OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Child Development is 27. 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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Adolescent caregiving success as a predictor of social functioning from ages 13 to 33	186
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	84
Strengthening parental self‐efficacy and resilience: A within‐subject experimental study with refugee parents of adolescents	83
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”	80
Language development beyond the here‐and‐now: Iconicity and displacement in child‐directed communication	77
Messaging about descriptive and injunctive norms can promote honesty in young children	53
A Shift in the Direction of the Production Effect in Children Aged 2–6 Years	48
Paternal and maternal rejection and Chinese children's internalizing and externalizing problems across the transition to siblinghood: A developmental cascade model of family influence	48
Gahvora cradling in Tajikistan: Cultural practices and associations with motor development	43
Development of complex executive function over childhood: Longitudinal growth curve modeling of performance on the Groton Maze Learning Task	40
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions	40
Children strategically conceal selfishness	36
Development of literacy skills for Japanese deaf and hard‐of‐hearing children	35
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique	34
Children's Trait Inference and Partner Choice in a Cooperative Game	33
Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe	31
Mentalistic and normative frameworks in children's explanations of others' behaviors	31
Links between shared and unique perspectives of parental psychological control and adolescent emotional problems: A dyadic daily diary study	31
A Pre‐registered sticky mittens study: active training does not increase reaching and grasping in a swedish context	30
Children's evaluations of interracial peer inclusion and exclusion: The role of intimacy	29
Learning apps at home prepare children for school	29
Testing the effectiveness of the Developing Inclusive Youth program: A multisite randomized control trial	29
Early Vocabulary Acquisition: From Birth Order Effect to Child‐to‐Caregiver Ratio	28
Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?	28
Emotion transmission in peer dyads in middle childhood	27

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Parent socialization and anti‐racist ideology development in White youth: Do peer and parenting contexts matter?	27
Issue Information	27