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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos	55
No Evidence for Associations Among Minimal Self Facets or with Attachment in Early Childhood: A Registered Report	53
Correction	48
Authoritative Parenting and Children’s Executive Functioning: Considering Children’s Biological Sensitivity	37
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	37
The Links Between Spatial and Math Skills in Preterm and Full-Term Children	32
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	29
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	28
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	18
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	18
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	18
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	18
Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children	14
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	12
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	11
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	10
Making Sense of Data: Identifying Children’s Strategies for Data Comparisons	9
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	9
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	8
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	8
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	8
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	8
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	7
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	7
Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	7

Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children	7
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	7
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	7
Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children	6
The Role of Different Types of Anthropomorphism in Children’s Biology Learning from Stories	6
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence	6
School-Delivered Intervention Research: Lessons Learned from the BLOCS Project	6
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	5
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	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
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	5
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	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
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	5
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China	5
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses	4
Framing the Past: Mothers’ Interpretive Style During Reminiscing is Associated with Children’s Interpretation and Memory of Ambiguous Experiences	4
Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization	4
6-To-8 Year-Old Children Adjust Their Linguistic Generalizations Based on Distributional Cues	4
The Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	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 Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	4
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	4