OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Development is 25. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Maturation of consonant perception, but not vowel perception, predicts lexical skills at 12 months	127
A Complex Systems Network Approach to Quantifying Peer Effects: Evidence From Ghanaian Preprimary Classrooms	78
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Social goals as predictors of children's in vivo emotional responses to social challenges	70
Connecting Language Abilities and Social Competence in Children: A Meta‐Analytic Review	49
Does early childhood education help to improve high school outcomes? Results from Tulsa	48
Distinct Profiles of Relationships With Mothers, Fathers, and Best Friends and Social‐Behavioral Functioning in Early Adolescence: A Cross‐Cultural Study	47
Children seek help based on how others learn	44
Does having vulnerable friends help vulnerable youth? The co‐evolution of friendships, victimization, and depressive symptoms in Chinese adolescents' social networks	39
Reasoning to Justify Eating Animals Varies With Age	38
Waste Aversion Reduces Inequity Aversion Among Chinese Children	37
Early Adolescents’ Food Selection After Evaluating the Healthiness of Remote Peers’ Food Choices	36
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Elementary disruptions? Exploring residential move type, timing, and duration of implications during middle childhood	34
Greasing (small) palms: Early rejection of bribery	32
Effects of spatial boundaries on episodic memory development	31
Developmental associations between risk‐taking and anxiety symptoms across ages 8–12 years	30
Multiple pathways of integration: Acculturative change and associations with school adjustment in immigrant‐origin adolescents	30
Cheating and the effect of promises in Indian and German children	29
Development of prosocial behavior and inhibitory control in late childhood: A longitudinal exploration of sex differences and reciprocal relations	29
Can you teach me not to be angry? Relations between temperament and the emotion regulation strategy distraction in 2‐year‐olds	28
Issue Information	27
Learning apps at home prepare children for school	26
Theta power relates to infant object encoding in naturalistic mother‐infant interactions	26
Be there on time: Spatial‐temporal regularities guide young children’s attention in dynamic environments	25