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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	55
Children’s comparison of different-length numbers: Managing different attributes in multidigit number processing	53
The good, the rich, and the powerful: How young children compensate victims of moral transgressions depending on moral character, wealth, and social dominance	33
What motivates early lies? Deception in 2½- to 5-year-olds	32
Contribution of orthography to vocabulary acquisition in a second language: Evidence of an early word-learning advantage in elementary-school children	27
Find extra options or reason badly: An investigation of children’s reasoning with incompatibility statements	26
School-aged children with higher anxiety symptoms show greater correspondence between subjective negative emotions and autonomic arousal	26
The influence of language on the formation of number concepts: Evidence from preschool children who are bilingual in English and Arabic	26
Expressions of positive and negative shyness in preschool-age children: Temperamental correlates and visual attention to emotions	24
In the presence and absence of conflicting testimony, children’s selective trust in the in-group informant in moral judgment and knowledge access	23
Cognitive processes that underlie mathematically gifted emergent bilinguals	23
Sound–symbol learning and the relationship to spelling in first-grade children	23
Children’s evaluations of culturally diverse lunchbox foods	21
Effects of test difficulty messaging on academic cheating among middle school children	21
Learning novel transitive verbs in causative action events: A cross-linguistic comparison between English- and Japanese-speaking infants	21
Longitudinal relations between self-regulatory skills and mathematics achievement in early elementary school children from Chinese American immigrant families	21
Developmental differences in the timecourse of word learning: Greater improvements for children, semantic benefits for adults	21
Preschoolers negatively evaluate conventional norm violations in pretend play	20
An experimental task to measure preschool children’s frustration induced by having to wait unexpectedly: The role of sensitivity to delay and culture	20
The past is “fake”: Facilitated processing of wishes compared with counterfactual conditionals in 4- and 5-year-olds	20
Learning faces from variability: Four- and five-year-olds differ from older children and adults	20
The successful use of a search strategy improves with visuospatial working memory in 2- to 4.5-year-olds	20