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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Connecting Live-Action and Animation to Reality: Children’s Analogical Problem Solving from Videos	56
No Evidence for Associations Among Minimal Self Facets or with Attachment in Early Childhood: A Registered Report	55
Correction	50
Increasing Inclusivity in Developmental Research	40
The Links Between Spatial and Math Skills in Preterm and Full-Term Children	37
Authoritative Parenting and Children’s Executive Functioning: Considering Children’s Biological Sensitivity	34
Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds	29
Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions	29
Children’s Pursuit of Counterintuitive Information in Books	19
Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan	19
Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type	18
“Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena	18
Is Verbal Rehearsal Strategic? An Investigation into Overt Rehearsal of Nameable Pictures in 5- to 10-Year-Old Children	14
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	11
Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence	10
Reminiscing Goals and Behavior as Predictors of Child Psychological Functioning	9
An Investigation of the Associations Between Counterfactual Reasoning and Executive Functions in Chinese Preschool Children	9
Towards Diversifying Early Language Development Research: The First Truly Global International Summer/Winter School on Language Acquisition (/L+/) 2021	9
Making Sense of Data: Identifying Children’s Strategies for Data Comparisons	9
How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US	8
Interplay Among Self-Regulation Processes Over Time for Adolescents in the Context of Chronic Stress	8
Intra- and Interindividual Stability of Inhibition Performance in Kindergarten Children	8
Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills	7
The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times	7

How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions	7
Number Input in Mothers and Fathers of 9-Month-Olds	7
The Role of Different Types of Anthropomorphism in Children’s Biology Learning from Stories	6
Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making?	6
A Parent-Report Diary Study of Young Children’s Prospective Memory Successes and Failures	6
School-Delivered Intervention Research: Lessons Learned from the BLOCS Project	6
Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children	6
Children’s Essentialist Beliefs About Weight	6
Executive Functions in Jordanian Children: What Can the Hearts and Flowers Task Tell Us About Development in a Non-Western Context	6
To Accept or Reject? Hindu and Muslim Children’s Views of Religious, Moral, and Conventional Norms	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
How Culture Shapes Social Categorization and Inductive Reasoning:A Developmental Comparison between the United States and China	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
Conceptual Hierarchy in Child-Directed Speech: Implicit Cues are More Reliable	4
Framing the Past: Mothers’ Interpretive Style During Reminiscing is Associated with Children’s Interpretation and Memory of Ambiguous Experiences	4
Sharing, Helping, and Cooperating: Young Children’s Prosocial Preferences for Individuals with Varying Wealth Statuses	4
Gender Differences in Spatial Skills of Chinese Preschoolers: The Mediating Role of Parental Gender Socialization	4
Finger Configurations and Kindergarteners’ Mathematical Abilities	4
6-To-8 Year-Old Children Adjust Their Linguistic Generalizations Based on Distributional Cues	4
The Development of the Mental Timeline is Related to Temporal Memory	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 Role of Intentionality in Infants’ Prediction of Helping and Hindering	4