OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Journal of Cognition and Development is 5. 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
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
Symbolic Magnitude Understanding Predicts Preschoolers’ Later Addition Skills	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
The Structure of Processing Speed in Children and Its Impact on Reading	13
Beliefs about Unobservable Scientific and Religious Entities are Transmitted via Subtle Linguistic Cues in Parental Testimony	13
Reconciling the Context-Dependency and Domain-Generality of Executive Function Skills from a Developmental Systems Perspective	12
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
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
Testing What You’re Told: Young Children’s Empirical Investigation of a Surprising Claim	10
A Cross-Cultural Study of Theory of Mind Using Strange Stories in School-Aged Children from Australia and Mainland China	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
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
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
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
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