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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Children's Understanding of How Past Experience Shapes Future Expectations	258
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial	95
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context	90
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe	57
Crying in the first 12 months of life: A systematic review and meta‐analysis of cross‐country parent‐reported data and modeling of the “cry curve”	56
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game	43
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy	41
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication	40
Learning apps at home prepare children for school	40
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children	39
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development	37
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence	34
The beneficial effect of sleep on behavioral health problems in youth is disrupted by prenatal cannabis exposure: A causal random forest analysis of Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development data	34
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents	33
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task	32
The N 2 During Preschool: Temporal Stability and a Test of Bidirectional Effects With Maternal Emotion Characteristics in a White, European‐American	31
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors	31
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions	30
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33	29
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study	28
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children	27
Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?	27
Issue Information	27
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?	27
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Control–value appraisals and academic emotions: An intensive longitudinal examination of reciprocal effects	25
Contributions of bilingual home environment and language proficiency on children’s Spanish–English reading outcomes	25
Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child‐to‐Caregiver Ratio	25
School readiness losses during the COVID‐19 outbreak. A comparison of two cohorts of young children	25