OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cognition and Development is 3. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Correction	39
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	37
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	36
Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children	31
Left Digit Effects in Numerical Estimation across Development	27
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	20
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	19
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	17
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	16
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	14
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	14
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	13
More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind	13
Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement	12
Making Sense of Data: Identifying Children’s Strategies for Data Comparisons	10
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	10
Children’s Developing Understanding of the Subjectivity of Intentions – A Case of “Advanced Theory of Mind”	8
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	8
How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	8
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	7
Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	7
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	7
School-Delivered Intervention Research: Lessons Learned from the BLOCS Project	6
Behavioral Dynamics in a Persistence Task: An Experimental Test of Persistence and Cheating during the Puzzle Box Task	6
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
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	6
People Do Not Always Know Best: Preschoolers’ Trust in Social Robots	5
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China	5
Autobiographical Memory Specificity and Detailedness and Their Association with Depression in Early Adolescence	5
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	5
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	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
Children Remember Foods Disliked by Others Better Than Foods Liked by Others	4
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	4
Selective Attention (SA) and Perceptual Inhibition (PI) Throughout the Lifespan	4
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	4
Measuring Implicit Gender Stereotypes Using the Preschool Auditory Stroop	4
Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers	4
Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children	4
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	4
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
The Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	3
The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis	3
Strategy and Core Cognitive Training Effects on Working Memory Performance: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis	3
How Well Do 5- to 7- Year-Old Children Remember the Spatial Structure of a Room?	3
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	3
Developmental Changes in Children’s Object Insertions during Play	3
Generic Language and Reporting Practices in Developmental Journals: Implications for Facilitating a More Representative Cognitive Developmental Science	3
Arithmetic Word Problem-Solving and Math Anxiety: The Role of Perceived Difficulty and Gender	3
Maternal Emotional Reminiscing, Child Autobiographical Memory, and Their Associations with Pre-Schoolers’ Socioemotional Functioning	3
Tools of the Trade: A Guide to Sociodemographic Reporting for Researchers, Reviewers, and Editors	3
Is What Mickey Mouse Says Impossible? Informant Reality Status and Children’s Beliefs in Extraordinary Events	3
Examining Temporal Memory and Flexible Retrieval of Conventional Time Knowledge across Middle to Late Childhood	3