with Attachment in Early Childhood: A Registered Report	39
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	32
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	31
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	21
Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children	20
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	20
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	19
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	15
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	14
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	14
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	12
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	11
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	11
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	10
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	10
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	10
Time-Based Cognition and Working Memory Explain Changes in Delay Discounting Through Adolescence	10
Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children	9
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	9
Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	7

School-Delivered Intervention Research: Lessons Learned from the BLOCS Project	7
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	6
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	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	6
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	6
Children Remember Foods Disliked by Others Better Than Foods Liked by Others	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
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	5
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	5
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	5
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	5
Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers	5
Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children	5
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	5
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization	4
The Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	4
6-To-8 Year-Old Children Adjust Their Linguistic Generalizations Based on Distributional Cues	4
Selective Attention (SA) and Perceptual Inhibition (PI) Throughout the Lifespan	4
Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses	4
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	4
Preschoolers Infer Listeners from Age-Related Variation in Maternal Child-Directed Speech	4
Framing the Past: Mothers’ Interpretive Style During Reminiscing is Associated with Children’s Interpretation and Memory of Ambiguous Experiences	4
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	4