OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Journal of Experimental Child Psychology is 20. 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	59
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing	56
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance	36
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds	33
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children	30
Find extra options or reason badly: An investigation of children’s reasoning with incompatibility statements	28
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access	26
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic	26
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals	25
Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children	24
Developmental differences in the timecourse of word learning: Greater improvements for children, semantic benefits for adults	23
Learning novel transitive verbs in causative action events: A cross-linguistic comparison between English- and Japanese-speaking infants	23
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture	22
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods	22
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children	21
A robot’s efficient demonstration cannot reduce 5- to 6-year-old children’s over-imitation	21
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal	21
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds	21
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families	21
Learning faces from variability: Four- and five-year-olds differ from older children and adults	20
Expressions of positive and negative shyness in preschool-age children: Temperamental correlates and visual attention to emotions	20
Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play	20
A cross-cultural comparison of finger-based and symbolic number representations	20
The past is “fake”: Facilitated processing of wishes compared with counterfactual conditionals in 4- and 5-year-olds	20